Sri Varamangai muni Vaibhavam-38

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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

 

GREATNESS OF VANAMAMALAI JEEYER SWAMY

 

1. Swamy was responsible for acting as purushakaram (recommendation) for annan

and others to surrender to the divine feet of Sri Periya Jeeyer and also

accepted a few of them as his shisyas as per the order of Sri Periya Jeeyer.

 

 

2. Swamy was responsible to bring appillai and appullAr to the divine feet of

Sri Periya Jeeyer swamy. First swamy convinced periya jeeyer to accept them as

his disciples and then he went to the banks of kaveri and along with the help of

erumbiappa, swamy brought both appillai and appullAr to the divine feet of

Periya Jeeyer and made them the two among the ashtadiggajas of Sri Mamunigal.

 

 

3. Sri Periya Jeeyer himself used to praise and call Swamy as “PonnadikkAl

Jeeyer”.

 

 

4. Periya Jeeyer considered swamy his very close disciple and also an atma

bandhu and also wanted vanamamalai swamy to get all the pleasure and treasure he

obtained. And hence made swamy sit in his seat and presented his thirukkai

Azhvars in the hands of vanamamalai swamy and asked him to do samAsrayanam just

like him.

 

 

5. Then Periya Jeeyer appointed ashtadiggajas for vanamAmalai Jeeyer swamy just

like his own ashtadiggajas.

 

 

6. Further Periya Jeeyer sent vanamamalai swamy to tour in the northern states

as his representative and fulfill his wish to uplift all jeevatmas over there

and bring them to our sampradayam by giving them ramanuja sambhandam through

samAsrayanam.

 

 

7. During his last days, Periya Jeeyer instructed his upadandam,

thiruvAzhimOdhiram and thiruvadinilai of his own acharya thiruvAimozhi pillai to

be given to vanamamalai Jeeyer, though swamy was not near periya Jeeyer at the

time when periya jeeyer attained paramapadam.

 

 

8. Periya Jeeyer had his special grace on vanamamalai swamy.

 

 

9. Vanamamalai swamy also was blessed specially by Periya perumal, and that is

why he gifted him the aranganagarappan and himself went with him to vanamamalai.

There is no need to say that vanamamalai perumal, who have got his divine

consort, srivaramangai nAchiyar as kannikAdAnam from swamy had his special

wishes for swamy and that is why he gave all the responsibilities of the

deivanAyakan sannadhi kainkaryams to swamy himself. Next thiruvEnkatamudaiyan,

showed the greatness of swamy and his acharya bhakthi in the dream of

thiruvEnkata periya kElvi Jeeyer and thus showed his love for Vanamamalai

Jeeyer. And nAchiyar in thirumalai accepting swamy as her father, shows largely

the great mahimai of PonnadikkAl Jeeyer swamy.

 

 

10. With the blessings of all the perumals swamy did a lot of kainkaryam in the

deivanAyakan sannadhi, thirukkurungudi nambi sannadhi and also in spreading our

ramAnuja darshanam all over India.

 

 

11. The greatness of swamy lies mainly in his acharya nishtai (charamOpAya

nishtai). Though he took sanyasa even before his acharya, nayanar (Sri Manavala

mamunigal) still he remained with great prathipaththi towards his acharya and

considered mAmunigal to be upaya and upEyam (as per the well known verses,

“DevumattrariyEn” (Madhurakavi bhAvam); “GururEva param brahma gururEva

paramdhanam l gururEva param kAma: gururEva parAyanam ll gururEva parA vidhyA

gururEva parAyathi: l yasmAth sadhupadhEshtasow thasmAth gurutharO guru: ll”

“theemanam keduththAi” “maruvithozhum manamE thandhAi” “ariyAdhana ariviththa”

“peedhagavAdaipirAnAr piramaguruvAgi vandhu” ) .

 

 

12. Though swamy was blessed with a birth in a high caste Brahmin family

(“therulkol nAnmarai vallAr”, “thEru jnanaththar” “senthozhilavar”, “thelliyAr

thirunAnmaraigal vallAr”,”seidhavElviyar vaiyaththEvar”) and also a wealthy

family and remained with great knowledge and intelligence still swamy didn’t

possess even a little bit of pride due to all these. His mind was clear from

the mukkurumbhu (“vidhyAmathO dhanamatha: thrithEyO bhijanOmatha:”)

 

With all these and many more greatness, swamy remained with parama krupai on

everyone and established our sampradayam in the world as per the wish of his

acharya. Swamy showed love and care towards all including plants and animals

and wanted to uplift each and every jeevatma without any barriers to the divine

feet of emperuman. In this way swamy remained acting as the bridge between the

paramatma and jeevatma for sometime. Then wanting to go to the divine abode of

emperuman, swamy shed all his interest in this leela vibhuti (thAjya bhoomiyilE

jihAsaiyum) and prepared himself to go to the nithya vibhuthi (prApya bhoomiyilE

prAvanyam).

 

We will all join the ceremony of swamy’s paramapada prApthi in the forth-coming

postings.

 

(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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