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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

In the last posting we saw that Sri Manavala mAmunigal, Periya Jeeyer requested 
or begged Ethiraja to grant him moksha. Is Ethirajar capable to grantthe same?

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Yes. Our swamy ethirajar has the full power to grant us all moksha. That?s why 
we srivaishnavas consider rAmanuja sampandham (relationship with ramanuja) very 
very important. Let us see how.
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According to prapannAmrutham, a book outlining the life history of Ethirajar, 
written by one Sri Ananthasoori, who comes under the shisya paramparai 
(lineage) of Sri kOil Annan, one of the ashtadiggas of mAmunigal, before 
theavatar of emperumAnAr a small dialogue occurred between perumal and ananthan 
in Srivaikundam. 

SrivaikundanekEthanan, bhagavan told his beloved thiruvananthAzhvan, ?Oh! 
Anantha. I have taken birth myself to change this world. But didn?t succeed 
completely. Then I sent the azhvars who sang praise of me and changed people to 
an extent but now that it has been long since the time of azhvars divya 
avatars, people have now been affected by kali and are grieved very much by the 
same. So now you take avatar as an acharya and spread and establish the correct 
path for people so that they attain my divine feet. ?

Anantha replied, ?Oh! My lord I will be elated to do the same but you should 
assure me that you will give me the powers to control, the ubhayavibhuthi (the 
two wealths bhagavan has, the leela vibhuthi and the nithya vibhuthi) so that I 
will be able to bring everyone to your divine abode without any hinderance?

Emperuman accepted for the same and hence anantha took avatar as Sri Ramanuja. 
To show to everyone that emperuman has given both the vibhooti?s, hehad under 
the control of ethirajar, namperumal says the same in front of everyone when 
ethirajar steps inside Srirangam and gives him the name ?Udayavar?. So now it 
is proved that Udayavar, Sri ethirajar has power to grant moksha to one and 
all. One may think how it differs whether perumal has the control or ethirajar. 
The difference lies in the qualities of both. Emperuman has nirangusa 
svatharyam (unquestionable independence) and grace, so it depends on his wish 
to either grant us moksha or not but emperumAnAr is filled with krupai alone 
and hence he is capable to wash all our sins and grant moksha.

This has been excellently portrayed by Sri Periya Jeeyer swamy in arthi 
prabhandam (26) as follows:

?thennarangar thamakkAmO? DEviyarkat kAmO?
SEnaiyarkOn mudalAna sooriyarkatkAmO?
Manniya sErmAran arulmAri thamakkAmO?
Mattrumulla dEsikargal thangalukkumAmO?
Ennudaiya pizhai porukka yAvarukku mudiyum?
EthirAsA! Vunakkanri yAn oruvark kAgEn
VunnarulAl enakku rusi thannaiyumundAkki
Olivisumbil adiyEnai orupaduththu virainthE.?

Meaning: Can Sriranganatha in Srirangam forgive my mistakes? Can the piratti?s 
forgive them? Can senai mudaliyAr (vishvaksEnar) and all the nithya sooris 
forgive? Can mAran (sadagopan) who is praised as arulmAri (ocean of grace) 
forgive? Can any of the other acharyas forgive? Oh! No. My mistakesare infinite 
and hence no one can ever forgive them other than our belovedethirAjar. On 
EthirAja! I cannot take refuge from anyone else other than you. So please 
shower your divine grace on me and create a interest in me and take me to the 
divine abode of emperuman and put me into the divine feet of bhagavan for his 
nithya kainkaryam.

In this paasuram, mAmunigal says that Sriranganatha cannot forgive his mistakes 
because he has to act equally to all and hence seeing his mistakes, perumal?s 
svathantriyam will override his grace and prevent him from granting moksha to 
this sinner. Due to the amount of sins committed by us even the devi?s who are 
always filled with krupai turn their faces away from us. Similar is the case 
with nammAzhvar or the nithyasooris but amidst all of them there is one sole 
refuge for souls like us, filled with only sins, he is our emperumAnAr, 
ethirajar who wipes out all our sins just by his sambhandam and takes us all to 
the divine abode of perumal, Srivaikundam.

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Now, it is clear that ethirajar is capable of granting moksha. Then what about 
the people who remained before the period of emperumAnAr. How did they get the 
sambhandam (relationship)? Then are the other acharyas in the guru paramparai 
not capable of taking us all to the divine abode of emperuman?

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Let us see in the next posting.

(To be continued)

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai
Sumithra Varadarajan

 


 



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