Gaganagiri Muni guru paramparA prabhAvam-7

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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

thathAyathatAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE

 

HH Sri Vanamamalai ThimmaiyengAr (A) ThiruvEnkata rAmAnuja Jeeyer (fifth pattam)

 

Swamy's Kainkaryams continued

 

Once swamy visited a place called rAdhApuram (rAjasthAnam) and went to the

palace of the king. The king welcomed swamy with great pleasure with great

respect and submitted enormous amount of wealth in the divine feet of swamy.

Swamy returned back to vanamamalai along with the wealth submitted by the king

and constructed the kulasekaran thirumandapam (under the name of the king) and

the dasAvathAra thirumandapam. With the left over money swamy then made

beautiful ratnAbharams (jewels studded with precious stones) and silk clothes to

perumal and thayar and also made a beautiful gajendrAzhvan.

 

Then swamy constructed a beautiful mandapam under the name of periya vanamamalai

jeeyer swamy, azhagiya varadan thirumandapam and stayed there considering it to

be the gurukulavAsam and remained with due respect towards the acharyas.

 

Swamy made beautiful arrangements for the aranganagarappan sannadhi and also

made a beautiful rathAkAra dOlai (swing in the form of a ratham) and for the

purpose of recitation of prabhandhams constructed a thirumandapam called

rAmAnujan

 

In Alwar thirunagari, swamy constructed a mutt and consecrated vanamamalai

perumal deivanAyakan and aranganagarappan and also the first four jeeyers of

vanamamalai mutt starting from periya vanamamalai jeeyer in archa form and

appointed a Srivaishnava to take care of the daily thiruvArAdhanam (daily

rituals) and srikaryams(services) in that mutt and arranged for all the rituals

to be done without any hindrance.

 

While swamy remained with kainkaryasri in the above manner, a brahmachAri by the

name rAmAnujan from vinjamoor in the northern direction came and surrendered to

the divine feet of his holiness Sri thimmiyengAr swamy and stayed in thirunagari

and learnt prabhandams and sastrAs. After completion of sastras and prabhandams

he underwent kalashepams under vanamamalai swamy and remained as a calm person

of high intelligence and a treasure of vairAkhyam.

 

After 18 years of his tenure as Jeeyer of the vanamamalai mutt Sri thimmiyengAr

swamy, felt that he has become physically weak and hence considering rAmAnujan

swamy to be the next eligible jeeyer gave him sanyasa and named him as

emperumAnAr rAmanuja swamy and submitted all the responsibilities of the temple

and the mutt to Sri emperumAnAr rAmAnuja Jeeyer swamy.

 

Swamy's charama slokam

 

ApthE krOdhi samAhvayEcha makarE suklathretheeyAnvithE mAsE bhAskara vAsarE

sadhabhishaknakshatra yukthE yayow I

ThraiyanthArththa vishAra nithya niradha srithimmiyengAhvaya: srivaikunta

makunta vaibhavayudham vAnAthriyOgeeshvara: II

 

Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee,

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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