Gaganagiri Muni Guru paramparA prabhAvam-14 (eleventh Jeeyer-cont.)

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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

thathAyaththAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE

 

HH Sri Vanamamalai Periya deivanAyaka rAmAnuja Jeeyer 1700-1732 (eleventh

pattam)-continued

 

Like Alavandaar Sri Periya deivanAyaka rAmAnuja jeeyer swamy graced one Sri

Venkatacharyar, who surrendered under the divine feet of Sri rangappa swamy and

did manthra manthrArtha and bhagavat vishaya kalashepams under Sri deivanAyakan

swamy. Sri Venkatacharyar remained with immense jnana, bhakthi and vairAkhya

satisfying all the necessary qualities to become the next peedAdhipadhi of the

mutt. Hence Sri Periya deivanAyaka swamy gave sanyasa to venkatAcharyar and

named him “ThiruvEnkata Jeeyer”.

 

Once, Sri ThiruvEnkata Jeeyer swamy got the permission of Sri deivanAyakan swamy

and went to alwar thirunagari to have the darshan and to do mangalAsAsanam to

Azhvar. Azhvar welcomed Jeeyer by honoring him with his theertham, thirumAlai,

thiruparivattam, rAmAnujan and finally with prasadam in Jeeyer’s mAdukara vessel

(bhikshApAthram). Azhvar requested Jeeyer to stay there in the sannadhi and do

kalashepams. And hence from that day thiruvEnkata Jeeyer continued doing him

kalashepams in thirunagari. Meanwhile one day, Vanamamalai deivanAyakan Jeeyer

swamy can to do mangalasAsanam to Azhvar and then proceeded towards Srirangam.

At that time he took Sri thiruvEnkata jeeyer along with him to have the darshan

of Periya perumal.

 

After the mangalasAsanams at the temple, the king of the place with great

respect very happily welcomed swamy. Due to the king’s request swamy then

continued to stay in the mutt over there. Sri ThiruvEnkata Jeeyer prayed for

the arrangements for a mahAratham for Azhvar in the sannadhi of Periya perumal.

The pandia king then ordered for the required amount of wealth to be passed on

to Sri ThiruvEnkata Jeeyer swamy. In this way huge amount of wealth was

submitted to the divine feet of koil thiruvEnkata Jeeyer.

 

Then ThiruvEnkata jeeyer, prostrated vAnamAmalai Jeeyer and with his permission

for Azhvar thiruththEr returned back to thirunagari along with the huge wealth.

Jeeyer prostrated Azhvar and requested to grant permission for thiruththEr

according to the wish of Periya perumal. Jeeyer then informed the kerala king

about the arrangements. The king immediately sent the required materials for the

kainkaryam. Accepting the same Sri ThiruvEnkata Jeeyer continued with the

thiruththEr kainkaryam in the appropriate manner.

 

Sri ThiruvEnkata Jeeyer then invited his acharya, vAnamAmalai Jeeyer swamy for

the rathOtsavam. Azhvar was decorated beautifully with elegant jewels and

flower garlands and was placed inside the ratham (chariot). After the grand

rathOtsava celebration thiruvEnkata Jeeyer rushed to srirangam to deliver the

good news of Azhvar’s rathOtsavam to Periya perumal and after that stayed back

in koil (srirangam) for some more days.

 

In vAnamAmalai, Sri deivanAyakan Jeeyer swamy one fine day got up in the prAtah

kalam (early morning) as usual and did all his nithyakarmAnushtAnams (daily

routines) in the appropriate manner and then went to do thiruvArAdhanam to his

thiruvArAdhana moorthi, washed perumal’s divine feet and accepted the SripAda

theertham and distributed the same to all his disciples. Then as usual he did

mangalasAsanams and continued his kalashepams. Following that swamy did

thiruvArAdhanam to aranganagarappan followed by dhadheeyArAdhanam.

 

After all these were over swamy sat meditating on the divine feet of his acharya

infront of emperuman. Immensely happy with all the kainkaryams done by swamy,

Sri vaikundanikEthan Sriman nArAyanan gave darshan to swamy on top of vinadhai

siruvan (garudan). Enjoying the divine darshan swamy attained samAdhi and

slowly the jeevatma escaped through the susumna nAdi breaking open the skull.

Emperuman happily led the jeevan to paramapadham.

 

Swamy’s charama slokam

 

“ApthE parithApyapithE madowcha mAsE jalarshehya sithE sapakshE I

shashtyamAgAth sowmyadhinE surEsa- vAnAdriyogee gurupAdha padmam II”

 

Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

 

(To be continued)

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee,

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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