Sri Periya Jeeyer's Arthi Prabhandam-7

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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

 

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--------Everything in this world is a part of

emperuman. Then why are srivaishnavas special and why should they be respected?

Let us see why.

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Anything in this world is surely a part of emperuman so everyone can be called

vaishnavas. Then one may ask why should we then worship rama and Krishna alone

and not ravana and sisupala? Surely you can worship ravana and sisupala if they

accept that they are part of perumal, is the answer.

 

A man is lying down worried about his next meal. Underneath his bed, under the

ground there is a bag full of gold coins, which can make him one of the richest

men in the world. But he can become rich only if he realizes that there is so

much wealth underneath his bed and take it into his possession. So the

realization, the knowledge is very important. Similarly all of us are part of

emperuman’s body only but then we become srivaishnavas only when we realize the

same.

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How do we get the knowledge?

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We can attain this realization only due to acharya kataksham (divine grace of

our acharyas)

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But why that only a few are blessed with such acharya kataksham?

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Mamunigal says that is because “THENNARANGAR SEER ARULUKKU ELAKKAGAP PETTROM”,

we have all been blessed by Sri ranganatha with such acharyas.

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Then is Sri ranganatha himself partial to bless one, with good acharya and hence

knowledge and realization but leave the others?

 

No. EmperumAn has a samadrishti (view of equality) towards all. He showers his

blessings equally on everyone. Let us see how. Initially all the jeevatmas lay

dormant without any life. Emperuman due to his nirheduka krupa gave all the

jeevatmas chaitanyam (life) and send them to this world. He gave them the

choice of either selecting the path of jnana, bhakthi, vyrAkhyam and attaining

his divine feet or getting involved in the worldly affairs. People were more

attracted by the colorful attractive world and hence they totally forgot about

emperuman and their relationship with him. So now bhagavan, again due to his

krupai, gave the Vedas to make people aware, that the wordly pleasures are

temporary and only the divine kainkaryam to emperuman is always permanent.

 

But the Vedas were very complex (as the meanings were hidden) and hence the

people ignored the Vedas and went on in their own ways. But emperuman the

father of the world couldn’t keep quiet seeing his kids suffer. So he himself

came down taking rAma Krishna avatars. The state of perumal in Srivaikundam

while all his kids, the jeevatmas suffered in the leela vibhuthi, is explained

by our periya jeeyer swamy as follows:

 

Arthi prabhandam –5

 

“than pudalvan koodAmal thAn pusikkum pOgaththAl enburumO thandhai ethirAsA!”

(Oh! EthirAsA can a father enjoy a sophisticated life when his son is away and

doesn’t join him in his enjoyment? )

 

This we visualize even today. Many of us are in the US and our parents in

India. When a function or a festival like deepavali comes even though the

parents join to celebrate with their other sons and daughters still their minds

linger in the thoughts of the son/daughter in a far of land many miles away from

them. Same thing happened to emperuman. He was in the moksha mandalam along

with the nithya sooris but his mind was constantly thinking about how to uplift,

we jeevatmas to his abode. So one fine day when the nithya sooris were doing

pooja to him with the dhoopam (smoke from camphor and agarbaththi) he escaped

from there and came down to this world says nammAzhvar. (soottu nan mAlaigal

thooyana vEndhi vinnOrgal nanneerAtti yandhoopam tharA nirkavE angu mAyaiyinAl…”

thiruviruththam-21). Nithya vibhuti is a land of divinity and leela vibhuti is

the most filthy and dirty place. Emperuman due to his care for the jeevatmas

came down. Can we all leave our houses and go and live in a slum? We will

immediately say “nay! I will rather die than live in such a nasty place” But

emperuman has come down from his divine abode to the worst slum. Why?

Mamunigal answers,

 

Arthi prabhandam-9

 

“koobhaththil veezhum kuzhaviyudan kudhiththu avvAbhaththai neekum andha annai

pOl” (Like the mother who jumps into the drainage to save her kid which has

fallen into it accidentally)

 

We are all the kids who have fallen into this drainage of samsAram (samsAra

sAkkadai). So emperuman, who is the mother of this whole world with the

vAtsalyam of all the mothers in this world put together, came down to save us

all from the miseries of samsAram.

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But did perumal succeed? If so why are we all still suffering in this world?

 

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Let us find out in the next posting.

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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