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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

Srimad Vara Vara munayE Namaha

Sri vanAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

Swamy pillai ulagariyan was born in an auspicious Iyppasi sravanam day.  He was 
born as the son of vadakku thiruveedhip pillai an ardent disciple of swamy 
Nampillai.  Due to his great acharya bhakthi vadakku thiruveedhippillai named 
his son after his acharya as pillai ulagariyan. 

 

This year's Iyppasi thiruvonam happens to be the 800th birthday celebration of 
our revered pillailokacharya.  The great works done by this acharya in his 
lifetime cannot be expressed by mere words.  Pramanam and prameyam are two eyes 
of our Srivaishnava sampradayam.  Few acharyas concentrated on preserving the 
pramanas and others concentrated on kainkaryams to the prameyam.  But pillai 
lokacharya was one of the great acharyas who worked for the upliftment of the 
pramanam as well as the prameyam.  During the muslim invasion, the head 
quarters of Srivaishnavism Srirangam was in a great danger.  Everyone ran out 
of the city.  In order to protect namperumal from foreign hands, swamy ran 
along with other devotees carrying namperumal not minding his old age.  But due 
to all the hardships faced on the way swamy attained paramapadam at jodhiskudi. 
 But before that he had shown his successor the great acharya to take over 
after him, Sri thiruvaimozhi pillai to this world.

 

Swamy pillailokacharya has done 18 divine works to preserve the pramanas.  
Those are called the ashtadasa rahasyas.  Swamy has given all the essence of 
the sampradayam in a very lucid form.  But for pillai lokacharyas divine 
literary works many divine meanings in our sampradayam would have been Greek 
and Latin for all of us today.  Swamy predicting our ignorance earlier has 
given all the arthas like a juice that could be readily had.  Moreover swamy 
manavala mamunigal's vyakhyana for this divine works is a great tonic for all 
of us interested in learning the inner divine meanings of our sampradaya.

 

During this occasion of the 800th birthday celebration of that great acharya it 
is a very great duty of all the Srivaishnavas to think about that revered 
acharya and talk and learn a lot from his life and works.  Swamy 
pillailokacharya remained a brahmachari throughout his life and worked fully 
for the upliftment of the ramanuja darshanam.  So don't we atleast have the 
gratefulness as srivaishnavas to remember this mahacharya during this wonderful 
occasion and show our small gratitude towards the magnanimity showed by 
pillailokacharya to the whole Srivaishnava community?

 

Adiyen now takes the privilege to translate and write a few words on the great 
work "pramEya sEkaram" as a tribute to the mahacharya.  All mistakes are purely 
adiyen's and if this effort is in anyway helpful to spread the message of the 
acharya then all the credits goes solely to pillaiulagariyan and of course 
adiyen's acharyan HH Sri Kaliyan vanamamalai jeeyer swamy.

 

LokacharyAya guravE Krishna pAdasya soonavE I

SamsAra bhOgi sandhasta jeevajeevAtavE namaha II

 

vAzhi vulagAsiriyan vAzhiavan mannukulam

vAzhi mudumpai ennum mAnagaram-vAzhi

manan soozhindha pErinbha malgu migu nallAr

enansoozh indhirukkum eruppu"

 

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarjan



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