Aswathi Thirunal Gowri Laksmi Bayi Princess of Travancore Royal family is a noted writer and scholar .
She explains to us about ...
Sree Padmanabhaswamy in Trivandrum Padmabhaswamy temple .
The main idol is made up of jaggery hence no Abhishekam or ritualistic ablutions using water .
Only Archana using specific flowers which after puja are brushed off using peacock feather very gently
The idol is in sleeping posture but not in sleep .
Lord is in yoga nidra or conscious cosmic slumber on Ananthan the serpent
Yoga nidhra is not sleep
No one needs suprabhatham to wake him up .
His eyes half closed with total awareness he is I'm repose
That's Yoga nidhra .
Ananthan is infinity... one with no beggining or end
Adhiyum illaa Andhiyum illaaa
Eternal infinity
Anandan is reposed in paal Kadal or sea of milk
Anandhan has three folds which are three gunas.... Satwa,Rajitha ,and Tamo
Only God can be on all three
The serpent Anandha has five heads which protect the Lord ,they are the five sense organs for Seeing ,hearing,tasting,touching,speaking and smelling
Ears ,Eyes,Tongue,Skin and Nose .
Padmanabhan is one who has a lotus from his navel
Padma is lotus
nabhi is navel
There are 24 personifications of Mahavishnu one amongst them is Padmanabhan not to be confused with Dasa avatharams .
In fact Mahavishnu was listening to Devas who appealed to him about the torture by evil forces Asuras ,he assured them he would soon be born as Sree Rama in the world but before that he would spend some time in Yoga nidhra
Sree Padmanabhan is that entity .
The moola vigraham is the lying down idol .
There is a silver idol in sitting pose used for Siveli and processions
There is a gold idol in standing pose used for Abisekhams
So three idols in sleeping sitting and standing postures is rare and great .
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