Sri Ramanujar and Gopuram Episode

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SrI:

SrImatE SrI Lakshminrusimha ParabrahmanE namaha

 

Dear SrI bharat,

namO nArAyaNA. pranAmams.

> The posting of Sri Anand Karalapakkam on this subject

> was most interesting and educative.adiyen is inclined

> to agree with the conclusions.In this regard I would

> like to present extracts from two more books on the

> life of Swami emberumAnAr.

 

that posting was actually by another bAgavathA and adiyEn simply

forwarded it. thank you for

your further insights and conclusions.

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Earlier also Sri mAdhavakannan made some complimentary

remarks regarding anushtAnam etc; adiyEn's answer also

falls along the lines of Sri mani and Sri vijayaraghavan.

sorry for a belated response.

--------------------------------adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan

ananthapadmanAbha dAsan

krishNArpaNam

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Dear BhAgavatas

 

The posting of Sri Anand Karalapakkam on this subject

was most interesting and educative.adiyen is inclined

to agree with the conclusions.In this regard I would

like to present extracts from two more books on the

life of Swami emberumAnAr.

 

1.This has to be THE oldest book on the subject.It

is the YATIRAJA VAIBHAVAM by Vatuka Nambi a most

devoted disciple of Udaiyavar.It is a short book

of 114 simple stanzas in Sanskrit written shortly

the Paramapada prApti of YatirAjar.In it stanzas 58

and 59 narrate this incident.I give below a translation

of the two stanzas:

"After that,through the 'niyamanam' of Periya Nambi,RamAnuja

prostrated before the holy feet of TirukkOTTiyUr Nambi,

received as 'upadeSa' from him the meanings of Tirumantram

and Geeta charama Slokam,and preached it to many people in

TirukkOtTTiyUr itself.

 

Thereupon that TiruKKOTTiYUr Nambi also immediately realising

the compassion brimming in Ramanuja's heart praised him

terming him "EmberumAnAr" and greatly pleased said,"This

DarSana is going to be celebrated in your name as

EmberumAnAr DarSanam." It is for this reason that thisi

known as SrI RAmAnuja DarSanam."

 

(I do not have the Sanskrit text.I am translating the tamil

translation by Sri PuttUr Swami)

 

2.The second is a book published in 1906.

The Life of RAMANUJACHARYA by AlkonDaville GOvindAchArya

In ch 15 the episode is given thus:

 

"The next day,he entered into the big and elevated hall

*(this is called the Gopuram or pinnacle as sung by

ANNAvappangAr in his Ramanuja AtimAnusha stava-

<kim gOpurOpari vitEritha bhUridAnam>)

of Terk-kAzhvAn

or the Lord Nrisimha,Resident of Tiru-k-kOTTiyUr,invited

all to assemble there;and his full heart flowed to them in

the revealing of the precious truths relating to Spirit

which he had learnt from G.PUrNa,under vow of secrecy.

This news reached and roused the indignation of G.PUrNa etc"

 

adiyEn

Bharat

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adiyen requests sri Bharat to kindly get some light on this issue from

acharyas back home. I am almost 99% sure that knowing Sri Bharat, who has

learnt under acharyas and stalwarts back there, (who, incidentally lives a

block away from my home back in India), would have already talked to

acharyas regarding this. The reason I want this is to know what is the

traditional "acharyas' stance on this is. I dont mean to ignore other

writers on this network. Irrespective, of what may be written in some of

the ancient works, I have, in the past heard acharyas give unique meanings

to ancient writings, since their multidimensional knowledge allows them to

view things in light of so many dharmashastras, prasthana traya, prabandams

and so on.

 

adiyen Krishna Kalale