Guest guest Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Srimathe ramanujaya NamaH SrimathE varavaramunayE namaH Sarvajith, Chitthirai, Azhvar 7, Acharya 4 " pAdukE yathirAjasya kathayanthiyadhAkyayA Tasya dAsarathE: pAdhow sirasA dhArayAmyaham " swAmi mudhaliyANdAn Chittirai punarpoosam Birth and nomenclature A child was born to swamy emperumanar's sister in the vadhoola clan on a chittirai punarpoosam day, in the small village of pEttai (pachchai varana perumal sannadhi) inbetween the avatara stalam of thirukachchinambi (poovirundhavalli) and the avatara stalam of Swamy emperumanar (Sriperumbudur). His parents were Vaadhoola Kula Thilaka Sri Anantha Naarayana Dikshithar and Nachiyaramman. The child was named dAsarathi as he was born on the day of avataram of Sri chakravarthi thirumagan (ramapiran). ElaiyAzhvar, the avatara of adisesha and balaramanuja, sri parthasarathi was born on a chittirai thiruvadirai day. His nephew was born in the next star on the avatara dhinam of Sri rama. Sambhandam (Relationship) with emperumAnAr In our srivaishnava sampradayam, athma sambhandam (Relationship due to Athma) is more regarded than the deha sambhandam (physical relationship) still it is seen from our guruparampara legends that our acharyas did cherish the deha sambhandam with bhagavatas mainly the acharyas. Mudaliyaandan and koorathAzhvan were both very close to Ramanujacharya and were considered as the danda and pavithram of emperumanar (without which a yethi should not be). Still koorathAzhvan used to feel bad for not been blessed with a deha sambhandam with ramanucharya that mudaliyaandan enjoyed ( " Padakku Atma Sambandham Irundhalum, Uzhakku Deha Sambandham Illaye " ). Even while taken up sanyasa ramanujacharya vows that he sacrificed all the relationships except mudaliyaandan due to the bhagavata sambhandam he cherished with mudaliyaandan. Role in Sampradayam Mudaliyaandan is considered as the paduka of Sri Ramanuja. When we go to the sannadhi of perumal we all want to be blessed with his divine feet called as the srisadagopam/srisatari. What will we ask for when we stand in the sannadhi of ramanujacharya? We cannot call his divine feet as Srisadagopam as ramanuja is the divine feet of nammazhvar (satakopar). We have to say, " mudaliyaandan sAdhikka " (please bless me with the divine feet of ramanuja, mudaliyaandan). Emperumanar invested the very important role of taking care of the administration of the srirangam temple (, the head quarters of Srivaishnava sampradayam) in the hands of Mudaliyaandan. Aandaan was responsible for maintaining the ramanujArya divyAjyA in the Srivaishnava talai nagaram. " Sriranganaatha Divyaalaya Nirvahana Dhurandhara " As he ruled the temple staff like Senai Muthaliyaar (Sri Vishvaksena), he was given the name Muthali-Aandaan. He is mentioned in the Koyil Ozhugu, the chronicle of Srirangam temple, in glowing terms: " muthaliyaandaanum kurattilirunthu koyil kariyaththaiyum uLLe karuvulaka vaasalileyirunthu thirumeni upachaaraththayum, sannathiyile irunthu thiruppavaLa upchaarangaLayum udayavar niyamanappadi aaraaynthu kondu anaiththazhagum kaNdarula paNNIk-kondirunthaar " . The Ramanuja Divya Charitam says that as Ramanuja's chief disciple, he was deputed to Belur (Velupura-Velur) to inaugurate the Keshava Narayana Temple there. Acharya bhakthi The first type of servitude is seshatvam like lakshmana to do all kainkaryams to emperuman at all times. The second type is parathantriyam getting ready to even sacrifice being with the lord/acharya for the sake of lord/acharyas pleasure. Very good example for parathantriyam is bharatha. In guruparampara the best example is ananthAzhvan who left ramanuja and went to do pushpa kainkaryam for thiruvenkatamudaiyan since his acharya aspired it. But atleast ananthAzhvan left ramanuja and went only to thirumala but mudaliyaandan went to the extent of serving some normal persons (inlaws of aththuzhAi) just for fulfilling the words of his acharya. Periya nambigal's (the acharya of ramanuja) daughter aththuzhAi faced some problems in her in-laws place which she told to periya nambi. She had to go to fetch water from a tank in the evening, which was little away from their house and by the time she returned it would be dark so she wanted someone to accompany her. But her inlaws neglected her request and commented " have you got any servant from your father's place to send along with you? " While she told this to periya nambi he said, " Don't say anything to me the responsibility of taking care is with udaiyavar " . AththuzhAi went to the sannadhi of udaiyavar and put forth her problem infront of ramanujacharya. He immediately looked at mudaliyaandan who at once started with aththuzhAi to her inlaws place. Mudaliyaandan did all the house hold work at that place. Can anyone imagine a great scholar in ubhaya vedantha going and working as a servant maid in some house? This carried on for some months when one day some guests have come to that house who were discussing about Ramayana and gave all wrong interpretations. Mudaliyaandan couldn't stand that and tears rolled down his eyes. Seeing that the head of the house thought that he was crying due to dissatisfaction of doing the household work told aandan " Oh! Don't do the work with dissatisfaction which will not be good to the house " aandan replied, " I am not troubled by the work but I am trouble by the wrong interpretations given for those great slokas of Ramayana " The people gathered were puzzled and with great ego said, " oh! If you are such a great vidwan to find fault with our interpretations why don't you give yours? " aandaan politely replied, " If you order me so listen to the meanings given by adiyen's acharya " and aandan outpoured number of wonderful sastra arthas. Overwhelmed by the expertise of aandan but worried due to the apacharam done till today they ran to periya nambi and asked, " Oh! Periya nambi why do you want us to be punished by commiting such a great bhaagavata apacharam " Nambi calmly replied, " Adiyen is no way connected to all these go and ask udaiyavar " . They ran to the sannadhi of udaiyavar did sAshtAnka pranAmam apologized for their misdeeds and requested to pardon them and take mudaliyaandan back. Thus aandan served even some unknown people considering it to be acharya kainkaryam. Effect of Bhagavata Sripadatheertham When koorathAzhvan went to the court of kirimikanda chola to defend our sampradayam and protect ramanujacharya mudaliyaandan left along with ramanujacharya to melkote. On the way, there was a small village called tottiyam salagramam where the villagers showed great indifference to ramanuja and Srivaishnava sampradayam. They were influenced by the jains. Ramanujacharya immediately instructed mudaliyaandan to dip his legs in the tank from where the whole village took water for drinking. The next day morning the mentality of the whole village changed. They came and prostrated emperumanar and with great regard honoured swamy. How could all the people change in a single night? It was all due to the greatness of the sripadatheertham of the great bhagavata Sri Mudaliyaandan. MudaliyAndan's words of wisdom " oru malaiyil ninru, oru malaiyil thaavum simha shareeraththil janthukkaL pole bhaashyakaarar samsaaralanganam paNNa avarOdundaana kudalthudakkaale naam udhdheerdaraavuthomenru muthaliyaandaruLi-ch-cheytha paasuram " (When a lion leaps from a mountain to another, all the creatures that live on his body go with him. Even so, when Udayavar transcended this world, all of us who are associated with him benefit from this as well.) In the Thiruvaaymozhi eedu (2.9.2), the words " gnyaana kai thaa " - (extend to me the helping hand of wisdom) - are illustrated as follows. " embaarukku aaNdaanaruLi-ch-cheytha vaarthayai smarippathu; athaavathu oru kiNatril vizhunthavanukky iraNdu pEr kai koduththaal etukkumavargaLukkum eLithaay erumavanukkum eLithaay irukkumire; appadiye aagirathu enru " . Once when mudaliyaandan was in thirunarayanapuram, one of his disciples went and prostrated embar. Embar was doing panchasamskaram to few disciples at that time. Due to the deep interest to get acharya samasrayanam this disciple also underwent panchasamskaram under embar. Not knowing that he was a shisya of mudaliyaandan embar also did panchasamskarams to him. Then when mudaliyaandan returned back embar came to know of the same and felt very bad. But mudaliyaandan calmly replied, " When a man has fallen into the well and if two people come to his rescue then it will be easy for the rescuers and the person who is rescued. The same has happened we have now joined hands to lift one who is fallen into the ocean of samsara. So don't feel bad about it " Let us stop by doing mangalasasanams to the divine feet of the great acharya. " aththigiri aruLALar adipaNindhOn vAzhiyE Arulpachhai vAranath thil avadhariththOn vAzhiyE Chittiraiyil punarpoosam siRakkavandhOn vAzhiyE seepAdiya meedu mudal seer peRuvOn vAzhiyE vuththamamAm vAdhoolam vuyaravandhOn vAzhiyE voor thiruindha seerpAdham oondRinAn vAzhiyE muththiraiyum senkOlum mudipeRuvOn vAzhiyE mudaliyAndan poRpadhangal voozhidhOrum vAzhiyE " Varavaramuni dAsargaL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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