Sri Varamangai muni Vaibhavam-1

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha

Sri VanAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

SrisailEsa dayA pAthram deebhakthyAdhi gunArnavam

Yateendra pravanam vandhE ramya jAmataram munim

 

RamyajAmatru yOgeendra pAdha rEkhA mayam sadhA

thathAyathatAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE

 

Pranams,

 

Sri:pathi, Sri VaikundanikEtanan,

aVapthasamasthakAman, Sriman Narayanan, the bhagavan

who enjoys all the comforts in his divine abode, Sri

Vaikundam along with his divine consorts Sri, bhoo and

nElA devis and with all the nithya sooris, viz.,

garuda, vishvaksEna, anantha and others, inspite of

all these celebrations, like a father who is in the

thoughts of his son, away in a foreign country, while

celebrating some festival at home with his other sons,

emperuman also was immersed in the thoughts of the

jeevatmas which were unable to enjoy him like the

nithya sooris(“vaikundethu parE lOkE sriyAsArtham

jagathpathim! AstE Vishnu rachintyAtma bhakthair

bhAgavathair saha!!”).

 

Emperuman’s kainkaryam at all times, at all places and

at all conditions is a right to all jeevatmas. But

seeing the sad state of the jeevatmas which lack this

kainkaryam and those which do not even realize that

they are lacking such enjoyment, emperuman’s

dayai(mercy) fell on such jeevatmas. Hence he lost

interest in all the enjoyments in the nithya mandalam

and felt lonely(“sa AkAki na ramathE”). So he gave the

jeevatmas which were dormant the karna

kalEbharams(activeness). Emperuman gave life to those

jeevatmas, which lay like birds without wings to enjoy

his kainkaryam. But unfortunately, these jeevatmas

like cutting a cow with a knife given to cut sacrad

grass (samith) or like pricking the eyes with a stick

given to remove the weeds started using the life given

by perumal for enjoying lowkikam. Perumal gave them

the boat to come ashore but the jeevatmas used the

same boat to submerge themselves. As per alwars

words, “Akkaiyin vazhi vuzhandru” the jeevatmas acted

as per the instructions of their sense organs and

hence fell again and again in the cycle of life and

death(mAri mAri pala pirappum pirandhu).

 

To help the jeevatmas out of this cycle, emperuman

gave the sAstras (“sAshanAth sAstram”). The jeevas

never cared about the sastras but remained indifferent

as per the following verses:

 

“IswarOham aham bhOgi siddhOham bhalavAn sukhee

AtyObhi janavAnasmi kOnyOsthi sadrushO mayA”

“yOnyatha sandham AthmAnam anyatha pradhipathyathE

kimthEna na krutham papam chOrEna AthmA pahArina”

 

A king who wants peace and not war first sends his

messengar to the enemies court but if the enemy

doesn’t accept peace then the king has no other go

than to go for the war himself. Similarly emperuman

sent the sastras as his messengar but the jeevatmas

disregarded the same so emperuman now decided to come

to the leela vibhuti himself taking various avatars

inorder to change the jeevatmas. But then this again

gave little fruit. The only result was the

difficulties emperuman underwent (manisarkkAi

padAdhana pattu). The jeevas remained with ahankara

and mamakara and preferred to go to naraka like ravana

and duriyOdhana even when emperuman appeared in front

of them and showed his powers and wanted to grant them

moksha.

 

Even after so much insult from the jeevatmas

emperuman, the kind father couldn’t leave his sons to

suffer. So like catching a animal with another

trained animal he decided to send the alwars who were

none other than the nithya sooris- srivatsa,

kowsthuba, vaijayanthi, vanamalai, sri, bhoomi, neela,

Sri Panchajanyam, ananda, garuda, and vishvaksenar.

Emperuman ordered them to be born in different places

in different varnas and spread the messages(rahasyams)

already given by him in the sastras for the upliftment

of the jeevatmas. The alwars did as per the order of

emperuman. Since the alwars were more contained to

their bhakthi and anubhavams, then the acharyas took

birth to spread the words of the alwars. The acharyas

spread the message of our sath sampradAyam along with

acharya shisya bhAvams.

 

To felicitate the divine work of the alwars and

acharyas in our guru paramparai two great works, Guru

paramparA prabhAvam and Yatheendra pravana prabhAvam

were given by our poorvAcharyas. In our guru

paramparai garland the last ratnam was Sri ManavAla

mAmunigal who became the acharya of Sri ranganatha

himself. The prathama and sat sishya of Sri Mamunigal

was Sri VanamAmalai Ramanuja jeeyar swamigal.

Yatheendra pravana prabhAvam, talks in detail about

the acharya, mAmunigal but only briefs the important

occasions in the life of the shisya, ponnadikAl

jeeyer. Hence Sri Vara mangai muni Vaibhavam, which

gives a detailed life history of Sri vanamAmalai swamy

was written, based on which we will proceed from the

next posting.

 

(To Be Continued)

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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