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                                                                             Sri Parthasarathi thunai

                                                                        Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

                                                                        Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha

                                                                    Sri VanAchala mahA munayE Namaha

                                                           SrisailEsa dayA pAthram deebhakthyAdhi gunArnavam

                                                          Yateendra pravanam vandhE ramya jAmataram muni

                                                          RamyajAmatru yOgeendra pAdha rEkhA mayam sadhA

                                                          thathAyath thAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE

Nayanar then proceeded towards the thirumAligai of koil annan and relaxed in a seat with the jeeyer standing in front of him with folded arms.  It was bhagavat sankalpam to unite nAyanar and vanamamalai Jeeyer swamy to spread and make our darshanam (rAmAnuja siddhAntham) flourish, in order to lift the jeevatmas who were lost in the samsAric ocean of miseries without realizing their own svaroopam.  After submitting this responsibility to the acharya and shisya periya perumal relaxed without any tension in his adhisesha paryankam (bed of adhisesha.  Vanamamalai Jeeyer, who had deeply involved himself in the service of his acharya and mangalasasanam to namperumal, one fine day wished to go to thirumalai to do mangalAsAsanam to thiruvEnkatamudaiyan and appealed the same to nAyanAr.

 Like thirumazhisai Alwar who followed kanikannan, his shisya (“kanikannan pOgindrAn kamarupoonkachchi manivanna nee kidakka vEndA- thunivudaiya sennAp pulavanum pOgirEn- neeyum nin painnAgappAi surittikol”) nAyanAr also decided to go along with ponnadikkAl Jeeyer.  Both of them then went to namperumal sannadhi, did mangalAsAsanam and after getting the permission from namperumAl to go to thirumalai and other vadu nAttu thirupadhigal, started on their journey.

 They started their divya dEsa yAthrai (journey) with Thiruvellarai (“muppOdhum    vAnavarEththum munivargal vellarai”) and had darshan of pangaiya selvi sametha senthAmarai kannan.  Then they proceeded to srimushnam to have the divine darshan of swethavarAhar.  From there they went to thirukkOvaloor and did mangalAsAsanam to edaikazhi Ayan (“ThirukkOvaloor adhanul kandEn nAnE”) and proceeded on to thirukkadigai, had darshan of thakkAn and climbed the hill to do mangalAsAsanam to the “kadigai thadang kundrin mEl erundha akkArakkani”).  Finally they reached thirumalai (“paran sendru sEr thiruvEnkata mAmalai”). 

 ThiruvEnkata mudaiyan didn’t want them to have darshan like all the other devotees.  He wanted to show the greatness of the acharya and shisya, who were none other than thiruanandAzhvan, emperuman’s bed and his aparAvathAram(incarnation), to the world and hence he showed the same in the dream of periya kElvi Jeeyer.  Periya kElvi Jeeyer saw in his dream, himself standing to the south of Alwar theertham facing north.  In front of him lay a Srivaishnava, with a huge body covering from the top of thirumalai to the bottom, like periya perumal with his thirumudi in the west and thiruvadi in the east and facing south.  Under his feet was standing a Jeeyer.  Periya kElvi Jeeyer was amazed to have this darshan and he enquired to the people around who the Srivaishnava and the Jeeyer were?  The people around replied …………..

 (To be continued)

 Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan