Aan moolam arasAlum!!!

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Vara Vara munayE Namaha

Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

“kOshpathee krutha vArAsim masakeekrutha rAkshasam

rAmAyana mahA mAlA ratnam vandhE anilAth majam”

“anjanA nandhanam veeram jAnaki sOka nAsanam

kapeesamaksha hanthAram vandhE lankA bhayankaram”

“manOjavam mArutha tulya vEgam jithEndriyam bhutthi madhAm varishtam

vAdhAthmajam vanarayoodhamukyam Sri rama dhootham sirasA namAmi”

 

There is famous proverb in Tamil that says, “An moolam arasAlum” (the

males born in the star of moolam will rule over). Do we have proof

to establish this? Yes in our sampradayam we can show two males who

were born in this divine star who have ruled over EMPERUMAN (the king

of kings, paramapurushan, the ultimate leader) himself. Who were

they? One is the hero of today, born in the month of mArgazhi- AnjanA

sudhan, Rama dhoothan, Sri AnjanEyan. The second is none other than

our dear Swamy Manavala mAmunikal, the acharya who the great Periya

perumal himself chose to be HIS acharya to enjoy the divine arthas of

the mAran senthamizh, thiruvaimozhi through the divine commentaries of

the poorvacharyas, mainly the nampillai eedu, who was born in

Iypasi thirumoolam. We have already enjoyed how Periya perumal became

the shisya of Swamy Manavala mAmunikal and submitted the ‘srisailEsa

thaniyan’ largely in these groups. On this day, grandly celebrated

as ‘hanumath jayanthi’ (the birth day of hanuman) let us enjoy how

hanuman generally regarded as only a great bhaktha of Sri rama pirAn

got the greatness as an acharya and was deeply regarded by rama

himself.

 

Swamy desikan celebrates anjaneya as “hanumath samEna gurunA”.

Ramayana is not only an epic, and a story but it is a bureau of

sampradAyic information and dramatic version of the vedAntha. Our

acharyas show the deep arthas immersed in the ocean of rAmAyana and

have blessed us with the divine meanings through their commentaries.

Our acharyas say that while rama, seetha and lakshmana walked towards

the forest it was like the walking pranavam. Pranavam is split into

akAram, vukAram and makAram. AkAram refers to the paramatma (Sri

ramapiran), vukaram is the piratti (who binds the jeevatma and

paramatma through her purushakaram) and the makAram is the

jeevatma here lakshmana.

 

In the later stage after piratti was carried away by ravana,

chakravarthi thirumagan sent anjanEya in search of piratti with his

ring. At that time, our acharyas say that here it can be equated to

the jeevatma getting separated from paramatma and to get him back

perumal sends the acharya in search of the disciple. Here hanuman

becomes the acharya who saves the jeevatma (piratti) from killing

herself, with the help of the taraka manthram, and gives the soul the

confidence that perumal will surely come and rescue her from the hard

situations. Then the very same acharya goes to perumal and says,

“kandEn seethaiyai” (“drushtA seetha”) and wipes the sorrow of

emperuman who worries due to the separation of piratti (“ekAki na

ramEtha” emperuman

even while in the divine abode amidst all pleasures still worries due

to the separation from his sons, the jeevatmas. Then will he not

worry while in the human form in this world?). This is what an

acharya actually does. He builts the confidence in the disciple who

suffers in the world that emperuman is always there to protect us and

grant the divine abode and then he pleases the emperuman by submitting

the jeevatma into his divine feet. On hearing hanuman’s words after

returning from lanka, Sri rama said, “Oh! anjaneya you have left me

indebted. What can I give you in return for the great help you have

rendered and swamy hugged anjanEya with pleasure (parishvangO

hanoomatha:)”. After the ravana vatham, anjanEya

rushed to seetha piratti and told her about the victory of ramapiran

like a small kid running to its mother to share its joy. Seeing

anjanEya piratti was dumb folded and she uttered, “Oh! anjenEya what

can I give you in return for this mahAupakAram”.

 

Do you all know how hanuman reacted? Even at that point hanuman was

not proud of his act instead he admired the unison in the words of

the divya dampathis. He said, “Oh! Devi you two are really divine

since the same words were uttered by emperuman too. You two have

such a unity”. Piratti said, “ It is not due to our understanding

but it is due to your greatness that made both of us utter the same

words” Both perumal and piratti felt indebted to hanuman. To honour

hanuman, perumal later in the bharatwaja ashramam, made hanuman to

eat along with him in a single plantain leaf.

yes"> In this way, hanuman ruled over emperuman with his bhakthi and

love. Did hanuman stop with this? No he saved one another divine

soul. Yes. He saved the great bhagavata bharatha from doing

agnipravesam (entering into the fire to kill himself) due to the

delay in the arrival of perumal. So the actual hero of Ramayana was

hanuman who did the right things in the right time in the right way

with the help of the “Rama” manthram.

 

At the end of the avatharam, perumal wished to grant moksha to all who

were interested in ayodhya. But to perumal’s sorrow the one who

refused the same was the very same hanuman who perumal greatly wanted

to take along with him (“bhAvO nAn yathra gachchathi”). Can such a

great vairakya seela, filled with bhakthi refuse the divine abode of

emperuman? Why did he do so? AnjanEya explained, “I have enjoyed the

roopa of emperuman as chakravarthi thirumagan along with seetha

piratti. I do not want to fall into even any other form of perumal

even if he is the vaikundhanAthan. So I will stay in this world till

Ramayana lives and stand in the place where

Ramayana is recited with eyes filled with tears.”

“yathra yathra ragunAtha keerthanam thatra thatra kruthamasthakAnjalim

pAshpavAri paripoorna lOchanam mAruthim namatha rAksha sAnthakam”

 

Let us all fall into the divine feet of this great bhagavata and pray

to him to bless us with atleast one percent of his divine bhakthi and

mahavishvasam towards the emperuman.

 

Jai AnjanEya!!! Jai bajranga bali!!!

 

“kAnjanAtri nibhAngAya vAnjidArtha pradhAyinE

anjanA bhAkya roopAya AnjanEyaya mangalam”

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

 

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

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