Gaganagiri Muni Guru paramparA prabhAvam-36 (Nineteenth Jeeyer contd.)

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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 Pattarbiran jeeyer 1843-1853 (nineteenth pattam)

 

 

 

Swamy’s kainkaryams (Contd.)

 

 

 

On the way to Sirivaramangalanagar, swamy had the darshan of the kalamegam on

top of the vadamAmalai and then the darshan of swamy emberumanar, the punyan who

took birth in Sriperumbudur. Then swamy visited all the divya desas in chola

nadu including the headquarters of Srivaishnavas Srirangam and had darshan of

arangaththu mAmani and then further proceeded to fulfill the deep expectations

of the disciples in Sirivaramangalnagar, like the people in draught hit area

waiting for the clouds to pour down as rain and reached Vanamamalai.

 

 

 

There swamy submitted all the jems and wealth submitted by the ardent disciples

all through his journey to the divine feet of the perumal and thayar and did

mangalasasanams with great pleasure to the divine couples and then stayed doing

ubhayavedantha kalasepams along with sathvika srivaishnavas for some days. Then

krishnasreshti visited swamy from bhakyapuram along with his family and got

swamy’s blessings and submitted lot of wealth and jems to the divine feet of

swamy and returned back to his place.

 

 

 

Further, pattarpiran swamy wished to do vadadesa yathra once again before he

left for the divine abode of emperuman (thirunadu). At that time the king of

vanapparuththi send a message to swamy stating that, for the welfare of the

country and for his own athmic upliftment he has built a new temple for

ranganatha and that he wants to consecrate the perumal in reclining posture over

there and hence requests swamy to do the pradhistai in the appropriate manner

and grace the occasion and that he will bare all the cost for swamy’s journey

from Vanamamalai back and forth. Swamy was highly pleased as his wish and the

request matched each other and hence ordered his disciples to make the necessary

arrangements for the journey.

 

 

 

Swamy along with number of srivaishnavas, first reached azhvar thirunagari and

had the darshan of azhvar and the nava thirupathi emperumans and then reached

srivilliputtur and had the divine darshan of andal and rangamannar then

proceeded to maliruncholi to do mangalasasanams to sundararajan then proceeded

to srirangam. Then on the way swamy had the darshan of the other divya desams

and proceeded to maduramangalam, had the darshan of embar and then emperumanar

in sriperumbudur. Further swamy had the darshan of thirupathi venkatachalapathi

and then reached vanaparuththi. There swamy visited the newly constructed

temple and named the area as ‘Srirangapuram’ and in a grand manner celebrated

the pradhistai and made arrangements for the nithyOtsavam (daily festival) and

mAsOtsavam (monthly festival) in the temple. Swamy stayed there for some more

days and then visited bhakyapuram as per the request of the disciples over

there.

 

 

 

While swamy stayed in seetharamapuram making discourses for the benefit of the

disciples over there swamy fell ill and his health started to deteriorate. At

that time, swamy started to think about the next successor to the peedam.

Swamy’s grace fell on Sri kaliyan ramanuja swamy who was a great satvika filled

with divine qualities, vairakyam and knowledge, who had already accepted the

sanyasa ashrama and who was along with swamy on the journey. Swamy called for

Sri Kaliyan swamy and appointed him to succeed him as the next Vanamamalai

jeeyer. In this way HH Sri Pattarbiran swamy stayed in the peedam for 10 years

and did great kainkaryams that cannot be pre-conceived by our small minds.

Swamy then decided to leave for nithya kainkaryam and hence left to the divine

abode of emperuman from seetharamapuram itself.

 

 

 

All the Srivaishnavas over there were struck by huge grief to have got separated

from swamy. Slowly they consoled themselves and then tried to console Sri

Kaliyan swamy who was dissolved in deep sorrow due to the separation from his

acharya. Sri Kaliyan swamy then did the appropriate charama kainkaryams (last

rites) to his acharya in the appropriate manner and grandly celebrated the

thiruadhyayanam. After completing the rites Sri Kaliyan swamy returned back to

Vanamamalai.

 

 

 

Swamy’s charamAnusandhAnam:

 

 

 

AdhithyE vrichchikasthE dhinamanidhivasE SribrahmAdheesavarshE suklE pakshE

chaturthyAm subhagunajaladhirhuththarAshAdadhArEI

 

Srimath vEdhAnthayugma pravachana nupunA: srisakainkaryaputhyA srimathvAnAdri

yOgee parama padhamakAth pattanAthO muneedra: II

 

 

 

Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

 

 

 

(To be continued)

 

 

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

 

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee,

 

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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