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Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

Dear BhAgavatas,

A side note to Sri Shanthakumar's beautiful post.
In Thirumalai the sannidhi of Sri Ramanujar was
established with Swami Emperumanar's permission 
by his disciple Sri Anandazhvan. And Sri 
Ramanujar's thiruvadi nilai in that sannidhi is 
known as Anandazhvan.

There are several interesting episodes of 
interaction between Sri Anandazhvan and Sri 
Ramanujar at Thirumalai. I am adding one of
those in this mail, which I had posted in 
other egroups some time ago. I will also post
some of the other episodes later.

This article was collected from an upanyasam
by Sri PBA Swami on Thiruvengadamudaiyan.

In his Tiruvandaadi, Sri Bhoothatthazhvaar describes
an event occuring in the hills of Tirumalai as
follows. 

perugu mathavEzham maappidikku munninRu
irukaNiLamoongil vaangi arugiruntha
thEn kalanthu neettum thiruvEngadam kaNdeer
vaan kalantha vaNNan varai 

The description of nature in this paasuram is, in the
Tirumalai hills, a male elephant in musth, pulls off a
bamboo shoot, dips it in a honeycomb nearby and
extends it to its female elephant. 

Tirumalai Ananthaazhvaar enjoyed this paasuram as
follows. 

On one occasion when Sri Ramanuja visisted
Tiruvengadam, the devotees there requested that he
give a discourse on the meaning of Dvayam. Sri
Ramanuja agreed and did so; however, he also included
the meanings of Tirumantram and Carama SlOkam in the
discourse and as such the discourse became lengthy. 

Upon seeing this, Ananthazhvar stated that on that day
he understood the true meaning of Bhoothatthazhvar's
paasuram, as follows. 

The male elephant in mast is a description of Sri
Ramanujar - the mast is the tears in his eyes as he
enjoys the divine words of Swami Nammazhvar ("paNdaru
maaRan pasunthamizh aanantham paaymathamaay viNdida
engaL raamaanusamuni vEzham"). 

The female elephant represents the devotees in the
gathering. 

Moongil represents a delicious substance. Here it
stands for dvayam. Amongst Tirumantram, Dvayam, and
Carama SlOkam, Dvayam (mantra ratnam) is the most 
delicious to Sriman Narayana's devotees. Also, since 
Azhvar said a moongil with two eyes (knots), it 
represents dvayam with its two parts. 

The honey in the comb nearby refers to Tirumantram and
Carama SlOkam near Dvayam. 

The word neettum (extend) refers to the fact that the
discourse was extended because Sri Ramanuja added the
meanings of Tirumantram and Carama SlOkam to the
meaning of Dvayam. 

Thus the description of TiruvEngadam was that of Sri
Ramanujar extending a lengthy discourse to His
devotees on the meanings of Dvayam, Tirumantram and
Carama SlOkam.

Azhvar Emperumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam

adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan
TCA Venkatesan
http://www.acharya.org

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