Gaganagiri Muni Guru paramparA prabhAvam-42 (Twenty-first 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 madurakavi ramanuja Jeeyer 1867-1874 (Twenty-first pattam)

 

 

 

Swamy’s kainkaryams (contd.)

 

 

 

Swamy reached Vanamamalai where deivanAyakan welcomed swamy with his thirumAlai,

thiruparivattam, abhayahastham, prasadam etc which swamy accepted with great joy

and returned back to the mutt. There swamy did mangalasasanams to

aranganagarappan. Then along with all the wealth and offerings submitted by

many devotees during his journey swamy went to the temple and submitted it to

the divine feet of nAchiyar and deivanAyakan and did his heartfelt

mangalAsAsanams to the divine couples. The divine couples blessed swamy with

their prasadams after accepting which swamy returned back to the mutt. Among

the elephants that were submitted to swamy during his journey swamy sent one to

Sriperumbudoor udaiyavar, one to Srivilliputtur Andal, one to thirunagari

nammAzhvar and one to Srivaikundam emperuman. Then swamy as usual continued his

kainkaryams at deivanAyakan sannadhi and at the mutt. While swamy remained

doing ubhaya Vedanta kalashepams and other kainkaryams one day swamy wished to

make a beautiful, costly and well designed chariot for deivanAyakan. Swamy

started to think about who can do this great job with proper care and swamy was

reminded of thirukurungudi thiruvEnkatAcharyar, who was a close disciple of

swamy who had actually fallen to the feet of Sri SatakOpa ramanuja swamy and

from then remained with great vairakhyam as a naishtika brahmachari. So swamy

called thiruvEnkatacharyar and submitted the responsibility of chariot

kainkaryam into his hands. Thiruvenkatacharyar was not only filled with

vairakhyam but also knew well to tackle the world and hence succeeded in

finishing this great task in a very short period of time in a very beautiful

manner. Swamy was very pleased with him.

 

 

 

Thirukurungudi thiruvenkatachar was elated to see the kainkarya abhiruchi (deep

interest in service to the lord) of Sri madurakavi ramanuja jeeyer swamy and

hence he decided to submit all his wealth to the divine feet of swamy to use it

for appropriate kainkaryams. Concretely deciding on this he went to swamy and

declared his wish in front of swamy. Swamy told him to do according to his

wish. Further thiruvenkatachar submitted the garden up the hills of

thirukurungudi, which yielded him the yearly profit, under the divine feet of

swamy and did dhAnasAsanam (written document submitting the property to charity)

quoting the kainkaryams at the garden to be done regularly as per swamy’s wish

with the yearly income yielded by the garden. The following are the kainkaryams

quoted in the sAsanam (written document).

 

 

 

(1) The panguni utsavam to deivanAyakan should be done in a full-fledged

manner in the appropriate way.

 

(2) Celebrating the Iyppasi thirumoola thirunakshatra utsavam of Vanamamalai

Manavala mAmunikal every year for 10 days in a grand manner.

 

(3) In the Thai theppOtsavam, the day of his ubhayam has to be continued

forever.

 

(4) Continuing with the purattasi thirumanjanam, thaligai and

dhadheeyArAdhanam to malaimEl nambi on top of the hill where this garden is

actually located as usual always.

 

(5) Continuing the thirunandhavana kainkaryam, nithyArchanai and thaligai

for Vanamamalai deivanAyaka perumal

 

(6) Submitting required wealth for nAthan sannadhi nithya thiruvArAdhanam

and brahmotsavam as per swamy’s wish.

 

(7) On his acharya Sri satakOpa ramanuja swamy’s theertham and

thirunakshatram dhadheeyAradhanam along with thiruppaniyAram and sambhavanai

should be continued.

 

(8) In the margazhi month Periya thiruvadhyayana utsavam ekadasi day during

the sayanOtsavam and on the 5th day of the same utsavam “nOttra nOmbhu”utsavam,

“sennelarisi siruparuppu seidha akkAram naru neipAlAlAgiya” vadisil amudhu has

to be submitted to deivanayakan.

 

(9) In kOil a thiruthuzhAi garden has to be grown for Periya perumal for the

use of nithya archanai and during those archanai butter has to be submitted to

perumal since he is “kOvalanAi vennai vunda vAyan” aniarangan.

 

 

 

With all these noted to happen forever thiruvenkatachariyar submitted the

document to the divine feet of swamy. Swamy was highly pleased with the charity

of thiruvenkatachar who submitted all his property, which yielded thousands of

income for the purpose of kainkaryam. Perumal and piratti were more elated by

the kainkarya ruchi of thiruvenkatachar and hence they blessed him with the

nithya kainkaryam in the nithya vibhuthi.

 

 

 

Further, madhurakavi swamy felt sorry for the separation from such a great

bhagavata who sacrificed all his wealth for kainkaryam and with gratitude

ordered his disciples to do the charama kainkaryams to that great bhagavata in

the appropriate manner in a grand way.

 

 

 

(To be continued)

 

 

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

 

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee,

 

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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