Sri Ramanujar at Tirumalai

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Dear bhagavatas,

I happened to go through the articles about sri

Ramanujar in Tirumalai that the vigraham might be

desikan's and not Ramanuja's.It is a world known fact

that except for Ramanuja there is no vigraham for any

other Azhwar or Acharya in Tirumalai temple (Initially

there was no other Vigraham for any other Azhwar or

Acharya in Tirumala hills itself but now some private

mutts and people are creating new vigrahams for their

favourite acharyas and keeping in their own place).

This kind of campaigns were done by mischivous peolple

during the golden period of Annangaracharyar Swami

itself and he has with out any difficulties has

dismissed those claims with supreme authentication .I

think this issue was very deeply addressed and written

by swami in almost a full Ramanusan issue. Below are

the strong and unanswerable reasons(by these

campaigners) for why the vigraham is Ramanuja's and

not Desikan's.

 

1.As pointed out by a friend in one of the previous

digests, Ramanujar is considered to be the acharya of

Tiruvengadamudayan himself and hence the Gnyana mudra.

Even today we can hear kattiyams in places like

sriperumbudur, tiruvallikeni saying "Appanukku

sangazhi alitha perumal".

 

2.Next, Tirumalai is the place where ramanuja wrote

and delivered Vedartha sangragham, a magnificeint work

in the form of Upanyasa in front of the Lord and hence

the GNyana mudra.

 

3.The person has also claimed that Ramanuja at

tirumalai is having manuscripts in his left hand. I

doubt very much the person who said this has ever been

to tirumalai and seen the left hand of ramnuja. It is

very clear that the left hand of ramuja contaons

nothing and it will be just like tiruvengadamudayan's

left hand pointing downwards.(Incidentally, the

picture of Sri Ramanuja of Tirumalai has been

published in the Chittirai issue of GEETHACHARYAN.)

The claims that Ramanujar's left hand has manuscripts

and is being covered are all nothing but nonsense

because anyone can on anyday go to tirumala and can

see that the left hand is not covered.

 

4.We have lot of scriptures(Kalvettus) in tiruamalai

saying very clearly that After the period of

Ananthalwan, his grandson had performed kainkaryams to

tiruvengadamudayan and its is also very very clearly

stated that he also performed kainkaryams every day to

the ramanujar conscecrated by ananthalwan.

 

After considering these points no one could for a

second think that it might be desikan's vigraga and

not ramanuja's. If still anyone wants to argue that it

is desika and not ramanuja, we can just say that "Tham

nenjil tottinathe solli ithu sutha upadesa varavartha

enbar moorkaravar" and regret their ignorance.

 

Geethacharyan