Varadha PrasAdham

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Dear BhAgavathAs,

adiyEn want to remember the great sishyA of emperumAnAr, Sri

ArulAlapperumAl EmperumAnAr on the account of his thiruavathAra

nakshatram on Karthigai, Bharani - 3rd Dec. He is one of the important

sishyA of emperumAnAr. While allotting different kainkaryams to

different sishyAs, emperumAnAr allotted performing thiruvArAdhanam to

his thiruvAradhana perumAl-Sri pErarulAlan to Sri ArulAlapperumAl

EmperumAnAr. That was his greatness.

 

We know that, ArulAlapperumAl EmperumAnAr was an advaita sanyasi with

the name-yajNya mUrthi, and he wants to debate with Swami EmperumAnAr.

They agreed to debate for 18 days and both came to an agreement that

if one fails to win, then what should be done on that side. YajNya

mUrthi agreed that, he will enter into Swami EmperumAnAr's siddhAntham

and will change his name to Swami EmperumAnAr's name if he fails to

win. Similarly Swami EmperumAnAr agreed that, he wont touch grantham –

Grantha SanyAsam – if he fails to win in the debate.

 

Till the 16th day, there was no result of winning on either side. On

17th day, yajNya mUrthi became stronger in his debate and appeared

that he would win. On the same day, Swami EmperumAnAr returned to his

SrimaTam with extreme grief and poured his feelings to thiruvAradhana

perumAl pErarulAlan. The next day, Swami EmperumAnAr while entering

into the debate hall, by seeing Swami's majestic appearance, yajNya

mUrthi surrendered in the lotus feet of EmperumAnAr.

 

With the help of tips given by pErarulAlan in Swami's swapnam, Swami

defeated the mAyAvAdha siddhAntham. Since Swami defeated yajNya mUrthi

in the debate, according to the agreement, yajNya mUrthi had to enter

into our Swami EmperumAnAr's siddhAntham by changing his name into

EmperumAnAr's name. But Swami realized the help of PerarulAlan,

without HIM it won't be possible for Swami to defeat yajNya mUrthi.

Also in swapnam, pErarulAlan said that, "Oh! IlaiyAzhweer, Don't

worry. I had brought you a sishyA who is on par with you in all

aspects". Hence EmperumAnAr gave the new name to yajNya mUrthi as

"ArulAlapperumAl", then Swami according to the agreement added his

name which results in "ArulAlapperumAl EmperumAnAr". After became the

sishyA of EmperumAnAr, ArulAlapperumAl EmperumAnAr performed nithya

kainkaryam to his AchAryar Ramanujar. He was one of the gift to our

sampradhAyam given by pErarulAlan – Varadha PrasAdham. Again

pErarulAlan proved that "HE IS VARADHAN" - - dhEvarAja! dhayAsindHO!

dhEva dhEva! JagathpadhE!

 

yatirAja dayApAtram yatipankti viBUSaNam |

dayApAla munim vandE desikAgrE saram saDA ||

 

adiyEn,

senthil.b