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
GREATNESS OF VANAMAMALAI JEEYER SWAMY
- Swamy was responsible
for acting as purushakaram (recommendation) for annan and others to
surrender to the divine feet of Sri Periya Jeeyer and also accepted a few of
them as his shisyas as per the order of Sri Periya Jeeyer.
- Swamy was responsible
to bring appillai and appullAr to the divine feet of Sri Periya Jeeyer swamy.
First swamy convinced periya jeeyer to accept them as his disciples
and then he went to the banks of kaveri and along with the help of
erumbiappa, swamy brought both appillai and appullAr to the divine feet of
Periya Jeeyer and made them the two among the ashtadiggajas of Sri Mamunigal.
- Sri Periya Jeeyer
himself used to praise and call Swamy as “PonnadikkAl Jeeyer”.
- Periya Jeeyer
considered swamy his very close disciple and also an atma bandhu and also
wanted vanamamalai swamy to get all the pleasure and treasure he obtained.
And hence made swamy sit in his seat and presented his thirukkai Azhvars in
the hands of vanamamalai swamy and asked him to do samAsrayanam just like
him.
- Then Periya Jeeyer
appointed ashtadiggajas for vanamAmalai Jeeyer swamy just like his own
ashtadiggajas.
- Further Periya Jeeyer
sent vanamamalai swamy to tour in the northern states as his representative
and fulfill his wish to uplift all jeevatmas over there and bring them to
our sampradayam by giving them ramanuja sambhandam through samAsrayanam.
- During his last days,
Periya Jeeyer instructed his upadandam, thiruvAzhimOdhiram and
thiruvadinilai of his own acharya thiruvAimozhi pillai to be given to
vanamamalai Jeeyer, though swamy was not near periya Jeeyer at the time when
periya jeeyer attained paramapadam.
- Periya Jeeyer had his
special grace on vanamamalai swamy.
- Vanamamalai swamy also
was blessed specially by Periya perumal, and that is why he gifted him the
aranganagarappan and himself went with him to vanamamalai.
There is no need to say that vanamamalai perumal, who have got his
divine consort, srivaramangai nAchiyar as kannikAdAnam from swamy had his
special wishes for swamy and that is why he gave all the responsibilities of
the deivanAyakan sannadhi kainkaryams to swamy himself.
Next thiruvEnkatamudaiyan, showed the greatness of swamy and his
acharya bhakthi in the dream of thiruvEnkata periya kElvi Jeeyer and thus
showed his love for Vanamamalai Jeeyer.
And nAchiyar in thirumalai accepting swamy as her father, shows
largely the great mahimai of PonnadikkAl Jeeyer swamy.
- With
the blessings of all the perumals swamy did a lot of kainkaryam in the
deivanAyakan sannadhi, thirukkurungudi nambi sannadhi and also in spreading
our ramAnuja darshanam all over India.
- The
greatness of swamy lies mainly in his acharya nishtai (charamOpAya nishtai). Though he took sanyasa even before his acharya, nayanar
(Sri Manavala mamunigal) still he remained with great prathipaththi towards
his acharya and considered mAmunigal to be upaya and upEyam (as per the well
known verses, “DevumattrariyEn” (Madhurakavi bhAvam); “GururEva param
brahma gururEva paramdhanam l gururEva param kAma: gururEva parAyanam ll
gururEva parA vidhyA gururEva parAyathi: l yasmAth sadhupadhEshtasow
thasmAth gurutharO guru: ll” “theemanam keduththAi” “maruvithozhum
manamE thandhAi” “ariyAdhana ariviththa” “peedhagavAdaipirAnAr
piramaguruvAgi vandhu” ) .
- Though swamy was
blessed with a birth in a high caste Brahmin family (“therulkol nAnmarai
vallAr”, “thEru jnanaththar” “senthozhilavar”, “thelliyAr
thirunAnmaraigal vallAr”,”seidhavElviyar vaiyaththEvar”) and also a
wealthy family and remained with great knowledge and intelligence still
swamy didn’t possess even a little bit of pride due to all these. His mind was clear from the mukkurumbhu (“vidhyAmathO
dhanamatha: thrithEyO bhijanOmatha:”)
With
all these and many more greatness, swamy remained with parama krupai on everyone
and established our sampradayam in the world as per the wish of his acharya.
Swamy showed love and care towards all including plants and animals and
wanted to uplift each and every jeevatma without any barriers to the divine feet
of emperuman. In this way swamy
remained acting as the bridge between the paramatma and jeevatma for sometime.
Then wanting to go to the divine abode of emperuman, swamy shed all his
interest in this leela vibhuti (thAjya bhoomiyilE jihAsaiyum) and prepared
himself to go to the nithya vibhuthi (prApya bhoomiyilE prAvanyam).
We
will all join the ceremony of swamy’s paramapada prApthi in the forth-coming
postings.
(To
be continued)
Alwar
EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam
Adiyen
Ramanuja dasyai
Sumithra
Varadarajan