mannuyir kAl! engE manavala mAmunivan (part-2)

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai,

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha,

Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha,

Sri VanAchala mahA munayE Namaha.

 

Dear Smt. Raji and all other bhagavatas,

 

In this posting, let us see the essence of the paasuram given below briefly and

there by understand the charamOpAya nishtai of Sri Erumbiappa.

 

"mannuyir_kAL ingE maNavALa mAmunivan *

ponnadiyAm senkamalappOthukaLai * - unnis

siraththAlE theeNdil amAnavanum nammai *

karaththAlE theeNdal kadan " (upadesa ratina mAlai-74)

 

Meaning: Oh! The people of this world, if you place the divine feet of Swamy

manavala mAmunivan on your head here then we are sure to be touched by the hands

of amAnavan.

 

Who is this amAnavan?

Let us try to explain the same with the words of mAmunigal.

 

"endha vudal vittu eravu mandalaththinoodhEgi

evvandangazhiththu edaiyil Avaranam Ezh pOi

andhamil pAzh azhagAr virasaithannil kuliththu

angu amAnavanAl olikonda sOdhiyum pettru

amarar vandhu edhir kondu alangariththu vAzhththi vazhinadhaththa

vaikundham pukku mani mandapaththu sendru

nan thirumAladiyArgal kuzhangaludan koodum

nAlenakku kurugum vagai nalgu en ethirAsA" (Arthi prabhandam-24)

 

Here mAmunigal explains the way the jeevatma leaves this body and travels

through the archirAdhi mArgam to Srivaikundam. First the soul leaves the body

and escapes through space and leaves this mandalam (world). Then passing

through saptha Avaranam (Seven layers) it finally reaches the Viraja River. The

soul takes a divine dip in the Viraja River. Then amAnavan (one who is

different from an ordinary human, devan) touches this soul and gives it the

divine glory. At this time all the mukthas come to welcome this soul to the

nithya vibhuthi and take him inside the Srivaikundan, the land of muktas and

nithyas. Now the soul enters the mani mandapam and joins the nithya

bhagavatas(nan thirumAladiyars) over there. Mamunigal in this paasuram requests

emperumAnAr to grant him the divine abode of emperuman as soon as possible, as

explained above.

 

Swamy Manavala mAmunigal sings this prabhandam in arthi to shed this body

immediately and attain paramapadam, whereas all cannot attain this state of an

Artha prapannan. So we all remain druptha prapannas and hence erumbiappa in the

above paasuram assures us that if we hold on to the divine feet of mAmunigal

here (in the leela vibhuthi), then we are sure to attain the divine feet of

emperuman and join all the nithya mukthas in the paramapadam after shedding this

body ("maranamAnAl vaikundam kodukkum piranvaikundam puguvadhu mannavar

vidhiyE"). Sri NammAzhvar has explained the same in his 'Soozh visum pani

mugil' padhigam. ("vandhavar edhir kolla mAmani mandapaththu andhamil

pErinbhaththu adiyarOdu erundhamai"). In a single paasuram Swamy mAmunigal has

given the meanings of the whole padhigam (11paasurams) of nammAzhvar. So is

there any doubt in saying that holding the divine feet of such a great acharya

will lead us to the divine feet of emperumAn?

 

In our sampradayam, Sri Vanamamalai onnAna rAmanuja Jeeyer swamy (the first

peedAdhipadhi of the vanamamalai mutt) is considered to be the "ponnadiyAm

senkamalam" of Swamy manavala mamunigal as Sri Periya jeeyer himself has called

vanamamalai swamy as "nam ponnadikkAl Jeeyer!". Like madurakavigal or ramanujan

to Sri SaTakOpar and MudaliyAndan or AnanthAzhvan to ethirajar, Sri Vanamamalai

PonnadikkAl Jeeyer swamy remained to Swamy manavala mAmunigal.

 

Adiyen beg pardon for any mistakes committed. May the learned bhagavatas please

forgive and correct the same.

 

Alwar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigale sharanam

Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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