Magnanimity II-1

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The Great AchAryAs

 

Sri Mukundan from Singapore reminds me that AchAryAs are no less than

the Lord when it comes to magnanimity.

 

True. A month or so back, when I was talking to a fellow

srEvaishNavite, he was narrating a shocking incident. One of AchArya

prushA has gone to his disciple's thirumAligai for being a swami for

thiruvadhyayanam. As everyone knows, this swAmy post is a proxy i.e

representative one. There was another srEvaishNavite who was another

swAmy. The other person was not an AchArya purushA. Therefore, the

AchArya purushar demanded that a screen- be put in between them

-among the swAmy's and then the food be served.

 

This shocking incident of an AchArya who is a descendant of a

distinguished lineage only goes to prove that though they hail from

esteemed family, they are no match for the magnanimity of our

pUrvAchAryAs.

 

Perhaps, those who place themselves on the pedestals of ego have

forgotten that Sri perumAL Himself had shared food with thiruvadi in

the same leaf, performed samskAram-last rites for periya

vuDaiyAr-jadAyU and periya nambi doing the same to mARanEAri nambi.No

this is not a write-up on grumbling on the extant scenario but to

realise the values of pUrvAchAryAs.

 

At the cost of being blamed for repetition, I cannot but talk of Sri

kUrathAzhwAn who immediately visited krmi kaNDan and gave his eyes

for our darsanam.

 

Sri nAdha-munigaL's untiring efforts to retrieve dhivya-prabhandham

running thorugh thirukkuDandhai to AzhwAr thirunagari and with the

help of kaNNi-nun-siRuthAmbu bringing back the great 'aruLich cheyal'

in rank preference to yOgic sAsthram-s where bagawadhanubhavam can be

experienced alone in sharp contrast with one and all -set the ball

rolling of such large heartedness.Sri vuyyak-koNdAr who elected to

follow this path should by remmebred ever for being the earliest

pioneer for our sake.

 

Can one forget the great deeds of maNak-kAl nambi, kUra-kulOthama

dAsar, nam-piLLai,nanjEyar, kandhAdai thOzhappar, naDuvil thiruvEdhip

bhaTTAr?

 

These events precipitate ones thoughts on them and bring memories and

tears with melancholy. Shall we try to go into a few of them?

 

dAsan

vanamamalai padmanabhan