Sri Varamangai muni Vaibhavam-9

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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

 

Today being a special day, being celebrated as the thirunakshatram(kanni

punarvasu) of ponnadikkAl jeeyer in all the vanamamalai mutts in India (tomorrow

in America) let us all think about the great mahan, pay tributes to him and

learn how Vanamamalai Ramanuja jeeyer became ponnadikkAl Jeeyer in this posting.

 

In the previous posting we saw that vanamamalai jeeyer swamy, submitting his

responsibilities to one another srivaishnava planned to go to alwar thirunagari

to do service under the divine feet of his acharya, nAyanAr. At the very same

time, nAyanar sent a srivaishnava to fetch Jeeyer swamy for some important work.

Thereby jeeyer started immediately and reached, ”mAda mAligai soozhindhu

azhagiya thirukurugoor” and did sAshtAnga danda pranAmams to his acharya,

nAyanar who remained with divine excellence. After a long time, jeeyer had the

darshan of his acharya and hence he with great joy enjoyed the divine thirumEni

from bottom to top (pAdhAdhi kEsam) trying to nullify all his grief due to

separation all these days. NayanAr was also highly pleased to see Jeeyer and

with great love he lifted jeeyer and looked at him with eyes filled with grace.

 

Nayanar welcomed jeeyer like a mother/father welcoming their son returning home

after many days and then uttered the words “NAM PONNADI ANEERO PONNADIKKAL

JEEYARE!” and thereby blessed vanamamalai jeeyer swami with the name

“ponnadikkAl Jeeyer”. NayanAr then enquired about the kainkaryams in

DeivanAyakan sannadhi. With the graceful look nAyanar then told to Jeeyer, “Oh!

Jeeyer I planned to take up sanyasa and then grant you the same. But then you

opted it even before me so I lost the good fortune”. Jeeyer then fell into the

feet of his acharya and requested him to bless him with his sreepAda theertham.

Nayanar blessed him with the same and jeeyer took it with great regard and also

distributed to all the srivaishnavas over there.

 

Nayanar then got ready to start the thiruvArAdhanam to perumal and went to the

yagasAlai (perumal sannadhi). After the yAgam (thiruvArAdhanam) nAyanar took

Jeeyer along with him to anuyAgam (dhadhiyArAdhanam). Jeeyer requested nAyanAr

to bless him with his prasAdam and obtained the same. Then the other

Srivaishnavas had prasAdam. Following this, nAyanAr started with his kalashepam

on thiruvAimozhi. By bhagavat krupai, that days paasuram happened to be “nOttra

nOnbillEn” (Nammazhvar’s first sharanAgathi under the divine feet of vanamamalai

deivanAyaka perumal). Jeeyer immensely enjoyed the divine nectar of the

thiruvAimozhi paasuram as delivered by his Acharya (eettu perukkar). At the

end, nAyanAr told the Srivaishnavas in front him about the greatness of

vanamamalai jeeyer swamy, his jnana, bhakthi and virakhyam and completed the

kalashepam.

 

Later, nAyanar decided to go to Srirangam (“SubEna manasA dyAyan”) and stay over

there for rest of his life doing kainkaryam under the divine feet of lord

ranganatha, considered to be the soul for all srivaishnavas. Thereby nAyanAr

went to take the permission of alwar to do the same. Getting alwar’s

permission, nAyanAr along with ponnadikkAl Jeeyer proceeded towards srirangam

(“emperumAn thiruvarangam engE ennum”). In the middle, wanting to have the

divine darshan of Rangamannar (“villiputtur vuraivAn than ponnadi kAnbhadhOr

AsaiyinAl”) they went to Srivilliputtur.

 

(To be continued)

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

P.S: On this special day let us all join to sing the vazhi thirunAmam of

PonnadikkAl Jeeyer swamy,

 

" thiruvirundha malar thAlgal vAzhiyE!

sirandha sendhuvarAdhaiyum vAzhiyE!

tharuviruntha kai mukkOlum vAzhiyE!

thadam puyaththinil sanghAzhi vAzhiyE!

maruvukondal manavAla yOgiyai vAzhththi

vAintharul vAimalar vAzhiyE!

karunai mEvum rAmAnusa muni kanaga mouli

kalandhoozhi vAzhiyE! "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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