Sri Varamangai muni Vaibhavam-23

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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

ThathAyath thAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE

 

Among the loud reverberating voice of the disciples saying his praises, swamy

proceeded furthur south towards varnasi. On the way, they met many dvaithis and

mAyAvAdhees, objecting the praises said to swamy loudly by the disciples. They

called swamy to a debate. Swamy like a mighty elephant won over all of them and

victoriously converted all of them to ramanuja sampradayam. Astonished by

swami’s talent to win over anyone who came opposing him and the way swamy

proceeded spreading ramanuja darshanam in all places, where he placed his divine

feet, the shisyas, with great love towards their acharya, did mangalAsAsanam, to

prevent any evil eyes from affecting swamy,

 

“thandivarum sAkkiyar vAi thagarththavanE pallAndu

mandivarum vAdiyarai vadaiththavanE pallAndu

manavAla muni kazhal sEr varadhanE pallAndu

endhisaiyum paravu kazhal eraiyavanE pallAndu

elagu pugazh erAmAnusa muniyE pallAndu pallAndu”

 

Then swamy further proceeded south towards srirangam. All through the way, many

people were attracted towards the charm and talent of swamy and surrendered to

his divine feet mesmerized by the vaibhavams of swamy and submitted a lot of

offerings infront of swamy. Swamy showered his grace and blessings to all of

them and accepted the offerings keeping in mind the need for renovation of

vanamAmalai temple vimAnam, mandapam, Gopuram, and prAkAram.

 

Swamy continued his journey and reached thirumalai. By this time, it has been a

year since swamy left srirangam as per the order of his acharya, Sri manavala

mamunigal. In thirumalai, swamy came to know of the sad news about the

paramapada prApthi of his beloved acharya, Sri manavala mAmunigal. Swamy was

struck by absolute sorrow. The agony swamy underwent hearing the news cannot be

explained by words. Slowly he consoled himself, reached thirumalaiappan

sannadhi, and along with all the jeeyers and srivaishnavas there did the

appropriate thiruvadhyayana rituals, which a shisya is destined to do to his

acharya. Then swamy stood in front of thiruvEnkatamudaiyan requesting him to

grant him permission to return back to vanamamalai.

 

AlarmEl mangai urai mArban (the lord who has the goddess, who sits on a lotus

flower, in his chest), srinivasan wanted to honor vanamamalai jeeyer greatly.

Srinivasa was in a short thought, when he realized that Jeeyer has already be

fully graced by periya perumal and periya Jeeyer and has been bestowed with the

riches of the ubhaya vibhoothi which is the two wealth bhagavan possesses. So

he told vanamamalai Jeeyer, “Oh! Jeeyer! You have been already blessed fully by

me in thiruvarangam and also by our Jeeyer and hence you remain a poornar

(complete personality). You are an avatar as par with manavala mamunigal, so

stay at the end of the guru paramparai and remain as a head to all the acharyas

who are yet to follow you. You now go and stay in vanamamalai for the benefit

for one and all.”

 

Thereby with the warm blessings of thiruvEnkata mudaiyan swamy proceeded along

with his ashtadiggajas towards kOil (Srirangam). On reaching the entrance of

the mutt swamy prostrated fully with heavy heart. On entering inside, swamy

totally lost himself and sorrow engulfed him to see the silent mutt without his

acharya, Sri mAmunigal’s divine presence. Swamy rolled over the floor and

expressed his sorrow while the others lifted swamy and consoled him. Slowly

gaining his composure, swamy then stayed there for some more days when Jeeyer

nAyanar at the mutt told swamy about the last instructions of the mAmunigal………

 

(To be continued)

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

P.S: The earlier postings have been archived at

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