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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

Being amazed to see the scene in the dream, periya kElvi jeeyer asked the people around about the srivaishnava and the Jeeyer at his feet.  The people replied, “They are the muppathArAyira perukkar, kOil azagiya manavAla perumal nAyanAr and his shisya, ponnadikkAl Jeeyer”.  Hearing this periya kElvi jeeyer woke up with surprise.  It was then time for him to get ready and go to the second day purattAsi thirunAl morning purappAdu. 

 Before the eyal ghosthi, periya kElvi Jeeyer told about his dream to thOzhappar who with surprise expressed the experience in the form of a sloka.  Some elders, not belonging to thirupathi but who have come from outside for the celebration, came to know of this and started discussing among themselves about the dream.  One said,  “ The Srivaishnava who has appeared in periya kElvi jeeyer’s dream is none other than kOil nAyanar;” another followed,” Oh! Yes it is our fortune that he has come to thirumalai at this time for taking part in the purattAsi utsavam;” another said,” yeah and nAyanAr calls vanamamalai jeeyer his very close shisya as “ponadikkAl jeeyer”.  Everyone over there were very happy to know that nAyanar along with his shisya was present in thirumalai at that time to glorify the celebration.

 Meanwhile, nAyanar has reached thirumalai with a great desire to have the darshan of thiruvEnkatamudaiyAn (“venkatath thuraivArkku nama”) prostrated the thirumalai, and then having darshan of govindarajar in keezh thirupathi proceeded to climb the hill and with great bhakthi bathed in the swamy pushkarini along with vanamamalai jeeyer, wore the thiruman kAppu and in a orderly fashion entered the temple doing appropriate mangalasAsanams at the various sannadhis and finally reaching the divine feet of thiruvEnkatamudaiyAn.  The acharya and shisya did mangalAsAsanam to thiruvEnkatamudaiyAn “Sri Venkata nivAsAya SrinivAsAya mangalam” and then started climbing down the hill.

 Then nAyanar, followed by vanamamalai Jeeyer as usual, then started his journey towards, “vulagamEththum AzhiyAn aththiyoorAn”.  He did mangalAsAsanam to all the surrounding divya dEsams and then proceeded to do mangalAsAsanam to dEvaperumAl.  They entered the temple in the appropriate way and stood in front of devarajan reciting the verses, “kadha punas sanga rathAnga kalpaga……….trivikrama dvach charanA…” from aalavandaar’s strotra ratnam.  Devaperumal highly pleased with the acharya and shisya showered his grace and with a cool kataksham blessed them with theertham, thirumAlai, thiruparivattam, srisadagopan, prasadams and other honors.  Then nAyanar and Jeeyer proceeded towards Sriperumbudur.

 Just on stepping into the holy land of Sriperumbudur, nAyanAr prostrated the land with due respect.  “eduvO perumbudur engE pirandhO ethirAsar em edarai theerththAr (Is this perumbudur? Was this the place where ethirAsar took birth to wash all our miseries?) Wondered nAyanAr.  He started reciting the paasuram starting with, “Andugal nAl thingalAi” and ended with, “erAmAnusanai porindhinamE”.  Then nAyanar enjoyed the divine darshan of emperumAnAr and requesting ethirAjar’s permission to learn the sribhasyam received the same and then went back to perumAl kOil and became a shisya of kidAmbi nAyanar and starting hearing Sribhasyam from him.

 Meanwhile, vanamamalai Jeeyer also stayed in perumal koil along with his acharya doing all sort of service to him and also joined him as a co-student in listening to Sribhasya.  Days passed and the Sribhasya lectures came to an end.  Now, nAyanar along with his shisyas started towards kOil (Srirangam), bathed in the kaveri, finished anushtanams and then went to the temple, did mangalAsAsanam to periya perumal and spent time in sath kAlashEpam.

 *Nayanar takes up sanyasa*………..We will see in the next posting.

 (To be continued)

 Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan