Sri Periya Jeeyer's Arthi prabhandham-8

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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

 

Did perumal succeed fully in his avatara mission? No. Perumal wasn’t able to

correct people totally. Sri Rama piran says, “These people consider me to be a

man equal to them and cease to accept my supremacy”. Piratti advised ravana,

she tried to even threaten him but he never got down from his stands. Then

perumal sent hanuman to advise him but again it didn’t work. Vibheeshana tried

correcting ravana, as a result he was chucked out of lanka. Inspite of all

these perumal never got angry with ravana he says, “vibheeshanO vA sugreeva

yathivA rAvana svayam” (Oh sugreeva bring not only vibheeshana to my feet, even

if ravana changes mind and comes then get him immediately to me). Perumal due

to his divine krupai waited even for ravana to change. Even at the last moment

during the war perumal says, “endru pOi nAlai vA” to give ravana more time to

think and change mind and surrender to him. Inspite of that ravana refused to

change and hence perumal had to kill him.

 

Then perumal returned back half mindedly to Srivaikundam. He once again took

avatar as Krishna. Again kamsa and sisupala considered perumal to be their

rival. Perumal laments in bhagavat gita saying, “avajAnanthi mAm moodhA:”

(these stupid fools never understand me) and till the end Krishna was not able

to find a single person who considered emperumAn as everything “vAsudEva

sarvamithi sa mahAtma su durlabhaha:” So with an heavy heart he returned back to

his divine abode.

 

The next day after perumal going back to his divine abode kali started and on

the 43th day of kali the great mahan, Sri saTakOpar took avatar. Our acharyas

with great feeling say, “What a pity. Couldn’t have Krishna gone 43 days later

or nammAzhvar taken birth earlier?” Krishna wanted to see a mahan who

considered vasudeva to be everything and nammAzhvar lived accordingly (“vunnum

sOru parugum neer thinnum vettrilai ellAm kannan”). Again azhvar did change the

world with his paasurams but was more involved in his own anubhavams but not

able to reach the masses. So perumal again due to his love and affection to one

and all sent the acharyas to this world. These acharyas are only capable to

correct this world and take the jeevatmas in the right way. That is why

nammAzhvar says, “kaliyum kedum kandu konmin kadalvAnnan bhoodhangal manmEl”.

 

How can these acharyas correct the people who will not listen even to emperuman,

the sarva shakthan. Our acharyas say, the power of thatva darshi vAkhyam is

more than even the thatva vyAkhyam. Emperuman is the thatvam and the azhvars

and acharyas are those who have realized the supremacy and soulabhyam of

emperuman (thatva darshis). If one says, consider me to be supreme we refuse to

do so. But some other person comes and says he is very superior, he has all

divine qualities we accept.

 

There is one excellent legend in the life history of Sri ramanuja. Ethirajar

went to thirukurungudi to have darshan of nambi. Nambi welcomed ramanuja and

slowly asked him, “I have been having a doubt for long. I have taken many

avatars myself and have tried to change this world but failed but how come you

have done the same in such a short span of time?” Sri Ramanujar told perumal

that he would answer his question only if perumal gave him a seat of an acharya

and nambi became his shisya. Nambi, very eager to know the answer did the same

and ethirajar told him the dvayam and said only due to the power of this manthra

I have succeeded in my mission. I can recite the dvayam and gain power but you

cannot do the same. Such is the greatness of the acharyas.

 

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But then why didn’t the acharyas convert every soul in this world to

srivaishnavas?

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Our acharyas, surely have the power but the unfortunate part is we have more

power to say a reason and escape from them. When food is served if we refuse to

eat and lock us up in a room then what can be done? Our acharyas do shower

their grace on one and all but we make it a point not to even go near them.

Mamunigal says how he spent the days earlier, (more apt for people like us)

 

Arthi prabhandham-28

 

“pandu palavAriyarum pArulagOr uyyap

parivudanE seitharulum palakalaikal thammai

kandathellAm ezhudhi yavai kattrirundhum pirarkku

kAdhaludan karpiththum kAlaththai kazhiththEn

pundareeka kElvanurai ponnulagu thannil

pOga ninaiondru mindri porundhi engE errundhEn

endisaiyum Eththum ethirAsar arulAlE

ezhil visumbhai yandri eppOdu en manam ennAdhE”

 

Meaning: Many mahans have given a lot of great works for the upliftment of the

masses. Earlier I misinterpreted them and wrote what all came to my mind and

taught it to others also with great vigor. I never had the idea of leaving this

world and reaching the divine feet of emperuman. I considered myself to stay

permanently here. But now due to the divine grace of ethirajar my mind never

thinks anything other than reaching the divine abode of emperuman.

 

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After realizing that the divine abode is assured to us due to the grace of

acharya and perumal then next thing we do is to start hating this world. So now

the emperuman blesses us with one another thing to make our stay in this world

cherishable. What is that?

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Let us see in the next posting.

 

(To be continued)

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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