Srimath Thirukkudanthai Andavan Life History - Volume I

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SrImathE ranga rAmAnuja mahA dEsikAya namaha

SrI ranganAtha Divya maNi pAdhukAbhyAm namaha

 

Dear Bhagavathas,

 

Sunday Mar. 24, 2002(Panguni- Pushyam) is the

Thirunakshtram day of one of the greatest luminary and

distinguished AchAryA of Srirangam Srimath Andavan

PeriAsramam, Srimath Thirukkudanthai Andavan – Sri

vEdAntha rAmAnuja mahA dEsikan,who took Srirangam

Srimath Andavan periAsramam to dizzy heights of growth

spreading it literally across length and breadth of

the country.

 

Adiyen has made an attempt to bring out the life

history of this mahAn in a series of posting

commencing with the first volume today. This has been

compiled from Panguni Pushyam malar(1981) during 74th

birthday celebrations of H.H. Srimath Thirukkudanthai

Andavan(Kannan swamigal) and Andavan Asramam varalaru

published in 1967 by Srirangam pEriAsramam.

 

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Let us all recite this mahan's thaniyan on His

thirunakshatram day.

 

Srimath vEdhAntha rAmAnuja munikarunAlabdha vEdhAntha

yugmam

Srimath SrivAsa yogeeswara gurupadhayOrarpithaswAthma

bhAram

Srimath Sri ranganAthAhvaya munikrupayA prAptha

mOkshasramam tham

Srimath VEdhAntha rAmAnuja munimaparam samsrayE

dEsikEndram

 

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Among all the Alwars, Thirumangai Alwar also known as

Kaliyan is the one who has sung praises on most of the

archAvatArAs of the 108 Divya dEsams. All of his

“AruLicheyalgaLs” are considered to be a treasure of

tamil literature and also as the essence of vEda.

 

Such a great AlwAr when experiencing thirukkudanthai

emperumAn, is trying to sing praise of the beauty, the

importance and the significance of emperumAn’s

padukas. But he is not able to do it. The AlwAr who

performed “sarvAttha grahaNam” at the feet of

emperumAn feels very despondent at his inability to

do so and surrenders at the feet of the Lord. In one

of his pAsurams, kaliyan describes both emperumAn’s

great virtues and his inadequacy to experience such

virtues..

 

“ Moovaril mudhalvanAya oruvanai ulagam konda

KOvinai kudanthai mEya kurumaNith thiraLai

Inbap pAvainai pachchaith thEnai paimponnai amarar

Sennip

Poovinai pughazhum thondar ensollip pugazhvar

thAmE….”

 

Kaliyan is awe struck to find words and sing praise of

ArAvamudhan. As AzhwAr says, “PonnAr sArngamudaiya

adigaLai innArenru ariyEn”, it wasn’t surprising at

all seeing the towering stature of Amudhan, kaliyan

got totally mesmerised admiring emperumAn’s thiru

uruvam. Kaliyan feels very helpless not able to drink

mAdhuryAmrutham of emperumAn that flowed from kuda

mooku.

 

In the same vein, it is impossible for one to sing

praise of Srimath Thirukkudanthai Andavan’s divya

charitham because of his immeasurable greatness. It

prompts one to think that Thirukkudanthai Srimath

Andavan was a manifestation of emperumAn’s mAdhuryam

and all His kalyanA gunAs and hence took birth in the

sannidhi of Amudhan to protect loka bhagavathas.

 

AvatAram

 

Srimath Thirukkudanthai Andavan was in the born in a

small hamlet called “ kArukudi”( situated next to

Thirukkandiyur in Tanjore district) in the banks of

river KavEri in the year 1908 to Sri. U.Ve.

PadmanAbhachAriar and Sri. Komalavalli dEvi. He was

born on the auspicious day of pushyam in the month of

Panguni. The signs were very auspicious at the time of

His birth.

 

His father was a parama EkAnthi and had full belssings

of his AchAryA. He used to visit Srirangam periAsramam

regularly to participate in the pArAyana ghoshti of

AchArya Thirunakshtra mAhOtsavams . At that time,

Srimath kAdandEthi Andavan was adorning the AchArya

peetam of the periAsramam. He was a great mahAn who

was an exponent of yogic sAstrAs, and posessed all the

divine mAntric powers. A mahAn who had the full and

direct blessings of Lord Sri HayagreevA.

 

It was in the year 1907 during the mAsi-pushyam

thirunakshatram celebrations of Srimath periAndavan,

Sri. U.Ve. padmanAbhAchAriAr and Sri. U.Ve. Eyunni

varadAchAr swAmi( who later became Srimath

NammAndavan) had visited periAsramam. After the

completion of vaibhavam, they had stayed for a couple

of more days to take part in the nithya kainkarayam.

One of those days during the evening time, Srimath

kAdanthEthi Andavan called for both of them and told

Sri. PadmanAbhAchAr swAmi that he will have a son who

will be born on a pushyam day and told Sri.

VaradAchAr swAmi that he will also have a son who will

be born on a hastham day. As predicted by swAmi, both

of them had sons born on the same janma nakshatrams.

 

(To be continued....)

 

 

 

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