FW: Sri Ramanujar at Tirumalai

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Geethacharyan

Dear bhagavatas,

 

I happened to go through the articles about sri Ramanujar in Tirumalai that the

vigraham might be desikan's and not Ramanuja's.It is a world known fact that

except for Ramanuja there is no vigraham for any other Azhwar or Acharya in

Tirumalai temple (Initially there was no other Vigraham for any other Azhwar or

Acharya in Tirumala hills itself but now some private mutts and people are

creating new vigrahams for their favourite acharyas and keeping in their own

place). This kind of campaigns were done by mischivous peolple during the golden

period of Annangaracharyar Swami itself and he has with out any difficulties has

dismissed those claims with supreme authentication. I think this issue was very

deeply addressed and written by swami in almost a full Ramanusan issue. Below

are the strong and unanswerable reasons(by these campaigners) for why the

vigraham is Ramanuja's and not Desikan's.

 

1.As pointed out by a friend in one of the previous digests, Ramanujar is

considered to be the acharya of Tiruvengadamudayan himself and hence the Gnyana

mudra. Even today we can hear kattiyams in places like sriperumbudur,

tiruvallikeni saying "Appanukku sangazhi alitha perumal".

 

2.Next, Tirumalai is the place where ramanuja wrote and delivered Vedartha

sangragham, a magnificeint work in the form of Upanyasa in front of the Lord and

hence the GNyana mudra.

 

3.The person has also claimed that Ramanuja at tirumalai is having manuscripts

in his left hand. I doubt very much the person who said this has ever been to

tirumalai and seen the left hand of ramnuja. It is very clear that the left hand

of ramuja contaons nothing and it will be just like tiruvengadamudayan's left

hand pointing downwards.(Incidentally, the picture of Sri Ramanuja of Tirumalai

has been published in the Chittirai issue of GEETHACHARYAN.) The claims that

Ramanujar's left hand has manuscripts and is being covered are all nothing but

nonsense because anyone can on anyday go to tirumala and can see that the left

hand is not covered.

 

4.We have lot of scriptures(Kalvettus) in tiruamalai saying very clearly that

After the period of Ananthalwan, his grandson had performed kainkaryams to

tiruvengadamudayan and its is also very very clearly stated that he also

performed kainkaryams every day to the ramanujar conscecrated by ananthalwan.

 

After considering these points no one could for a second think that it might be

desikan's vigraga and not ramanuja's. If still anyone wants to argue that it is

desika and not ramanuja, we can just say that "Tham nenjil tottinathe solli ithu

sutha upadesa varavartha enbar moorkaravar" and regret their ignorance.

 

Geethacharyan