Sri Parthasarathi thunai Srimathe Ramanujaya namaha Sri Vara Vara munaye Namaha Dear bhagavatas, This series of translation of ?ArAyira padi guru paramparA prabhavam? to know about the life history of our poorvacharyas has been discontinued for quite sometime due to the difficulty in translating the very tough part of Sri Alavandaar?s thiruppallipaduththal. We have requested help from some scholars for the same. Since it is taking time we will now proceed to continue with rest of the translation reserving the thiruppallipaduththal part for a later time. From this posting we will continue to enjoy the divine happenings in the life of our beloved acharya Sri elaiyAzhvar (EmperumAnAr) Sri ILaiyAzhwAr Vaibhavam-11 (ElaiyAzhvar becomes the disciple of Periya nambi) After Alavandaar attained the divine feet of emperuman, the kingdom of Srivaishnavism remind barren like a kingdom without a king. So the disciples of alavandaar along with Periya nambigal organized a meeting to decide who will follow alavandaar to uplift the divine srivaishnava sampradayam. Whileeveryone were in the thought of selecting the next acharya to the darshanam, Periya nambigal got to their notice, alavandaar?s special grace on elaiyAzhvar and the incident how the fingers of alavandaar unfolded hearing the commitments of elaiyAzhvar. With deep belief in alavandaar, the disciples decided to make elaiyazhvar as the next pravarthakAcharya (acharya to spread the philosophy to one and all) and requested Periya nambigal to go and visit elaiyazhvar and train him in a suitable way to adorn the post of pravarthakAcharya. Periya Nambigal along with his family went to the divine sannadhi of Namperumal and requested for permission to leave to perumal koil. Getting the permission from namperumal nambigal proceeded towards perumal koil. Due to divine ishwara sankalpam on the way, in madhurAnthakam, A-rikAththa rAmar koil nambigal and elaiyazhvar happened to meet each other. Here in perumal koil elaiyazhvar, as per the words of pErarulAlan through thirukkachchi nambigal decided to become the disciple of Periya nambi, got the permission of pErarulAlan prostrated perumal and thirukkachchi nambigal and proceeded towards koil (srirangam) to get the divine grace of Periya nambi. On the way,to the great surprise of both elaiyazhvar and Periya nambigal both of themmet in the Ari kAththa rAmar sannadhi. Amazed to have the darshan of Periya nambi on the way elaiyazhvar fell to his feet, happy to have attained the result even before reaching the place he proceeded to. Periya nambigal was also very happy and thankful to perumal and his acharya for fulfilling his wishes so soon and hence lifted elaiyAzhvar with great joy. ElaiyAzhvar requested nambigal toshow him the right path by doing hithopadhesam (teaching him the good) andthereby saving him. Periya nambigal wanted to do the same in hasthigiri since that place has its own speciality and has been highly regarded as, ?asthi hasthigirir nAma thatra sailavarO mahAn I vidhAthrApyarchithO vishnusthasya sailasya moordhani I punyakOtithi vikyAtham vimAnam punya varthanamII? But elaiyazhvar remembering the sad incident of loosing the darshan of alavandaar due to delay in time and also recollecting nammazhvar?s paasuram ?minnin nilaiyila? didn?t want any delay and hence requested nambigalto do the respective upadesam immediately at that very place. Pleased with the deep interest of the disciple Periya nambigal accepted and with greathappiness lifted elaiyAzhvar?s hand and seated him under the magizha tree inside the temple premises. In the next posting we will see how Periya nambigal did panchasamskarams toelaiyazhvar. (To be continued) AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam Adiyen, Varadarajan Ramanuja dAsan Sumithra Ramanuja dAsee --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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