Sri Ramanuja Journal Volume 8, Issue 5

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Srimathe Ramanujaya namaH

Srimathe Varavaramunaye namaH

 

Vaikasi, Sarvajith Azhvar 8, Acharya 5

 

ThiruvaaymozhippiLLAi

 

Thirunakshathram: vaikasi VisAkham

 

namaH srI sailanAthhAya kunthI nagara janmanE

prasAda ladha paramaprApya kainkarya SAlinE

 

Enthai thiruvAymozhippiLLiyinnaruLAl vantha upadESamArgatthai

Sindai seydhu pEsuginren-

says manavALamAmunikal in upadESa rathnamalai.

 

Sri mAmunikAL expresses gratitude towards ThiruvAimozhip piLLai for granting him all knowledge. How did this happen?

 

Had thiruvAmozhippillai not been there, we would not have even got a single knowledge about our acharyas and their works. Like the monsoon water brings flourishes to the land, thiruvaymozhippillai brought all the srisukthis which were spattered here and there after the brutal attack over Srirangam by those who shall not be named in CE 1323.

 

Sri Thirumalai azhvar took his birth in CE 1290, much before these (muslin invasion in Thiruvarangam) disasters happened, and had a peaceful time spent with his education. In the very young age Sri Thirumalai azhvar, got samasrayanam from swami piLLai lokacharyar himself. However, slowly he went into lowkika, and finally became very powerful person in pandya country politics. He was appointed as a caretaker and chief minister to the then adolescent king. While swami pillai lokacharyar, was spending his final moments in jyothishkudi, he commanded to his sishyas that, it is Thirumalai azhvar who will continue the sampradayam. He delegated this task to various achAryas.

 

Like Sri Ramanuja had several AchAryas who handed over the treasures from Sri yAmunAchArya, the treasures from Sri Pillai lOKAchAyra was to be handed over by these AchAryas.

 

kurakulotthamadasa - the task of bringing thirumalaiazhvar back to sampradayam was given along with

rahasya granthas.

Thirukkannangudi pillai thiruvaymozhi swapadesams were given

ThiruppuTkuzhi jeeyar, the task of thiruvaymozhi commentary was given.

Naloor pillai the rest 3000 was given

vilancholai pillai, sapthagathai and srivachanabhooshanam meanings.

The task of directing thirumalaiazhvar was given solely to kurakulotthama dasa.

How koorakulotthama dasa did this task, and how thirumalaiazhvar learnt the lessons from vilancholai pillai are already covered in

SrI rAmAnuja Journal Volume 1 Issue 7

 

While azhvar (SvAmi Nam AzvAr's archA ThirumEAni) was residing in the downhill of munthirippoo malai after a long time people came to know about azhvar's place, and it was thirumalai azhvar with the help of the king of travancore rescued azhvar and reinstalled azhvar at Azvar thirunagari to its past glory. Out of great love towards thiruvaymozhi and azhvar, he was named as thiruvaymozhippillai. It was he who constructed ramanuja chathurvedi mangalam at azhvar thirunagari and made a wonderful shrine for bhavishyadacharyan sannidhi. Since that temple is in dilapidated condition now, Vedics is trying hard in bringing back that temple to its old glory.

 

To read more about bhavishyadacharyan sannidhi please visit

www.vedics.net in the live update section

 

Thiruvaymozhippillai was told by kurakulotthama dasa to go to ThiruppuTkuzhi jeeyar to learn thiruvaymozhi meanings. But the fate had something else for him. when he went to thiruputkuzhi, thirunarayana bali was going on as part of the jeeyar's charama kainkaryam. Not knowing what to do, thirumalai azhvar reached kanchipuram, where, pErAruLALan once again came to the rescue of sampradayam. During the goshti, accidentally nAlUrppiLLAi along with nAlUrACChAn piLLAi, from thirunarAyaNapuram came inside. To this nAlur piLLai was the duty of handing over rest 3000 pasurams to thiruvaaymozhippillai was left with. While giving SriSaThakopam to nAlUrppiLLai, the arcchaka pressed the SriSaTakopam little hard to nAlurpiLLAi. After this, he caught hold of the hands of thiruvaymozhippillai and gave it to nalurpillai's hand and told. I commanded you in jyothishkudi that to this thiruvaymozhipillai you have to give the meanings of 3000. (remember that swami pillai lokacharya is an amsavatharam of devapperumaL) Now I command you to give Edu 36000ppadi along with the other meanings to him and you can give Edu to him, by doing this you will not make the mistake of going ahead of acharya's command. nAlUr pillai happily agreed, but since he was already old, he directed his son nAlUr AcchAn pillai to give the meanings to thiruvaymozhi pillai. At thirunarayanapuram, along with Ayee jananyacharyar, thiruvaymozhipillai learned the 3000 commentaries and Edu 36000 as an asset to be passed over to mamunikal.

 

Mamunikal himself says in upadesarathnamalai

nAlUr piLLaikkavartham, nallamaganArkkavarthAm mElArkku iNnthAravarEmikku

 

After mamunikal surrendered to thiruvaymozhippillai, he was given the kainkaryam of bhavishyadacharyan sannidhi, where mamunikal wrote yathirAja vimsathi by the command of thiruvaymozhippillai. To mamunikal he gave the entire wealth of commentaries.

 

Mamunikal says in yathirAja vimsathi

Sriman yatheendra thava divya padAbhja sEvAm

SrIsailanAtha karuNA pariNAma dhatthAm

 

During that time mamunikal got his first child, and mamunikal requested thiruvaymozhippillai for a name. thiruvaymozhipillai replied, there is a name which is repeated 108 times and name him with that. And mamunikal readily named his son as emmayyan irAmAnusan.

During the last time thiruvaymozhippillai told mamunikal. I am still looking for a preceptor. Mamunikal vowed that, adiyen will satisfy your wishes. Thiruvaymozhippillai then commanded, mamunikal that, once you do sribhashyakalakshepam, and once you do upadesam of it and then stop giving all kalaksepam in Sanskrit, and you should not go for prathipaksha nirasanam etc, just stay in srirangam, by enjoying the commentaries and Edu and give your eyes only for that. Giving such upadesams thiruvaymozhippillai left for eternal abode in CE 1410.

Varavarmunidasargal