Thirukkolur Ammal Varththaigal - 62

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Sri: | Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

 

In explaining the meanings of the Vedas and Vedantas, three major

sampradhayams came into being - Advaitam, Visishtadvaitam and

Dvaitam. In these, Advaitam says that the Supreme Lord alone is

the truth and that everything else is false. Even though the jIva

may appear to be different based on our experiences, it is not

different from the supreme. This is the interpretation of Adi

Shankara of the famous Upanishad statement " tat tvam asi " .

Dvaitam says that the Supreme and the jIva are always different

and separate.

 

In the Vedantas, one can see statements that support the former

(abheda sruti) and the latter (bheda sruti). Swami Ramanuja

followed the teachings of Alavandar and purvacharyas and the

words of Azhvars and established Visishtadvaitam based on both

bheda and abheda srutis. The cornerstone of this sampradhayam

is the sharIrAtma bhAva between the Supreme and the jIva - that

is, the Supreme acts as the antaryami of all souls ( " yasya AtmA

sharIram " ). Azhvar establishes this as " udal misai uyir enak

karandhu engum parandhu uLan " . Vedas too say the same as

" antarbahischa tat sarvam vyApya nArAyaNa sthita: " .

 

In his work Sri Bhashya, that is a commentary to the Brahma

Sutra, Ramanuja condemns the mAyA vAda of the advaita sampradhayam.

This is celebrated in Dhati Panchakam as " mAyAvAdi bhujanga bhanga

garuDa " and by Amudhanar in Ramanuja Nutrandhadhi as " uyirgaL

meyvittu AdhipparanOdu onRAm enRu sollum avvallal ellAm vAdhil

venRAn " .

 

Even when he was a student and learning from advaita teacher

Yadavaprakasha, he had the courage to correct the statements

made by him. Later, he debated the great advaita vidwan

Yajnamurthi, defeated him and took him as his disciple (he

would be renamed as Arulala Perumal Emberumanar).

 

Thirukkolur Ammal is saying " Did I challenge and win the well

established siddhantam of Advaitam like Ramanuja did? "

 

In this word by Thirukkolur Ammal, an interesting feature that

is seen is that it is addressed to Ramanuja and it is about

Ramanuja - that is, she speaks to Ramanuja about him in the

third person.

 

Azhvar Emberumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Sharanam

adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan

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