Gaganagiri Muni Guru paramparA prabhAvam

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Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

 

Adiyen apologises under the divine feet of all bhagavatas for such inconsistency

in postings. This series of translation of the guru paramparai of the jeeyers

of vanamamalai mutt has been discontinued for quite sometime due to adiyen's

other commitments and lack of time. Adiyen would like to continue with this

series now. For the benefit of all the bhagavatas adiyen is resending the

postings on the 25th Jeeyer swamy so far send and will continue the rest.

 

Sorry once again

 

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

Sri Parthasarathi thunaiSrimathe Ramanujaya NamahaSri Vara Vara MunayE NamahaSri

VanAchala mahA munayE NamahaSrisailEsa dayA pAthram deebhakthyAdhi

gunArnavamYateendra pravanam vandhE ramya jAmataram munimRamyajAmatru yOgeendra

pAdha rEkhA mayam sadhAthathAyaththAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE

HH Sri Kaliyan Vanamamalai ramanuja Jeeyer 1905-1933 (Twenty-fifth pattam)

 

Thirunakshatra thaniyan

 

“IshvarAbhdhE ashvinee thArE chaitrE mAsi kruthOthbhava: I

jeeyAt vAnamahAsaila kalijit yogirAt sadA II”

 

Vaibhava thaniyan

 

“Srimad yateendra varayOgi pAdhAbja yugma

prEmAbdhi vAnagiriyOgi dayaikapAthram I

vEdAntayugma vishadeekarana praveenam

rAmAnujam munivaram sadhatham namAmi II”

 

vAzhi thirunAmam

 

thingal vulAmAda mangai thirupadhiyOn vAzhiyE

chitthiraiyil ashvineenAl sirakka vandhOn vAzhiyE

sangadhamAm jnana bhakthi tagavudaiyOn vAzhiyE

satakOpa mAmunivan thAliyaiyOn vAzhiyE

bhangamilA erumarainool pagarindhalippOn vAzhiyE

pattarbiran yOgipadam paNindhuindhOn vAzhiyE

engumuLLa adiyArkatkidamuraippOn vAzhiyE

ezhil kaliyan mAmuni thAl enidhoozhi vAzhiyE

 

vAzhi kalikandri mAmunithAl kanjamalar

vAzhiavan vaNpuyamum mukkOlum-vAzhiyE

pattarbiran mAmunithan pAngarulAl mARanthan

tettapugazh eeduraikkum seer.

 

Swamy was born in “thelliyar thirunAnmaRaigal vallArAna thEru jnAnaththavar

malithAn” sirivaramangai in a high class Srivaishnava clan on an auspicious day

of chittrai month ashvinee star. Like the special grace of Swamy Alavandaar on

Swamy emperumanar our swamy was also specially graced as “Aamudalvan” by the

then peedadhipathi Sri SatakOpa ramanuja swamy. Due to which swamy stayed

under the divine feet of Sri SatakOpa swamy as a very close disciple. At that

time swamy learnt all the Vedas and vedanthas from his acharya and attained

great scholarship. Under Sri pattarbiran swamy, he learnt ubhaya vedantha and

remained with great acharya nishtai ever in acharya kainkaryam. At the age of

28 swamy was crowned as the next peedadhipadhi by Sri pattarbiran swamy.

 

Sri Kaliyan ramanuja swamy completed all the final rites to his acharyan Sri

Pattarbiran swamy according to the yethisamskara vidhi (procedures) in a very

grand and cordial manner and also completed the thiruadyayanam in a similar

manner. Further swamy started taking care of the responsibilities of nithya

kainkaryam, pakshOtsava, mAsOtsavams of Sri deivanayaka perumal and

Sirivaramangai nAchiyar combined with the nithya dhadheeyArAdhanam and ubhaya

Vedanta grandha kalashEpams at the mutt.

 

After a year, wanting to establish “rAmAnujArya divyAgnA… varthathAm” in all the

divya desas (vugandharulina nilangal) Swamy started his divya desa mangalasasana

trip, on a fine vaikasi month.

 

First swamy visited koil, thirumalai, perumal koil and at all places rendered

his divine sampradayic kalashepams in his own style in a very effective manner

so that it reached even the common masses. Swamy then traveled till Sri (puri)

jagannatham the travel lasting for about 3 years, celebrating it as a mahOtsava

and returned back to srivaramangalanagar.

 

Then for sometime swamy stayed at the mutt rendering ubhaya Vedanta kalashepams

to interested shisyas. During that time one fine day, Sirivaramangai thayar

appeared in swamy’s yogam and said, “Even in this vibhuthi there are divya

desams adorned as ‘vadadisai madurai sAlagrAmam vaikundam tuvarai ayodhdhi

edamudaivadari’ in the northern direction equivalent to Srivaikundam. Oh!

Jeeyer this is the right time for you to visit those divya desams and also

uplift the poor souls in those places.” As per the orders of nachiyar, swamy

immediately ordered his shisyas to prepare for the journey.

“poomagal niyamaththai thAmadamindri tamargAl

kAvalan thannudhaviyOdum poovalan vandhARRiduvEn”

 

Immediately without any delay the shisyas coordinated with the government and

made arrangements for smooth journey for swamy all through the way and to

celebrate swamy’s trip as a great happening.

 

First swamy along with number of shisyas visited thiruvanparisAram, thiruvattAru

and then reached “tadamudaivayal nandhapuranagar” where swamy had the divine

darshan of “padamudai aravil pallipayindra emperuman”. Swamy with heartfelt

pleasure did pooja to emperuman with flowers. The king of that region informed

swamy about the moola thirunAl and thereby swamy stayed there for 3 days.

During that time the king visited swamy in person and was highly impressed with

the divine qualities and scholarship of swamy. The king requested swamy to

accept bhikshai from his paditanam which swamy gracefully accepted, which is

carried on till date. Later swamy visited all the malainAdu dd’s and proceeded

to yedugiri to do mangalasasanams to thirunArAyanan and selvapillai. After

accepting the respective honours over there, swamy started from there and

proceeded towards kiskinda and MAlyavan Mountains. Iterating in mind the

divine kalyana gunas of chakravarthi thirumagan swamy payed his atmost homage

to each and every place where perumal would have stayed during the ramavatara.

Then swamy reached bhakyApuram (hyderabad) enroute to panchavadi (nAsik). After

reaching panchavati swamy had the darshan of the godavari banks that once

provided a pleasant happy atmosphere with shade and cool breeze for perumal and

piratti to rejoice walking and playing with each other (“jalarAmaNyagam yatra

sthala rAmaNyagam tathA”). Amidst the number of yogis in that place swamy,

being a yogeendrar stayed there for some days (“sObhanam tandakAranyam”).

During his stay in panchavati many devotees were deeply impressed with the

godly nature of swamy and hence they requested swamy to visit mumbai and bless

many with his divine kataksham. Swamy accepted the invitation as his duty and

visited mumbai and stayed in a place called “kArkOpar”. Fortunately that was

time for chaturmAsa sankalpam and as per the wish of the devotees swamy

accepted to undergo his sankalpam in that very place.

 

Then swamy visited Indore, ujjayini and riva and well honoured by the kings in

all those areas, swamy finally reached pushkaram. There swamy bathed in the

sacred waters where emperuman stays in the form of water (jalaroopi) and then

visited bharatapur. Gracefully accepting the respectful honours of the king

over there, swamy blessed many with samAsrayanam and thereby uplifted many poor

souls. Swamy’s journey then continued towards Brindavanam (“bhagavatA subhEna

manasA dyAthamAna”). Swamy had the divine darshan of andal and rangamannAr.

Swamy was adorned with kannan kazhalinai after he did mangalasAsanams to the

divine couples. With a very happy mind swamy visited the yamunai turai where

Krishna and the gopis did a number of leelas and enjoyed themselves and made

everyone cherish the same. Then swamy visited the birthplace of Krishna, Sri

Mathura followed by Sri Gokulam that witnessed the growth of emperuman. Then

swamy visited “kundredutta Govardhanam” each place getting to memory the bala

leelas of Sri Krishna or rather swamy enjoyed the places as if the leela has

just occurred in front of him.

 

[Can non-living things talk? Oh! Yes. Here the mountain talks krishna’s leelas,

the yamunai river talks about his jala kreeda and each and every stone talks the

greatness of emperuman and his leelas. Even if a third grade soul like adiyen

who haven’t yet visited those places just by typing their names experience the

joy of witnessing the bhagavat leelas what to say about a great mahan like

swamy who was originally in the place where the emperuman choose as a stage to

nicely enact his leelas?]

 

Then swamy visited “baladevan vendra pAdivadam”* followed by “vunnum pOdhil

nedunOkku kollum bhakthavilOchanam”*. Swamy was filled with anubhavams on

visiting all the above places his eyes filled with tears “ahlAda

seedhanEtrAmbhu:” In the state of paramabhakthi swamy came round the divya

stalams feeling bad for not being able to join in the divya leelas of Krishna

paramatma during his avatara along with the blessed gopis.

 

Then swamy left from there with heavy heart but with deep interest to have the

darshan of “verikol vaNdu paNgal pAdu” thiruvadari. On the way swamy visited

haridwar, Rishikesh, kandamennum kadinagaram, piridi along with taking sacred

bath in the divine rivers alaganandA, bhAgeerathi, nandhaprayAgai throughout

the way. Finally swamy reached vadari, worshipped even by the devas on the

banks of the divine gangus. After having the divine darshan of nara-nArAyana

moorthi swamy couldn’t stop his enthusiasm to talk about the divine

thiruvastAkshara manthra delivered by emperuman himself posing himself to be

both the acharya and shisya. Swamy delivered upanyasam on the meaning of the

divine ashtAkshari for the benefit of all the ignorant devotees. Just the

rahasyArtha lecture was not enough for swamy nor did the emperuman over there

get satisfied with the same and hence swamy started to treat the emperuman with

the divine anubhavam filled paasurams of kaliyan. The nithyasooris treat

paramapadanAthan with sAmagAnam but even that looses its charm when emperuman

enjoys the divine paasurams of our azhvars that too from the mouth of great

acharyas like our swamy.

 

Though swamy wanted to spend some more time in that divine place filled with

purity for the sake of all the waiting devotees swamy had to return back

without much delay. The journey proceeded through Ram Nagar. In-between swamy

bathed in the kowsiki river and finally reached naimisAranyam.

 

*Adiyen has opted to use the adjectives in tamil before the name of places as

they are azhvar mangalasasana verses. All the divya stalams achieve their

greatness only after being sung by our dear azhvars. So adiyen feels that the

charm of the place is never complete without these adjectives in front. No

equivalent English word can really be found to substitute the divine verses of

azhvars (“na bhoothO na bhavishyathi”)

 

In NaimisAranyam swamy prostrated emperuman in the form of a forest (vanaroopi)

and came round (“naimisAraniyath thendaiyai sindaiyul vaiththu kAdhalE

miguththa”) honoured by yogasrEstas and then through lakshmaNapuri (lucknow),

karNapuri (Kanpur) reached chitrakooda parvatham (“subhaga: chitrakoodOsow”).

 

There swamy took bath in the divine mandhAgini river where once perumal and

piratti had their divine bath. Swamy stayed in that place for sometime and

meditated on those days when perumal and piratti stayed there and made the

place divine. Then swamy started from there and reached rivA samsthAnam. The

king over there honoured swamy in the appropriate manner and was captured by

the gunapoorti and pAndityam (scholarliness) of swamy. He seated swamy on a

golden palanquin and himself carried the palaquin over his shoulders. He

submitted number of costly jewels, paatu peedhAmbharam to the divine feet of

swamy along with an elephant (gajendran) with golden ambAri. Swamy accepted

all of them for the sake of bhagavat kainkaryam happily. Swamy preached the

indepth meanings (sooshmArthangal) of the Sriramanuja siddhAntham along with

pramanas to the king and left the king filled with ultimate gratefulness

towards swamy.

 

Then swamy went to prayAgai (AllahAbad), bathed in the trivEni and then visited

vAranAsi (kAsi). After doing dharmastApanam over there swamy proceeded to

thiruayOdhi. Swamy visited the janma stAnam (birthplace) of chakravarthi

thirumagan, the kanakabhavanam (the beautiful palace) where perumal and piratti

lived. Swamy then visited mithilai (janakapuram) and finally reached hatva

samstAnam. There the politely king welcomed swamy.

 

Swamy took a divine bath in the kandakee river (salagrama theertham) and

proceeded his journey uplifting number of jeevatmas all through the way. Then

accepting the request of many sadhusampradaya acharyas and kings swamy

proceeded towards pataleepuram (patna). There swamy took part in a sadhu

sampradAya mahA sabha in which number of mahA vidwans from different parts of

the world along with kasi raja, hatva raja and others took part. All of them

prostrated swamy and humbly requested swamy to lead over the gathering, which

was graciously accepted by swamy and swamy conducted the meet in a very grand

manner. During the meet swamy gave a brilliant lecture in Hindi about the

important aspects of shruti and smriti in a very simple and lucid manner and

immersed everyone gathered over there in immense joy.

 

After the meet many kings realizing the greatness of swamy welcomed swamy to

their place and honoured swamy greatly. Then swamy through ranikaNj route

reached Sri JagannAtham (puri). There swamy did mangalAsAsanams to

purushOthaman. Further honoured by kings of poppili, vijayanagaram and

piththApuram samasthAnams swamy proceeded his journey to Srikoormam and

SimhAchalam. In those divine kshetras swamy did mangalAsAnams to the

emperumans and through the kAkinAda route finally reached thirumalai.

 

Thirvenkatamudaiyan, welcomed swamy like a father welcoming his son who has

returned back after a long stay in a far of place, with great love

andaffection. He sent his close devotees (kainkaryaparas) with his

abhayahastham, Sri saTakOpam and other honours to welcome swamy. Swamy reached

periya jeeyer mutt and was graciously welcomed by periya Jeeyer swamy and along

with number of disciples' swamy then proceeded towards the sannadhi. There swamy

surrendered to the divine feet of thriuvenkatamudaiyan amidst the purushakaram

(support) of alarmel mangai thayar and with great joy enjoyed the divine beauty

of emperuman thoroughly. Swamy accepted the prasadam, thiruparivattam, Sri

saTakOpam, SripAdarEnu and other honours with due respect and after placing

them over his head swamy came round in circumbulation experiencing ultimate

joy. Swamy then had the divine darshan of swamy emperumAnAr. Swamy then did

mangalAsAsanams tovaraha nAyanar. During his stay in thirumalai swamy was taken

care well by a very close devotee and stAnAdhipathi of thiruvenkatamudaiyan, Sri

mahantu.Swamy stayed in thirumalai for 2 or 3 days when Sri Varamangai nAchiyar

appeared in swamy's dream and said, "As per our wish your bhoopradhakshinam

(coming round the world) has been completed with the visit to my birth place so

return back quickly to our sannadhi". The very next day swamy started his

journey back. On the way back swamy did mangalAsAsanams to perumbudoor mAmuni

and with great thirst reached thiruarangam.

 

In Srirangam, araiyar uththama nambi and others who were eagerly waiting to have

the divine darshan of swamy ("endru kolo kankulirakAnum nAlE") welcomed swamy

with great respect and pleasure. Swamy gave his wishes to all of them and

proceeded to the mutt. Swamy's heart was beating fast with the enthusiasm to

have the darshan of thiruarangan amidst the divine pillars (thirumanathooN)

which were gold plated by swamy, and that which serves as a holding support to

all those devotees who are shaken due to the waves of beauty of the divine eyes

of periya perumal "neeNda apperiya vAya kaNgal". Swamy was eagerly waiting to

have the eye-filled darshan and do heart-felt mangalAsAsanams to

arangaththaravanai mAyOn.

 

Thiruarangan, who was also filled with the same enthusiasm to meet swamy

immediately sent his devotees with thirumAlai, thiruparivattam, abhaya hasthams

and prasadams to welcome swamy amidst the sound of divine instruments. The

kainkaryaparas as per the instructions of emperuman welcomed swamy in the

appropriate manner. Swamy starting with "devigOdhA yethipathi" did

mangalAsAsanams respectively and finally reached arangan sannadhi and had

darshan of periya perumal (padhAdhikEshAntham) starting from the divine feet

till the divine head meditating on the paasurams of amalanAdhipiran. Blessed

with the divine grace of emperuman swamy accepted the thirumalai,

thiruparivattam and srisatakopam and prasadams followed by "ponnadiyAm

senkamala podugalai" of swamy manavala mAmunikal and returned back to his mutt.

 

 

Then swamy did samAsrayanams to all those interested and did grand

dhadheeyArAdhanams and stayed in Srirangam for 2 or 3 days. Swamy honoured the

adiyars of arangan with peedhAmbharam and after bidding a warm good-bye swamy

proceeded to thirumAliruncholai. Swamy did mangalAsAsanams to Azhagar. Then

swamy was reminded of the mangalAsAsana verses of andal towards this emperuman,

"nooru tadA niraindha akkAravadisil sonnEn". Like emperumAnAr, swamy also wanted

to put andal's words to reality for all people to know the importance and hence

swamy made arrangements for 'nooru tadA akkaravadisil' to be submitted to the

divine feet of azhagar. Azhagar accepted the same with pleasure, wanting to

deliver the happening in front of Sri andal nAchiyar, swamy then rushed

toSrivilliputtur.

 

Andal was very pleased and she welcomed swamy happily. Sri nAchiyar, wanted to

show to the world her regards towards Sri Periya bhattarpiran swamy who

submitted a beautiful chariot to nachiyar, as a father and hence nachiyar

entered the minds of all Acharya purushas and temple administrators and made

swamy get the first respect in the ghosti with swamy receiving the prathama

theertham, parivattam, mAlai and all other honours and also made it a custom

forever. All the acharya purushas and temple administrators accepted the same

and put their signatures in a written document and submitted in front of

nachiyar. Nachiyar very happily submitted the same to swamy through the

archaka. A copy of the same was placed in the temple as per the orders of Sri

gOdhA nAchiyar. Andal was bhattarpiran kOdhai and swamy was the jnana sandhadhi

of bhattarpiran swamy, who understood the mental state of nachiyar and submitted

nooru tadA akkAravadisil to azhagar, along with other kainkaryams (grand

pradhistA dhadheeyArAdhanam of andal and submission of pattu peedhAmbharam)

andal had a special feeling towards swamy, which is nothing surprising. Though

deeply involved in the divine darshan of nachiyar and enjoying her immense

grace swamy couldn't stop there for long thinking of the order of varamangai

nAchiyar. So swamy after getting the permission of andal started from

srivilliputtur blessing many ignorant souls on the way and reached Sri

Varamangala nagar.

 

There swamy bathed in the divine sERRuthAmarai and finished his nithya

karmAnushtAnams while the SriVaishnavas who have missed swamy's darshan for

five years spending a day as many many years with great enthusiasm and

inexpressible feelings held poornakumbum amidst the sound of Vedas rushed to

welcome swamy. Swamy was highly pleased with the warm welcome while his mind

circled around the darshan of varamangai nAchiyar after such a long time.

Nachiyar, also waiting to see swamy send her thirumAlai, abhayahastam and other

honours to her dear father amidst the sound of divine instruments. Swamy held

the prasadams over his head and with great pleasure started towards the mutt

along with his disciples. From there swamy along with the pattu peedhAmbharam

and other articles swamy had got for Varamangai and her consort during his

journey went to do mangalasasanams to Varamangai sametha deivanAyakan. Swamy

adorned emperuman with all the jewels and enjoyed the darshan meanwhile

deivanAyakan honoured swamy with all due respects. Accepting the same swamy

returned to the mutt did mangalAsAsanams to aranganagarappan and stayed in his

peedam blessing the disciples with Sri pAda theertham and a grand

dhadheeyArAdhanam. During the bhoopradhakshinam the kings of riva, indoor and

hatva were mesmerized by swamy's jnana vairAkyam and they became swamy's dear

disciples "guna: dAsya mupAgatha:" Furthur in patna, kAnpur and hyderabad swamy

did patnapravEsam (coming round the city) and uplifted many many ignorant souls.

These kainkaryams of swamy has to be written in golden words in the history of

Vanamamalai mutt.

 

Swamy stayed in vanamamalai taking care of the nithyotsavams of Sri VaramangA

sametha deivanayakan and aranganagarappan. During the vaikAsi utsavam swamy

visited thirunagari to have his heartfelt darshan of magizh mAran, that which

has been missed during his divya desa visit. Swamy enjoyed the divine darshan

of Azhvar and Adhipiran in the temple that was like the pranavam with dual

importance. Swamy received all the respective honours including prathama

theertham from the first day till the tenth day of the utsavam and stayed there

for nearly two months and adorned all the ghostis of azhvar and Adipiran, and

showering bhagavat vishayam to one and all. Swamy did mangalasasanams many

times.

 

Then swamy returned back to vanamamalai and taught ubhaya Vedanta to all those

who were interested in the same and also did ubaya nAchimAr pradhistai. Each

year swamy celebrated the thirunakshatram of onnAna jeeyer (kanya punarvasu) by

calling many catussAstra scholars through the Sri rAmAnuja siddhAnta

sampradhAyAbhivarthinee sabha run from the day swamy adorned the peedam. In

this way swamy stayed in vanamamalai for ten years.Meanwhile, swamy was invited

to the golden dwajasthambha pradhista to Sri navaneethakrishnan temple in

veerakeralampudur part of oothumalai jameen. One of the heads of the place the

jameendhArini (queen) humbly requested swamy to graciously preside over the

occasion. Swamy along with all his disciples went to the occasion conducted

ghosti for five days and also presided over the grand prathistApana mahotsavam.

Swamy distributed the dhakshina given, to all the Srivaishnavas over there with

his own hands. Then that queen invited swamy to her palace and welcomed swamy

with great honours seated swamy on a beautiful crown, prostrated swamy and

requested swamy to consider this temple also like vanamamalai sannadhi close to

swamy's heart (abhimAniththaruludhal). She submitted a bag of wealth to be used

for the nithya aradhana of aranganagarappan and with all honours sent swamy

back to vanamamalai. After some days, swamy not being able to ignore all the

request from many interested souls who met swamy in person and those who have

sent invitation after coming to know about the greatness of swamy, swamy wanted

to uplift many many more souls in remote villages and cities and hence with the

permission of Sri varamangai and aranganagarappan started his third vijaya

yathra.

.. On an auspicious morning, Sri Swamy left his mutt and had the divine darshan

in nAchiyar thirumAligai (Srivilliputtur), koodal and mAlirunchOlai and reached

thiruppullAni. There Swamy did mangalAsAsanams to deivasilaiyAr. As per the

verse “sEthum drushvA samudrasya” swamy prostrated the divine bridge and

started from there. As per the wish of some disciples, rich merchants over

there swamy blessed the place by placing his divine foot into the city. The

great wealthy merchants largely honoured Swamy over there in a very grand

manner. Then swamy proceeded to do mangalasasanams to thirukkOtiyur and

thirumeiyam. In pudukkOtai samstAnam, also swamy was welcomed with respective

honours. The disciples belonging to sErankulam who had a great bhakthi towards

the acharya requested swamy to undertake the chAturmAsya vratham in their

village itself. Swamy accepted the request and undertook his sankalpam in that

village. The people of the village did great dhadheeyArAdhanams to all the

Srivaishnavas for the two months and the uttAna mahotsavam was also done in the

appropriate manner.

 

Then swamy left from there to do mangalasasanams to mannanar followed by the

visit to nandhipura vinnagaram, thirunaraiyur, thiruchchErai, Thirukkudandhai,

thiruvinnagar, thiruvelliyankudi and did mangalasasanams to the respective

emperumans. Swamy was deeply honoured with sraddha bhakthi by the

madhAdhipathis of thiruvAvaduturai and thirupananthAl. Then swamy visited

udaiyArpAlayam where the jameendhAr of the place welcomed and honoured swamy in

the appropriate manner. Then swamy through the route of kurugaikAvalappan

sannadhi reached Srimushnam. Reminded of the divine verse of nammazhvar,

“jnAnapirAnai allAl ellai nAn kaNda nalladhuvE” swamy did mangalasasanams to

jnAnapiran and started his journey towards veeranArayanapuram. There swamy

prostrated nAthamunigal and Aalavandaar and holding on to their divine feet did

mangalasasanams to mannanar. Then swamy reached Pondicherry. There the way

swamy was welcomed by the govt. officials’ largely pleased swamy. Then swamy

did mangalasasanams to thirukkovaloor Ayan along with the mudal Azhvars and

through the same route as followed by our poorvAcharyas swamy reached

thirumalai. There swamy had the divine darshan of alarmEl mangai urai mArban

then swamy proceeded to thiruneermalai did mangalasasanams to neervannan and

finally swamy reached mAdamA mayilai thiruvallikeni.

 

Swamy reached thiruvallikeni and did mangalasasanams to the divine feet of Sri

Parthasarathi emperuman and stayed under the divine shadow for a few months,

blessing all interested devotees/disciples with bhagavat vishayam and

samAsrayanam. In between swamy visited Sriperumbudur and did mangalasasanams

to emperumAnAr and then returned back to thiruvallikeni.

 

There the mahotsava celebration of first ramanuja jeeyer swamy went on in a

grand manner as usual. Swamy welcomed many vidwans wot do ubhaya Vedanta

upanyasams supplementing the same with many of his interesting additions

wherever necessary mesmerizing the audience. Swamy honoured all the vidwans in

the appropriate manner. DhadheeyArAdhanam, dolotsavam and other vaibhavams were

done grandly thereby doing bhagavat-bhAgavata AarAdhanam appropriately.

 

Then as per the humble request of disciples and abhimanis swamy completed his

chaturmAsa vratam in thiruvallikeni itself and then started his journey.

 

Through goolaloor-nellore route swamy reached noojvEdu samstAnam. The royal

family over there who had special regards towards swamy and were his disciples

(thiruvadi sambhandhigal) welcomed swamy and honoured him greatly and did all

the kainkaryams for swamy and made him stay there for 2 months. Swamy pleased

with their acharya bhakthi blessed them with sampradayic arthas in telugu made

them clear with the Sri Ramanuja siddhAntham and thereby paved way for their

upliftment.

 

Then swamy went till Rajamagendram, and then through

palakOl-narasApuram-bejavAda reached bhakyApuram (hyderabad). There the nizAm

king honoured swamy with virudhugal, pattupeedhAmbharam and dhadheeyArAdhanam

samagris and welcomed swamy. Swamy entered the place and reached the

varadarajan sannadhi called seethArAmabhag.

 

The next chaturmAsa vratam was observed over there. A wealthy person by the

name SrikrishnasEt sponsored generously for dhadheeyArAdhanam and other

expenses for those 2 months. Inspired by swamy’s pAnditvam and sattva gunas

many people came forward to do many kainkaryams to swamy. Swamy started from

there and reached nAntEdu honoured by many jameendArs all through the way in

seerNapalli and other places.