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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 In
the previous posting we saw that Sri Vanamamalai ramanuja jeeyer swamy attained
the divine abode of emperuman leaving his disciples in the ocean of misery.
Varada muni, ramanujam pillai and others were struck by very deep sorrow
due to the separation from swamy and they fell to ground like trees without root
and wept thinking about the glory of swamy and their state in this world without
swamy. Then consoled by all the other disciples, varada muni, the
next jeeyer of the vanamamalai mutt, appointed by swamy to perform his last
rites, went to bathe in the settruthAmarai along with the others, took a divine
dip and then returned to do thirumanjanam
(divine bath) to his acharya. They
placed swamy on a thirumanjana seat and did the thirumanjanam along with the
recitation of purusha sooktham, dvayAnusandhAnam and other manthras.
Then they changed the vastram (dress) of Swamy and decorated him with
thiruparivattam and thirumankAppu. While
everyone involved themselves in enjoying the divine beauty of the thirumEni
(body) of swamy with eyes and mind with utmost concentration, deivanAyaka
perumal sent his uduththukalaindha peedaga vAdai (dress earlier adorned by
perumal), and his garland in a golden plate.
Srivaishnavas from the deivanAyakan sannadhi carried the plate amidst the
sound of divine instruments and chatra samara honors and came in front of the
mutt. Varada
Muni accepted the perumal mariyAdai (honors) from the srivaishnavas and honored
swamy’s vimala sarama vigraham. Then
all the sannadhi kainkaryaparas, swamy’s disciples (SripAdhaththu mudhaligal)
and other sAththAdha Srivaishnavas (those who didn’t undergo upanayanam) had
the divine darshan of swamy’s body. Everyone
was grief struck. Each one started
lamenting not being able to get away from the darshan of swamy.
The following were the feelings expressed by few of them: “Iyo! KannapirAn araiyO muraiyO srivaramangai veetrirundha vAnanAdanE en kArmugil vannanE!” (Oh!
my god is this fair; Oh! My swamy who lived in srivaramangai, my karmugil vannan) “Anantham
prathamam roopam lakshmanasthu thatha: param l balabathra: thretheeyasthu kalau
kaschit bhavishyati ll” (Oh!
swamy were you the ramanuja muni who took avatar as per the above verse? Or were
you the punarAvathAram of varavara muni? Or are you only varamangai muni, who
was like varavaramuni to ramanuja muni?
The
shisyas submitted a number of strotras to the divine feet of swamy.
A few of them are as follows: “MaththAr
mannar thozhum thottaiyaikarappai, valarsamarapungavaguru, suddha sattvam annA,
EththAdhavarEththum appAchiyArannA, A-rArum kalvi nidhi erAmAnusam pillai,
kAththulagai yAdharikkum thiurkkOttiyuraiyar, kalai muzhudhum kaivandhu
kalakkAdha Jnanakkan AththAnum pallakkAl siththanum enmaru ashtagajamAgiyE,
adimai seitharulukaiyAl vanamamalai munivan pOlE desikar mAnilaththil vErundO” (Vanamamalai
ramanuja Jeeyer is a great acharya who has been blessed with 8 gem-like
sathshisyas (close and good disciples), thottaiyaikarappai, samarapunavaguru,
suddha sattvam annA, appAchiyArannA. Eramanusan pillai, thirukkOttiyuraiyar,
Jnankkan AththAn and pallakAl siththar called the ashtadiggajas.
Is there any acharya who has such greatness?) “eththanai
pEr thandhai, eththanai per maindhanAi, eththanai pEr kEval thozhil seidhEn,
aththanaiyum, mAttruviththAn mangaiyil erAmAnusamunivan A-ttramula
ettu ezhuththinAl” (I
have become a father of many, the son of many and done a lot of jobs under many
but only ramanuja muni changed everything due to the divine power of the
ashtAkshari) “mannia
senjol manavalamunivan kazhal unniya kondal eramanusan enpadhangal, thanniya
nenjil tharikka vallAr avar padhaththai senniyil soodha vallAr vinnulArilum
sEriyarE” (Those
who have the divine feet of rAmAnusa muni, the one who has always the divine
feet of manavala muni, one filled with sweet words, in his hearts, in their
minds, those who bear the feet of such adiyars on their head are to be
considered even greater than the nithya sooris). In
this way, the disciples expressed the divine qualities of their acharya. (To
be continued) Alwar
EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam Adiyen
Ramanuja dasyai Sumithra
Varadarajan
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