life of raamaanujaacharya 1

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Dear bhaagavatas,

 

I have been reading the book 'Life of

raamaanujaacharya'. And thought

it would be interesting for all of us to know the

advent and pastimes

of bhagavad raamaanujaacharya. I have been typing the

entire book as

it is, and decide to share with all the vaishnavas.

 

Hope this endeavor will help myself and all the

readers better

understand 'our savior, raamaanuja' and saampradaayam.

 

jai srimannarayana!!!

adiyen

 

The Life Of Ramanuja and Others

 

Introductory

 

After the alwars come the Acharyas. The former we have

called

`saints', and the latter we shall designate as the

`sages'. Both

saints and sages possess the two fold characteristics

of `knowleddge'

and `love' i.e., knowledge of God and Love to God.

Whereas the saints

are pre-eminently of the order of Lovers of God, the

sages are of the

order of Knowers of God. Both saints and sages are

servants of God.

 

By God's grace, we write the Holy lives of the sages

These are headed

by the Blessed nathamuni. The substance of the present

work is the

Life of Ramanuja.

 

Chapter 1

 

Nathamuni

 

A long time elapsed between the alwars(saints) and the

Acharyas(sages). At the date 916 A.D. or when the sage

yamunacharya

was born, nathmuni, his grandfather, was alive. We

have in record,

that Isvara-bhatt-alwar was the father of nathamuni;

and isvara muni

was his(natha-muni's) son. All of the three together

lived in

Veeranaarayanapuram where exists the Holy shrine of

mannaar koil. The

resident deity, there manifest, being mannaar(=Lord

Krishna or raaja

gopala).

 

God so manifest was their family deity. One day, the

father,

son(nathamuni) and grandson went to the shrine and

submissively

petitioned to mannaar to permit them to undertake a

pilgrimage to the

North of India, where they were anxious to visit all

those Holy

Shrines to Himself, or at which He had incarnated in

various forms, in

order to accomplish the threefold object of saving the

Good, punishing

the wicked, and establishing the virtue in the land(BG

4.8)- such

shrines as mathura, gokula, brindavana, the holybanks

of yamuna,

govardhana, dvaaraka, ayodhya, saalagraama,

badrikaasrama,

naimishaaranya, narasimhagiri and others.

 

Lord mannar deigned to give them permission to do so,

They started

forthwith with their families, and in the course of

their holy

peregrinations, they came upon a place called

Govardhana pura, situate

on the banks of holy yamuna, and there paid homage to

Lord Krishna,

known to the Dravidians as

yamunai-t-turaivan(tiruppavai v.5). The

Lord and all the surroundings were so fascinating as

to induce them to

decide to spend the rest of their days here. Time

agreeably sped thus.

But on a certain night, sage naathamuni had a dream in

which Lord

mannaar appeared commanded his devotee to return to

veera-narayanapuram.

 

The sage was vividly impressed by his experience, and

resolved to

return to his native land. He accordingly submitted

his desire to

yamunai-t-turaivan, who gladly accorded his sanction

and honored the

sage with the holy tirtha and prasaada.

-------continued()

 

 

 

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