GPP-11(Sri Aalavandaar Vaibhavam-4)

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe Ramanujaya namaha

Sri Vara Vara munaye Namaha

 

SRI ALAVANDAR VAIBHAVAM-4

 

All the twenty sishyas of Aalavandar were great

scholars and involved themselves in the spreading of

our sampradayam.

 

ManakkAl Nambi then instructed Aalavandar to meet an

acharya named Kurugai KAvalappan and learn one another

rahasyam from him. Aalavandar then asked Nambi, to

explain more about that rahasyam and enquired why he

didn’t know the same. For this Nambi replied, “when

your grandfather Nathamunigal wanted to teach the Yoga

rahasyam to my Aacharya Uyyakondar, he refused to

learn that saying “pinam kidakka manam punaralAmA ?

sarEravasana dasaiyilE AbyAsikka amaiyum” and hence he

explained that he couldn’t learn the same, from his

Aacharya. Thereby he instructed Aalavandar to learn

the rahasyam from Kurugai Kaavalappan, as per the

commandments of his grandfather sriman Nathamunigal.

 

When Nambi was staying in Srirangam, rejoicing the way

Aalavandar was taking care of the darsanam, he had

five sishyas under him namely, Aalavandar,

Deivaththukkarasu Nambi, Komadaththu Thiru

Vinnagarappan, Siruppulloorudaiya pillai and

Vangipuraththu Achchi.

 

Then, Nambi continued to give his divine arthas or

meanings to his sishyas and continued spreading the

sampradAyam until his final days. In his concluding

days, he told Aalavandar that, since he had both

sareera and gnyana sambandam (relationship) with

Sriman Nathamunigal, he advised to consider him, as

both prApagam (path) and prApyam (goal) and to develop

a sishya like Aalavandar to establish the darsanam and

to stay in Srirangam throughout.

He then meditated on the holy feet of his Acharyan,

Uyyakondar and attained paramapadam. Nambi, thereby

satisfied the wishes of his Acharya (Uyyakondar) as

well as his paramAcharya (Nathamunigal). By the

demise of Nambi, all sishyas including Aalavandar,

were grief stricken. But, they later on consoled

themselves and Sri Aalavandar continued to perform the

final karmas like BrahmamEdam to the demised soul.

 

ManakkAl Nambi Thirunakshatram (Birth Star) -

Maasiyil Magam.

 

Thaniyan

“AyathnathO yAmunam AthmadAsa malarkkaathrArpana

nishanragEna – ya: kreethaVAnAsthita yowVa rAjyam

nAmAmitham rAma mamEya sathyam”.

 

(To be continued)

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen,

Varadarajan Ramanuja Dasan

Sumithra Ramanuja Dasyai

 

 

 

 

 

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