Sri Varamangai Muni Vaibhavam-7

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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

 

After deep thinking, azhagiya varadar realized the reason behind his acharyan,

Sri nAyanar’s words. The reason was azhagiya varadan was still a samsAri and

along with his duty towards his acharya he had other duties too. So nAyanar

wanted azhagiya varadar to return back to vanamamalai to take care of his

parents and other relatives. Thereby realizing his duty but still with deep

sorrow to get separated from his acharya, azhagiya varadar started his journey.

But, throughout the journey his thoughts circled around the grace and athma

gunas of his acharya (elders say, ”pAdhEyam pundareekaksha nAma sankeerthanam”

but for this shisya everything was only his acharya). With the same thoughts he

reached sirivaramangala nagar.

 

He bathed in the sacred tank, “Settru thAmarai” and completed his anushtAnams

(daily rituals) and proceeded towards perumal’s sannadhi. He did mangalAsAsanam

to the emperuman (“thOthAdri nAtham lakshmeesam dEvanAtha mavandhatha”) reciting

nammazhvar’s paasuram starting with “nOttra nOnbillEn” and ending with “sreevara

mangala nagar veetrirundha endhAi”. From then on he started doing kainkaryam to

deivanAyaka perumal with atmost vairakhyam, ignoring his sareera bandhus and

involving himself more with the athma bandhus(bhAgavatAs).

 

Azhagiya varadar started developing hatred towards all the worldly affairs,

which stood as a hinderence in his acharya kainkaryam, staying along with his

acharya (“thAyE thandhai endrum thAramE kilai makkal endrum nOyE pattu

ozhindEn”, laments thirumangai alwar). So he decided to accept the final sacred

ashrama, the sanyAsAshramA. He submitted his thought under the divine feet of

the deivanAyaka perumal and requested perumal to release him from this samsAram

and grant him the dhanda-pavithram and kAshAyam required for him to take up

sanyasa, regarded as the mokshAshramam.

 

Emperuman seeing the vairakhyam of azhagiya varadar blessed him with the

kAshAyam and dhandam and ordered him to have them till he was in this world,

through the mouth of the archagar. Like a great king of a big empire,

consulting his queen to crown the prince, DeivanAyakan also consulted his

piratti, jaganmAthA about making azhagiya varadar, a prince to the empire of

“Darshana pravarthakam” and crowned him with his parivattam and blessed him with

the name, ”vanamamalai rAmAnuja Jeeyer”. Giving all his prasAdams, abhaya

hastam, thirumAlai and Srisadagopam, deivanAyaka emperuman ordered jeeyer

saying, “Stay like our rAmanujar in our sannadhi and take care of the temple

administration and also spread the ramanuja darshanam to one and all”. He then

blessed the Jeeyer with a golden vessel filled with some prasadam as mAdukaram

and also ordered for a mutt to be built for the Jeeyer close to the temple.

 

DeivanAyakan then called all the archakas and other kainkarya paras in his

sannadhi and ordered them to leave ‘vanamamalai rAmanuja jeeyer’ in his mutt

with all respect and to consider Jeeyer, who is close to his heart, as their

master (acharyan) and get enlightened by his preaching and live following his

orders. As per perumal’s order, all of them accompanied Jeeyer to his mutt

along with divine vAdyaghOshams (sound of divine instruments) and other honors.

After reaching the mutt, they did mangalAsAsanam to Jeeyer, “rAmAnuja muni

kanagamouli kalandhoozhi vAzhiyE” and returned after getting the blessings of

the Jeeyer.

 

Vanamamalai perumal showered his divine grace on the Jeeyer and putting aside

the phrase, “AthmA karmaththOdE pOm; Ishwaran kanneerOdE pOm”, relaxed in his

seat, relived of his tensions about the jeevatmas. Everyone in the city,

including ladies, young children and elders prostrated before the Jeeyer and

thanked deivanAyaka perumal, with great happiness for blessing them with such a

great acharya, who was like a reincarnation of udaiyavar to them.

 

(To be continued)

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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