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Sri Parthasarathi thunai
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha
Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha

SrisailEsa dayA pAthram deebhakthyAdhi gunArnavam
Yateendra pravanam vandhE ramyajAmataram munim

Dear bhagavatas,

With the thirunakshatram of our beloved Periya Jeeyer, ettuperukkar, Sri 
Azhagiya manavala Jeeyer, Sri mAmunigal approaching shortly let us all enjoy 
the greatness of that great mahAcharyar, the acharya of not only we jeevatmas 
but also the lord himself, in a series of postings. Adiyen is definitely not 
capable enough to write about the acharya in full. Bhagavan in geetha says to 
arjuna that he himself cannot say about his greatness in entirety. In our 
sampradayam, we regard acharyas to be equal or more so even greater than the 
emperumAn himself. Mamunigal is one such acharya who the lord himself chose to 
regard as his own acharya. So there is absolutely no chance that adiyen can 
write in full about the greatness of Periya Jeeyer. Butjust to refine myself 
and to spend some useful hours in rememberance of the great acharya and also 
make others know the divine qualities of the revered acharya, adiyen is diving 
into the ocean of the gunas and anubhavams of Sri mAmunigal.

Adiyen hopes to survive without drowning in the guna sAgaram of the mahAcharya, 
with the help of bhagavat/bhAgavata krupai and the paripoorna katAksham of all 
our alwars and poorvacharyas. Adiyen seeks the special blessings of 
asmadAcharya, Sri Vanamamalai swamy who is a direct descendent of Sri Manavala 
mAmunigal. To the benefit of those who are unaware of this fact, Sri 
ponnadikkAl Jeeyer, the first peedAdhipathi of the vanamAmalai mutt was the 
prime shisya, the ?ponnadiyAm senkamalam? (divine thiruvadi) of Periya Jeeyer. 
So adiyen should be proud to belong to such a mutt and that increases my duty 
to write about mAmunigal to the extent possible with my limited knowledge.

The life history of Periya Jeeyer is known to many of us and adiyen hopes to 
see postings on the same from other members of this group. When we consider the 
contributions of swamy mAmunigal, the main works, which comes to our memory, 
are Upadesa ratnamAlai, thiruvAimozhi nootrandhAdhi and Arthi prabhandam in 
tamil and yathirAja vimsathi in Sanskrit. Swamy has done a lot of kainkaryam in 
writing vyakhyanams to many rahasya grantas like mumukshupadi, acharya 
hrudhayam, etc. Swamy?s literary contribution is limited because during swami?s 
time, he had to mainly concentrate in the reconstruction of the temple 
activities, which has been lost due to the muslim invasion and another reason 
is, his thought that there were enough poorvAcharya granthas and there was no 
necessity for him to add more. But swamy did not leave the important areas, 
which had to be covered. For instance, the first part of periAzhvar thirumozhi 
vyakhyAnam (commentary) of Periya vAchAn pillai was lost and hence the 4000 
vyakhyAnam was incomplete. Swamy completed the vyakhyanam from the first 
paasuram of periAzhvar thirumozhi and stopped with the paasuram ?vAkku 
thooymaiyilAmaiyAl? from which Periya vAchAn pillai?s vyakhyAnam was available. 
Here we have to see the acharya nishtai of mAmunigal. He could have completed 
the vyakhyAnam for the whole periyAzhvar thirumozhi, since only a few more 
paasurams were remaining. It is not that he cannot do it. But swamy felt, ?what 
is the need for me to write when the vyakhyana chakravarthi?s vyakhyanam is 
available?. So Mamunigal didn?t even complete the paasuram but stopped with the 
verse till which the vyakhyanam has been lost. Such was his acharya nishtai and 
hence swamy didn?t write much grantas or slokas but restricted to what was 
absolutely necessary and concentrated on establishing the temple procedures (as 
given by emperumAnAr ?rAmAnujArya divyAgya?) and doing vyakhyAnams to 
poorvAcharya grantams and spreading the essence of our sampradaya vishayams to 
one and all to lift us all from this world of misery and raise us tothe world 
from where we will never return back (?na cha punarAvarthathE?).

Adiyen in this series of postings will write about mAmunigal?s Arthi 
prabhandam, the last prabhandam of Swamy manavala mAmunigal expecting other 
scholars to flood our inboxes with excellent postings on the other works of 
mAmunigal and also about the divine qualities of that great soul. When one is 
in distress, his true colour is absolutely shown. In his Arthi prabhandam swamy 
shows all his divine qualities and anubhavams. Let us see how, in the forth 
coming postings. Once again adiyen is not capable of writing about the divine 
anubhavams of Periya Jeeyer swamy in Arthi prabhandam in full but will deal 
with mainly one or two paasurams again limited to my little knowledge.  

Any errors which adiyen commits may be please pardoned and corrected by 
thelearned members of this group.

(To be continued)

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai
Sumithra Varadarajan


 



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