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sri:
Frowarding previous Note from Smt. Sumitra & Sri Varadarajan

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

Dear bhagavatas,

In this posting, let us see the essence of the paasuram given 
below briefly and there by understand the charamOpAya nishtai of Sri Erumbiappa.

"mannuyir_kAL ingE maNavALa mAmunivan *
ponnadiyAm senkamalappOthukaLai * - unnis
siraththAlE theeNdil amAnavanum nammai *
karaththAlE theeNdal kadan " (upadesa ratina mAlai-74)

Meaning: Oh! The people of this world, if you place the divine 
feet of Swamy manavala mAmunivan on your head here then we are sure to be 
touched by the hands of amAnavan.

Who is this amAnavan?

Let us try to explain the same with the words of mAmunigal.

"endha vudal vittu eravu mandalaththinoodhEgi
evvandangazhiththu edaiyil Avaranam Ezh pOi
andhamil pAzh azhagAr virasaithannil kuliththu
angu amAnavanAl olikonda sOdhiyum pettru
amarar vandhu edhir kondu alangariththu vAzhththi 

vazhinadhaththa
vaikundham pukku mani mandapaththu sendru
nan thirumAladiyArgal kuzhangaludan koodum
nAlenakku kurugum vagai nalgu en ethirAsA" (Arthi  prabhandam-24)

Here mAmunigal explains the way the jeevatma leaves this body 
and travels through the archirAdhi mArgam to Srivaikundam. First the soul 
leaves the body and escapes through space and leaves this mandalam (world). 

Then passing through saptha Avaranam (Seven layers) it finally reaches the 
Viraja River. The soul takes a divine dip in the Viraja River. Then amAnavan 

(one who is different from an ordinary human, devan) touches this soul and 
gives it the divine glory. At this time all the mukthas come to welcome 
this soul to the nithya vibhuthi and take him inside the Srivaikundan, the land 
of muktas and nithyas. Now the soul enters the mani mandapam and joins the 
nithya bhagavatas(nan thirumAladiyars) over there. Mamunigal in this 
paasuram requests emperumAnAr to grant him the divine abode of emperuman as 
soon 
as possible, as explained above.

Swamy Manavala mAmunigal sings this prabhandam in arthi to 
shed this body immediately and attain paramapadam, whereas all cannot attain 
this state of an Artha prapannan. So we all remain druptha prapannas and hence 
erumbiappa in the above paasuram assures us that if we hold on to the divine 
feet of mAmunigal here (in the leela vibhuthi), then we are sure to attain the 
divine feet of emperuman and join all the nithya mukthas in the paramapadam 
after shedding this body ("maranamAnAl vaikundam kodukkum piran" "vaikundam 
puguvadhu mannavar vidhiyE"). Sri NammAzhvar has explained the same in his 
'Soozh 
visum pani mugil' padhigam. ("vandhavar edhir kolla mAmani mandapaththu 
andhamil pErinbhaththu adiyarOdu erundhamai"). In a single paasuram 

Swamy mAmunigal has given the meanings of the whole padhigam (11paasurams) of 
nammAzhvar. So is there any doubt in saying that holding the divine feet of 
such 
a great acharya will lead us to the divine feet of emperumAn?

In our sampradayam, Sri Vanamamalai onnAna rAmanuja Jeeyer 
swamy (the first peedAdhipadhi of the vanamamalai mutt) is considered to be the 
"ponnadiyAm senkamalam" of Swamy manavala mamunigal as Sri Periya jeeyer 
himself has called vanamamalai swamy as "nam ponnadikkAl Jeeyer!". Like 
madurakavigal or ramanujan to Sri SaTakOpar and MudaliyAndan or AnanthAzhvan to 
ethirajar, Sri Vanamamalai PonnadikkAl Jeeyer swamy remained to Swamy manavala 
mAmunigal.

Adiyen beg pardon for any mistakes committed. May the learned 

bhagavatas please
forgive and correct the same.

Alwar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigale sharanam
Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee
Sumithra Varadarajan






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