Sri Parthasarathi thunai Srimathe Ramanujaya
Namaha Sri Vara Vara munayE
Namaha Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE
Namaha In the previous posting we saw about the
tattva vachanam and tattva darsi vachanam.
An interesting incident in the life of Swamy emperumAnAr shows the
importance of tattva darsi vachanam.
Swamy emperumAnAr visited thirukurungudi to do mangalasasanams to
nambi. Nambi invited emperumAnAr
with a big smile on his face and asked him ?Oh! Ramanuja it is really
amazing. I took many avataras and
tried to uplift these jeevatmas. I
took avatara as Rama and gave the rAmacharama slokam. Still it was not enough. So I took the
next avatara Sri KrishnAvatara and gave the divine geethA sAstram but again even
arjuna who heard it fully didn?t fall to my feet immediately and after a few
days he even forgot all the divine arthas I gave him. But how is it that you are able to have
so many followers and how are you able to bring all these men folks into the
sharanAgathi mArkam?? Swamy
emperumAnAr didn?t answer this question immediately instead he told emperuman,
?Oh! Lord this is divine secret.
Adiyen cannot tell you the same if you ask me in this fashion. Give me the seat of an acharya and you
become my disciple only then will I give you the secret. ? It is not that nambi was ignorant of the
fact but this was his leela so emperuman with a pleasing smile followed what
emperumAnAr said and gave him the seat of an acharya and nambi became his
disciple. At that time emperumAnAr
answered in the ears of nambi as follows, ?Oh! My lord all this happened due to
the greatness of the thirumanthram only? It was no magic; emperumAnAr didn?t use
anything different he used only the thirumanthram to bring the jeevatmas to this
fold. GeethAcharyan said, ?mAm Ekam
sharaNam vraja? but emperumAnAr said, ?Fall to the divine feet of Parthasarathi?
and not stopping with that he showed all his followers how to do it and what
result he has obtained due to this act. Emperuman is a separate tattva, Ishvara
tattvam so it is difficult for him to become a jeevatma even though he tries his
maximum to act similarly. In his
ramavatara he tried to be a manushya and thus he declares in many places
[?athmAnam mAnushyam manyE?] but still his Ishvara qualities peep here and there
[jadAyu moksham, samudra raja sharaNagathi etc]. That is why emperuman decided to send
the azhvars and acharyas [Like using a trained elephant to catch another
elephant]. We are all used to
follow the same procedure followed by our preceptors. If many people say the same thing we
even start believing falsehood.
Thus in our sampradayam, tattva darsi vachanam is given a higher state of
respect. But the real fact is our
azhvars or acharyas never contradict the words of emperuman or the sAstras. They have only put the sAstras in simple
words easily understandable by even mandha buddhi
jeevAtmas. The main idea of this series of posting
is to through light on the fact that whatever the azhvars have said is nothing
other than the reflection of the sAstras.
This is just a small try by a beginner like adiyen. The series may contain more of mistakes
than any useful essence due to adiyen?s ignorance and lack of knowledge. But if incase it had served the purpose
with which adiyen actually started then it is purely due to the divine blessings
of asmad acharyan, HH Sri Kaliyan ramanuja Jeeyer swamy and of course due to the
divine grace of geethAcharyan Sri Parthasarathi emperuman and the representative
of all the azhvars the kadai kutti azhvar, Sri Kaliyan. Whatever may be adiyen has spent some
useful hours trying to understand the meaning and convey the same to all of
you. Next posting will be the
concluding posting in this series. (To be
continued) Azhvar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE
sharanam Adiyen ramanuja
dAsee Sumithra
Varadarajan
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