Guest guest Posted March 29, 2002 Report Share Posted March 29, 2002 Dear Bhagavatas, I remember reading years ago of a narrative account of the life history of Ramanuja. Therein it was described that Ramanuja, upon entering Yamunacharya's ashram his teacher was leaving the world. Three fingers were raised on the preceptor's hand and Ramanuja stated the heart's desire of his guru. One by one the fingers lowered and he was accepted as the natural successor of Yamunacharya and set out later to fulfill these wishes. Kindly respond if the above account is accurate? What sources are there for the history of Ramanuja's life and of this event? Thankyou again. Ys, Jagadish _______________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 30, 2002 Report Share Posted March 30, 2002 SrI: SrI Ramanujacharya was staying at Kanchi for a while to assist Tiruk Kachi Nambi in his daily chores of service to Lord Varadaraja. (3) News came that Alavandar was very sick and he desired to meet with Ilaya Perumal. Just as Tirukkachi Nambi and Alavandar arrived, they saw the funeral procession of Alavandar. During the last rites, they noticed that three fingers of Alavandar remained folded signifying three of his last unfulfilled wishes. As Ilaya Perumal swore: i ) that he would write a commentary on Veda Vyasa's Brahma Sutra ii ) that he would perpetuate the memory of Sage Vyasa and Sage Parasara iii ) that he would strive to propagate Visishtadvaita on the lines of the 4000 holy collects of Alwars, The fingers unfolded one by one automatically and stretched out to normal position signifying that these were his (Alavandhar's) last wishes. (from SrI Anbil Ramaswamy's Acharya vamsa vruksham,w hich again refers to many works listed therein) Regards Namo Narayana aDiyEn dAsan _______________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 2, 2002 Report Share Posted April 2, 2002 SrI: Dearest srivaishnavas, Given below is Sri Guna Venkat's excellent post (and correction on aDiyEn's). Sorry for the mistake. Thanks, Sri Guna. Regards Namo Narayana aDiyEn ----Original Message Follows---- "Guna Venkat" <guna_venkat "Madhavakkannan V" <srivaishnavan Re: History on Ramanuja Mon, 1 Apr 2002 12:31:06 -0800 Dear Swamy Adiyen wish to differ with respect to your word that IlayAlwar was accompanied by Thirukachi Nambi to see Alavandar , It was PeriaNambi who took Ilaya Alwar to SriRangam . The story as you might know already that, when Alavandar was in sarama disay, he wanted to meet Ilaya Alwar and hence he asked PeriaNambi to go to Kanchi to bring Ilaya Alwar , Peria Nambi just recited the thanian of Alavandar , which made the total transformation in Ilayalwar and Swamy was more interested in meeting Alavandar, then both of them went back to SriRangam, when they reach Karambanoor, they saw Alavandar's final rites going on, after that as you mentioned Alavandar's folded fingers story, finally Ilaya Alwar returned back to Kanchi without having Dharsan of Namperumal, for the simple reason that he could not get his Acharyan's dharsan. Sorry for elaborating the details and I never mean to hurt you and just want to mention what I heard thru Upanyasam.. Best Regards Guna Ph 408 588 6672 (W) guna_venkat _______________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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