One more light hearted comment.

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Srimathe Narayanaya Namaha

 

On 8/3/98 8:13 PM Sri Mani wrote.

 

"..should we not think of what our dear Ramanuja himself

preferred? Unforunately for all you Tamil Nadu natives, the

kOyil of choice is Karnataka's "thirunaaraayaNa-puram /

yadugiri / mElkottai", the home of lord selva piLLai. And

it is not even a divya desam! It was this place that

showered its love on Ramanuja in his time of crisis.

 

Ramanuja counselled those who could not follow any other

commandment of his to "at least build a small hut and live

in thirunaaraayaNa-puram". Dare we disagree with the great

acharya? "

 

While this is true, now I would like to bring here the greatness of

our PermAL at Atthigiri. While at a later date, Sri Ramanujar

preferred Melkottai, during his initial stages in his life, he was

even reluctant to move out of Kanchi to Srirangam and DevaperumAL was

not also willing to send him. It is only, Sri Ranganathar, who played

a trick by sending the "arayar" to Kanchi and they did the beautiful

job of mesmerising the DevaperumAL, who is very much interested in

listening to the paasurams, by singing the paasurams in front of him

and asked Sri Ramanujar as a boon.

 

Now if you see, Swami Desikan also was living in Kanchi during his

earlier period but DevaperumAL once again sent him to Srirangam for

the welfare of Srivaishnavas.

 

So, our "poor" PerumAL has made a great sacrifice by sending all the

great AchAryAs to Srirangam as it was the Centre for the Sri

Vaishnavas.

 

Forget not that almost all AchAryAs in the Gurumparamparai lineage

have done slokas and or paasurams on our DevaperumAL. However due to

my ignorance, I don't know exactly what are these slokas or paasurams

excepting a few like Varadarajastavam etc.,

 

So I try to remind everybody in this list while we are arguing about,

Srirangam, Thirupathi, and Melkottai, one should not forget that it is

only DevaperumAL's sacrifice which gave Sri Ramanujar and Swami

Desikan to Srirangam for uplifting our Sri Vaishnavism.

 

Sri PerundEvi ThAyAr samEtha Sri DEvaperumAL thiruvadigaLE saraNam

 

 

adiyEn RAmAnuja dAsan

 

Thirumalai Vinjamoor Venkatesh