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SrI:
SrImathE Ramanujaya namah:

Dearest all,

Above all AzhwArs, Sri Ramanujaâ??s devotion and
respect, love for NammAzhwAr is much more- shows
Amudhanaar. There is nothing equal to Sri
SaTakOparâ??s most wonderful divine thousand verses
that are nothing but Upanishadic truths. The
Upanishads that are highly complex, and are in veda
bhAshA, Sanskrit language â?? much difficult for a
commoner to even read [let alone understand], even if
one is qualified with the right varna. All such inner
and esoteric meanings and dcelaraion of truth is very
beautifully and explicity declared in sweet Tamil
verses by NammAzhwAr. And that can be seen and enjoyed
in every single verse of His. Hence Amudhaar takes up
three beautiful verses on EmperumAnArâ??s enjoyment
and devotion towards Nammaazhwaar.    

Let us enjoy the 18th verse on EmperumAnArâ??s
enjoyment of Nammaazhwaar:

eythaR kariya maRaikaLai aayiram in_thamizaal
cheythaR kulathil varumchata kOpanaich chinthaiyuLLE
peythaR kichaiyum periyavar cheerai uyir_kaLellaam
uythaR kuthavum iraamaa Nnuchanem uRuthuNaiyE. 18
NammAzhwAr blessed the world with His Divine pAsurams
that are the essence of not-easy-to-understand Vedas,
in sweet, simple Tamil words easily understandable by
everyone. 

For other religious people (saTars- aj~nAnis), he
stood opposite to them, and was called SaTakOpar,
thus. Sri MadhurakaviAzhwAr was blessed to have Sri
SaTakOpar always fully in his mind as his AchArya. Sri
Ramanujacharya- Emperumaanaar, who gracefully blesses
and narrates to all his sishyas always about the
greatness of MadhurakaviAzhwAr [who always has only
Sri SatakOpa in his heart and surrendered to him with
acharya nishtai], is my only support and refuge [in
the footsteps of Sri Madhurakavi Azhwaar].  

On other AzhwArs, probably Emperumaan, manifested in
the sooris, who took birth as those aazhwaars.
[anupravEsam]. Thus He composed these verses of other
AzhwArs.  

poorvOthpannEshu bhoothEshu thEshu thEshu kalow
prabhu:|
anupraviSya kuruthE yath sameehithamachyutha: ||

Unlike that, Namaazhwaar took his avatharam in order
to sing Tamil veda alone, and from the day one after
he realized the right time to commence his
composition, he started singing these verses with his
jOthi vaay.. That is why is addressed as aayiram in
thamizhaal seydhaRku ulagil varum Satakopanaiâ?¦ 

Madhurakavi is referred to reverently as periyavar
seerai.. He is considered as the â??Elderâ??, because
he has relaised that Acharya nishtai is much superior
to Bhagavath nishtai. Hence he is much above the rest.
Periyavar.. His glories are always though of and
contemplated by Emperumaanaar. His path of Acharyan
Thiruvadi alone is the means and the Goal is the older
path and is the Great path. tholvazhiyE nalvazhi.. 
Thatâ??s why for us also, Acharya nishtai,
[surrendering to SadhAchAryan ThiruvaDi alone] is the
only way for us. He alone is our refuge. For us, thus
Sri Ramanujacharya alone is our refuge â??says
Amudhanaar. 
Anukalpabhoothamurabhitthdhadham sathAm â?? SaraNam
yatheendhra charaNam vruNeemahE.. Because he took the
greatest nishtai [path] he is Periyavar.. Also he is
older than nammaazhwaaar in age. Hence may be called
as periyavar. But that is not important for us.  
[Sri TV Venkatesh adds:] Brahma SutrAs are nothing but
the essence of the vEdAs and the upanishads. 

Sri rAmAnuja wrote commentary for this, which is known
as Sri BhAshyam. Nobody has been able to challenge the
interpretations made by Sri rAmAnuja on the Brahma
Sutras. SwAmy azhagiya maNavALa perumAL nAyanAr, in
His magnum opus "AchArya Hrudayam" (This is an
unparalleled work, which describes the entire
thiruvAzimozhi with respect to the rahasyAs entrained
in it) says that idhu koNdu Sri bhAshaykArar
sUtrangaLai orunga viduvar. It means, Sri rAmAnuja
explains the brahma sUtras with the help of AzhwAr's
works. 

Sri Vachana BhooshNam a very authentic rahasya grantha
by Sri piLLai lOkAchAryar (Incidentally he is the
elder brother of the above referred Sri azhagiya
maNavALa peruMaL nAyanAr) gives, vivid references to
many AzhwAr's works regarding the love that should
shown to all kinds of human creations. He even
compares the vEdas to AzhwAr's works in this aspect.
[Thanks to Sri Venkatesh]

In dEsika prabhandam, Swamy dEsika brings this point
out clearly by saying that seyya thamizh mAlaigaL nAm
theLiya Odhi, theLiyAdha maRai nilangaL theligindrOmE.
Means, the AzhwAr's works, gives out the clear meaning
of the, otherwise difficult to understand portion of
the vEdAs. 

EmperumAnAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam
Regards
Namo Narayana  
dAsan


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