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 " .

----------------will be continued()

 

--- Balaji A <balajimails wrote:

 

> harE krShNa! AzhwArgaL thiruvadigaLE sharaNam! jay

> shrIlA praBhupAdha!

>

>

>

> Dear Devotee Sri Vinod Swami,

>

> Either you have missed to send or I have missed to

> receive the Part 5.

> Please resend the part 5 of the life of shrI

> rAmAnujAchArya. Thanks a lot

> once again for you wonderful devotional service to

> Lord Krishna. harE

> krShNa!

>

>

>

> - Balaji - The Servant of Devotees!

>

> On 3/22/07, vinod sv <winode_sv wrote:

> >

> > continued from part 5------

> > -------------

> > Forthwith he started from his yoga-seat and went

> in

> > search of this Holy band, and asking those whom he

> met

> > on the way, for traces of their journey. They

> said, "

> > Go this way, Go this way " , evidently fancying that

> he

> > was in search of the king and his retinue. He

> > increased his speed and arrived in the vicinity of

> > gangaikonda.s-puram; and asking the residents

> there to

> > direct him further on the way where the Holy band

> > went, they saud they not seen any. He looked

> forward

> > and far out and sideways, and seeing nothing of

> what

> > his heart yearned for, heaved a deep sigh, wept

> and

> > swooning away, fell on the ground and departed

> from

> > this world.

> >

> > parantuvaishnaavam lOkam nityAnandam sukhAvaham!

> > tatrasamvaahinIMdivyaa virajavEdasaMbhavAm!!

> > sarvE hiraNmayAstatra sarvE vEdamayAsSubhA!

> > sraprAkrutamayA nityaa punarAvrutti varjitaa!!

> > EkAntinassadaa brahmadhtaayinO yOginOhi yE!

> > tEshAtatparamaMsthaanaM yadvaipaSyanti sUraya!!

> >

> > The disciples and the son, of our Heaven departed

> > sage, received the tidings of this extraordinary

> > translation and could not bear the pain of

> separation;

> > but fate must be submitted to by all. So they

> traveled

> > to where the sage was lying in state, and after

> > prostrating themselves before the dead body, duly

> > cremated him according to the brahma medha ritual

> > prescribed in the Vedas. Returning home, all the

> rest

> > of the ceremonies were duly performed by

> Isvaramuni,

> > the son. And kurugaaval-appan selected a place

> near

> > where his master was accustomed to sit in yoga,

> and

> > steadily practiced yoga. The sage is said to have

> live

> > 540 years.

> >

> > The memorial verse to him runs thus:

> > Vyomna parastaatsavidhaM samEtya lakshmyaa

> niyOgaat

> > kurukaadhiraaja!

> > samaMtra ratna dvayamaahayasmai naathaaya tasmai

> > munayE namOstu!!

> >

> > Chapter 2

> > Uyyakkondaar and manakkaal-nambi

> >

> > Uyyakkondaar is the same as Pundariikaaksha.

> > Uyyakkondaar is a name which has an interesting

> story

> > connected with it. Once on an occasion,

> > vangi-puratt-aacchi, the father-in-law of

> naathamuni,

> > sent a request to his son-in-law to send his

> > wife(i.e., aacchi's daughter), aravinda-paavai on

> a

> > visit. Naathamuni sent her, escorted by

> > pundariikaaksha, his trusted disciple. Some of the

> > dependants of aacchi looked down upon him as of an

> > inferior caste, he being a puurava-sikhi(that is,

> of

> > that class among brahmanas, whose custom is to

> wear a

> > turf of hair right on the crown of the head); and

> > therefore they fed him on stale food. But he never

> > resented this treatment. He, on the other hand,

> > considered it as the greatest blessing that was

> > conferred upon him. He returned home, and pressed

> by

> > naathamuni to narrate all that took place at

> aacchi's

> > residence, related with joy the happiness he

> derived

> > from eating stale food; when asked how it could be

> so,

> > he answered that it was certainly so on the

> principle

> > explained by St. Tondaradippodi alwar:-

> > " If but their broken bread the saints will grant

> > Indeed it shall my nature purify "

> > (tirumalai, verse 41)

> >

> > On hearing this, naathamuni embraced his disciple

> and

> > exclaimed: " thou art my saviour " . Thus

> uyyakkondaar

> > means: he who practiced the highest precepts of

> > religion taught by his master.

> >

> > Such was uyyakkondaar or pundariikaaksha. He had

> many

> > disciples under him with whom he was happily

> engaged

> > in the delightful study and exposition of the

> > utterances of the holy alwars, The chief of these

> > disciples were five, viz, 1) Manakkaal nimbi 2)

> > tiruvallikkeni paanperumaal arayar 3)

> > sattaip-puusi-sendalankaarar 4) SrI pundariika

> daasan

> > and 5) ulagu-perumal nangai. Of these disciples,

> > manakkaal nimbi or sri raama misra was the

> greatest,

> > in as much as he bore his guru(uyyakkondaar) the

> > relation of lakshmana to His master and brother

> SrI

> > raamachandra. This was so much the case that when

> the

> > guru's wife andaalamma died, raama-misra did all

> the

> > menial services that thus necessarily devolved on

> him

> > in the household of the guru.

> > ------will be continued in part 7

> > .

> >

>

 

 

 

 

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