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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

 

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

 

Sri Vara Vara munayE Namaha

 

Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

 

 

Swamy manavala mAmunikal celebrates thirumangan mannan as " mAran paniththa

thamizh maraikku mangaiyarkOn Arangam koora avadhariththa " (upadesaratina

mAlai-9). Let us now enjoy how kaliyan has followed the footsteps of

nammazhvar. You may all question, " Why is this sudden diversion when all along

this series there was only a comparison of words of geethacharyan and kaliyan? "

Actually this is no diversion from the actual topic. GeethAcharyan in his 10th

chapter " Vibhoothi yOgam " as per the request of arjuna talks in detail about his

vibhoothi (greatness-svamAhAtmyam) but before beginning, Krishna warned arjuna

that it is not possible for even the lord himself to tell his greatnesses in

full as there is no limit to the same. Following the footsteps of geethAcharyan

nammazhvar wonders, " What shall I say about that supreme lord! " in the third

centum 4th decade of thiruvAimozhi. This is a padhigam that has to be surely

enjoyed and hence adiyen is adding this at this point.

 

 

 

" pugazhum nal oruvanenkO? poruvil seer bhoomi enkO?

 

tigazhum thaN paravai enkO? teeyenkO? vAyuenkO?

 

nigazhum AkAsamenkO? neelsudar erandum enkO?

 

egazhvil evvanaiththumenkO? kannanai koovumArE " (3-4-1)

 

 

 

Nammazhvar - pugazhum nal oruvanenkO? poruvil seer bhoomi enkO? tigazhum thaN

paravai enkO? teeyenkO? vAyuenkO? nigazhum AkAsamenkO?

 

 

 

Kaliyan summarizes the same as - bhoodham IyindhAi

 

 

 

Nammazhvar - neelsudar erandum enkO?

 

 

 

Kaliyan - punaluruvAi analuruvil

 

 

 

" sAdhimAnikkamenkO? savikoLpon muththamenkO?

 

sAdhinal vayiramenkO? tavivilseer vilakkamenkO?

 

AdhiyansOdhi enkO? AdhiyempurudanenkO?

 

AdhumilkAlaththendhai achchudhan amalanaiyE " (3-4-4)

 

 

 

Nammazhvar - sAdhimAnikkamenkO? savikoLpon muththamenkO? sAdhinal vayiramenkO?

 

 

 

Kaliyan - ponnuruvAi maNiyuruvil

 

 

 

Nammazhvar - AdhiyansOdhi enkO?

 

 

 

Kaliyan - thigazhum sOdhi?

 

 

 

Nammazhvar - AdhumilkAlathth endhai

 

 

 

Kaliyan - ennuruvil nindra endhai

 

 

 

What a great reflection of words and ideas and that is why thondaradipodi azhvar

declares that all of them belong to one clan " pEsittrE pEsalallAl " . If they

repeat the same won't " punarukthi dOsham or the mistake of copying others words "

arise? No. This is no error when it comes to talking the greatness of emperuman

as it is the truth, fact and has to be repeated. How many ever bhakthas may

come even in the future no one can change these at any time. We have no other go

than to repeat what our poorvacharyas have given, the great treasure we possess.

Nammazhvar followed geethacharyan (sastras), kaliyan followed nammazhvar, our

acharyas followed the words of kaliyan (all the azhvars), and we have to follow

our acharyas. The same chain follows while attaining the result too. We follow

our acharyas, they follow their acharya who followed the azhvars - nammazhvar-

vishvaksenar-periya pirattiyar-periya perumal and we all will finally land in

the great land of nithyAnubhavam, the nithya soori mandalam, paramapadam.

 

 

 

We will enjoy more of kaliyan's words along the footsteps of geethacharyan in

the forth-coming postings.

 

 

 

(To be continued)

 

 

 

Azhvar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

 

 

 

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

 

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

Note: Today is the great day on which " vedupari " is celebrated in our dear

kaliyan's avadhara stalam, thiruvali-thirunagari. Blessed are those bhagavatas

who have the bhakyam to be in that place to enjoy kaliyan threatening vayalAli

manavalan to get the alpa Ishwaryam and finally being blessed with the greatest

wealth of thirumanthram. Here is Swamy manavala mAmunikal's mangalasasanam to

our dear thirumangai mannan,

 

 

 

" vurai kazhiththa vAlai oththa vizhi madandhai mAdarmEl

 

vurugavaiththa manamozhiththu evvulagalandha nambimEl

 

kuraiyai vaiththu madaleduththa kurayalAli thirumaNam

 

kollaithannil vazhipariththa kuttramattra senkaiyAn

 

maraiyuraiththa mandiraththai mAluraikka avanmunE

 

madiyodikki manamadakki vAipudaiththu onnalAr

 

karaikuliththa vElaNaiththu nindra endha nilaimai

 

en kaNNai vittu agandridAdhu kaliyanAnai ANaiyE "

 

 

 

Thirumangai azhvar did 'vazhipari kollai' but mAmunikal says he is " kuttramattra

senkaiyAn " (flawless) Why? Because he did 'vazhi pari' for the sake of bhagavata

dhadheeyArAdhanam. So swamy feels for bhagavat/bhAgavata kainkaryam even

threatening and getting from those who have wealth is not a mistake. Ofcourse

only two people had the courage to take others money for kainkaryam one is

thirumangai azhvar and other badrachala ramadas, a great bhaktha of rama who

rebuilt the temple of badrachalam with the tax money that had to originally go

to the muslim king.

 

 

 

Thirumangai azhvar thiruvadigalE sharaNam