Sri Varamangai Muni Vaibhavam-18

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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

 

When Vanamamalai rAmAnuja Jeeyer was deeply depressed with sorrow thinking about

the separation from his acharya, Periya Jeeyer who understood his inner feeling

said, “Jeeya! Don’t worry. Come on. Accompany me to namperumAl sannadhi.

Hearing to these graceful words, ponnadikkAl Jeeyer regained all his enthusiasm

and followed his acharya with great joy.

 

Then the renounced paramahamsa sanyAsi, Sri Periya Jeeyer took the permission of

alwar and like a chaste women going from her paternal place to her in-laws

place, along with vanamamalai Jeeyer left alwar thirunagari and proceeded

towards the third vibhoothi of perumal, Srirangam. After doing mangalAsAsanam

to periya perumal they proceeded towards the mutt.

 

At that time, when Periya Jeeyer was delivering kalashEpams in Srirangam, one

great mahan belonging to the vAdhoola clan by the name srinivAsAchariyar, learnt

about the greatness of swamy and wanting to fall under the divine feet of swamy,

came to swamy’s sannadhi and did sAshtAnga pranAmam. He requested swamy to

kindly take him as his shisya. Periya Jeeyer showed him vanamamalai Jeeyer and

said, “Take our ponnadikkAl Jeeyer as your acharya and you are destined to get

all good fortunes due to that”. SrinivAsAchariyar thereby followed Periya

Jeeyer’s orders and fell in the feet of vanamamalai Jeeyer. Vanamamalai Jeeyer

swamy also followed his acharya’s words and did panchasamskAram to the

mahAcharyar and in appropriate order gave him the mantras and manthrArthams and

also made him undergo the bhagavat vishaya kalashEpam.

 

Mahacharya then wondered, how the sambandham of elders and mahans can totally

change the lifestyle of even an ordinary person like him and felt very grateful

to Periya Jeeyer to have blessed him with such a great acharya. With the

greatness of his acharya filled in his mind, he then wrote, dhinacharyai,

prapathi, and mangalAsAsanam for his acharya, vanamamalai rAmAnuja Jeeyer swamy.

This prabhandam has become the nithyAnusandhAnam for mumukshus to attain the

divine abode of emperumAn.

 

Meanwhile, samarapungavAcharyAr, heard about the greatness of vanamamalai

rAmAnuja Jeeyer, pAdharEkhA of Periya Jeeyer, and came to swamy’s sannadhi

submitted everything to swamy and surrendered into the feet of vanamamalai

Jeeyer and got the manthrArtham and bhagavat vishaya sath sampradAyam from

Vanamamalai swamy and stayed in the nithya kainkaryam of the acharya.

 

Then, rAmAnujAchariyar belonging to the srivatsa clan came and surrendered to

vanamamalai jeeyer and became his shisya. Vanamamalai Jeeyer seeing the tejas

of rAmAnujAcharyar thought, “By the grace of periya perumal he will become the

darshana pravarthakar” and was glancing at him when rAmAnujAcharyar came forward

and did sAshtAnga pranAmams to Jeeyer and uttered the following words, “dhayasva

mAmathya dhayAnithE tvam”.

 

Vanamamalai Jeeyer showered his grace on him and in a way to remove all his

samsAric miseries, did panchasamskAram and gave him the thirunAmam “Ramanuja

pillAn” and then taught him all the rahasya arthas and bhagavat vishayam and

according to the verse “chakAra vedhantha yuga praveenam” made him

ubhaya-vedAntha pravarthakar and showered his full grace on him. Thereby,

rAmAnuja pillan who was otherwise commonly called “pillai” stayed along with

vanamamalai jeeyer as his prime shisya and lived continuing his uninterrupted

service to swamy for 32 years.

 

(To be continued)

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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