Incarnational Events
Incarnational events include preparations for incarnation, the event of incarnation, and, the proclamations and instructions given to the newly incarnated god. Since Ayya Vaikundar the incarnation of Lord Narayana is the foremost power, this is considered as the most important part in Akilattirattu Ammanai.Given below is an elaboration of these events.
Preparing for incarnation
Seeing the degraded status of the Santror, the celestial gods made a plea to Mayon as follows: “our young brothers, the Santror, are suffering endlessly under the yoke of the centuries old uliyam and have lost dignity and respect on account of that. Have you not seen their iniquities?”
Having listened to the plea, Mayon began preparing for the incarnation. He made all the celestial gods to take birth in the world in order to assist as collaborators for his endeavour of destroying the kali He set out to create a new lot of cattle, reptiles, birds, plants, trees, and all other elements of nature that would befit the new age of Dharma Yukam, because the Dharma Yukam was to be characterised by a new life, new people, and new thinking. In that new age Sastirankal, Vethankal and the religions would be the same for everybody; Tamil language would permeate the world; people would live united as a single humanity; the people of Mayon would live with pristine glory and they would flourish with all prosperity; the earth would yield abundantly; diseases, calamities and the impact of the evil magical practices would not affect the people; and, the old Sastirankal would be turned untrue, and, instead, a new code would be enshrined.
Mayon — on the identity of his people
Mayon, then, enunciated the attributes of his children who would be his collaborators in the world. He said:
- "the identity of my people is that they do not offer puja or sacrifices, do not have temples and priests, do not have offerings of flowers, do not offer blood sacrifices of goat, bull and roosters, and do not worship cows and images made of clay. Instead, they are those who do Dharmam to all those who come in my name."
Final admonition through Thiruvasakam
Before the incarnation of Mayon could take place, the three Godheads decided to send a final admonition with the name of Thiruvasakam to Kalineesan that he might amend.(see : Thiruvasakam - 1)
Deciding to incarnate as Vaikundar
Kalineesan did not pay heed to the Thiruvasakam. Mayon, then, decided to incarnate as Vaikundar and, to that effect, walked towards the seashore of Thiruchendur.
Meanwhile, in Thamaraiyur, famed to be the right place for undertaking effective tavam, the body of Mayon, that he had left behind after his last incarnation,carrying the Spirit of Sampooranathevan had been growing as a human person named Muthukutty as per the divine plan(see:Birth of Sampooranathevan). This person excelled in dharmam, wisdom, piety and courage. In his seventeenth year, he married a woman, and lived a blissful conjugal life. It so happened that he had been struck bv a severe disease in his twenty-second year and had suffered for a vear. In the year 1008, his mother had a dream in which Mayon appeared and instructed her to bring his ailing son to Thiruchendur where the festival had begun on the 19th day of the Tamil month of Maci. Obeying the divine command, the ailing person was carried to Thiruchendur.
On their way, while they were having their meals at a place near Kudankulam, Mayon, staying at the seashore in Tiruchendur, commanded two of his celestial sages, Kalai Muni and Gnana Muni to fetch ‘the life that he had designated’. They immediately came over and carried the person (the body of Mayon) along the four streets of Tiruchendur and, gave it a bath and purified it from all dirt.
The incarnation
Mayon, then, instantly went into the sea amidst the chanting of the celestial gods. Inside the sea, enveloping himself in a scorching flame, he approached Leksmi who was awaiting his arrival, in the form of a Lotus pedestal. Afraid of the ball of flame approaching her, Leksmi worshipped it with reverence. Mayon revealed himself and took Leksmi and told her of his intention to create a son. By that time, the body of Mayon too had come into the sea. Mayon, then took the body inside the Lotus pedestal, transformed it as his son, and adorned him with sparkling jewels and crown. He then, imparted certain arcane knowledge in the form of proclamations and instructions, known as Vinchai, to his newly bom son Vaikundar.(see: Vinchai to Vaikundar)
Having given these exhortations, Mayon called his son intimately as Narayana Vaikundar and told him that if these teachings were observed strictly, the illusory force of kali would be contained, and when people learned to live with self- respect, kali would destroy itself.
Then the whole array of celestial gods sang lullabies (See:Thalattu, Palli Unarthal,Abayam.)praising the special attributes of the newly bom child Vaikuntar. They praised him for having been bom as the child of Mayon, in the race of Chanar, in order to teach the virtue of Dharmam to the world and to incinerate the kali.
Vaikundar, having received all the instructions from his father, walked out of the sea to go into the world. And Mayon sent two celestial sages (Kalai Muni and Gnana Muni) with him as witnesses to his activities.