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There lived a great bhakta by the name Kurumbarutha Nambi. He was a

potter. He made an idol of ThiruVenkadamudayan and worshipped him

with flowers made of 'left over clay' everyday. Another bhakta also

lived during the same time. He was Thondaman Chakravarthy. He was not

only a great bhakta of ThiruVenkadamudayan, but also a close friend of

Him. ThiruVenkadamudayan has even done MatrOpadesam to this king. He

also used to worship ThiruVenkadamudayan with flowers everyday, but

with golden flowers. Every time he entered the sannidhi of

ThiruVenkadamudayan, he saw mud flowers on ThiruVenkadamudayan’s

crown. He used to ask ThiruVenkadamudayan about this strange thing.

But ThiruVenkadamudayan refrained from revealing the details of

Kurumbarutha Nambi (Reason being: Kurumbarutha Nambi once had

requested Perumal not to reveal any information about him. If

ThiruVenkadamudayan does so, then Nambi will no longer be alive in

this world). One day, ThiruVenkadamudayan decided to take

Kurumbarutha Nambi out of samsaric world (Moksham), and so finally

revealed the details about Nambi to the king. Thondan king was

immediately looking out for Kurumbarutha Nambi. When he really saw

the state of Nambi, he fell at his feet thinking that such a poor

person was also able to perform kaimkaryam to Perumal. As per

Perumal’s vakku, Nambi reached paramapadam before the king stood up

in normal posture.

Let us see why Nambi was called Kurumbarutha Nambi

There is an interesting reference to Ramanuja Nootrandadhi here.

Mozhiyaikkadakkum perum pugazhAm vanja mukkurumbAm kuzhiyaikkadakkum

nam KoorathAzhwan saran koodiya pin….

There are three types of kurumbu because of following:

Good Looking

Education

Wealth

A person can get proud because of any of the above three reasons. An

extra thing like even the kulam of birth can also be attributed to

this impact. When we talk about Kurumbarutha Nambi, he was not

attached to all the above three attributes. Hence he was known as

Kurumbarutha Nambi.

Let us see what exactly were the types of flowers offered by him in the next posting..

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