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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
thathAyathatAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE

When Vanamamalai rAmAnuja Jeeyer was deeply depressed with sorrow thinking 
about the separation from his acharya, Periya Jeeyer who understood his inner 
feeling said, ?Jeeya! Don?t worry. Come on. Accompany me to namperumAl 
sannadhi. Hearing to these graceful words, ponnadikkAl Jeeyer regained all his 
enthusiasm and followed his acharya with great joy.

Then the renounced paramahamsa sanyAsi, Sri Periya Jeeyer took the permission 
of alwar and like a chaste women going from her paternal place to her in-laws 
place, along with vanamamalai Jeeyer left alwar thirunagari and proceeded 
towards the third vibhoothi of perumal, Srirangam. After doing mangalAsAsanam 
to periya perumal they proceeded towards the mutt.

At that time, when Periya Jeeyer was delivering kalashEpams in Srirangam, one 
great mahan belonging to the vAdhoola clan by the name srinivAsAchariyar, 
learnt about the greatness of swamy and wanting to fall under the divine feet 
of swamy, came to swamy?s sannadhi and did sAshtAnga pranAmam. He requested 
swamy to kindly take him as his shisya. Periya Jeeyer showed him vanamamalai 
Jeeyer and said, ?Take our ponnadikkAl Jeeyer as your acharyaand you are 
destined to get all good fortunes due to that?. SrinivAsAchariyar thereby 
followed Periya Jeeyer?s orders and fell in the feet of vanamamalai Jeeyer. 
Vanamamalai Jeeyer swamy also followed his acharya?s words and did 
panchasamskAram to the mahAcharyar and in appropriate order gave him the 
mantras and manthrArthams and also made him undergo the bhagavatvishaya 
kalashEpam.

Mahacharya then wondered, how the sambandham of elders and mahans can totally 
change the lifestyle of even an ordinary person like him and felt very grateful 
to Periya Jeeyer to have blessed him with such a great acharya. With the 
greatness of his acharya filled in his mind, he then wrote, dhinacharyai, 
prapathi, and mangalAsAsanam for his acharya, vanamamalai rAmAnuja Jeeyer 
swamy. This prabhandam has become the nithyAnusandhAnam for mumukshusto attain 
the divine abode of emperumAn.

Meanwhile, samarapungavAcharyAr, heard about the greatness of vanamamalai 
rAmAnuja Jeeyer, pAdharEkhA of Periya Jeeyer, and came to swamy?s 
sannadhisubmitted everything to swamy and surrendered into the feet of 
vanamamalaiJeeyer and got the manthrArtham and bhagavat vishaya sath 
sampradAyam fromVanamamalai swamy and stayed in the nithya kainkaryam of the 
acharya.

Then, rAmAnujAchariyar belonging to the srivatsa clan came and surrendered to 
vanamamalai jeeyer and became his shisya. Vanamamalai Jeeyer seeing thetejas of 
rAmAnujAcharyar thought, ?By the grace of periya perumal he will become the 
darshana pravarthakar? and was glancing at him when rAmAnujAcharyar came 
forward and did sAshtAnga pranAmams to Jeeyer and uttered the following words, 
?dhayasva mAmathya dhayAnithE tvam?.

Vanamamalai Jeeyer showered his grace on him and in a way to remove all 
hissamsAric miseries, did panchasamskAram and gave him the thirunAmam ?Ramanuja 
pillAn? and then taught him all the rahasya arthas and bhagavat vishayam and 
according to the verse ?chakAra vedhantha yuga praveenam? madehim 
ubhaya-vedAntha pravarthakar and showered his full grace on him. Thereby, 
rAmAnuja pillan who was otherwise commonly called ?pillai? stayed along with 
vanamamalai jeeyer as his prime shisya and lived continuing his uninterrupted 
service to swamy for 32 years.

(To be continued)

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai
Sumithra Varadarajan


 



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