Meanings for: Mannuyir kAl! engE manavala mAmunivan - Part 1

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Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha,

 

Previous posting by Smt. sumithra & Sri Varadarajan

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai,

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha,

Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha,

Sri VanAchala mahA munayE Namaha.

 

Dear bhagavatas,

 

Each and every acharya in our guru paramparai have their own specialities and

talking about each one of them gives our mouth the purpose of its existence (nA

padaiththa payam). It is a great task to write about the works of Sri Periya

Jeeyer, Swamy Manavala mAmunigal (since though limited in number, the

arthapushti is beyond words).

 

The paasuram to which you have asked the meaning is one such paasuram

which talks about the greatness of a great bhagavata, that too one of the

greatest acharya, not only for jeevatmas

but also for Lord ranganatha himself. Anyway let adiyen try to write a few

words about this paasuram though adiyen doesn't have the vyakhyanam to the

paasuram with me now and hence the writing will be limited to adiyen's ignorance

and lack of understanding.

 

This paasuram (mannuyir kAlingE....) was given by one of the astadiggajas of

Swamy manavAla mAmunigal, Sri Erumbiappa. Let me first tell the excellent story

how erumbiappa became the shisya of mAmunigal. Erumbiappa was a great scholar

in all sastras who stayed in a village called erumbi near kanchipuram. At the

same time, Swamy mamunigal remained with glory, with number of shisyas

establishing ramanuja siddAntham in Srirangam. Coming to know about the

greatness of mAmunigal, erumbiappa came to srirangam. He talked with swamy and

did get impressed by swamy's medAvilAsam but still couldn’t shed his ego and

pride. Swamy mAmunigal then requested erumbiappa to take prasadam in the mutt.

 

Remembering the dharma sAstram that a gruhastan should not take food in a mutt

of a sanyasi, erumbiappa refused and returned back to erumbi. The next day when

he tried to do thiruvArAdhanam to his perumal (Rama piran) he was unable to open

the koil Azhvar. Erumbiappa felt very bad and started thinking and wondered,

"Oh! rama what apacharam did adiyen do?" Rama replied, "You remembered the

sAmanya sastram and did apacharam to the ethi punarAvathAram, Sri Manavala

mAmunigal. Go immediately now and do apacharya kshAmanam (apologise) and accept

the prasadam" Thondaradipodi alwar in his thirumAlai says, "ponagam seidha sEdam

tharivarEl punidhamandrE". Here alwar says, even if a person who does a cheap

work (Ettiya vinaya rElum) but still is a bhakthan of perumal then it is pure to

accept his left over prasadam. When it is the case with such a person what to

say about Swamy mamunigal, a great acharya accepted even as acharya by perumal

himself. Will a shisya keep quiet when someone insults his acharya? That is why

perumal showed his anger to erumbiappa. Erumbiappa, then shed all his ego and

came accepted the prasadam of swamy mAmunigal and settled under the divine feet

of mAMunigal for ever. His acharya bhakthi could be easily seen in his works,

poorva dinacharya, uttara dinacharya,and vara vara muni sathakam all about his

acharya Swamy Manavala mAmunigal . It is not even necessary for one to go

through these sanskrit prabandhams to learn about his acharya nishtai, just the

above paasuram is enough. Let us enjoy the essence of the paasuram briefly in

the next posting.

 

(To Be continued)

 

Alwar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigale sharanam

Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra & Varadarajan

 

RAJI SRIDHAR <sridharaji wrote:>

> As a result of Lord's command, this is included

> as the 74th paasuram of UpadesaRatnamala

>

> "mannuyir_kAL ingE maNavALa mAmunivan *

> ponnadiyAm senkamalappOthukaLai * - unnis

> siraththAlE theeNdil amAnavanum nammai *

> karaththAlE theeNdal kadan "

>

> Asking devotees to hold on to Mamunigal's feet

> and take him as your refuge.

> As this will take you to the LORD.

 

 

Pranams

 

It is really very interesting to read about Swami

Mamunigal. Can someone explain more about this

pasuram 'mannuyir.....kadan'. Who are amAnavan?

 

pranams once again

raji sridhar