life of raamaanujaacharya 5

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continued from part 4

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The Samadhi state of the sage came to be known to the

outside world and finally reached the ears of king

chOla. To see the wonderful sage and pay homage to

Lord mannaar as well, he left his capital and,

accompanied by his consorts, absorbed in

yoga(meditation) and, lost in respect and wonder at

this unusual sight, was quietly retracting his steps.

But the sage took them for Lord Krishna and His Holy

consorts; that they had been pleased to visit Him,

Thus fancying in his delirium of yoga, he ran after

them. Uyyakkondar and other, his disciples, observing

this divine hallucination, pursued the sage and

meeting him at gangai-konda-chozhapuram besought an

explanation from him as to the apparently insane

nature of his conduct. He told them that in his eyes,

they appeared as Lord Krishna and His consorts and His

vision threw him into a frenzy of love. The disciples

reminded him that service to God and the Godly were

the highest aim, and that when this demanded waking

life on his part, he was not to allow himself to be

ecstasized in this manner to the prejudice of such

service. He came to himself and returned to his Divine

service at Lord mannar’s.

 

Matters went thus for a certain length of tim, and the

sage became more and more absorbed in his

illumination. On a certain day he called in his

disciple kurugai-k-kaaval appan , and commanded him to

learn the eight limbed yoga and taught him the same.

 

The sage now called his other intimate disciple

Uyyakakondaar and asked him also to practice the yoga

method. But he humbly answered the sag:- ‘Holy sire,

while I still carry the corpse with me, how is

marriage possible?’ It will be time for me to consider

the matter when I am about give up my body”: “Thou”,

said the sage, “ employ thyself in the dissemination

of the Shastras and the prabhandas.”

 

The sage now called his own son Isvara muni and said

:- “son, thou shalt have a son. The name

‘yamunai-turaivar’ thou shalt give him.” And he

commanded his disciples Uyyakkondaar and K.appan to

communicate in the due course to this would be son,

all the knowledge of the shastras and the yoga he had

imparted to them. Leaving his instructions thus, he

resumed his yoga.

 

Time passed. King chola had gone out into the country

with his followers on a hunting excursion, and he

happened to pass by veeranarayanapuram on his journey

back. Our sage’s young daughter watched the grand

cortege, with bows arrows, female attendants monkeys

and what not. But to her it all seemed like a vision,

which running upto her father, she described as if two

men with bows, a woman and a monkey called at his

place and inquired for naathamuni and went their way.

And our sage at once construed this(in his divine

filled imagination) as if Lord rama himself, with His

brother lakshmana following Him with bows and

arrows(as His body guard), with queen sita between

them, condescended to visit him, - as described in

Ramayana[3.2]:-

 

“rama went foremost of the three,

Next sita followed, fair to see,

And lakshmana with his bow in hand

Walked hindmost of the little band”.

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