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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 Vanamamalai Periya satakOpa rAmAnuja Jeeyer 1813-1843 (Eighteenth pattam)

 

Swamy?s kainkaryams (contd.)

 

Swamy as per their resquest left for perumal darshan amidst the sounds of 
various instruments and other honours (chatra samara thAla vAdhya mariyadai)and 
went inside and did mangalAsAnams to nAchiyar. Then with the purushakAram 
(support) of nachiyar did mangalAsAsanams to mannanAr. Honoured accordingly 
swamy then left back to the mutt. In the same manner swamy remainedhonoured in 
the mutt for 3 days. The bhagavatas in the area submitted a few fertile lands 
in the village called marudur to the divine feet of jeeyerswamy to be used for 
daily dhadheeyArAdhanam in the mutt. They further submitted more wealth to be 
used for the kainkaryams in the mutt which swamy accepted with grace.

 

After staying in the shadow of mannanAr for a few days? swamy then left back to 
Vanamamalai. People celebrated the visit of swamy to mannarkudi andconsidered 
it a great bhagyam for the residence of sembhakaranyam (rAjamannaukudi).

 

Swamy then submitted a beautiful simhAsanam made of ivory with gold plates 
studded inbetween for Andal at srivilliputtur. In thirunagari, swamy gold 
plated the entrance door of the Azhvar sannadhi. Further swamy 
consecratedazhvar in the divine padhukai of deivanAyakan. Later swamy submitted 
separate palanquins made of ivory for deivanayakan and sirivaramangai nAchiyar.

 

Swamy made a beautiful simhasanam made of ivory with gold plates inbetween and 
a beautiful tholukkiniyAn (emperuman under goes purappadu on this) for 
deivanAyakan. Swamy constructed a big mutt in rAmAnujapoodhoor. Swamy decorated 
the openings in the door of deivanayakan sannadhi with gold plates.

 

In aththAzhanallur swamy constructed a strong sannadhi for gajendra varadanand 
also constructed a mutt over there. Further swamy made simha vahanam,Periya 
thiruvadi, thiruvananthAzhvan, chandraprabhai, gajendran, siriya thiruvadi, 
kili, kamala vahanams for deivanayakan out of gold for the utsava purappadu of 
perumal in the vasantha ruthu. For the same utsavam swamy constructed a 
mandapam called vasantha mandapam out of special wood.

 

For rangamannar in srivilliputtur swamy submitted a golden simha vahanam.

 

In azhvar thirunagari, swamy submitted a golden hamsa vahanam to azhvar.

 

Swamy then started on a divya desa yathra and visited all the divya desams till 
thirumalai and submitted all the jewels submitted by adiyars on the way to the 
divine feet of varamangai nachiyar.

 

In this way, swamy did innumerable kainkaryams to bhagavan and bhagavatas and 
remained in the peedam for many years (30 years) with number of shisyas 
enlightening them with vedantha grantha kalashepams and bhagavat vishaya 
kalashepams and spreading the darshanam following the footsteps of the 
poorvacharyas. 

 

Meanwhile swamy?s health started deteriorating and swamy?s mind wandered in 
attaining the divine kainkaryam in the nithya vibhuthi. Thereby swamywanted to 
submit the peedam adorned by many great acharyas in the past in the right 
hands. Thereby swamy called pattarbiran jeeyer who was under thedivine service 
of Periya perumal in srirangam under the folder of Sri ranga narayana jeeyer. 
This jeeyer was earlier a disciple of swamy and then has been attracted towards 
the kainkaryam of Periya perumal. Swamy still wasnot able to come to a 
conclusion if he was the right choice.

 

That night andal appeared in the dream of satakOpa ramanuja jeeyer and said, 
?It is me who has come like him? pointing to pattarbiran jeeyer. He will take 
care of all the responsibilities and establish our sampradayam inthe right 
manner. Make him the next jeeyer of this mutt?. Listening tothis satakOpa 
rAmAnuja jeeyer swamy woke up and recollected the dream and realized that 
pattarbiran jeeyer was an avatharam of andal and made him thenext peedAdhipathi 
of the mutt. This was done in vikari samvatsaram (year) in the month of 
vrichchika. Pattarbiran swamy also followed the footsteps of Periya swamy and 
continued in the peedam like bharathAzhvan following the footsteps of Sri Rama.

 

After four years, satakOpa ramanuja jeeyer swamy?s health further deteriorated 
and swamy was mentally filled with Arthi, to leave this samsaric world and 
reach the divine vibhuthi of emperuman. Thereby swamy meditated on the divine 
feet of his acharya and the atma left through the susumnAnAdhi breaking open 
the skull and reached the divine abode.

 

Swamy?s charama slokam

 

?apthE shObhakrudhAhvayE sasidhinE krushnadvitheeyAnvithE jEshtApE 
vrushabhamgathE dhinakarE vAtsalya vArAm nidhi: I

vedAntha dvayapArakaha sadaripur vAnAdri yOgeeshvara: sriman svArya 
padhAravindha yugalam prApyam prapEdhE mudhA II?

 

Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

 

(To be continued)

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee,

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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