THIRUVALLIKENI KANDENE   

  BRINDARANYA NIVASAYA BALARAMANUJAYACHA RUKMINI PRANANADHAYA PARTHASOODHAYA MANGALAM

                      THIS SITE IS SUBMITTED TO THE HOLY FEET OF SHREE PARTHASARATHI EMPERUMAN

                                                                          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

Vanamamalai ponnadikkAl swamy got himself mentally prepared to leave this samsAric world and start his journey towards the nithya vibhuti of emperuman.  Considering this body to be the hinderance, swamy prayed to his own acharya to remove the obstacles and accept him into the divine abode of emperuman.  Due to the prayer, swamy fell sick putting all the shisyas in grief.  The shisyas lamented saying, “Oh! This world without swamy will be like stars without moon, a crown abandoned without a king, a pond without a lotus, a ahothi without fire and a recitation without vedic scholars”.  All the shisyas crowded around swamy with deep sorrow.

 Jeeyer swamy saw the shisyas in grief and thought of selecting one of them to proceed him as the next peedhAdhipathi, to take care of the kainkaryams.  Meditating on his own acharya, swamy selected one of his intelligent shisyas, well versed in all sastras, kalamoor varadamuni as the next acharya to follow him and called him “Vanamamalai ramanuja jeeyer” with his own mouth and made him the second peedhAdhipathi of the vanamamalai mutt.  Then swamy submitted varadamuni under the divine feet of the divine couples, deivanAyakan and srivaramangai nAchiyar and requested them to accept him to their nithya kainkaryam.

 Swamy then instructed all his disciples to be under the control of varadamuni and continue with bhagavat/bhAgavata kainkaryams.  At this time, some Srivaishnavas happen to come from thirukurungudi and they requested swamy to appoint a Jeeyer for the kainkaryam of nambi.  Swamy selected one among them and instructed him to be in the nithya kainkaryam of thirukurungudi nambi, but be under the control of vanamamalai Jeeyer and act according to his words.  The nambi Jeeyer also accepted the same with gratefulness and proceeded towards nambi sannadhi.

 Then vanamamalai varada Ramanuja jeeyer and ramanuja pillan, after getting the permission from their acharya, got two divya mangala vigrahams of swamy and requested swamy to grace the vigrahams, so that after swamy leaves to the divine abode of emperuman, they can all still have darshan of swamy in archA roopam, in the mutt.  Jeeyer showered his karunA kataksham on the vigrahams touched them with his divine hands and gave one to varada muni to be kept in the vanamamalai mutt always.  Swamy then gave the second vigraham into the hands of ramanuja pillan.  On consecration of swamy’s archA vigraham in the mutt even deivanAyaka perumal and srivaramangai nAchiyar were filled with ecstasy since this removed their grief of getting separated from swamy.

 Swamy then called the kainkarya paras (persons involved in the service of perumal) in the deivanAyakan sannadhi and apologized for all the knowingly or unknowingly done apacharyams (mistakes).  The kainkaryaparas replied, “ Oh! swamy devarir can do mistakes only if vanamamalai perumal can ever commit a sin.  Both are never possible”.  Swamy then told them “ I have appointed varadamuni to be the next jeeyer of the mutt and also to take care of the nithya kainkaryam of perumal.  Please consider him to be my representative and continue the kainkaryams in the temple as usual”.

 Swamy then did dhadhiyArAdhanam and accepted prasadams from srivaishnavas and showed his deep regret for any mistakes he could have committed till date.  Then swamy’s arthi to reach the divine feet of emperuman reached its height and hence he started meditating on the divine feet of his acharya Periya Jeeyer and uttered, “EmperumAnAr thiruvadigale sharanam” “Jeeyer thiruvadigale sharanam” and remained in silence while the shisyas with folded hands started reciting brahmavalli, bhruhuvalli, Soozhvizhumpanimugil and then all the divine instruments along with thiruchinnam was played when Jeeyer swamy meditated on his acharya’s thiruvadi and swamy’s soul got itself released from the body and through the sushumnAnAdi, smashing the brahmaratham continued its journey towards the divine abode of emperuman.  Thereby swamy attain paramapadam to get himself into the divine service of paramapadanAdhan along with all the nithya sooris.

 (To be continued)

 Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan