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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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