Iraamaanusa nooRRanthAthi- 36th v37th verse- Ramanuja learnt and enjoyed RamayaNam deeply

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SrI:

SrImathE Ramanujaya namah:

 

Dearest all,

 

Thus GiTA Bhashyam composition was described by

Amudhanaar in the previous verse. Now EmperumAnar’s

enjoyment and bhakti on Ramayanam is described herein.

 

patikoNta keerththi iraamaa yaNamennum paththiveLLam

kutikoNta kOyil iraamaa Nnuchan_guNaNG kooRum,anpar

katikoNta maamaalarth thaaLkalan^ thuLLaNG

kaniyumn^allOr

atikaNtu koNtukanthu ennaiyum aaLavark kaakkinarE. 37

 

Emperumaanaar Sri Ramanujacharya always immerses

himself in the Great famous epic Ramayana and keeps it

with great devotion in his heart. The Bhagawathas who

praise the KalyANA guNAs of such Greatest Sri

Ramanujacharya, are the ones who have realised that

the AthmA of theirs is only to serve and be enslaved

by Sri Ramanuja. Thus, they have also given me a

re-orientation and showed me Seshathvam of

Emperumaanaar. I did not hold on to his Lotus Feet, on

my own. It is because they have shown me the greatness

of Emperumaanaar, I could get a glimpse of YathirAja's

greatness.

 

Padi koNda keertthi- The popularity of fame that

crosses the earthly boundaries;

IraamaayaNam ennum- such RAMAYANA ithihaasa mahaa

kaavyam;

Bhakthi veLLam- Sri Rama bhakti pareevaaha vaak [the

flood of bhakti towards Rama thus flowed via the

upadEsam thru acharya lineage]

Kudi koNda kOil Ramanusan- The place of residence of

such bhakti in the heart of Ramanuja;

guNam kooRum- [such Greatest EmperumAnAr’s] gUNas are

enjoyed and revered by

anbar- disciples namely KooratthAzhwAn,

madappaLLiAcchaan; Mudhali AndAn, Nadahoor AzhwAr et

al//

kadi kOnda maamalar thaaL kanadhu- fragrant lotus feet

of [those bhAaawathAs];

uLLan kaniyum nallOr adi kaNdu- with such love and

anubhavam for Ramanuja] disciples like Bhattar

recongise this lowliest self adiyEn as if adiyEn is an

object of worthiness

koNdu- accepted me;

ugandhu- enjoyed that a jeevathma is being thus saved;

 

enaniyum- even this lowly object – myself;

avarkku AaL aakkinar- enslaved me to that most

wonderful KooratthAzhwAn and EmperumAnAr.

 

The fame due to its [Ramayana’s] greatness spread

across the world; the same applies to Sri Ramanuja

also. Bhakthi veLLam- the flood of bhakti as updesam

flowed from chathur mukha [four faced] Brahma to Sage

Narada and then to Sage Vaalmeeki. That Ramayanam

through Thirumalai Nambhi [sri Ramanuja’s maternal

uncle] came down to Sri Ramanuja. Thus Ramanuja

resided in Ramanuja’s heart as its temple which

explains Ramanuja’s involvement and tremendous bhakti

towards Rama.

 

lakshmaNO lakshmi sampanna: He wanted to perform

anubhava kamikaryam through Vedantha arttha sthApanam

[establishing vedantha meaning] and hence went to

Thirumala many times and got to learn from him 18

rahaysa artthams of Ramayana from him. Thus, he

studied Ramayanam and enjoyed, analysed, understood

the word by word meanings; the verses’ contexts, the

esoteric meanings of them,; the interpretaions

[probable ones] to Veda, Vedanthams etc. It is an

anubhavam to listen to Ramanuja narraying all the

above. That was enjoyed by Swami KooratthAzhwAn,

Embaar, Swami Mudhali AndAn; MadapaLLi Acchaan, Sri

Nadadhur AzhwAr et al. Swami KoorathAzhwAn thus could

bless hence with Athimaanusha sthavam.

 

Periya Thirumozhi 3.7.3- anjuvan verse- When Bhattar

asked as to what is the meaning: arakkar kula paavai

thannai venjina mookkarindha thiRalOn- MadappaLLi

Acchaan explained saying this is the ThiruvuLLam

[interpretive meaning] of Ramanuja’s.

 

aDi kONda- They enjoyed saving me saying this fellow

has got bhakti towards the Lotus Feet of Ranganathan

[as Amudhanar was the priest] who is Aradhya Devatha

of Lord Rama. Thus I became the sishya of Swami

KooratthAzhwAn and thus am blessed to serve

EmperumAnAr. Now only I am actually qualified to

perform eternal service to RanganAthAn in its

entirety.

 

EmperumAnAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan