Gaganagiri muni Guru paramparA prabhAvam-46 (Twenty-third Jeeyer)

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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 Chinna saTakOpa ramanuja Jeeyer 1883-1896 (Twenty-Third

pattam)

 

 

 

Swamy learnt all the sastras in his early ages and was a great scholar filled

with vairakhyam. Due to his lack of interest in the lowkika life he skipped 2

ashramas and directly took up sanyasa after brahmacharyam from Sri kaliyan swamy

and later was crowned as Jeeyer of the mutt by Sri rAmAnuja swamy.

 

 

 

Thirunakshatra thaniyan

 

 

 

" brahmAdheechApdamithunE jyEshtAthAra samudhbhavam I

 

saTakOpa vyOmashala rAmAnuja munim shrayE II "

 

 

 

Vaibhava thaniyan

 

 

 

" Srimad vAnamahAdri samyami padhadvanthvApja brungAdhipam Srimad vishnu

hrudhAthmajA padhayugE vinyastha bhakyujvalam I

 

shruthyanthadvaya ghoodabhAva vishadheekAra praveenam sadhA, SrirAmAnuja

yOgivarya manakam sEvE gunAmbhOdhinim II "

 

 

 

Vazhi thirunAmam

 

 

 

seer thigazhum varamangai thiruppadhiyOn vAzhiyE

 

thiruvAnik kEttai thanil sirandhudhiththOn vAzhiyE

 

A-r thigazhum kalikandri yethipadhaththOn vAzhiyE

 

erAmAnusa muniyai yEththumavan vAzhiyE

 

pArpugazhum bhAshiyaththai parindhuraippOn vAzhiyE

 

parAnkusan than pAvuraiyai pagarnAvan vAzhiyE

 

thArpugazhum varamangai tagavudaiyOn vAzhiyE

 

saTakOpa mAmunithAl sandhadhamum vAzhiyE

 

 

 

vAzhi saTakOpa mAmunithAl santhathamum

 

vAzhiavan mArpum madhimugamum-vAzhiyE

 

endhai rAmAnusanthan ennarulAl mAran

 

senthamizh eeduraikkum seer.

 

 

 

Swamy's kainkaryams

 

 

 

Swamy as per the poorvAcharya anushtanams completed all the rites to be

performed to his acharya in a very grand manner. Then honoured by deivanAykan

and sirivaramangai, swamy accepted the responsibilities of the mutt and

continued with the kainkaryams of deivanAyakan sannadhi and aranganagarappan as

done by his acharyas. Further swamy spent his time in kalashepams on

arulicheyals and rahasya vyakhyanams. The number of disciples to swamy

increased day by day (shisyAbivriththi). At this time swamy built a big,

beautiful, spacious and strong mutt in Srivilliputtur outside Andal sannadhi.

Swamy had a great love towards azhvar and andal and hence visited the sannadhi

often and did mangalasasanams. Then swamy wanted to do mangalasasanams to other

divya desams and hence after getting the permission from andal, swamy proceeded

his journey towards thirumOgoor. Swamy then did mangalAsAsanams to thirumOgoor

Aththan and mAlirunchOlai sundaran and then proceeded towards champakAraNyam.

There swamy did mangalAsAsanams to rajagOpalan " mannappadum marai vANanai

vaNthuvarApathi mannanai A-ththumin " and returned back to the mutt.

 

 

 

In mannarkudi, the disciples requested swamy to undergo his chAturmAsya

sankalpam there. Swamy accepted the request and stayed in mannarkudi for two

months and underwent his chAturmAsya sankalpam. After that swamy was honoured

by the disciples and then after having darshan of mannanAr and taking permission

to leave swamy continued his journey to nandhipura vinnagaram and did

mangalAsAsanams to nAthan stayed there for one or two days and then proceeded to

do mangalAsAsanams to " kOlamAdaneedu thaNkudandhai mEya kOvalanai " (kumbakOnam

AarAvamudan).

 

 

 

(To be continued)

 

 

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

 

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee,

 

Sumithra Varadarajan