Guest guest Posted November 2, 2004 Report Share Posted November 2, 2004 This is a posting from Sri Ramanan , who is currently working at London , UK. V.Sadagopan Once there were two friends who were flying over all the places in a pushpak vimanam. While one person used to tell good things about the places they visited, the other one used to talk bad things about those places. One fine day, they were flying over ThiruVenkadam. The person who used to talk about the places was totally out of bad words after he heard the other one talking good things about that place. Here is what the good one told about Venkatadri: The Perumal here asked for water from a MahAn A Great AchArya gave weapons to this Perumal in this yugam Peurumal tried to serve the disciple of that AchArya in renovating that Divya Desam, and eventually by his leela, got hurt by that great mahAn. Perumal did this to show the greatness of that mahAn and the words of that mahAn’s AchAryan. ThiruVenkadamudayAn asked Periya Thirumalai Nambigal for water. Hence, Periya Thirumalai Nambigal used to fetch water from Akasa Gangai everyday for Perumal. A great AchAryA who gave the weapons to Perumal was none but Swami Ramanujar. The mahAn from whom ThiruVenkadamudayAn got hurt was none but Thirumalai AnanthAn Pillai. Once Swami Ramanujar was doing ThiruvAymozhi kAlakshepam. When talking about the ‘Ozhivil ’ pathikam, EmPerumAnAr felt that someone should go and do kaimkaryam to this Perumal who was served by even nityasUris. AnanthAn Pillai volunteered to do that kiamkaryam with AchAryan’s niyamanam. Let us look at a reference in Ramanuja NoortrandhAdhi, ‘padi konda keerti rAmAyanam ennum bathi vellam kudi konda koil rAmAnusan..’ Here ThriuvarangathamudanAr talks about Ramanujar and his complete immersion in Ramayanam. Periya Thirumalai Nambigal used to do Ramayana kAlakshEpam to Swami Ramanujar everyday by climbing down the hill after his theertha kaimkaryam. Though Andal was completely in Krishna Bhakti, she referred to Kannan in her pasuram as ‘pennin varutham ariyAdha perumAn..’ When talking about Raman, she referred to Him as ‘manathukkiniyAn’ in ThiruppAvai. NammAzhwar who was totally involved in Krishna Bhakti has sung as ‘unnum sOru parugun neer thinnum vetrilai ellAm kannan….’ In his ThiruvAymozhi pasuram for ThirukkOlUr Divya Desam. Same Azhwar infact has preached the world to learn from the life of Raman in his pasuram, ‘karpAr rAmapirAnai allathu…’ Raman is none but ThiruVenkadamudayAn. Thirumazhisai Azhwar refers to this fact in Thiruchhandaviruttam, ‘adainthapaaRka dalkidanthu kaalanEmi yaikkadinthu, udainthavaali thanpinukku thavavanthi raamanaay, midainthavEzhma rankaLuma dankaveythu,vEnkadam adainthamaala paathamE yadainthunaaLu muymminO’ Let us look at more anubhavams on Pushpa mandapam in the next posting, aDiyEn, ramanan Check out the new Front Page. www.</a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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