Gaganagiri Muni Guru paramparA prabhAvam-38 (Twentieth 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 kaliyan ramanuja Jeeyer 1853-1867 (Twentieth pattam)

 

Swamy’s kainkaryams contd.

 

On the arrival of Kalikandri mAmunivan, deivanAyakan with great pleasure sent

his chatra samara and other honours along with Sri satakOpan and welcomed swamy.

Swamy humbly accepted the honours and submitted the pattu peedhAmbharam (grand

vastrams (clothings specially made for emperuman)) to the divine feet of

deivanAyakan and did mangalasasanams with azhvar pasurams, “A-namai nelam keenda

ennappanE kannA endrum ennai Aludai vAnanAyaganE!” and stood in front of

emperuman immersed in the divine anubhavam while emperuman called swamy

(arulapAdittu) “nam vAnamamalai ramanuja Jeeyer!” and blessed swamy with his

theertham, satakOpan, thirumAlai, thiruparivattam and prasadams. Swamy then

took the permission to leave and proceeded to the other sannadhis, did

mangalAsAsanams and then reached the mutt. From then on swamy took atmost care

of the kainkaryams in both deivanayakan sannadhi and to aranganagarappan.

 

Swamy remained blessing his disciples with divine arthas in ubhaya vedantha and

regularly continuing the dhadheeyArAdhanams, following his poorvAcharyas in both

jnanam and anushtanam concentrating on shisyaabhivriththi and spreading the

divine dharshanam to one and all.

 

After a few days, swamy wanted to do divya desa yathra and hence started his

journey along with a number of shisyas and srivaishnavas and visited pandiya

nAdu, chola nAdu and thondainAdu divyadesams and did mangalAsAsanams to the

respective emperumans. All through the way swamy was honoured by all the

prabhus and srivaishnavas and swamy returned back to Vanamamalai with all the

precious gems and other things submitted by the disciples on the way. Swamy

then submitted all the collections during the yathra (pattu peedhAmbharams and

precious gems) to the divine feet of deivanAyakan and sirivaramangai nAchiyar.

 

In a few days, swamy submitted a beautiful gold thiruyagnOpaveetham

(thirupoonool) studded with precious gems to deivanAyakan and enjoyed seeing

perumal adorning the same.

 

Swamy then submitted a big golden bharmAsanam to swamy nammazhvar in azhvar

thirunagari. Further swamy submitted a lot of wealth for making the golden

abhethya kavasam for azhvar. Then swamy submitted a costly pannangu (outer

cover) decorated with gold for the thirupallakku (palanquin) of azhvar.

 

Swamy built a big, strong and spacious mutt in thirukurungudi.

 

Swamy built one other mutt in Sriperumbudur in the same manner.

In chola desam, swamy greatly helped to collect funds for the construction of

the fence wall surrounding the parakalan sannadhi.

 

Further, swamy in a grand manner celebrated the theppOtsavam of

varamangAvallabhan Sri deivanAyakan and rejoiced the occasion with a number of

like-minded srivaishnavas. Then swamy blessed one shisya who underwent

samAsrayanam under the divine feet of pattarbiran ramanuja jeeyer swamy, who

knew all the sastras and one who learnt the manthArthams, bhashyam and bhagavat

vishayam as a close disciple of swamy, one who remained with great jnanam and

vairAkyam towards lowkikam and immersed in kainkaryam and granted thureeyAsramam

and named him nAthan jeeyer and handed over the responsibility of taking care of

the kainkaryams in nAthan sannadhi. Following swamy’s orders nAthan jeeyer went

to nAthan sannadhi and took atmost care of the kainkaryams over there.

 

While swamy remained in this way showering manthra manthrArthas along with

arulicheyal vyakhyAnams as kalashepams to his disciples swamy suddenly wished to

have the divine dharshanam of the charama stalam (where swamy attained

paramapadam) of his acharya pattarbiran swamy and also do mangalasAsanams to the

divya desams on the way. Thereby swamy started his journey along with a number

of srivaishnavas doing mangalasasanams to various divya desams on the way and

reached bhakyapuram, visited seethAramapuram prostrated the charama stalam of

his acharya and grieved remembering the great jnanAnushtanams of his acharya and

then consoled himself. Later due to the request of the disciples over there,

swamy stayed there for sometime.

 

(To be continued)

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee,

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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