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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

When Vanamamalai rAmAnuja Jeeyer was deeply depressed with sorrow thinking about the separation from his acharya, Periya Jeeyer who understood his inner feeling said, “Jeeya! Don’t worry.  Come on.  Accompany me to namperumAl sannadhi.  Hearing to these graceful words, ponnadikkAl Jeeyer regained all his enthusiasm and followed his acharya with great joy.

Then the renounced paramahamsa sanyAsi, Sri Periya Jeeyer took the permission of alwar and like a chaste women going from her paternal place to her in-laws place, along with vanamamalai Jeeyer left alwar thirunagari and proceeded towards the third vibhoothi of perumal, Srirangam.  After doing mangalAsAsanam to periya perumal they proceeded towards the mutt.

At that time, when Periya Jeeyer was delivering kalashEpams in Srirangam, one great mahan belonging to the vAdhoola clan by the name srinivAsAchariyar, learnt about the greatness of swamy and wanting to fall under the divine feet of swamy, came to swamy’s sannadhi and did sAshtAnga pranAmam.  He requested swamy to kindly take him as his shisya.  Periya Jeeyer showed him vanamamalai Jeeyer and said, “Take our ponnadikkAl Jeeyer as your acharya and you are destined to get all good fortunes due to that”.  SrinivAsAchariyar thereby followed Periya Jeeyer’s orders and fell in the feet of vanamamalai Jeeyer.  Vanamamalai Jeeyer swamy also followed his acharya’s words and did panchasamskAram to the mahAcharyar and in appropriate order gave him the mantras and manthrArthams and also made him undergo the bhagavat vishaya kalashEpam.

Mahacharya then wondered, how the sambandham of elders and mahans can totally change the lifestyle of even an ordinary person like him and felt very grateful to Periya Jeeyer to have blessed him with such a great acharya.  With the greatness of his acharya filled in his mind, he then wrote, dhinacharyai, prapathi, and mangalAsAsanam for his acharya, vanamamalai rAmAnuja Jeeyer swamy.  This prabhandam has become the nithyAnusandhAnam for mumukshus to attain the divine abode of emperumAn.

Meanwhile, samarapungavAcharyAr, heard about the greatness of vanamamalai rAmAnuja Jeeyer, pAdharEkhA of Periya Jeeyer, and came to swamy’s sannadhi submitted everything to swamy and surrendered into the feet of vanamamalai Jeeyer and got the manthrArtham and bhagavat vishaya sath sampradAyam from Vanamamalai swamy and stayed in the nithya kainkaryam of the acharya.

 Then, rAmAnujAchariyar belonging to the srivatsa clan came and surrendered to vanamamalai jeeyer and became his shisya.  Vanamamalai Jeeyer seeing the tejas of rAmAnujAcharyar thought, “By the grace of periya perumal he will become the darshana pravarthakar” and was glancing at him when rAmAnujAcharyar came forward and did sAshtAnga pranAmams to Jeeyer and uttered the following words, “dhayasva mAmathya dhayAnithE tvam”.

 Vanamamalai Jeeyer showered his grace on him and in a way to remove all his samsAric miseries, did panchasamskAram and gave him the thirunAmam “Ramanuja pillAn” and then taught him all the rahasya arthas and bhagavat vishayam and according to the verse “chakAra vedhantha yuga praveenam” made him ubhaya-vedAntha pravarthakar and showered his full grace on him.  Thereby, rAmAnuja pillan who was otherwise commonly called “pillai” stayed along with vanamamalai jeeyer as his prime shisya and lived continuing his uninterrupted service to swamy for 32 years.

 (To be continued)

 Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan