Sri Varamangai Muni Vaibhavam-31

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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

 

On the way of the long journey, thiruvenkata Jeeyer, anantAzhvan and others

involved in a deep discussion about the greatness of vanamamalai swamy as

follows:

 

“Janaka, found piratti in his yaga shAla. He cared and brought up the child as

his daughter and was immensely happy to give her in marriage to rAma piran.

Vishnuchithar (“meimai peruvArthai ketturuppar”) found goda piratti under a

tulasi plant in his garden. He brought up the child with great love and

affection and gave in marriage to perumal with great joy. But janakan, king of

mithilai, father of sita piratti or vidarpa raja, father of rukmani piratti or

periyAzhvar, father of soodhikkoduththa nAchiyar will never equal the greatness

of our swamy.

 

Why because, janakan considered sita piratti has his daughter and when perumal

himself (“rAmam sathya parAkramam) came and asked him to give her in marriage to

him, Janaka didn’t do it immediately but stubbornly said, “veerya sulkEthi

bhagavan nathathAmi sudha maham l thEsham jignAsamAnA nAm veeryam

thanarupAhrutham ll” and accepted for marriage only after perumal satisfied his

veerya sulkam (test for bravery) by breaking the siva dhanush. So janaka was

more concerned with his own promises even in front of perumal.

 

In case of vidharpa raja though he knew that rukmani was in deep love with

Krishna paramatma (“sruthvAN gunAn bhuvanasundara srunvathAm thE nirvichya

karnavivarair hara thonga thApam l Roopam thrushAm thruchinmathA mahilAthma

lAbham tvai achchutavi sadhA chitthA mapathrapam mE ll”) and that only the two

suite each other and inspite of all the other relatives and friends voting for

the marriage, he listened to his beloved son rukmi and arranged for rukmani’s

marriage with sisupala .

 

Periazhvar, though being well versed in all sastras considered piratti to be his

daughter and hence had a doubt if perumal will accept her and with a abhimAnam

that she is his daughter gave her in marriage to perumal.

 

In all the above cases each one considered piratti to be their daughter but in

the case of our swamy, piratti who was found in thirumalai, considered him to be

her father and climbed over his lap in his dream, called him as her father and

requested him to take her along with him to vanamamalai and do her wedding with

deivanayaka perumal. Can janaka or vidarpa king or periAzhvar be considered

anywhere near swamy’s greatness?

 

In this way, they enjoyed exchanging views among themselves, praising the

divinity of vanamamalai swamy and at one point taking leave of swamy and

nachiyar returned back to their places.

 

(To be continued)

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

P.S: The earlier postings have been archived at

http://www.geocities.com/sumivaradan/General.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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