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Sri Parthasarathi thunai
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Dear bhAgavathas,

This mail should have reached you all 2 days back on hanumath jayanthi but due 
to some reasons it is being sent a little late. Still let us enjoy thegreatness 
of anjaneya, the great rAma bhaktha in a very shortened form.

Sriman Narayanan has taken innumerable avatarams in this world. Among which 10 
are considered to be very important. Even among the 10 only 2 avatharams are 
generally given high prominence, the rAmAvatAram and the krishnAvatAram. 
?karpAr rAmapirAnai allAl mattrum karparO! KEtpAr kesavan keerthiallAl 
kEtparO!? wonders nammazhvar. If one wants to learn how to live then the only 
example from whom he can learn is Sri rAma. Krishna?s story can be enjoyed by 
one and all from a small kid to an age-old person but can Krishna be followed?  
 

In rAmayana, the prime bhaktha was anjanEya like the gopis in krishnAvathAram. 
The greatness of hanuman (anjaneya, maruthi) is beyond words. ?bhuddhir balam 
yesO dharyam?.? The list is never ending. Siriya thiruvadi anjanEyar is 
considered to be in the position of an acharya in our sampradayam. He was the 
one who went across the great ocean, reached sita devi andgave her life by 
reciting the rAma nAma. Then he returned back to perumaland told him ?drustA 
seetha? and gave perumal life. Not only did he give life to perumal and 
piratti, he saved the whole ayodhya kingdom. How was that?

After the 14 years exile, perumal and piratti were returning back to ayodhya. 
On the way bharadwaja muni wanted to treat the rama parivar. So rAma had to 
halt there for sometime. But bharatha has promised to jump into the fire if 
rAma didn?t return intime after completion of the vanavAsam (exile). So hanuman 
fled to ayodhya and informed bharatha about the arrival of Sri seetha rAma and 
prevented him from jumping into the fire. So now maruthi has saved a very great 
bhagavathan?s life. If bharatha jumped into the fire then perumal will also 
follow him and so will piratti and lakshmana.Then consequently all the mothers 
and whole of ayodhya will sacrifice their lives. So it was siriya thiruvadi who 
saved the whole ayodhya kingdom.

Perumal and piratti feel for not being able to do anything in exchange to all 
the help hanuman has done to them. Perumal hugged siriya thiruvadi and showed 
his joy. Finally when perumal was returning back to his abode he asked hanuman 
to accompany him but anjaneya replied ?bhAvO nAn yathra gachchathi, I cannot 
live without the darshan of you as seetha rAmar so I donot want to come to 
paramapadam and have darshan of paramapadha nAdhan. I willremain here and stay 
wherever rAmayanam is read and enjoy your archathirumenis?. Thereby siranjeevi 
hanuman remains even today wherever rAmanyanamand rama nAmam stays. ?yathra 
yathra ragunAtha keerthanam thathra thathra kruthamastha kAnchalim pAshpavAri 
paripoorna lOchanam mAruthim namatha rAkshasAnthakam"

Alwar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

Adiyen rAmAnuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan

 



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