Sri Varamangai Muni Vaibhavam-34

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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

 

One-day rAmAnuja pillan, a prime disciple of vanamamalai jeeyer swamy saw his

wife wearing all her jewels and standing in front of him. He immediately told

his wife, “Seeing you like this makes me doubt your athma guna. As per the

words of rAma piran to piratti, it is like a deepadarshan to a blind man, to my

eyes. These jewels do not decorate or add beauty to pathivrattAs (chaste women)

but only seelam (Athma gunam) beautifies pathivrattAs.” The words of pillan

were very cutting but his wife, who knew him well, understood his inner mind and

in a manner to satisfy him immediately removed all the jewels and handed them

over to him and remained without any hard feelings.

 

Pillan accepted the same, and made a mahalakshmi padhakam (dollar with the

impression of mahalakshmi on it) out of the gold obtained from the jewels.

Ramanuja pillan was waiting to submit it to deivanAyakan and enjoy seeing him

adorning the same. Pillan got the permission from vanamamalai swamy and

submitted the same to perumal. Then he along with his wife went and did

mangalasasanam to deivanAyaka perumal. Elated by the deep devotion of ramanuja

pillan, vanamamalai swamy blessed him with swamy’s thiruvArAdhana perumal

(Devaperumal with ubhaya nAchiyars) and also the acharya chinnams (symbols).

 

Then, ramanuja pillan took his acharya’s permission and left to thirunagari and

stayed under the divine feet of azhvar. At that time he showered the divine

arthas of thiruvAimozhi(bhagavat vishayam) to many interested srivaishnavas.

Meanwhile, one-day pillan’s wife prayed to azhvar to bless them with a child.

Azhvar blessed them and due to the divine grace of azhvar, a very intelligent

sAtvika son was born to pillan and his wife. Pillan named his son after his own

acharya ThirunAmam.

 

At the same time, Sri vanamamalai Jeeyer swamy lived with all glory due to his

acharya krupai, stayed with ripened knowledge and all atma gunas (thrineekrutha

virinjAdhi nirangusa vibhUtaya:l rAmAnuja padhAm bhOja samAsrayana sAlina:).

Swamy had a great regard for the pramAnams, pramEyam and pramAdhas and lived as

par alwars and acharyas words (“adiyArkkadiyar thamakkadiyAr adiyAr

thammadiyArradiyOngal”). Swamy followed each and every word of his acharya, Sri

Manavala mamunigal, who lived like a mangala deepam in Srirangam, like a good

son following his father’s words (Sreevachanabhooshanaththin semporulai

sindhaithannAl thErilumAm vAikondu seppilumAm AriyargAl enthamakku nAluminidhAga

nindradhu”).

 

Let us see the daily routine of swamy as enjoyed and given by the shisyas in the

next posting.

 

(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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