Azhvar Thirunagari - Emberumanar Sannidhi -PART 3

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Part 3

After his birth, Swami Nammazhwar never behaved like a

normal baby. He did not cry, did not laugh, did not

drink milk and did not do any activity, which any

normal child would do. Seeing this his parents got

worried. So they consulted an astrologer, who said

that nammazhwar is not a normal child but was divine.

They took Swami Nammazhwar to the temple of

Thirukurugoor. Swami Nammazhwar who was just 12 days

old, started crawling towards a tamarind tree in the

temple and sat in padmasana meditating for 16 years

from then. He didn’t speak, didn’t drink or eat.

 

Madhura kavi azhwar who was a great jnani, was on a

pilgrimage in north India, at that time. One day when

he looked towards southern sky, he saw a bright star,

and with his knowledge in astronomy and astrology, he

realized that a great saint was born in the south. He

immediately left to south, with the intention of

meeting the great new born. Eventually swami

madhurakavi azhwar came to thirukkurukur, and became

the sishya, the devotee and the caretaker, of swami

nammazhwar (adiyen is not going into details here as

it is not our topic of discussion here). It was

madhurakavi azhwar who taught us the achAryAbhimAnam

for the first time, “thevu maththariyEn kurukUr nambi

pAvin innisai pATiththirivanE” as he states in

kaNNiNunchirutthAmbu. It was swami madhurakavi azhwar,

who penned down the entire corpus of thiruviruththam,

thiruvAsiriyam, periyathiruvanthAthi and thiruvAymozhi

of swAmi nammAzhwAr.

 

 

Madhurakavi AzhwAr once requested swAmi nammAzhwAr

that “once you finish the prabandhams you will leave

for paramapadam. adiyEn would like to see you, and

perform kainkaryams to you as long as adiyEn lives

here”.

 

Then swAmi nammAzhwAr asked madhurakavi AzhwAr to

bring water from thramraparni river, and boil it. From

the boiling waters a divyamangaLa vigraham came out

with an anjali hastham. Madhurakavi AzhwAr recognized

that this is not azhWars vigraham, so he went to

AzhwAr and conveyed the news. Then azhwar replied him,

this is the acharya I mentioned in the poliga poliga….

Pathigam. He will be the bhavishyad achArya, who will

be born to relieve the samsaris from kail’s plays.

“Kaliyum kedum kandu konmin………” with such a confidence

azhwar points happly towards the future birth of

emperumAnAr. AzhwAr again asked madhurakavi azhwar to

continue boiling and then came a divya mangala

vigraham of azhwar himself with jnana mudrai.

 

Through the bhavishyad achArya vigraha the avathara

rahasya was revealed to madhura kavi azhwar much

earlier than the real avathara took place. But since

the person was not born during that time, madhura kavi

azhwar kept the bhavishyad acharya vigraham under a

small pit, near to the sacred tamarind tree. And kept

nammazhwar vigraham in his thiruvaradhanam. Both divya

mangaLa vigrahams are worshiped in azhwar thirunagari

at present. How the bhavishyad achArya shrine was

built…we will continue in the next post

 

These postings are excerpts from the upanyasam of sri

M. R. Ramanujam.

Adiyen is responsible for the mistakes committed in

this series of postings

==========Continued on part 4 ==========

 

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