Svami ManavalaMaMunikal - Adding to Part VI

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ramanuja, Pattangi <danp@u...> wrote:

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> This ThiruAradhana Kramam work is unique as this enjoins

performance of

> Worship to Bhagawad Ramanuja.

> A direction that was not taken by others in ThiruAradhana Krama.

 

Dear Sriman Mukundan,

 

You have covered all that has to be covered. However, as you have

said, I would like to write something.

 

Instead of "samarpayAmi" for the upachArams, maNavALa mAmunihaL

says "kaNdaruLa vENum", I heard. This is in accordance with

ALavandhAr's thiruvuLLam according to which we have nothing to offer

Him since everything including ourselves are already His. So the food

we make is shown to Him and is eaten as His prasAdam. Lord krshNa

says whatever we give Him like leaf, flower, fruit, water, with

SEshatva buddhi, He accepts it and enjoys it.

 

We know Sri P B aNNan had some divine experience on the hill by which

he appraoches the AchArya and becomes his disciple.

 

In suprabhAtam (prapatti), he writes:

 

sattvOttarai: satata sEvya padAmbujEna

samsAra tAraka dayArdra drganchalEna

sowmyOpayantr muninA mama darSitau tE

SrIvEnkatESa charaNau SaraNam prapadyE

 

I submit myself to the feet of the Lord, the remover of iruvinai in

Whose niyamanam the world is (vEnkatESa), Who has shown me SrI

maNavALa mAmunihaL, whose (the muni's) feet are ever worshipped by

those who have excelled in the mode of meaningful existence (bhagavat

bhAgavata AchArya kainkaryam), and whose (muni's) gracious glances

deliver us from the bondage of samsAra. Here, it is worth remembering

eRumbiu appA's line: "tattvam divya prabandhAnAm sAram samsAra

vairiNAm", so maNavALa mAmunihaL gives the right knowledge to his

disciples out of his grace which is seen in his eyes. Hence he is

sowmya upayantA, moon-like bridegroom. sowmyatvam or being pleasant

is the lakshaNam of moon, who is amrta kiraNa or whose rays are

nectariferous.

 

In the very next verse, SrISa SriyA.., SrI aNNan teaches us

dwayArtham. This means, we learn that He is the means and goal from

an AchArya whom we obtain by His grace.

 

Where does the Lord reside? Is it in places where religion is

available as a commercial commodity?

 

He is everywhere, but explicitly in the hearts of AchAryas like

SrImannArAyaNa jIyar, maNavALa mAmunihaL, rAmAnuja, answers P B aNNan:

 

SrImat sundara jAmAtr muni mAnasa vAsinE

sarva lOka nivAsAya SrInivAsAya mangaLam

 

suprabhAtam is daily recited even on Thirumala hill even today. I

will not elaborate and people can interpret in their own way!

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan

Vishnu