Gaganagiri Muni Guru paramparA prabhAvam-54 (Twenty-fifth 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 Kaliyan Vanamamalai ramanuja Jeeyer 1905-1933 (Twenty-fifth pattam)

 

 

 

Swamy's Kainkaryams

 

 

 

In NaimisAranyam swamy prostrated emperuman in the form of a forest (vanaroopi)

and came round ( " naimisAraniyath thendaiyai sindaiyul vaiththu kAdhalE

miguththa " ) honoured by yogasrEstas and then through lakshmaNapuri (lucknow),

karNapuri (Kanpur) reached chitrakooda parvatham ( " subhaga: chitrakoodOsow " ).

 

 

 

There swamy took bath in the divine mandhAgini river where once perumal and

piratti had their divine bath. Swamy stayed in that place for sometime and

meditated on those days when perumal and piratti stayed there and made the place

divine. Then swamy started from there and reached rivA samsthAnam. The king

over there honoured swamy in the appropriate manner and was captured by the

gunapoorti and pAndityam (scholarliness) of swamy. He seated swamy on a golden

palanquin and himself carried the palaquin over his shoulders. He submitted

number of costly jewels, paatu peedhAmbharam to the divine feet of swamy along

with an elephant (gajendran) with golden ambAri. Swamy accepted all of them for

the sake of bhagavat kainkaryam happily. Swamy preached the indepth meanings

(sooshmArthangal) of the Sriramanuja siddhAntham along with pramanas to the king

and left the king filled with ultimate gratefulness towards swamy.

 

 

 

Then swamy went to prayAgai (AllahAbad), bathed in the trivEni and then visited

vAranAsi (kAsi). After doing dharmastApanam over there swamy proceeded to

thiruayOdhi. Swamy visited the janma stAnam (birthplace) of chakravarthi

thirumagan, the kanakabhavanam (the beautiful palace) where perumal and piratti

lived. Swamy then visited mithilai (janakapuram) and finally reached hatva

samstAnam. There the politely king welcomed swamy.

 

 

 

Swamy took a divine bath in the kandakee river (salagrama theertham) and

proceeded his journey uplifting number of jeevatmas all through the way. Then

accepting the request of many sadhusampradaya acharyas and kings swamy proceeded

towards pataleepuram (patna). There swamy took part in a sadhu sampradAya mahA

sabha in which number of mahA vidwans from different parts of the world along

with kasi raja, hatva raja and others took part. All of them prostrated swamy

and humbly requested swamy to lead over the gathering, which was graciously

accepted by swamy and swamy conducted the meet in a very grand manner. During

the meet swamy gave a brilliant lecture in Hindi about the important aspects of

shruti and smriti in a very simple and lucid manner and immersed everyone

gathered over there in immense joy.

 

 

 

After the meet many kings realizing the greatness of swamy welcomed swamy to

their place and honoured swamy greatly. Then swamy through ranikaNj route

reached Sri JagannAtham (puri). There swamy did mangalAsAsanams to

purushOthaman. Further honoured by kings of poppili, vijayanagaram and

piththApuram samasthAnams swamy proceeded his journey to Srikoormam and

SimhAchalam. In those divine kshetras swamy did mangalAsAnams to the emperumans

and through the kAkinAda route finally reached thirumalai.

 

 

 

(To be continued)

 

 

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr Jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee,

Sumithra Varadarajan