Sri Parthasarathi thunai
Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha
Sri Vara Vara munayE Namaha
Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha
Many philosophies and religions have been profounded and propagated for ages.
"Samayam palapala vAkki" says swamy Nammazhwar. All the different philosophies
were framed by emperuman himself and were given to the world. Among these,
Srivaishnava dharmam remains unique. This is because, it has been in existence
from the age of the vedas and our glorious Guruparamparai stream of Acharyas
propagates its richness across generations.
The originator of this Srivaishnava sampradayam, who is the first in the
Guruparamparai chain of acharyas, is Lord Sriman Narayanan himself. He is
followed by piratti, Sri Mahalakshmi. Then follows senai mudaliyar,
vishvaksenar. This lineage is actually a cycle starting with periya perumal
and ending with perumal himself as he cherished being the disciple of Swamy
manavala mAmunikal the last in the acharya lineage. Moksha is assured to
anyone who is part of this cycle. To get more Srivaishnavas into fold swamy
udaiyavar, blessed with the wealth of the two worlds and one who is adorned as
"Srivishnu loka mani mandapa mArga dhAyee" appointed the 74 simhasanAdhipadhis,
who blessed shisyas with the three rahasyas (samasrayanam/panchasamskaram) and
got them into the sharanagathi marga as a representative of Swamy ramanuja. We
find the acharyas in the lineage of the 74 simhasanAdhipadhis still doing
samasrayanam and uplifting many ignorant jeevatmas.
After swamy udaiyavar the "oran vazhi sampradayam" continued till Swamy
manavala mAmunikal, adorned as ethi punarAvathara (yatheendra pravana). Swamy
mAmunikal appointed ashtadiggajAcharyas to spread and establish the ramanuja
darsanam in all the 8 directions. The first and foremost among them, the prime
disciple of Swamy mAmunikal celebrated as "Ponnaddikal jeeyer' by mAmunikal
himself was the founder of the vanamamalai mutt, 'HH Sri onnana vanamamalai
ramanuja jeeyer swamy"
No words can really express the deep acharya bhakthi of swamy. Onnana swamy
took sanyasa even before his acharya, Swamy Mamunikal for the very purpose of
acharya kainkaryam. Swamy did extensive traveling throughout India as per the
instruction of his acharya and did a great service to our sampradayam. The
effect of which we realize even today, as we find thodadri mutts throughout
India and in Nepal. Adiyen has met a few people from Nepal who proudly declare
themselves to be thodadri mutt shisyas and when we say that we are also part of
the mutt then the reverence and regards reflect in their eyes.
To have a detailed study about this great acharya adiyen requests you all to go
through the book "Sri Varamangai Muni Vaibhavam". The writeup in english based
on this book can be seen under the following link www.geocities.com/sumivaradan
under vaibhavams section.
Following ponnaddikal swamy, 30 Jeeyers have followed till date. Now the crown
of Vanamamalai mutt is adorned by our revered acharya HH Sri kaliyan
vanamamalai Ramanuja Jeeyer swamy (30th peedAdhipathi). Due to the divine
blessings of our acharya and the ultimate grace of parthasarathi emperuman
adiyen had written about the taniyan, kainkaryam and charama sloka details of
the first 27 Jeeyers as postings in the groups based on "Gaganagiri Muni
Guruparampara Prabhavam". Adiyen humbly requests all bhagavatas to browse
through the archives to know about all the great mahans (acharyas) in the
Gaganagiri Muni Guru parampara.
With such a great order of acharyas and with mutts all over India, isn't it
fare to have a mutt also in the second special divya desam for Srivaishnavas,
thirumalai? But why hasn't there been a mutt in thirumalai till today? Let us
wait till the next posting to know the answer.
Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam
Adiyen ramanuja dAsee
Sumithra Varadarajan
"LET US WORK IN UNITY AND BE PART OF THE ACHARYA KAINKARYAM AND GET CLOSE TO
THE HEARTS OF THE DIVINE COUPLES"
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