Mamunigal - Lord's Acharya: Clarification (adiyEn repects all Acharyas)

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

 

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

 

Dear Sri Mukundan,

 

You are indeed doing a great kainkaryam by writing about the lord's acharya,

and to our pride our acharya, Sri Manavala mAmunigal. When you write the

greatness of one acharya there is no room for anyone to think it as disrespect

to any other acharya. Swami desikar is ofcourse our acharya and we have all

enjoyed the series of posting on his greatness for quite some weeks. Now that

Mamunigal's thirunakshatram is fast approaching it is a right time for all of

us to think about that great mahan, Sri periya Jeeyer and you have taken the

credit of starting writing about him first and making all of us cherish to

have such a great acharya.

 

At different times we enjoy remembering the greatnesses of different acharyas

and talking about the same to others (mainly like-minded people to make them

also cherish the same). Now it is the time to think of our great "Ettu

perukkar" Sri Manavala mAmunigal. It will be very nice if more people could

write about our acharya. Ranganatha was probably jealous of us because we say

with pride that mAmunigal is OUR ACHARYA and that is why he also listened to

periya jeeyer's bhagavat vishayam, stopping all his other utsavams for a year

and submitted the "SrisailEsa thaniyan" to the revered acharya and till today

does everything a shisya has to do to an acharya. Thereby, namperumal shares

with all of us, the great acharya.

 

Let us all think positively and act according to the words of our alwars and

acharyas. Thondaradi podi alwar says “pEsittrE pesalallAl”. We Srivaishnavas

are like parrots, each one of us know to only repeat what our poorvAcharyas

have said. If anyone talks against the words of our poorvAcharyas then he is

considered as a ‘moorkan’ (“munnOr mozhindha murai thappAmal kEttu pinnOrindhu

thAmadhanai pEsAdhE than nenjil thOttrinathE solli edhu suttha upadesa

varavAtrathenbhar moorkarAvAr”). So when we write the greatness of our

acharyas, there is no need for establishing on what pramAnam one is writing

since true Srivaishnavas do not exaggerate things and let us enjoy without any

controversies.

 

Let me conclude with the words of the great Acharya, manavala mAmunigal in his

Arthi prabhandam,

 

“thennarangar seer arulukku elakkAga pettrOm

thiruvarangam thirupathiyE eruppAga pettrOm

manniya seer mAran kalai vunavAga pettrOm

madurakavi sol padiyE eruppAga pettrOm

munnavarAm nan kuravar mozhigal vulla pettrOm

muzhudum avai namakku pozhudhu pOkkAga pettrOm

pinnai ondru thannil nenju pErAmal pettrOm

pirar minukkam porAmai ella perumaiyum pettrOmE.”

 

This is one of the excellent paasurams of mAmunigal. Let us enjoy in detail

this paasuram in a separate posting.

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai

 

Sumithra Varadarajan

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srishailEsha dayApAthram dhIbhakthyAdi guNArNavam |

yathIndrapravaNam vandhE ramyajAmAtharam munim ||

 

Sri:

Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:

 

Dear Mukunda,

You are doing an excellent job. Sad that somebody

misinterpreted your intentions. If we look into Sri Ramanuja's

life history there were many who did not agree to EmperumAnAr.

Sri EmperumAnAr never forced anyone but helped them to see things

on their own in a better spirit. What's wrong in writing about one's

AchArya? As you said many people don't know who Sri MaNavALa

MAmunigaL is. Infact I got couple of mails from X voluntarily and

due to voluntary controls X didn't even want to know who Sri MM is

let alone his works. Fortunately NammAzhvAr's "avaravar thama

thamadhu(1:1:5)" came to my rescue.

 

Let the blessings of Sri MaNavALa mAmunigaL/Periya Jeeyar be with you

always.

 

AzhvAr EmperumAnAr Jeeyar TiruvadigaLE saraNam

nappinnai