Arthi Prabhandham-5 (Part-2)

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Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha l Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha

SrisailEsa dayA pAthram deebhakthyAdhi gunArnavam

Yateendra pravanam vandhE ramyajAmataram munim

 

By this it has been clearly proved that everyone who has a relation with

rAmAnuja are assured moksha. Our direct acharyas put us under the divine feet

of Bhagavad rAmAnujAcharya. That is what Sri manavAla mahAmuni says in Arthi

prabhandam (12)

"Oh ethirajA! My acharya who is being praised by everyone Sri

thiruvAimozhipillai, the flawless thirumalaiAzhvar, due to the great love he had

towards me put me into your divine feet with a thought to uplift this soul and

make me reach the divine feet of God. So please fulfill his wish accordingly."

 

When lost in a big ocean, a lifeboat saves us and takes us towards another ship

which inturn shows us the shore. Similarly thiruvAimozhipillai was the lifeboat

that saved Sri manavAla mahAmuni from the miseries of the world and put him into

the divine feet of rAmAnuja (the big ship) who transports innumerable jeevatmas

from this world of misery to the world of ever joy (nithya vibhuthi, Sri

Vaikundam) and places us in the permanent kainkaryam of God. The lifeboat is

absolutely essential for each one of us and hence we all should be highly

grateful to our acharyas who save our soul but all the lifeboats finally reach

only the big ship. EthirAja. So now that Sri manavAla mahAmuni has been thrown

into the feet of rAmanuja by his acharya, he begs ethiraja to cut his samsAric

relation and send him to the divine abode of God. That is the main essence of

his Arthi prabhandam.

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Is rAmAnuja capable of only transporting us to the nithya vibhuthi or does

surrendering to his feet give us any joy in this world too? Sri manavAla

mahAmuni explains in his paasuram-55 what all he has obtained here, in this

leela vibhuti due to the divine grace of the acharya.

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We will see in the next posting. (To be continued)

Jai Sriman Narayana | Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai, Sumithra Varadarajan