People like us (including me) talk about the past all the time (like what poorvacharyas did and their glories). Thats good. But we forget the present. And what IS the present? Forget the christian missionaries. Forget all the outsiders who are hunting us down. Forget all of them. Very humbly may I ask, how good are WE? are we really sincere? are we doing what swami rAmAnuja wanted us to do? is swami happy with us? a person can chant something all the time (ritualistically or sincerely). thats good. Even better would be to do something that would please swami. each one of us should ask this question to ourselves. are we sincere to swami? adiyEn is not asking anybody "how good are YOU?". because adiyEn knows adiyEn's dog status. rather adiyEn is suggesting that each one should ask themselves. If at all we are sincere, nothing will happen. since we are not sincere to him, all these things happen. Much much more than this WILL happen. How many of us do sandhyavandanam? (Swami did it even when he was 120 years old). How many of us actually wash our hair daily (theerthamAduthal)? How is tiruvaradanam being done in temples at present? is it in perfect accordance with agama sastra? how is the Lord's food cooked in temples? is it in accordance with sastra? Why is the tirumala temple open 22 hours a day? it is in accordance with which sastra? why nobody is opposing this? why are we not doing our duty properly? remember that our duty is to be a complete slave of swami and act according to his wishes (ramanujarya divyagnya varthadham abhivarthadam!). Nothing else. Our only weakness is our insincerity and indifference to swami's divine wishes. Nothing else. It is our only enemy. Not karunanidhi. Not the christian missionaries.
Guru parampara mentions that a real sri vaishnava will actually be able to visualise sriman narayana in archa vigraha itself. (nampillai's words). For most of us he is a toy (again, no offence is meant). we dont take care of archa vigrahas in divya desas in the way they are to be taken care of. how many of us have visited kapisthalam? tirumeyyam? adiyEn has visited. These temples are in a sad state. Many more are there like these actually. adiyEn certainly feels that not only triplicane parthasarathy perumal is divya desa emperumAn but also Gajendra Varadhan of kapisthalam and Sathya Giri Nathan of tirumeyyam are also divya desa emperumans. We chant, "poorvAcharyargal podham anushtanangal kooruvaar vaarhaigalai kondu neer theri..."(upadesa ratina malai). Actually we should not only talk on poorvacharyas life and their glories. We should try to understand what IS sampradaya from their life. We should learn from them.
At present we are in kali yuga. Only swami ramanuja eradicated kali from this earth. We glorify only swami as "seru kaliyai siridhumara theerthu vittAn vAzhiye!" (there are other references for this). There was Alavandar, a great Acharya who lead this sampradaya before swami. ("yatigatkiraivan yamunaithuraivan" - ramanuja nootrandadi). We dont say that Alavandar eradicated kali yuga, though we all agree that he was a great acharya. And later there were many acharyas.
"Karei karunai ramanusa ikkadal idathil arei aribavar nin arulin thanmai?" (Ramanuja nootrandadi)
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