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Srimathe LakshmiNrisimha Parabrahmane Namaha
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha
Srimathe Vedantha desikAya Namaha
Srimathe AdiVanSatakopAya Namaha
Srimathe LakshmiNrisimha DivyaPAduka Sevaka SriVan Satakopa SriRanga 
Satakopa Yathindra Mahadesikaya Namaha
Srimathe SriVan Satakopa SriVeeraRaghava Satakopa Yathindra Mahadesikaya 
Namaha
Srimathe SriVan Satakopa SriVedanthaDesika Yathindra Mahadesikaya Namaha
Srimathe LakshmiNrisimha DivyaPAduka Sevaka SriVan Satakopa SriNarayana 
Yathindra Mahadesikaya Namaha

Dear all

Today is Karthigai-Pooradam according to Indian Panchangam and it is the day 
a great acharyan Sri 43rd AzhagiyaSingar (popularly known as Sri 
Devanarvilagam Azhagiyasingar) was born in the year of 1901. Adiyen would 
like to share you with some interesting incidents in his life.

1. During his poorvashrama days, Sri 43rd azhagiyasingar was conducting 
kalakshepam in the backyard of his house. Some of the disciples who attended 
the kalakshepam were Sri. U.Ve Melpakkam Narasimhachariar Swami and Sri. 
U.Ve Purisai Nadadur Krishnamachariar Swami.
While the SriBhashya Kalakshepam was going, a serpent came from some where 
and all the students attending the kalakshepam wereterrified. But Sri 43rd 
Azhagiyasingar asked the students not to panic and told them that it is one 
other than Swami Ramanujar hearing the kalakshepam and giving his blessings 
to us. After hearing this, the students kept quiet and the serpent was there 
for some time and then left the scene without harming anybody.

2.  After becoming the Junior Pontiff of Sri Ahobila Mutt, Sri Injimettu 
Azhagiyasingar used to conduct kalakshepam and then he would stop at a 
point. He will ask Sri Devanarvilagam Azhagiyasingar to start from that 
point. After getting his niyamanam, he used to do Acharya vandanam
and then start the kalakshepam. Such was the guru bhakti of Sri 43rd 
Azhagiyasingar. Seeing this, the elders of those days used to say that Sri 
Alavandar and Swami Bhashyakarar have re-incarnated as Sri 42nd and Sri 43rd 
Azhagiyasingar because Swami Alavandar and Swami Ramanujar were not together 
during their avatara kaalam. Also Sri 43rd Azhagiyasingar started sancharam 
towards North because Sri 42nd Azhagiyasingar was very interested in doing 
it and he could not because of his old age.

3. Once, Sri 43rd Azhagiyasingar was camping at Neduntheru for Chaturmasya 
Sankalpam. One day there was a 11 year old boy with kudumi and dwadasa 
thiruman and waiting outside the house to have the darshan of Sri 43rd 
Azhagiyasingar. The Mutt KaimkaryaParals informed about this to Sri 
Azhagiyasingar. But Sri Azhagiyasingar was  hearing the boy's request and 
asked  him to wait. Finally after insistence of the Kaimkarya Parals and 
others, Sri Azhagiyasingar asked the boy to come in and blessed him. The boy 
was none other than his own "Poorvashrama Sweekara Thirukumarar: Sri. U.Ve. 
L. Varadarajan".

4. After the nityaVibhuti of Sri 42nd Azhagiyasingar, Sri 43rd 
Azhagiyasingar took full incharge of the Mutt. His poorvashrama brother Sri. 
U.Ve Srinivasa Desikachariar was the editor of Sri NrisimhaPriya Magazine 
then. The first thing Sri 43rd Azhagiyasingar did was  ask his poorvashrama 
brother to step down of the editorship and gave the editorship to another 
Ubhaya VedanthaChariar. Swami took
pains to see that his family members are not associated with the Mutt during 
his reign (so as to avoid any controversies and as well as being a 
dispassionate person). During his sojourn in Neduntheru and kumbakonam, his 
sisters and other family members used to come there to have darshan of him 
as well as perumal. After they have theertham and Satari, he used to ask 
them to leave.  Once his sister replied back to him that they came to see 
their acharyan and perumal and not their brother.

5. When Sri 43rd Azhagiyasingar was invited to his poorvashrama house, he 
had accepted the invitation and went there. The family members made sure 
that he would not see his mother and made her to go into some room which is 
not accessible. It so happened that Sri 43rd  Azhagiyasingar had chanced to 
see her. Though a sanyasi, he has to prostrate before his mother and Sri 
43rd Azhagiyasingar did
the same.

6. Once one of adiyen's wife's chittya had been to airport to meet somebody 
and met a person in the airport. The X person who  recognized the chittya as 
a Sri Vaishnava and started enquiring about him. Mr. X asked him what is the 
native place. Our relative told him that he hails from Devanarvilagam. As 
soon as he heard that, Mr. X prostrated before him and asked him to come to 
their house telling that their family would be very pleased to meet him. So, 
our relative went to their house and Mr X. mom was very happy to learn the 
lineage of our relative. Mr. X's mom recalled an incident which occurred in 
her
life. She was married and did not have any kids for a long time. She went 
and cried like a child in front of Sri 43rd Azhagiyasingar that she does not 
have a child and hence she is sad and people in the town are talking bad 
about her and her husband etc. Sri 43rd Azhagiyasingar told her not to worry 
and informed her that she will beget a child very soon and gave 
mantrakshadai. A son was born to them who is our Mr. X working in London. At 
first the parents wanted to name  him directly with Sri Azhagiyasingar's 
thirunaamam but it would not look nice when they would scorn at the child 
for its
mistakes. So, he was named as "Sri. Raghuveer" (i.e VeeraRaghuvit was 
changed to RaghuVeer). Sri. Raghuveer recites Sri 43rd Azhagiyasingar's 
thaniyan 10 times during every Sandya VAndanam he does along with other 
upadesa mantrams.

7.  Swami was very strict about punctuality. 9:00 a.m. Sharply, Abhigama 
Arathi would be over. Once he was camping in the Rashtrapathi Bhavan. A 
central minister (or it might be even President Rajendra Prasad) was 
sponsoring the Aradhanam for a particular day. Abhigaman was going on and 
the minister or President who-ever it was could come until 9:02 a.m. 
Abhigamana Arathi was over and hence could not get theertham/satari from 
Sri. Azhagiyasingar. When the kaimkarya parals asked him why he is doing 
this he said, we should not make perumal wait and morever, the person might 
be the King of India but for Azhagiyasingar, Malolan was the king and he a 
servant. Hence the arathi would be done punctually irrespective of who comes 
or not. A similar incident happened in Hyderabad. One of the minister who 
was brahmin had come to have darshan of acharyan and perumal. Satari was 
given to all except the minister. The minister went and asked him why and he 
was informed because as Brahmin, he did not have kudiimi, katukan or so. The 
next day, the minister came with kutumi, kadukan and got blessings for Sri 
Azhagiyasingar. (Can we imagine that scenario now at all?). The same kind of 
incident happened to one my uncle's (who is in his late 70s) and his father 
was Mutt Agent at that time. But my uncle did not get Satari from Sri 
Azhagiyasingar because he did not have kudimi. Later on, my uncle went with 
kudimi and got Satari from Sri Azhagiyasingar. I hope that Sri 43rd 
Azhagiyasingar would pardon me for writing this incident (as adiyen does not 
have kudimi and kadukan).

8. The following incident was narrated by Sri. U.Ve. P. Dileepan when he was 
at Boston. The incident was reported by a retired Judge and who was a 
Brahmin and not an Iyengar. It was reported in Bhavan's journal sometime in 
the late 1950s ( i.e around 1957-58). The incident is as follows.

One Brahmin used to periodically visit Gunaseelam and have darshan of 
Srinivasar. After having a pleasant darshan of perumal he used to catch the 
bus without fail and go back to his place. It so happened that he once had 
darshan of perumal and instead of being absorbed in perumal, he started 
having fear that he would miss the bus. In those days (and even now), in 
villages,  buses will come once in the morning and once in the evening. On 
that day, he missed the bus after having darshan of perumal.
He walked to a house and sat on the thinnai (verandah with bench like cement 
structure) and started taking rest. In a few minutes a SriVaishnava came out 
of the house with SriVaishnava Swaroopam (i.e with dwadasa Thiruman, kudumi, 
kadukan and panchakaccham) and asked the person to partake lunch in his 
house. Also the Swami informed him that after thiruAradhanam, he used to eat 
only after
serving food for another person. The brahmin told him that he is not a 
SriVaishnava. To this our SriVaishnava Swami became angry and told the 
person that everybody born in this world is a SriVaishnava because it is 
ParaVAsudevan and Thayar who resides in the Hrudaya Kamalam. After this, the 
person came to his house and partook prasadam. This person wrote the article 
in Bhavan's journal and ended the article with a statement on the following 
lines: "The Sri Vaishnava Mahan who served food for him
later became the Azhagiyasingar of Sri Ahobila Mutt and recently passed away 
at NAIMISARANYAM".  Somebody in the recent few years read this article from 
Bhavan's Journal and made the connection that this could be none other than 
Sri 43rd Azhagiyasingar who entered nityaVibhuti in Naimisaranyam.

On this day, let us remember his thaniyan:
Srimath SriRanga Prithvisvara Sataripuna SamyaMeendrena Drishtam
NyasyathMaanam Nrisimhe Narahari Satajit Yoginethu PrasadAth
PrAgnya: Sri RangaKaari Prabhaya Vyathipathe: Praptha LakshmiNrisimhAsthAnam
SevaYathindram Sakala GunaNidhim VeeraRaghuvit Satarim

Srimathe SriVan Satakopa SriVeeraRaghava Satakopa Yathindra Mahadesikaya 
Namaha
Srimathe SriVan Satakopa SriVedanthaDesika Yathindra Mahadesikaya Namaha
Srimathe LakshmiNrisimha DivyaPAduka Sevaka SriVan Satakopa SriNarayana 
Yathindra Mahadesikaya Namaha

Please pardon me for any mistakes.

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan
Lakshminarasimhan S.


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srivan satakopa Sri Narayana Yathindra MahadesikAya Namaha
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