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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

Thiruvenkata Jeeyer, then welcomed swamy and made the required arrangements for swamy’s stay.  Jeeyer then requested swamy to bless them all with bhagavat vishaya kalashEpam.  Swamy accepted for the same.  During the days while swamy delivered kalashEpams on alwar’s arulicheyals, many mahans surrendered to swamy’s divine feet and deeply enjoyed the divine outpourings.  Swamy completed the kalashEpam and did sattrumurai and then proceeded to thiruvEnkatamudaiyan sannadhi for mangalAsAsanam.  Swamy then took the permission of perumal to leave the next day to continue his kainkaryams in vanamamalai and returned back to the mutt.

That night in the dream of swamy, appeared a pretty young girl, with a face like a freshly blossomed lotus flower.  She climbed over the lap of vanamamalai swamy.  Like a beloved daughter talking to her father and enchanting him with her sweet innocent kid’s talk, the girl continued to talk to swamy calling him, “Anna” (a reference to father) and said “Take me also to vanamamalai”.  Swamy woke up astonished by the dream.  At that time, many others including thiruvEnkata Jeeyer had similar dreams which they expressed in front of swamy.  In their dreams, nAchiyar has said as follows, “My father, vAnamAmalai rAmAnuja Jeeyer, is returning back to his place.  Send me also along with him to vanamAmalai”.

Many of them had the same dream and hence they rushed immediately to swamy’s sannadhi.  At that time swamy, told about his dream to thiruvEnkata Jeeyer.  Hearing this everyone got further surprised and totally believed that there was absolute truth in the dream that each one of them witnessed.  ThiruvEnkata Jeeyer, then told the following poorva vruththANtham (old legend):

“Many Many years ago, one thanikkOil nAchiyar appeared in thirumalai.  But since alarmEl mangai thAyAr is already present in the divine chest of emperumAn it was finally decided before the kalyana mahOtsavam that there should not be a separate sannadhi for thayar on the hills.  So from then this thAyar has remained without any separate sannadhi and kalyana mahOtsavam.“

Saying this Jeeyer continued to say, “yesterday thAyAr appeared in my dream and said, ‘vanamAmalai jeeyer is my father and deivanAyakan my husband.  I am going along with him to varamangai.  You also come following me’.  So this is the wish of nAchiyar and hence vanamamalai jeeyer swamy take your daughter along with you to vanamamalai and celebrate a grand kalyAnOtsavam.  Since this nAchiyAr has appeared due to the wish of AlarmEl mangai uraimArban, you will attain all the athma balam (“Atma lAbhAth param kinchithanya nAsthi”) from deivanAyakan due to her purushakAram (recommendation) and will become a poornar (complete one)”

 Listening to all these words of thiruvEnkata jeeyer with great surprise, swamy then with great joy prostrated appan and with nAchiyar in a separate palanquin, along with sufficient archakas, parichArakas and srivaishnavas for safety started on his journey.

 (To be continued)

 Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan