Sri Periya Jeeyer's Arthi Prabhandam-5

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha

 

SrisailEsa dayA pAthram deebhakthyAdhi gunArnavam

Yateendra pravanam vandhE ramyajAmataram munim

 

Once Sri Ramanuja was delivering a lecture (kAlashEpam) on rAmAyanam. That day

the topic happened to be vibheeshAzhvAn sharanAgathi. Sri Ramanujar started

explaining the way vibheeshana came and stood in the air and waited for the

approval of rAma piran to join his ghosti. Meanwhile sugreeva and others

objected saying he was the brother of ravana and since he has come in a wrong

time, in a wrong way etc, he should not be accepted. While Sri Ramanuja went on

saying about the discussion between the members of the rAma parivar, about

whether to accept vibheeshana or not, one of his disciples pillai vurangAvilli

dAsar stood up from his place and started leaving.

 

It was unusual for anyone to leave in the middle, while rAmAnuja was delivering

kalashepam. Amazed by the act of dAsar, rAmanuja asked him the reason. For

which he replied, “When vibheesha, who was a dharmAtma had to face so many

opposition to attain the divine feet of perumal, then how can a sinner like me

attain perumal’s feet without a massive trial session? This thought upset me

and hence iam leaving.” Immediately ethirAjar said, “Sit down. That was rAma

ghosti and hence there was opposition for vibheeshana but this is rAmAnuja

ghosti and hence there is no hinderance for anyone here to attain the divine

feet of emperuman”.

 

Then swamy ethirajar further explained why there was no doubt for rAmAnuja

sambhandis to attain moksha. Swamy explained as follows:

 

“You (pillai vurangAvilli dAsar and others in the ghosti) will attain

emperumAn’s feet if I attain moksha, I am assured moksha if periya nambigal

attained the same, periya nambigal is assured moksha if alavandaar attained the

same, Alavandaar is assured moksha if manakkAl nambi (pundareekakshar) attained

the same, manakkAl nambi is assured moksha if uyyakondar attained the same,

uyyakondar follows nAthamunigal, nAthamunigal follows nammAzhvar, nammAzhvar

follows vishvaksEnar, vishvaksEnar follows periya pirAtti, and thAyar follows

perumal. Do you have any doubt in perumal having the control of moksha? If not,

then we are all assured of the same without any trial” said Sri RamAnuja.

 

By this it has been clearly proved that everyone who has a relation with

rAmAnuja are assured moksha. Our direct acharyas put us under the divine feet

of emperumAnAr. That is what Sri Mamunigal says in Arthi prabhandam (12)

 

“dEsan thigazhum thiruvAimozhippillai

mAsil thirumalaiyAzhvAr * ennai nEsaththAl

eppadiyE enni ninpAl sErthAr ethirAsA!

AppadiyE nee seytharul “

 

Meaning: Oh ethirajA! My acharya who is being praised by everyone Sri

thiruvAimozhipillai, the flawless thirumalaiAzhvar, due to the great love he had

towards me put me into your divine feet with a thought to uplift this soul and

make me reach the divine feet of emperuman. So please fulfill his wish

accordingly.

 

When lost in a big ocean, a lifeboat saves us and takes us towards another ship

which inturn shows us the shore. Similarly thiruvAimozhipillai was the lifeboat

that saved mAmunigal from the miseries of the world and put him into the divine

feet of emperumAnAr (the big ship) who transports innumerable jeevatmas from

this world of misery to the world of ever joy (nithya vibhuthi, Sri Vaikundam)

and places us in the permanent kainkaryam of emperuman. The lifeboat is

absolutely essential for each one of us and hence we all should be highly

grateful to our acharyas who save our soul but all the lifeboats finally reach

only the big ship. EthirAja. So now that Sri Mamunigal has been thrown into the

feet of rAmanuja by his acharya, he begs ethirajar to cut his samsAric relation

and send him to the divine abode of emperuman. That is the main essence of

mAmuni's Arthi prabhandam.

 

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Is emperumAnAr capable of only transporting us to the nithya vibhuthi or does

surrendering to his feet give us any joy in this world too? Mamunigal explains

in his paasuram-55 what all he has obtained here, in this leela vibhuti due to

the divine grace of the acharya.

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We will see in the next posting.

 

(To be continued)

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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