Sri Vara Vara Muni-2

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

 

Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

 

Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha

 

Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE namaha

 

 

 

Dear bhagavatas,

 

 

 

Continuing with the meaning of the sloka,

 

 

 

" Srimad rangam jayatu paramam dhAma tEjOnidhAnam bhoomA

 

tasmin bhavatu kushalee kOpibhoomA sahAya I

 

divyam tasmai dhishatu vibhavam dEsikO dEsikAnAm kAlE kAlE

 

vara vara muni: kalpayan mangalAni II "

 

 

 

paramam dhAma - the highest place (the divine abode of emperuman);

 

tEjOnidhAnam - filled with energy; This divine place, Srirangam has the utmost

power to win over all the enemies. Can there be enemies to emperuman? No.

Emperuman doesn't treat them as enemies, but they consider emperuman as an enemy

to them (the same was indicated by Sri Rama piran when he uttered the words,

" maranAnthanthu vairAni " ). But even such nastika vadhis while they have a

glance of namperumal and his beauty they immediately loose themselves to his

charm and loving smile. Slowly they start to learn about the kalyana gunas of

emperuman and then they get trapped totally into the ocean of bhagavat krupai.

Let that high place filled with nithya Sri, Srirangam remain with prosperity!

 

 

 

bhoomA tasmin bhavatu kushalee kOpi bhoomA sahAya: - In that great place, let

the emperuman whose greatness is beyond words stay happily along with Sridevi

and bhoodevi. Who is that lord who has put down all the energy and descended to

Srirangam to uplift the innocent souls suffering in samsArA? (kOpi?) He is 'bhoo

mA sahAya:' bhoo-Bhoodevi; mA- Sridevi, Periya pirattiyAr; sahAya: - their

support, Periya perumal. Here a beauty is seen in the ordering of the words.

Generally we say Sridevi, bhoodevi and even according to Sanskrit grammar it

should have been only mA bhoo sahAya: But why has it been rearranged? It is

because emperuman is regarded as Sriya:pathi, which is a special identification

to him. So bhoomi piratti not wanting to come in between the divine couples

took her position in the front. It is a common saying in our culture that it is

not wise for anyone to stand or sit in between a husband and wife. That has

been followed by bhoodevi, though she is also the consort of perumal. The same

rearranging is seen while we say " ithihAsa puranangal " . This has been clearly

explained by pillai lokacharya in his Srivachana bhooshana sutra, " evai

erandilum vaiththuk kondu ithihAsam prabhalam; aththAlE adhu murpattadhu "

 

 

 

divyam tasmai dhishatu vibhavam dEsikO dEsikAnAm kAlE kAlE vara vara muni:

kalpayan mangalAni : Let the greatest of the acharyas, Vara Vara muni do

mangalasAsanams daily to that great bhagavan and increase the vaibhavams

(greatness) of emperuman multifold. Sri Vara Vara muni is regarded as greatest

of the acharyas since he is the acharya to Periya perumal himself. Our

guruparamparai starts with " lakshmi nAtha samArambhAm " Sriya:pathi Sriman

Narayanan. But that Narayanan choose manavAla mAmunikal as his acharya and

there by the chain of guruparamparai starts with Narayanan and ends with Periya

perumal. When perumal himself choose mAmunikal as his acharya what to say about

his greatness? (On this masi dwadasi day, namperumal takes the role of a

disciple and as a regard to his acharya, refrains from having 'surulamudhu'

(thambhoolam) and takes only the prasadam of his acharya, mAmunikal as offering)

That is why erumbiappa regards him as " desikO desikAnAm " . It is not enough if

jeeyer did mangalAsasanams one time or twice but he should remain doing the same

forever (kAlE kAlE) so that the Sriranga Sri keeps on growing ( " Sriranga Srischa

varthathAm " ) so that not only Srirangam but all the divya desams and the whole

world will live with wealth, health and prosperity ( " neekAdha selvan niraindhu "

" selvathirumAlAl engum thiruvarul peRRu enburuvar " ).

 

 

 

" SrimathE ramyajAmAtru muneendrAya mahAtmanE Sriranga vAsinE bhooyAt nithya sree

nithya mangalam "

 

 

 

Alwar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

 

 

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

 

Sumithra Varadarajan