PramEya sEkaram-Introduction

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

 

Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

 

Srimad Vara Vara munayE Namaha

 

Sri vanAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

 

 

Swamy pillai ulagariyan was born in an auspicious Iyppasi sravanam day. He was

born as the son of vadakku thiruveedhip pillai an ardent disciple of swamy

Nampillai. Due to his great acharya bhakthi vadakku thiruveedhippillai named

his son after his acharya as pillai ulagariyan.

 

 

 

This year's Iyppasi thiruvonam happens to be the 800th birthday celebration of

our revered pillailokacharya. The great works done by this acharya in his

lifetime cannot be expressed by mere words. Pramanam and prameyam are two eyes

of our Srivaishnava sampradayam. Few acharyas concentrated on preserving the

pramanas and others concentrated on kainkaryams to the prameyam. But pillai

lokacharya was one of the great acharyas who worked for the upliftment of the

pramanam as well as the prameyam. During the muslim invasion, the head quarters

of Srivaishnavism Srirangam was in a great danger. Everyone ran out of the

city. In order to protect namperumal from foreign hands, swamy ran along with

other devotees carrying namperumal not minding his old age. But due to all the

hardships faced on the way swamy attained paramapadam at jodhiskudi. But before

that he had shown his successor the great acharya to take over after him, Sri

thiruvaimozhi pillai to this world.

 

 

 

Swamy pillailokacharya has done 18 divine works to preserve the pramanas. Those

are called the ashtadasa rahasyas. Swamy has given all the essence of the

sampradayam in a very lucid form. But for pillai lokacharyas divine literary

works many divine meanings in our sampradayam would have been Greek and Latin

for all of us today. Swamy predicting our ignorance earlier has given all the

arthas like a juice that could be readily had. Moreover swamy manavala

mamunigal's vyakhyana for this divine works is a great tonic for all of us

interested in learning the inner divine meanings of our sampradaya.

 

 

 

During this occasion of the 800th birthday celebration of that great acharya it

is a very great duty of all the Srivaishnavas to think about that revered

acharya and talk and learn a lot from his life and works. Swamy

pillailokacharya remained a brahmachari throughout his life and worked fully for

the upliftment of the ramanuja darshanam. So don't we atleast have the

gratefulness as srivaishnavas to remember this mahacharya during this wonderful

occasion and show our small gratitude towards the magnanimity showed by

pillailokacharya to the whole Srivaishnava community?

 

 

 

Adiyen now takes the privilege to translate and write a few words on the great

work "pramEya sEkaram" as a tribute to the mahacharya. All mistakes are purely

adiyen's and if this effort is in anyway helpful to spread the message of the

acharya then all the credits goes solely to pillaiulagariyan and of course

adiyen's acharyan HH Sri Kaliyan vanamamalai jeeyer swamy.

 

 

 

LokacharyAya guravE Krishna pAdasya soonavE I

 

SamsAra bhOgi sandhasta jeevajeevAtavE namaha II

 

 

 

vAzhi vulagAsiriyan vAzhiavan mannukulam

 

vAzhi mudumpai ennum mAnagaram-vAzhi

 

manan soozhindha pErinbha malgu migu nallAr

 

enansoozh indhirukkum eruppu"

 

 

 

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

 

Sumithra Varadarjan