Sri Parthasarathi thunai Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha Dear Sri Sridhar, Adiyen accepts your valuable point whole heartedly. According to our mAmunigal and our sampradayam Sri Nachiyar and Madurakavigal due have a special place and also in all our hearts. pataps wrote:srImathE rAmAnujAya namaha Dear Smt. Varadarajan: Thank you for your wonderful write up on our beloved emperumAnAr and godha pirATTi. It eloquently brings out the close association extant (nerungiya sambandham) between Swamy and gOdhA pirATTi. I have a minor bone to pick in this article though :-) > --- In ramanuja@xxxx, sumithra varadarajan <sumivaradan@xxxx> wrote: > So in this day of thiruvadirai, during the Adi poora utsavam let us > all sing the praise of both our beloved nAchiyAr(who is both an > azhvar(only female azhvar) and a nAchiyar) and our beloved acharya > emperumAnAr. Sri Velukkudi varadachar swamy would say that ours is the only sampradAyam which provides multifarious paths to reaching perumAL and mOksham, and in that step wise progression, the path to perumAL's ugappu is represented in terms of bhakti -- prapatti - sharaNagathi - AchArya abhimAnam (thiruvaDigaL) The essence of kaNNinuN siruthAmbu and thiruppAvai is the importance of charama parva nishTA (the ultimate vazhi to perumAL) as exemplified by the spirit of swamy madhura kavi AzhwAr and AnDAL's ariLiccheyals. It is a spirit that holds bhAgavatha sEshatvam as the ultimate upAyam and purushArtham, to getting to perumAL. It is in this context that swAmy maNavALa mAmunigaL identifies only ten azhwars (mudhal AzhwArgaL) in upadEsa rathnamAlai, only because the ten azhwArs pursued bhagath sEshatvam and bhagavath kainkaryam as the chosen vazhi, where as both madhura kavi Azhwar and AnDAL (mEleyAr seyvanagaL) held bhAgavatha sEshatvam to be superior to bhagavath sEshatvam. And that is why, within the orthodoxy of srI vaishNavam, there are only ten Azhwars. Just because swamy madhura kavi or AnDAL are not amongst the ten in no way lessens their standing. In a sense, swamy maNavALa mAmunigaL's thiru uLLam would probably be offended, because he held them at a paDI (step) above that of even the mudhal AzhwArs. In the vaDakalai sampradAyam, somehow, this essential (and critical) difference (mEnmai) of charama parva nishTA has been over looked, and the Azhwars have been numbered as twelve. Further, several then- Acharya upanyasakas, just to keep with the times, tend to use the ten or twelve azhwars number depending on the audience and the occasion. However, in order to lend credence and respect to something every sri vaishNava chants every day (poyyilAdha maNavALA mAmuni pundhi vAzhi pugazh vAzhi vAzhiyE), it is appropriate, at least within the orthodoxy of our sampradAyam, to not include AnDAL or madhura kavi Azhwar amongst list of Azhwars (who will always be only ten) There is a separate (thani siRappu) state of exaltedness to madhura kavi Azhwar and soodikkodutha nAcchiyAr, one that captures the essential spirit and soulabhyam of srI vaishNava siddhAntham. aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan, sridhar --- In ramanuja@xxxx, sumithra varadarajan <sumivaradan@xxxx> wrote: > > Sri Parthasarathi thunai > > Srimathe RamanujAya namaha > > Sri Vara Vara munaye namaha > > > > Pranams, > > > > Today is ThiruvAdirai, monthly thirunakshatram of our beloved acharya Sri Ramanuja. This is month of Adi and in many of the divya desams in India the 10 day thiruvAdi Pooram festival is grandly celebrated now. The festival has special significance in the birth place of goda devi, srivilliputtur and in srirangam, her inlaws place. And in divya desams like thiruvallikeni also these ten days are celebrated specially. Though we miss the enjoyment of the adi poora utsavam sitting in a far of place away from our homeland let us all just have the anubhavams sitting right here. > > > Yahoo! Groups SponsorADVERTISEMENT azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Azhwar emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE saraNam Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai Sumithra Varadarajan --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs, a Yahoo! service - Search Thousands of New Jobs [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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