Sri Varamangai Muni Vaibhavam-12

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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

 

Being amazed to see the scene in the dream, periya kElvi jeeyer asked the people

around about the srivaishnava and the Jeeyer at his feet. The people replied,

“They are the muppathArAyira perukkar, kOil azagiya manavAla perumal nAyanAr and

his shisya, ponnadikkAl Jeeyer”. Hearing this periya kElvi jeeyer woke up with

surprise. It was then time for him to get ready and go to the second day

purattAsi thirunAl morning purappAdu.

 

Before the eyal ghosthi, periya kElvi Jeeyer told about his dream to thOzhappar

who with surprise expressed the experience in the form of a sloka. Some elders,

not belonging to thirupathi but who have come from outside for the celebration,

came to know of this and started discussing among themselves about the dream.

One said, “ The Srivaishnava who has appeared in periya kElvi jeeyer’s dream is

none other than kOil nAyanar;” another followed,” Oh! Yes it is our fortune that

he has come to thirumalai at this time for taking part in the purattAsi

utsavam;” another said,” yeah and nAyanAr calls vanamamalai jeeyer his very

close shisya as “ponadikkAl jeeyer”. Everyone over there were very happy to

know that nAyanar along with his shisya was present in thirumalai at that time

to glorify the celebration.

 

Meanwhile, nAyanar has reached thirumalai with a great desire to have the

darshan of thiruvEnkatamudaiyAn (“venkatath thuraivArkku nama”) prostrated the

thirumalai, and then having darshan of govindarajar in keezh thirupathi

proceeded to climb the hill and with great bhakthi bathed in the swamy

pushkarini along with vanamamalai jeeyer, wore the thiruman kAppu and in a

orderly fashion entered the temple doing appropriate mangalasAsanams at the

various sannadhis and finally reaching the divine feet of thiruvEnkatamudaiyAn.

The acharya and shisya did mangalAsAsanam to thiruvEnkatamudaiyAn “Sri Venkata

nivAsAya SrinivAsAya mangalam” and then started climbing down the hill.

 

Then nAyanar, followed by vanamamalai Jeeyer as usual, then started his journey

towards, “vulagamEththum AzhiyAn aththiyoorAn”. He did mangalAsAsanam to all

the surrounding divya dEsams and then proceeded to do mangalAsAsanam to

dEvaperumAl. They entered the temple in the appropriate way and stood in front

of devarajan reciting the verses, “kadha punas sanga rathAnga

kalpaga……….trivikrama dvach charanA…” from aalavandaar’s strotra ratnam.

Devaperumal highly pleased with the acharya and shisya showered his grace and

with a cool kataksham blessed them with theertham, thirumAlai, thiruparivattam,

srisadagopan, prasadams and other honors. Then nAyanar and Jeeyer proceeded

towards Sriperumbudur.

 

Just on stepping into the holy land of Sriperumbudur, nAyanAr prostrated the

land with due respect. “eduvO perumbudur engE pirandhO ethirAsar em edarai

theerththAr (Is this perumbudur? Was this the place where ethirAsar took birth

to wash all our miseries?) Wondered nAyanAr. He started reciting the paasuram

starting with, “Andugal nAl thingalAi” and ended with, “erAmAnusanai

porindhinamE”. Then nAyanar enjoyed the divine darshan of emperumAnAr and

requesting ethirAjar’s permission to learn the sribhasyam received the same and

then went back to perumAl kOil and became a shisya of kidAmbi nAyanar and

starting hearing Sribhasyam from him.

 

Meanwhile, vanamamalai Jeeyer also stayed in perumal koil along with his acharya

doing all sort of service to him and also joined him as a co-student in

listening to Sribhasya. Days passed and the Sribhasya lectures came to an end.

Now, nAyanar along with his shisyas started towards kOil (Srirangam), bathed in

the kaveri, finished anushtanams and then went to the temple, did mangalAsAsanam

to periya perumal and spent time in sath kAlashEpam.

 

*Nayanar takes up sanyasa*………..We will see in the next posting.

 

(To be continued)

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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