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Srimathe Ramanujaya Namah

There were a few typos in the previous note, hence sending
this corrected version,
 
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11/20/04:  Uttara Poorva Dinacharya
by Sri T.A. Srinidhi Swamin- Kanchipuram - Upanyasam # 6
 
Among the acharyas all kripa maatra prasannacharyas are great. Udaiyavar is the ratnam.  
But MM (Mamunigal) stands out. This does not mean we are putting down the others. 
MM?s gunas are special for example, he would never get angry.
(In Srimad Ramayanam, Perumal sent Hanuman (tiruvadi) to search for Piratti (Sita).
 When Hanuman saw Mandodari, although she was very beautiful, he realized she
could not be Sita.  Then he got caught by the rakshasas. They lit his tail and he burnt Lanka down.
 Later he sees the fire and feels sad about what he did.  He realizes that his anger drove him to do this. 
?What would have happened to Sita piratti in this fire?? he thinks to himself. )

Once when MM was in his matam some people lit fire to the matam. 
MM sat inside as he did not want to put any effort to save himself. 
Emberuman must save us. (Ex:  Draupadi episode.  Until she gave up and
stopped trying to save herself, Emberuman did not come to her. 
Once she lifted both her hands, his nAma saved her.) 

(Similary, Sita Piratti suffered in Lanka.  She realized that she did paapam
too and that?s the reason for her suffering. She contemplates ? When leaving
Ayodhya Rama told me that it would be difficult in the forest. 
But I did great apacharam saying that my father Janaka got me married to
a woman in man?s form!  This was bhagawad apacharam.
 Then when Rama went chasing maricha and she heard the scream,
I did apacharam by saying that Lakshmana had other motives.  This hurt Lakshaman very much.
 This was bhAgawata apacharam, and hence I am  suffering?. Hanuman
saw her suffering and asked her for permission to squash all the rakshasis. 
Piratti said they were just following their duty given to them by their king just
like Hanuman himself was following Rama?s orders. Bhattar in Sri
Guna Ratna Kosham says ?Maatar maithili - - - ?. She thought ?Since I am
His property I should just not be the one to take action.  It is His responsibility
to save me.?  It was easy for Her to leave Lanka and could burn Ravana
to ashes with Her pati vrata dharma shakti. 
But she chose not to do so)

People who are blind, mute and of neuter gender are specially liked by Emberuman.

Here the adjectives mean the following:

Blind---should be blind to others? faults
Mute----should be unable to discuss others? faults
Neuter -----should NOT be interested in another man?s wife

Such qualities are possible only by a sadAchArya anugraha.
MM?s shishyas possessed these qualities.

Sloka 24:
=======
MM used to start worshipping Andal first.  Note: The pashuram in Ramanuja NTD
which talks about Andal ?taalonrilla - - -- -? ends with ?maamuniyee?! 
Almost indicates that Udaiyavar knew he would come back as MM.
(MM went to Srirangam like a girl leaving her mother?s home (alwar tirunagari)
to her husband?s (Periya Perumal) house. 
The 24th slokam talked about his mangalashansams to Sri Rangarajan)

Sloka 25
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In so many DD?s there are no Bhaktas to have anubhavam. 
In Tirumalai we stand right there having the anubhavam of Emberuman
because we value that more due to the presence of several other Bhaktas
waitng to get a glimse of Him ? Similary MM used to just stand in front of
sannidhis in Srirangam. They say that we need to rest against the pillars to
prevent ourselves from swooning and falling down after enjoying Rangarajan. 

Sloka 26
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In MM?s  sannidhi in Srirangam, his small archa tirumeni was made with his
chombu(pot) paatram.  Two tirumenis were made, one in Alwar Tirunagari,
one in Srirangam MM matam.  Swamy Nammalwar?s upadesha mudra,
conveys that for people bitten by the snake samsara, the mantravaadi mudra
will remove the poison from the samsara).
(Maruti siri aanadan was the name given to the sisya who conveyed the
message to Udaiyavar in Tirunarayanapuram that krimi kanta chola was no more. 
Just like Maruti gave the message of Ravana?s death to Piratti from Emberuman). 

The Tirumeni in Tirunarayanapuram has his strength. 
He wears a vakula maalai (like Swamy Nammalawar.  He also wears 2 pavitrams. 
The sishyas ask if they could have anubhavam with the tirumeni. 
The tirumeni spoke and that?s why he is called Peshum Yatirajar in Tirunarayanapuram.
MM brought some tiru-man (sand) from Lokachariar sannidhi and kept it in the back
of his matam to do kalakshepam - Tirumalai alwar chitram. Even today special goshti
occurs for MM tirunakshatram and Tiruadhyayanam days here.  Just like Embar was
a shadow for Emberumanar, MM was a shadow to Tirumalai alwar (SriSaileshar). 

Just as Nambillai days, the crowd for his kalakshepam was more than Nammperumal goshti.
One day Emberuman got up and began to peep to see Nambillai?s goshti.
(In emberumanr days there were 4 people for tiruvilukku kainkaryam itself.
One used to bring it, one to put the tiri, one to put the oil and light it and check on it). 
When Emberuman peeped from behind the tiru vilakku picchan he was told to
get right back into the sannidhi. Emberuman wanted to enjoy Tirvaimozhi. 
(Ariyar episode about saligram perumal preferring to be in the mouth of those
who recite tiruvoimozhi rathen than in the paak box can be recalled here
that speaks of the greatness of Tiruvaimozhi). 
Once when Udaiyavar was heading towards Tirumalai, a cow boy told him
the direction.  Swamy fell flat and prostrated to him thinking him as an
acharya as he showed him the direction to Tirumalai.

Sloka 27
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MM would pour the meanings of Divya Prabandam. 
DP clears the doubts in the Vedas. Bhattar used to give more importance
to the DP vidwan than the Veda vidwan during His kalakshepam. 

Swamy Vedantachariar says that the alwar?s arulicheyyals clear up all the
doubts in Vedas.  The DP is like a vyaakyaanam for the Vedas. 
That is the reason DP leads the porappadu and Vedas follow looking for Him! 

Swamy Emberumanar used DP as the basis for all His great Sanskrit works. 
Nanjeeyar would never start his kalakshEpam unless a divya prabhandha adhikari was present.
When once a veda vidwan asked him the reason for this partiality.
He asked them a question ? Who is the real paratatwa??.
The vEda vidwan said it is rather confusing and is hard to determine.
Whereas the D.P adhikAri quickly showed EmberumAn is the real paratatva.
D.P clearly shows that samsAram is a ?vairi? and that nitya kainkaryam
is the ultimate goal.  D.P is a mixture of  rasAnubhavam as well as rahasyArtham.
It is like both medicine and dessert. MM would always serve this mixture.
Bhashyakarar has written his great works always keeping in mind the
rahasyArtham from D.P. For example in his work on Bhagavad Geeta
while explaining ?sambhavAmi yugE yugE?, he says among the 
three reasons  for this the foremost is for parithrAnAya sadhUnAm
and the other two namely ?vinAshAya cha dushkrutAm? and
?dharma samsthApartham? are secondary. Although Hiranya
did bhagavad apachAra for a long time He did not come down.
But appeared only when he started bhAgavatha apachAra by torturing PrahlAda.
Gajendralwan episode is remembered here. 
Why did Emberuman have to come physically? He could have saved Gajendran
by His sankalpam right from Sri Vaikunta or He could have sent chakrat alwar. 
But He came Himself on Garudalwan who represents Vedas. 
He came without getting vishvaksena or Piratti?s permission. 
Why did he come all the way? Because Gajendra did not call him
fearing the loss of his life, he wanted to offer the lotus he had to
His tiruvadi before it withered away. Emberuman came personally
to accept this kainkaryam from His bhakta. Bhattar says namaskAram
to the speed with which He came! EmberumAnAr used to recite
alwar?s srisookthi ?Unn shudar chOdi mareyAdE?? and reflects
it in ShriBhashya also. By contemplating on the meaning of the
Divya Prabhandha one gets the desire to perform kainkaryam for
EmberumAn. MM?s upanyAsam used to do such an upanyAsam.
 
To be continued


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