Today is a very sacred day. Sri AlavandhAr also known as Yaamuna Muni was born this day at KaattumannAr Koil near Thillai Thirucchitthirakootam in the year 916A.D. He lived for 125 years prior to ascending Parama padham. His illustrious works Sidhdithrayam, GithArtha sangraham, Aagama PrAmANyam , Chathus SlOki and STHOTHRA RATHNAM provided the inspiration for AchArya RaamAnujA , KurEsar , ParAsara Bhattar and Swami Desikan as well as a whole group of Sri VaishNava AchAryas to compose noble granthams , which guide us every day . AchArya Yaamuna Muni was the grand preceptor (PrAchArya) for AchArya RaamAnujA . Our Revered Yaamuna Muni's Sri Sookthis are the essence of VedAs , Upanishads , VaishNavite AagamAs , Saatvika purANams and the blessed divya Prabhandams . Among the revered works of AlavandhAr , SthOthra Rathnam is a model work for those who followed his footsteps to strengthen the fortress of Sri VaishNavam . AdiyEn wrote an earlier article on the Life and works of AlavandhAr and GithArtha Sangraham , which are archived in Acharyan section. On this day of his birth , which
also happens to be a PourNami day as well as the ChaathurmAsyam day for SanyAsis
, it is adiyen' bhAgyam to add few more comments about the slOkams of SthOthra
rathnam. It is so very appropriate that the Revered Jeeyar of Ahobila Matam has
chosen Ahobila dhivya dEsam for his ChaathurmAsyam to be close
to Nava Narasimhans . Both Sri Periya VaacchAn PiLlai and Swami Desikan have written extensive commentaries on this source grantham for all sthOthrams to follow as a leader in substance and style. This sthOthram is so profound in meaning that one has to spend hours and hours going back and forth between this pioneering sthuthi and the derivatives , which are elaborations by Sri VaishNava AchAryAs like Sri RaamAnujA , KurEsar , Bhattar and Swami Desikan . The many SaraNAgathi granthams that Swami Desikan wrote are elaborations of the tenets covered by YaamunAchAryaa. At the end of his SR BhAshyam , Swami Desikan in his inimtable way summed up the contents of SR as follows: * AlavandhAr condensed the meanings
of the manthra Rathnam (Dhvayam) to create the slOkams of SR. * From 30to 46 , AlavandhAr revealed
the inner meanings of the uttara KHANDam of Dhvayam. The slOkams from 32-46
describes parama Padha Vaibhavam , which formed the basis of Sri VaikuNta
Gadhyam . * AlavandhAr's Sidhdi Thrayam
expounds the nature of the three siddhis: Aathama siddhi (the nature of the Soul
), Isvara Siddhi ( The nature of the Lord),Samvit Siddhi (the nature of supreme
Knowledge). Together they deal with the central doctrines of today's
VisishtAdvaithA System consistent with the teachings of the early commentators ,
BodhAyanA , TankA , DramidA et al.Sri RaamAnujA based his Sri BhAshyam on that
Sri Sookthi .
Nammayum AalavandhAr ThiruvadigaLE
SaraNam , thiruvEngadamudaiyAn thiruvadigaLE
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