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  BRINDARANYA NIVASAYA BALARAMANUJAYACHA RUKMINI PRANANADHAYA PARTHASOODHAYA MANGALAM

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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

One-day rAmAnuja pillan, a prime disciple of vanamamalai jeeyer swamy saw his wife wearing all her jewels and standing in front of him.  He immediately told his wife, “Seeing you like this makes me doubt your athma guna.  As per the words of rAma piran to piratti, it is like a deepadarshan to a blind man, to my eyes.  These jewels do not decorate or add beauty to pathivrattAs (chaste women) but only seelam (Athma gunam) beautifies pathivrattAs.”  The words of pillan were very cutting but his wife, who knew him well, understood his inner mind and in a manner to satisfy him immediately removed all the jewels and handed them over to him and remained without any hard feelings.

 Pillan accepted the same, and made a mahalakshmi padhakam (dollar with the impression of mahalakshmi on it) out of the gold obtained from the jewels.  Ramanuja pillan was waiting to submit it to deivanAyakan and enjoy seeing him adorning the same.  Pillan got the permission from vanamamalai swamy and submitted the same to perumal.  Then he along with his wife went and did mangalasasanam to deivanAyaka perumal.  Elated by the deep devotion of ramanuja pillan, vanamamalai swamy blessed him with swamy’s thiruvArAdhana perumal (Devaperumal with ubhaya nAchiyars) and also the acharya chinnams (symbols).

 Then, ramanuja pillan took his acharya’s permission and left to thirunagari and stayed under the divine feet of azhvar.  At that time he showered the divine arthas of thiruvAimozhi(bhagavat vishayam) to many interested srivaishnavas.  Meanwhile, one-day pillan’s wife prayed to azhvar to bless them with a child.  Azhvar blessed them and due to the divine grace of azhvar, a very intelligent sAtvika son was born to pillan and his wife.  Pillan named his son after his own acharya ThirunAmam.

 At the same time, Sri vanamamalai Jeeyer swamy lived with all glory due to his acharya krupai, stayed with ripened knowledge and all atma gunas (thrineekrutha virinjAdhi nirangusa vibhUtaya:l rAmAnuja padhAm bhOja samAsrayana sAlina:).  Swamy had a great regard for the pramAnams, pramEyam and pramAdhas and lived as par alwars and acharyas words (“adiyArkkadiyar thamakkadiyAr adiyAr thammadiyArradiyOngal”).  Swamy followed each and every word of his acharya, Sri Manavala mamunigal, who lived like a mangala deepam in Srirangam, like a good son following his father’s words (Sreevachanabhooshanaththin semporulai sindhaithannAl thErilumAm vAikondu seppilumAm AriyargAl enthamakku nAluminidhAga nindradhu”).

 Let us see the daily routine of swamy as enjoyed and given by the shisyas in the next posting.

 (To be continued)

 Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan