Guest guest Posted April 18, 2007 Report Share Posted April 18, 2007 Srimathe ramanujaya NamaH SrimathE varavaramunayE namaH Sarvajith, Chitthirai, Azhvar 7, Acharya 2 SRI VADUGA NAMBI Thirunakshathram: Chitthirai Aswani: April 17th 2007 Sri vaduganambikaL was one of the closest sishyas of emperumanar. Once Sri NamperumAL was coming on a grand procession and Sri VAduga Nambi was called to view this grandeur. However, he told, if i come there, the milk which is boiling will get spoilt and who will take care of my EmperumAn -EmperumAnAr. Therefore, my EmperumAn is EmperumAnAr. Once one srivaishnava came and sat near vaduga nambi and said " narayana! " nambi moved away from that place. While questioned why he said, " Why should adiyen sit some one who is catching hold of anyone other than the charmOpayam-emperumAnAr " He considered Sri RamAnuja as his AchArya and Lord. AchArya Kainkaryam- BhAgavatha kainkaryam-Bhagavath Kainkaryam VADuga Nambi-s vArthai AchArya kainkaryam - thanakkku pasi viLaithu vuNgai -Service to AchAryan is like most tasty (bOghyam) food for oneself. BhAgavatha kainkaraym -thAikkuch SoR idugai- Service to Devotees is like serving/giving food to ones own mother. An indispensable duty. Bhagavath kainkaryam- mUppukkuch sOr idugai- Service to the Lord is like serving to the old people and satisfy them. Swami piLLai lOkAcharyar, while explaning the AcharyabhimAnam, quotes vaduganambi. vaduga nambi azhvAnaiyum AndAnaiyum erukaraiyar enbar At Thirukkurunkudi, thirukkurungudi Nambi posed as Vaduga Nambi and became sishya of Sri RamAnujA and became VaishNava Nambi. Vaduga Nambi, thus had this great privilege Nanavarkku nallEan Sri Vaduga Nambi always was particular about EmperumAnar in preference to even the Lord Almighty. Questioned on this, he replied Sri Madhura kavi AzvAr considered only Sri Nam AzvAr as his Lord and did not turn his eyes towards EmperumAn. 'DhEVu maTRariyeAn' Likewise, i have got the blessings of Sri EmpeurmAnAr and therefore my stand is right and he told this in two words 'nAn avarkku nallEan' . I am in the books-good books of EmperumAnAr and therefore there is nothing wrong in ignoring EmperumAn. A befitting tribute to SrIvaduganambi is found in mAmunikal's arthi prabhandam " vunnai ozhiya oru deivam maRRariyA mannu pugazh sEr vaduga nambi-tannilaiyai enthanakku nee thandhu ethirAsA! ennALum vun tanakkE yAtkoL vugandhu " Vaduganambi left us with a chronicle called YathirAja vaibhavam detailing every incident of emperumAnAr's life. In yathirAja vaibhavam last sloka vaduga nambi contemplates the mercy of emperumanar who gave him the kainkaryam of boiling milk for him. kAmSchithkasmimaSchidarthE prIrthiniyathathaya sanniyOjyAntharangAn thathra kshIrArthhakruthyE prIthinityamahO dAsamapyathyanarham kurvan SrImAn yathirassvapadavinathathaddAsyadAsAnudAsa mAmapyathyanthabhaktham svahithamiva sadA gOpayEnam sOpi jIyAth Sri Uyya koNDAr Thirunakshathram – Chitthirai KArthikai - April 19th 2007 Namah: pankaja nEthraya Natha SripAda PankajE Nyastha SarvaparAyAsmath kulanaadhaaya DhimathE In the Guruparamparai, SrI uyyakkoNdAr adorns the position next to SrIman nAthamunikal. The Great words of Sri Vuyyak-koNDar. Marriage alongside the Corpse When Sri NAdhamunigaL gave the option to this AchArya whether he wants 'yOga sAsthram' -meditating within oneself or to have Divyaprabandham and bhagavadanubhavam to this Sri Vuyya-koNDar replied 'piNam kidakka maNam puNaralAmOA!' When corpse is lying can one enter into marriage? meaning thereby that when souls are suffering in the cylce of births, can one just think of oneself. Sriman NAdhamunikaL directed him to learn sAsthram-s, Divya Prabhandham-s and ThiruvAimozhi and spread the great secrets. Thus this decision of Sri Uyya koNdAr has saved us from everlasting darkness and elevated into the arch of knowledge and devotion. Life history: Very little is known about the life history of srI uyya-k-koNdAr, also called srI puNdarIkAksha. SrI uyya-k-koNdAr was anointed as the leader of all devotees by srIman nAthamuni. After srIman nAthamuni left for the abode of the Lord, srI uyya-k-koNdAr continued to reach the great concepts (the esoteric meanings, the thiruvAymozhi etc.) to his disciples who included srI rAma miSra (srI maNakkAl nambi). It is known that he anointed srI maNakkAl nambi as the next preceptor. srI uyya-k-koNdAr's place of birth is thiru-veLLarai, a place near srIrangam. He was born on the day of the star kriththika, in the month chaitra. The other names by which he is referred to are – padmakAksha, rajIvAksha and aravindAksha. His prominent disciples were srI maNakkAl nambi, thiru-alli-k-kEni pAn perumAl araiyar, chEtlUr sendAlankAradAsar, kOmadam thiruvinnakappan and ulagaperumAL nangai. We should be ever indebted to this AchArya who took upon himself the task of learning and spreading the Divyaprabhandham which pervaded through ALavandhAr and then to Sri EmperumAnAr and finally spread into a big big area. Later ThiruvAymozhipiLLAi came in the same thiruvamSam of uyyakkoNdAr. During the time of riots, the uthsavar from thiruveLLarai was taken to azhvar thirunagari and was installed there. One can still see this uthsavar of uyyakkoNdAr in the thiruvAymozhi piLLai sannidhi. NamasyAm Aravindhaksham Nathabhave Vyavasthitham Sudhdhasththvamayam SowreravathAramivaparam SrI EngaLAzhvAn Thirunakshathram : Chitthirai rOhiNi: April 20th 2007 SrI vishNuchittha padapankaja samSrayAya chethO mama sapruhayathE kimatha parENa nOchEnmamAoi yathi SEchharabhArathInAm bhAvaH kathham bhubithumarhathi vAgvidhEyaH sri engalazhvan's name Is vishnuchittha. He was one among the prime disciples of swami Emperumanar. He wrote the visishTadwaitha commentary for Sri vishNupurANam in the name of VishNucchitthiyam. He got the name engalazhvan by emperumanar, looking at his skills of writing. It is believed that it was engalazhvan who completed documenting sribhashyam last chapter after kuratthazhvan lost his eyes. Looking at the striking similarity to the kuratthazhvan's style of writing, emperumanar embraced him and called engal azhvanO ! ?. He was acharya to naDAdur ammAL. The Death of 'I' naDAdUr ammAL was asked to go to Thiruvellarai to learn SrIbhAshyam from engalAzhvan. He reached engalazhvan's house and knocked the doors. Engalzhavan asked from inside who is it? ammAL replied " nAn " " I " engalazhvan replied immediately nAn setthittu vArum " " come after I die " ammAL wondered how one can teach him, after he is dead, and returned back to kanchipuram and explained everything to his father. His father asked him to go to Thiruvellarai again, and this time to refer his self as " adiyEn " . This time engalazhvan opend the doors and accepted ammAL as his sishya. Nadadur Ammal learnt Sri Bashya, from EngalAzhwAn. Because of this, EngalAzhwan came to be known as Ammal Acharyan. nadAthUr ammAL Thirunakshathram: Chitthirai Chitthirai: May 1 2007 Sruthaprakasika bhattar was disciple of ammal. He is the grandson of SrImath varada guru who is a nephew of bhagavath rAmAnuja (pUrvASramam). He did sampradAya pravachanam in Sri kacchi vAithAn maNdapam and instructed his disciple SrI SudarSana sUri to document the magnificent grantam named Sruta-prakASika (commentary on SrI bhAshyam). He is an author of many granthas like TattvasAara , PrapannapArijaata , PrameyamAla , AahnikacuudAmaNi, AarAdhanakramam , MangaLASAsanam , JayantidarpaNam , HetirAjastavam, Rahasyasangraham , Caturlakshanasangraham, ParatattvanirNayam, DramiDOpainishatsangraham, SrIbhAshyasangraham, yatilinga samarthana etc. WinZip/pkzip NO! World Zip!UNiverse Zip! Entire Zip! Zip one and All In the Azhiyezha pathigam, Edu, nampiLLai recalls a nirvaham by nadAthtUr ammAL, in the pasuram AppanULiyezha ulakamuNdavUNE 7.4.4, where the roaring sound of the Athyanthika praLayam, is described nadAthUr ammAL used to say, look, at the sound when the entire leelavibhUthi is being zipped inside emperumAn's stomach, Ivattrai urichukiRapOthai thvani kAN endru ammAL paNikkum paDi endraruLiccheyvar Sri NaDAdhUrammAL's anushtAnam Once Sri NadAthUr AmmAL and ALI pillAn - a low caste SrevaishNavite BhagavathA- had food together. On seeing this, Sri PerumkUdAr piLLai expressed that without seeing this anushthAnam he would have strictly gone by sAsthram-s. For this Sri NAdAthUr ammAL replied " Those who are in the fold of SrEvaishNava sadhAchAryan and their's are indeed the best things one can take into ones practice' The emphasis is on the desirability of BhAgavatha Sambhandham. EngaL AzvAn and NAdAdhUr AmmAL When EngaL AzvAn was explaining Charama slOkArtham to NAdAdhUr AmmAl and when the learner observed that EmperumAn prescribes leaving every DhArma which The Lord Himself had laid down, Sri NADAthUr AmmAL exclaimed that " What svAthanthriyam! The person who had prescribed Himself now removes the prescriptions " For this EngaL AzvAn replied ' Oh! It is not that Lord tells this because of svAthanthriyam but because it is not compatible to the AtmA's nature' Let us all join and celebrate all these divine days and do mangalasasanams to all these great acharyas. Vara Vara muni DasargaL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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