geethA sAstramum nedunthAndaka sAstramum-25

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Vara Vara munayE Namaha

Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

In the previous posting we saw about the tattva vachanam and tattva

darsi vachanam. An interesting incident in the life of Swamy

emperumAnAr shows the importance of tattva darsi vachanam. Swamy

emperumAnAr visited thirukurungudi to do mangalasasanams to nambi.

Nambi invited emperumAnAr with a big smile on his face and asked him

“Oh! Ramanuja it is really amazing. I took many avataras and tried

to uplift these jeevatmas. I took avatara as Rama and gave the

rAmacharama slokam. Still it was not enough. So I took the next

avatara Sri KrishnAvatara and gave the divine geethA sAstram but

again even arjuna who heard it fully didn’t fall to my feet

immediately and after a few days he even forgot all the divine arthas

I gave him. But how is it that you are able to have so many followers

and how are you able to bring all these men folks into the

sharanAgathi mArkam?” Swamy emperumAnAr didn’t answer this question

immediately instead he told emperuman, ”Oh! Lord this is divine

secret. Adiyen cannot tell you the same if you ask me in this

fashion. Give me the seat of an acharya and you become my disciple

only then will I give you the secret. “ It is not that nambi was

ignorant of the fact but this was his leela so emperuman with a

pleasing smile followed what emperumAnAr said and gave him the seat

of an acharya and nambi became his disciple. At that time

emperumAnAr answered in the ears of nambi as follows, “Oh! My lord

all this happened due to the greatness of the thirumanthram only” It

was no magic; emperumAnAr didn’t use anything different he used only

the thirumanthram to bring the jeevatmas to this fold. GeethAcharyan

said, “mAm Ekam sharaNam vraja” but emperumAnAr said, “Fall to the

divine feet of Parthasarathi” and not stopping with that he showed

all his followers how to do it and what result he has obtained due to

this act.

 

Emperuman is a separate tattva, Ishvara tattvam so it is difficult for

him to become a jeevatma even though he tries his maximum to act

similarly. In his ramavatara he tried to be a manushya and thus he

declares in many places [“athmAnam mAnushyam manyE”] but still his

Ishvara qualities peep here and there [jadAyu moksham, samudra raja

sharaNagathi etc]. That is why emperuman decided to send the azhvars

and acharyas [Like using a trained elephant to catch another

elephant]. We are all used to follow the same procedure followed by

our preceptors. If many people say the same thing we even start

believing falsehood. Thus in our sampradayam, tattva darsi vachanam

is given a higher state of respect. But the real fact is our azhvars

or acharyas never contradict the words of emperuman or the sAstras.

They have only put the sAstras in simple words easily understandable

by even mandha buddhi jeevAtmas.

 

The main idea of this series of posting is to through light on the

fact that whatever the azhvars have said is nothing other than the

reflection of the sAstras. This is just a small try by a beginner

like adiyen. The series may contain more of mistakes than any useful

essence due to adiyen’s ignorance and lack of knowledge. But if

incase it had served the purpose with which adiyen actually started

then it is purely due to the divine blessings of asmad acharyan, HH

Sri Kaliyan ramanuja Jeeyer swamy and of course due to the divine

grace of geethAcharyan Sri Parthasarathi emperuman and the

representative of all the azhvars the kadai kutti azhvar, Sri

Kaliyan. Whatever may be adiyen has spent some useful hours trying

to understand the meaning and convey the same to all of you. Next

posting will be the concluding posting in this series.

 

(To be continued)

 

Azhvar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

 

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan