The Great
AchAryAs
Sri Mukundan from Singapore reminds me
that AchAryAs are no less than the Lord when it comes to
magnanimity.
True. A month or so back, when I was
talking to a fellow srEvaishNavite, he was narrating a shocking incident. One of
AchArya prushA has gone to his disciple's thirumAligai for being a swami
for thiruvadhyayanam. As everyone knows, this swAmy post is a proxy i.e
representative one. There was another srEvaishNavite who was another swAmy. The
other person was not an AchArya purushA. Therefore, the AchArya purushar
demanded that a screen- be put in between them -among the swAmy's and then the
food be served.
This shocking incident of an AchArya who
is a descendant of a distinguished lineage only goes to prove that though they
hail from esteemed family, they are no match for the magnanimity of our
pUrvAchAryAs.
Perhaps, those who place themselves on the
pedestals of ego have forgotten that Sri perumAL Himself had shared food with
thiruvadi in the same leaf, performed samskAram-last rites for periya
vuDaiyAr-jadAyU and periya nambi doing the same to mARanEAri nambi.No this is
not a write-up on grumbling on the extant scenario but to realise the values of
pUrvAchAryAs.
At the cost of being blamed for
repetition, I cannot but talk of Sri kUrathAzhwAn who immediately visited krmi
kaNDan and gave his eyes for our darsanam.
Sri nAdha-munigaL's untiring efforts to
retrieve dhivya-prabhandham running thorugh thirukkuDandhai to AzhwAr
thirunagari and with the help of kaNNi-nun-siRuthAmbu bringing back the great
'aruLich cheyal' in rank preference to yOgic sAsthram-s where bagawadhanubhavam
can be experienced alone in sharp contrast with one and all -set
the ball rolling of such large heartedness.Sri vuyyak-koNdAr
who elected to follow this path should by remmebred ever for being the earliest
pioneer for our sake.
Can one forget the great deeds of
maNak-kAl nambi, kUra-kulOthama dAsar, nam-piLLai,nanjEyar, kandhAdai
thOzhappar, naDuvil thiruvEdhip bhaTTAr?
These events precipitate ones thoughts on
them and bring memories and tears with melancholy. Shall we try to go into a few
of them?
dAsan
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
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