Reco for Admission to Sri VaikuNdam

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We have debated on our quest for Logical solutions and some "unknown"

(eventually logic may be applied for finding his identity also if it is worth

doing so) person even charecterised our poorvaachaaryaaLs work as outmoded.

While we will all pray to the Lord for forgiveness for such bagwath apachaarams

on behalf of everyone of this net, it is also suitable at this time to know

what a poorvaachaaryaa can offer us . I was browsing the achaarya vaibavams of

Sri Nampillai. He is also known as kalikanRi and is born on kaarthigai

krithigai. There was an article by me sometime back on the popular belief of

Sri Nampillai's and Sri Periya vaachchaan pillai's avathaarams titled as

"Thirumangaiyin aruLich cheyalum Sowri Raajap Perumaalin avathaara cheyaLum".

This article may give those hints sought by rationalists of this group as to

what is going to be told.

 

Sri Nampillai's thiru maaligai was very small in Srirangam. Adjascent to this,

there was a house of a SriVaishnava lady who worshipped Nampillai's

thiruvadikaL as the achaaryaaL's thirup paatham. One day one of the

Srivaishnava who is a disciple of Sri Nampillai asked the lady, " Our

achaaryaan's thirumaaligai is insufficently small. You may want to offer your

house to the achaaryaa (ie samarpiththuvidum.)". The Lady replied, "who will

have have an inch of a land in kOil (kOil is the popular term for Sri rangam)?

Until I attain bagwaan's thirup paatham I cannot give this palce to anyone".

Sri Nampillai has many disciples who were doing "kaalakshEbam" with him. Some

of the "anEka vithvath chrEshtarkaL" are, "periya vaachchaan pillai, vadakkuth

thiruveethip pillai, perumal jeer, eeyuNNi maathavap perumal and others. On one

of the occassion this disciple mentioned to Sri Nampillai about the neighbour.

Sri Nampillai asked that lady, "You need a place for one person, You see there

are so many here, doing kaalakshEbam and are having difficulty for want of

sufficient place. Hence I reqest you to consider giving your surplus place for

them". The Lady replied

"I will do so. But thEvareer should allot a place for me in Sri VaikuNdam".

AchaaryaaL said "there, only SRi VaikuNdanaathan can give a place. However I

will request HIM to give you a place there". The lady replied, 'Swami, adiyEn

saathu ie innocent, and that too a lady, So it is not enough if you simply say

that you will request, I request you to give it to me in writing". Swami was

surprised to see the resolve of this lady as she wants to make sure that she

will attain it ! "Such and Such year, month and date thiruk kaLikanRi thaasan

thiruparamapathaththil oru idaththai ezhuthik koduththaan ie Thiruk kalikanRi

thaasan is awarding a place in Sri Viakundam for this lady on such and such

year month and date. The all prevading jagath swamy and asmath swamy, the Sri

Vaikundanaathan must bless this Lady with such a place in SriVaikundam" and he

signed that decree and sealed and gave it to her.

 

The lady took that reco and was satisfied and gave the place to achaaryaaL. All

the anthEvaasikaL were astonished by both the resolve of this lady and also the

fact that "even the ubaya viboothi is as per the order of our ahcaaryaan".

Please note that if Our ahcaaryaaLS offer prapaththi to us, it is like a letter

of intent and is equivalent to a confirmed "seat" in SriVaikundam.

 

 

Thiruk kalaikanRi Nampillai thiruvadikaLe saraNam

Thiru amalanaathipiraan thiruvadikaLe saraNam.

Sri Sri RAnganaayaki SamEthara Sri Ranganaatha Swamy thiru vadikaLe saraNam

 

Sampath Rengarajan

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On Mar 14, 8:07am, Sampath Rengarajan wrote:

> We have debated on our quest for Logical solutions and some "unknown"

> (eventually logic may be applied for finding his identity also if it is

worth

> doing so) person even charecterised our poorvaachaaryaaLs work as outmoded.

 

I have heretofore stayed out of this discussion,

as it was rather amusing to see all this acrimony

based on some reactionary misunderstanding of our

anonymous friend's words.

 

But Rengi, well-intentioned though his words are,

has grossly mischaracterized Mr. Anonymous's

statement.

 

Never was it said that all the pUrvAcArya's work

was outdated. On the contrary, I believe what he

meant was that mere parrot-like recantation of

pUrvAcArya's opinions are useless without attempting

to personally contemplate on these opinions, in turn

stimulating introspection and attempts at determining

the Truth. In otherwords, the ``manana'' phase of

the ``SravaNa, manana, nidhidhyAsana'' process that

is described in the Upanishads should *not* be

discarded. [sravaNa -- hearing the acharya's teaching,

manana -- thinking about and discussing the essence

of the teaching, nidhidhyAsana -- actual contemplative

meditation on the ParamAtma (Truth).]

 

What then are the outmoded forms? I have not asked

my anonymous friend, but I am sure we can come up

with some expressions of life that were present

during our acharya's time that reflected their cultural

viewpoint without having lasting value. This is all

that was meant.

 

The essence is this -- simply quoting pages and pages

of some Upanishad, Rahasya Traya Saaram, or other work

does one no good, unless one actually engages in the

process of sAdhana, using these works as a basis for

practical application in modern times.

 

As another bhagavata put it, if you don't try to keep

Rama in your heart at all times, none of these other

things are worth anything.

 

``hridi mugdha SikhaNDa maNDano

likhitaH kena mamaiSa SilpinA?'' -- Swami Desikan

 

Mani