Sri Varamangai muni Vaibhavam-39

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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

 

Vanamamalai ponnadikkAl swamy got himself mentally prepared to leave this

samsAric world and start his journey towards the nithya vibhuti of emperuman.

Considering this body to be the hinderance, swamy prayed to his own acharya to

remove the obstacles and accept him into the divine abode of emperuman. Due to

the prayer, swamy fell sick putting all the shisyas in grief. The shisyas

lamented saying, “Oh! This world without swamy will be like stars without moon,

a crown abandoned without a king, a pond without a lotus, a ahothi without fire

and a recitation without vedic scholars”. All the shisyas crowded around swamy

with deep sorrow.

 

Jeeyer swamy saw the shisyas in grief and thought of selecting one of them to

proceed him as the next peedhAdhipathi, to take care of the kainkaryams.

Meditating on his own acharya, swamy selected one of his intelligent shisyas,

well versed in all sastras, kalamoor varadamuni as the next acharya to follow

him and called him “Vanamamalai ramanuja jeeyer” with his own mouth and made him

the second peedhAdhipathi of the vanamamalai mutt. Then swamy submitted

varadamuni under the divine feet of the divine couples, deivanAyakan and

srivaramangai nAchiyar and requested them to accept him to their nithya

kainkaryam.

 

Swamy then instructed all his disciples to be under the control of varadamuni

and continue with bhagavat/bhAgavata kainkaryams. At this time, some

Srivaishnavas happen to come from thirukurungudi and they requested swamy to

appoint a Jeeyer for the kainkaryam of nambi. Swamy selected one among them and

instructed him to be in the nithya kainkaryam of thirukurungudi nambi, but be

under the control of vanamamalai Jeeyer and act according to his words. The

nambi Jeeyer also accepted the same with gratefulness and proceeded towards

nambi sannadhi.

 

Then vanamamalai varada Ramanuja jeeyer and ramanuja pillan, after getting the

permission from their acharya, got two divya mangala vigrahams of swamy and

requested swamy to grace the vigrahams, so that after swamy leaves to the divine

abode of emperuman, they can all still have darshan of swamy in archA roopam, in

the mutt. Jeeyer showered his karunA kataksham on the vigrahams touched them

with his divine hands and gave one to varada muni to be kept in the vanamamalai

mutt always. Swamy then gave the second vigraham into the hands of ramanuja

pillan. On consecration of swamy’s archA vigraham in the mutt even deivanAyaka

perumal and srivaramangai nAchiyar were filled with ecstasy since this removed

their grief of getting separated from swamy.

 

Swamy then called the kainkarya paras (persons involved in the service of

perumal) in the deivanAyakan sannadhi and apologized for all the knowingly or

unknowingly done apacharyams (mistakes). The kainkaryaparas replied, “ Oh!

swamy devarir can do mistakes only if vanamamalai perumal can ever commit a sin.

Both are never possible”. Swamy then told them “ I have appointed varadamuni to

be the next jeeyer of the mutt and also to take care of the nithya kainkaryam of

perumal. Please consider him to be my representative and continue the

kainkaryams in the temple as usual”.

 

Swamy then did dhadhiyArAdhanam and accepted prasadams from srivaishnavas and

showed his deep regret for any mistakes he could have committed till date. Then

swamy’s arthi to reach the divine feet of emperuman reached its height and hence

he started meditating on the divine feet of his acharya Periya Jeeyer and

uttered, “EmperumAnAr thiruvadigale sharanam” “Jeeyer thiruvadigale sharanam”

and remained in silence while the shisyas with folded hands started reciting

brahmavalli, bhruhuvalli, Soozhvizhumpanimugil and then all the divine

instruments along with thiruchinnam was played when Jeeyer swamy meditated on

his acharya’s thiruvadi and swamy’s soul got itself released from the body and

through the sushumnAnAdi, smashing the brahmaratham continued its journey

towards the divine abode of emperuman. Thereby swamy attain paramapadam to get

himself into the divine service of paramapadanAdhan along with all the nithya

sooris.

 

(To be continued)

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

P.S: The earlier postings have been archived at

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