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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
ThathAyath thAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE

On the way of the long journey, thiruvenkata Jeeyer, anantAzhvan and 
othersinvolved in a deep discussion about the greatness of vanamamalai swamy as 
follows:

?Janaka, found piratti in his yaga shAla. He cared and brought up the child as 
his daughter and was immensely happy to give her in marriage to rAmapiran. 
Vishnuchithar (?meimai peruvArthai ketturuppar?) found goda piratti under a 
tulasi plant in his garden. He brought up the child with great love and 
affection and gave in marriage to perumal with great joy. But janakan, king of 
mithilai, father of sita piratti or vidarpa raja, father of rukmani piratti or 
periyAzhvar, father of soodhikkoduththa nAchiyar will never equal the greatness 
of our swamy.  

Why because, janakan considered sita piratti has his daughter and when perumal 
himself (?rAmam sathya parAkramam) came and asked him to give her in marriage 
to him, Janaka didn?t do it immediately but stubbornly said, ?veerya sulkEthi 
bhagavan nathathAmi sudha maham l thEsham jignAsamAnA nAm veeryam 
thanarupAhrutham ll? and accepted for marriage only after perumal satisfied his 
veerya sulkam (test for bravery) by breaking the siva dhanush. So janaka was 
more concerned with his own promises even in front of perumal.

In case of vidharpa raja though he knew that rukmani was in deep love with 
Krishna paramatma (?sruthvAN gunAn bhuvanasundara srunvathAm thE nirvichya 
karnavivarair hara thonga thApam l Roopam thrushAm thruchinmathA mahilAthma 
lAbham tvai achchutavi sadhA chitthA mapathrapam mE ll?) and that onlythe two 
suite each other and inspite of all the other relatives and friends voting for 
the marriage, he listened to his beloved son rukmi and arranged for rukmani?s 
marriage with sisupala .

Periazhvar, though being well versed in all sastras considered piratti to be 
his daughter and hence had a doubt if perumal will accept her and with a 
abhimAnam that she is his daughter gave her in marriage to perumal. 

In all the above cases each one considered piratti to be their daughter butin 
the case of our swamy, piratti who was found in thirumalai, considered him to 
be her father and climbed over his lap in his dream, called him as her father 
and requested him to take her along with him to vanamamalai and do her wedding 
with deivanayaka perumal. Can janaka or vidarpa king or periAzhvar be 
considered anywhere near swamy?s greatness?

In this way, they enjoyed exchanging views among themselves, praising the 
divinity of vanamamalai swamy and at one point taking leave of swamy and 
nachiyar returned back to their places.

(To be continued)

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai
Sumithra Varadarajan

P.S: The earlier postings have been archived at 
http://www.geocities.com/sumivaradan/General.htm

 



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