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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

As Vanamamalai swamy proceeded his journey, at various divya desams the srivaishnavas crowded around and started saying the praises of swamy as follows:

“kOil manavala mAmunivan ponnadiyAm senkamala pOdhugal vandhAr” (one who has come, is the divine lotus feet of manavala mAmunigal at srirangam)

“Varamangai mA munivan vandhAr” (the great varamangai muni has come)

“DeivanAyagarkku eniya desikanAr vandhAr” (deivanAyagan’s beloved acharya has come)

“EmperumAnAr darisanaththai valarkkumavar vandhAr” (the one who spreads and establishes rAmanuja darshanam has come).

 Accompanied with all these praises and with the sound of divine instruments and thiruchinnam being played, swamy’s ghosti proceeded forward.  Attracted by swamy’s procession the locals in various places, considered swamy to be like a light which has appeared to remove all their darkness and similar to a sudden rain which has been showered in a draught affected area.  Many came and fell under the divine feet of swamy.  Swamy showered his grace on all those ignorant people and gave them the rAmAnuja sambhandam.  All of them became “meiadiyArgal” “thirumAl adiyArgal” (“thiruththi thirumagal kelvanukkAkki …arangan seiya thAlinaiyOdArththan”)

 Swamy then proceeded further north, had the darshan of dwarakAdeesan at dwarakai, and then proceeded to brindavan, kEdharam, jillikAranyam, naimisAranyam and sAlagramam.  After the divine darshan at salagramam Vanamamalai Jeeyer proceeded towards badrikAshramam.  The shisyas were elated to see the way in which their swamy went from one place to another, bringing many people, who have been left for so many years in dark to the light of ramanuja darshanam.  The shisyas admired their swamy’s Jnana, bhakthi, vairakhyam and eulogized swamy as follows:

 “Our swamy, vanamamalai ramanuja Jeeyer is like the thick dark clouds; This cloud has absorbed the water of knowledge from the ocean of wisdom, Sri manavala mamunigal; Then as per the order of the ocean, his acharya, this cloud has now moved towards the northern direction and due to its impartial pity for all, has showered the rain of krupai on one and all without any differentiation; Due to this the greenery of emperumAnAr darshanam which was earlier drooping has gained strength and has flourished”.

 With such admiration for their swamy in the minds of the shisyas, swamy and the shisyas reached the divine place where the thirumanthram took birth, BadrikAsharamam.  They did mangalAsAsanam to nara and narayanan and then with gratefulness and due regard swamy constructed a mandapam for nara-narayanan and celebrated a grand festival for nara-narayanan and stayed there for some more days doing mangalAsAsanam to the prathama guru, narayanan.

 Then, after taking the permission of nara-narayanan swamy proceeded to the banks of ganga, where once udaiyavar had taken a dip and considering it to be the most sacred place bathed in the gangus (“gangai gangai yenna vAsagaththAlE ezhumaiyum koodi Eendiya pavam eriapozhuthalavinil kazhividhum perumai yudai gangai”, “thirumAl kazhalinai keezh kuliththu”).  The river ganga is considered to be the sreepAda theertham (water that washed the divine feet of emperuman) of emperuman in thiruvikramAvathAram.  So it is very sacred and hence just by the utterance of the name ‘ganga’ one can get rid of crores of sins he has accumulated over many crores of time.  In such a sacred river in the same place where acharya ramanuja took a divine dip, our swamy also bathed and changed clothes, adorned himself with the divya dvAdasa pundram and then had darshan of perumal at “kandamennum kadi nagar”.

 From there swamy then started his return journey towards the southern direction.

 (To be continued)

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan