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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Vara Vara munayE Namaha

Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

?kOshpathee krutha vArAsim masakeekrutha rAkshasam

rAmAyana mahA mAlA ratnam vandhE anilAth majam?

?anjanA nandhanam veeram jAnaki sOka nAsanam

kapeesamaksha hanthAram vandhE lankA bhayankaram?

?manOjavam mArutha tulya vEgam jithEndriyam bhutthi madhAm varishtam

vAdhAthmajam vanarayoodhamukyam Sri rama dhootham sirasA namAmi?

 

There is famous proverb in Tamil that says, ?An moolam arasAlum? (the males 
born in the star of moolam will rule over). Do we have proof to establish this? 
Yes in our sampradayam we can show two males who were born in this divine star 
who have ruled over EMPERUMAN (the king of kings, paramapurushan, the ultimate 
leader) himself. Who were they? One is the hero of today, born in the month of 
mArgazhi- AnjanA sudhan, Rama dhoothan, Sri AnjanEyan. The second is none other 
than our dear Swamy Manavala mAmunikal, theacharya who the great Periya perumal 
himself chose to be HIS acharya to enjoy the divine arthas of the mAran 
senthamizh, thiruvaimozhi through the divine commentaries of the poorvacharyas, 
mainly the nampillai eedu, who was born in Iypasi thirumoolam. We have already 
enjoyed how Periya perumal became the shisya of Swamy Manavala mAmunikal and 
submitted the ?srisailEsa thaniyan? largely in these groups. On this day, 
grandly celebrated as ?hanumath jayanthi? (the birth
day of hanuman) let us enjoy how hanuman generally regarded as only a great 
bhaktha of Sri rama pirAn got the greatness as an acharya and was deeply 
regarded by rama himself.

 

Swamy desikan celebrates anjaneya as ?hanumath samEna gurunA?. Ramayana is not 
only an epic, and a story but it is a bureau of sampradAyic information and 
dramatic version of the vedAntha. Our acharyas show the deep arthas immersed in 
the ocean of rAmAyana and have blessed us with the divine meanings through 
their commentaries. Our acharyas say that while rama, seetha and lakshmana 
walked towards the forest it was like the walking pranavam. Pranavam is split 
into akAram, vukAram and makAram. AkAram refers to the paramatma (Sri 
ramapiran), vukaram is the piratti (who binds the jeevatmaand paramatma through 
her purushakaram) and the makAram is the jeevatma here lakshmana.  

 

In the later stage after piratti was carried away by ravana, chakravarthi 
thirumagan sent anjanEya in search of piratti with his ring. At that time, our 
acharyas say that here it can be equated to the jeevatma getting separated from 
paramatma and to get him back perumal sends the acharya in search of the 
disciple. Here hanuman becomes the acharya who saves the jeevatma (piratti) 
from killing herself, with the help of the taraka manthram, and gives the soul 
the confidence that perumal will surely come and rescue her from the hard 
situations. Then the very same acharya goes to perumal and says, ?kandEn 
seethaiyai? (?drushtA seetha?) and wipes the sorrow of emperuman who worries 
due to the separation of piratti (?ekAki na ramEtha? emperuman even while in 
the divine abode amidst all pleasures still worries due to the separation from 
his sons, the jeevatmas. Then will he not worry while in the human form in this 
world?). This is what an acharya actually does. He builts the
confidence in the disciple who suffers in the world that emperuman is always 
there to protect us and grant the divine abode and then he pleases the 
emperuman by submitting the jeevatma into his divine feet. On hearing hanuman?s 
words after returning from lanka, Sri rama said, ?Oh! anjaneya youhave left me 
indebted. What can I give you in return for the great help you have rendered 
and swamy hugged anjanEya with pleasure (parishvangO hanoomatha:)?. After the 
ravana vatham, anjanEya rushed to seetha piratti andtold her about the victory 
of ramapiran like a small kid running to its mother to share its joy. Seeing 
anjanEya piratti was dumb folded and she uttered, ?Oh! anjenEya what can I give 
you in return for this mahAupakAram?.  

 

Do you all know how hanuman reacted? Even at that point hanuman was not proud 
of his act instead he admired the unison in the words of the divya dampathis. 
He said, ?Oh! Devi you two are really divine since the same words were uttered 
by emperuman too. You two have such a unity?. Piratti said, ? It is not due to 
our understanding but it is due to your greatness that made both of us utter 
the same words? Both perumal and piratti felt indebted to hanuman. To honour 
hanuman, perumal later in the bharatwaja ashramam, made hanuman to eat along 
with him in a single plantain leaf. In this way, hanuman ruled over emperuman 
with his bhakthi and love. Did hanuman stop with this? No he saved one another 
divine soul. Yes. He saved the great bhagavata bharatha from doing agnipravesam 
(entering into the fire to kill himself) due to the delay in the arrival of 
perumal. So the actualhero of Ramayana was hanuman who did the right things in 
the right time inthe right way with the help of
the ?Rama? manthram.

 

At the end of the avatharam, perumal wished to grant moksha to all who 
wereinterested in ayodhya. But to perumal?s sorrow the one who refused the same 
was the very same hanuman who perumal greatly wanted to take along with him 
(?bhAvO nAn yathra gachchathi?). Can such a great vairakya seela, filled with 
bhakthi refuse the divine abode of emperuman? Why did he do so? AnjanEya 
explained, ?I have enjoyed the roopa of emperuman as chakravarthi thirumagan 
along with seetha piratti. I do not want to fall into even any other form of 
perumal even if he is the vaikundhanAthan. So I will stay in this world till 
Ramayana lives and stand in the place where Ramayanais recited with eyes filled 
with tears.?

?yathra yathra ragunAtha keerthanam thatra thatra kruthamasthakAnjalim

pAshpavAri paripoorna lOchanam mAruthim namatha rAksha sAnthakam?

 

Let us all fall into the divine feet of this great bhagavata and pray to him to 
bless us with atleast one percent of his divine bhakthi and mahavishvasam 
towards the emperuman.

 

Jai AnjanEya!!! Jai bajranga bali!!!

 

?kAnjanAtri nibhAngAya vAnjidArtha pradhAyinE

anjanA bhAkya roopAya AnjanEyaya mangalam?

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

 

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan



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