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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

After deep thinking, azhagiya varadar realized the reason behind his acharyan, Sri nAyanar’s words.  The reason was azhagiya varadan was still a samsAri and along with his duty towards his acharya he had other duties too.  So nAyanar wanted azhagiya varadar to return back to vanamamalai to take care of his parents and other relatives.  Thereby realizing his duty but still with deep sorrow to get separated from his acharya, azhagiya varadar started his journey.  But, throughout the journey his thoughts circled around the grace and athma gunas of his acharya (elders say, ”pAdhEyam pundareekaksha nAma sankeerthanam” but for this shisya everything was only his acharya).  With the same thoughts he reached sirivaramangala nagar.

 He bathed in the sacred tank, “Settru thAmarai” and completed his anushtAnams (daily rituals) and proceeded towards perumal’s sannadhi.  He did mangalAsAsanam to the emperuman (“thOthAdri nAtham lakshmeesam dEvanAtha mavandhatha”) reciting nammazhvar’s paasuram starting with “nOttra nOnbillEn” and ending with “sreevara mangala nagar veetrirundha endhAi”.  From then on he started doing kainkaryam to deivanAyaka perumal with atmost vairakhyam, ignoring his sareera bandhus and involving himself more with the athma bandhus(bhAgavatAs).

 Azhagiya varadar started developing hatred towards all the worldly affairs, which stood as a hinderence in his acharya kainkaryam, staying along with his acharya (“thAyE thandhai endrum thAramE kilai makkal endrum nOyE pattu ozhindEn”, laments thirumangai alwar).  So he decided to accept the final sacred ashrama, the sanyAsAshramA.  He submitted his thought under the divine feet of the deivanAyaka perumal and requested perumal to release him from this samsAram and grant him the dhanda-pavithram and kAshAyam required for him to take up sanyasa, regarded as the mokshAshramam.

 Emperuman seeing the vairakhyam of azhagiya varadar blessed him with the kAshAyam and dhandam and ordered him to have them till he was in this world, through the mouth of the archagar.  Like a great king of a big empire, consulting his queen to crown the prince, DeivanAyakan also consulted his piratti, jaganmAthA about making azhagiya varadar, a prince to the empire of “Darshana pravarthakam” and crowned him with his parivattam and blessed him with the name, ”vanamamalai rAmAnuja Jeeyer”.  Giving all his prasAdams, abhaya hastam, thirumAlai and Srisadagopam, deivanAyaka emperuman ordered jeeyer saying, “Stay like our rAmanujar in our sannadhi and take care of the temple administration and also spread the ramanuja darshanam to one and all”.  He then blessed the Jeeyer with a golden vessel filled with some prasadam as mAdukaram and also ordered for a mutt to be built for the Jeeyer close to the temple.

 DeivanAyakan then called all the archakas and other kainkarya paras in his sannadhi and ordered them to leave ‘vanamamalai rAmanuja jeeyer’ in his mutt with all respect and to consider Jeeyer, who is close to his heart, as their master (acharyan) and get enlightened by his preaching and live following his orders.  As per perumal’s order, all of them accompanied Jeeyer to his mutt along with divine vAdyaghOshams (sound of divine instruments) and other honors.  After reaching the mutt, they did mangalAsAsanam to Jeeyer, “rAmAnuja muni kanagamouli kalandhoozhi vAzhiyE” and returned after getting the blessings of the Jeeyer.

 Vanamamalai perumal showered his divine grace on the Jeeyer and putting aside the phrase, “AthmA karmaththOdE pOm; Ishwaran kanneerOdE pOm”, relaxed in his seat, relived of his tensions about the jeevatmas.   Everyone in the city, including ladies, young children and elders prostrated before the Jeeyer and thanked deivanAyaka perumal, with great happiness for blessing them with such a great acharya, who was like a reincarnation of udaiyavar to them.

 (To be continued)

 Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan