Gaganagiri Muni Guru paramparA prabhAvam-61 (Twenty-fifth Jeeyer contd)

March 22, 2005

Sri Parthasarathi thunaiSrimathe Ramanujaya NamahaSri Vara Vara MunayE NamahaSri VanAchala mahA munayE NamahaSrisailEsa dayA pAthram deebhakthyAdhi gunArnavamYateendra pravanam vandhE ramya jAmataram munimRamyajAmatru yOgeendra pAdha rEkhA mayam sadhAthathAyaththAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajEHH Sri Kaliyan Vanamamalai ramanuja Jeeyer 1905-1933 (Twenty-fifth pattam)

Swamy's Kainkaryams

Later in the next srimuka year, chitra month swamy planned for a grand sanAdhana dharmasabha at vanamamalai. While arranging for the same, those in thenthirupEreyil invited swamy to the brahmotsavam of magaranedunkuzhaikAdan. Swamy was very happy to take the same instance to have the divine darshan of Azhvar also and started to thirunagari. There the devotees from azhvar sannadhi welcomed swamy at the sangani thurai with all the respective honours, thirumAlai, thiruparivattam and others. Swamy humbly accepted all the honours with great pleasure and proceeded to do mangalasasanams to azhvar and Adhipiran. After having the divine darshan swamy reached the mutt. Next day happened to be visaka thirunal and hence to his utmost satisfaction swamy took part in all the ghosti’s, thirumanjanam etc and had his heart-felt darshan of azhvar, the very darshan swamy has longed for quite sometime. With great happiness swamy accepted the theertham, parivattam, thirumalai, prasadam and completed the dhadheeyArAdham grandly and then left to thenthirupErai.

In thenthirupErai, swamy stayed and enjoyed the kainkaryam to emperuman till the very end (avabruthasnAnam) and was planning to return back to vanamamalai when Devotees from Srivaikundam invited swamy to their place as the request of emperuman over there. At the same time, azhvar also visited there since it was 5th day of utsavam. Swamy, who was very attached to azhvar (charama parva nistai) now got another chance to have the darshan of emperuman with the purushakAram (recommendation) of nammazhvar. Filled with ecstasy swamy once again prostrated azhvar and returned back to vanamamalai.

Then as per his previous plan swamy, conducted the vaidhika sanAdhana dharma mahA sabhai, spending a lot of money, inviting many vaidhika and lowkika scholars in the chitra month, Srimuka varsham. Swamy was praised by one and all as sanAdhana dharma pradhistApanAcharyar.

In the next posting we will see the list of divya desa kainkaryams done by Sri swamy.

(To be continued)Alwar EmperumAnAr Jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNamAdiyen Ramanuja dAsee,Sumithra Varadarajan