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Sri Parthasarathi thunai
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha
Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha
Sri VanAchala mahA munayE Namaha

SrisailEsa dayA pAthram deebhakthyAdhi gunArnavam
Yateendra pravanam vandhE ramya jAmataram munim

RamyajAmatru yOgeendra pAdha rEkhA mayam sadhA
thathAyaththAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE

HH Sri Kaliyan Vanamamalai ramanuja Jeeyer 1905-1933 (Twenty-fifth pattam)



Swamy's Kainkaryams



In NaimisAranyam swamy prostrated emperuman in the form of a forest (vanaroopi) 
and came round ("naimisAraniyath thendaiyai sindaiyul vaiththu kAdhalE 
miguththa") honoured by yogasrEstas and then through lakshmaNapuri (lucknow), 
karNapuri (Kanpur) reached chitrakooda parvatham ("subhaga: chitrakoodOsow").



There swamy took bath in the divine mandhAgini river where once perumal and 
piratti had their divine bath. Swamy stayed in that place for sometime and 
meditated on those days when perumal and piratti stayed there and made the 
place divine. Then swamy started from there and reached rivA samsthAnam. The 
king over there honoured swamy in the appropriate manner and was captured by 
the gunapoorti and pAndityam (scholarliness) of swamy. He seated swamy on a 
golden palanquin and himself carried the palaquin over his shoulders. He 
submitted number of costly jewels, paatu peedhAmbharam to the divine feet of 
swamy along with an elephant (gajendran) with golden ambAri. Swamy accepted all 
of them for the sake of bhagavat kainkaryam happily. Swamy preached the indepth 
meanings (sooshmArthangal) of the Sriramanuja siddhAntham along with pramanas 
to the king and left the king filled with ultimate gratefulness towards swamy.



Then swamy went to prayAgai (AllahAbad), bathed in the trivEni and then visited 
vAranAsi (kAsi). After doing dharmastApanam over there swamy proceeded to 
thiruayOdhi. Swamy visited the janma stAnam (birthplace) of chakravarthi 
thirumagan, the kanakabhavanam (the beautiful palace) where perumal and piratti 
lived. Swamy then visited mithilai (janakapuram) and finally reached hatva 
samstAnam. There the politely king welcomed swamy. 



Swamy took a divine bath in the kandakee river (salagrama theertham) and 
proceeded his journey uplifting number of jeevatmas all through the way. Then 
accepting the request of many sadhusampradaya acharyas and kings swamy 
proceeded towards pataleepuram (patna). There swamy took part in a sadhu 
sampradAya mahA sabha in which number of mahA vidwans from different parts of 
the world along with kasi raja, hatva raja and others took part. All of them 
prostrated swamy and humbly requested swamy to lead over the gathering, which 
was graciously accepted by swamy and swamy conducted the meet in a very grand 
manner. During the meet swamy gave a brilliant lecture in Hindi about the 
important aspects of shruti and smriti in a very simple and lucid manner and 
immersed everyone gathered over there in immense joy.



After the meet many kings realizing the greatness of swamy welcomed swamy to 
their place and honoured swamy greatly. Then swamy through ranikaNj route 
reached Sri JagannAtham (puri). There swamy did mangalAsAsanams to 
purushOthaman. Further honoured by kings of poppili, vijayanagaram and 
piththApuram samasthAnams swamy proceeded his journey to Srikoormam and 
SimhAchalam. In those divine kshetras swamy did mangalAsAnams to the emperumans 
and through the kAkinAda route finally reached thirumalai.



(To be continued) 



Alwar EmperumAnAr Jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee,
Sumithra Varadarajan












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