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Sri Parthasarathi thunai
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha
Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha
Sri VanAchala mahA munayE Namaha

SrisailEsa dayA pAthram deebhakthyAdhi gunArnavam
Yateendra pravanam vandhE ramya jAmataram munim

RamyajAmAtru yOgeendra pAdha rEkhA mayam sadhA
ThathAyath thAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE

One-day rAmAnuja pillan, a prime disciple of vanamamalai jeeyer swamy saw his 
wife wearing all her jewels and standing in front of him. He immediately told 
his wife, ?Seeing you like this makes me doubt your athma guna. As per the 
words of rAma piran to piratti, it is like a deepadarshan to a blind man, to my 
eyes. These jewels do not decorate or add beauty to pathivrattAs (chaste women) 
but only seelam (Athma gunam) beautifies pathivrattAs.? The words of pillan 
were very cutting but his wife, who knew him well,understood his inner mind and 
in a manner to satisfy him immediately removed all the jewels and handed them 
over to him and remained without any hardfeelings.

Pillan accepted the same, and made a mahalakshmi padhakam (dollar with the 
impression of mahalakshmi on it) out of the gold obtained from the jewels. 
Ramanuja pillan was waiting to submit it to deivanAyakan and enjoy seeing him 
adorning the same. Pillan got the permission from vanamamalai swamy and 
submitted the same to perumal. Then he along with his wife went and did 
mangalasasanam to deivanAyaka perumal. Elated by the deep devotion of ramanuja 
pillan, vanamamalai swamy blessed him with swamy?s thiruvArAdhana perumal 
(Devaperumal with ubhaya nAchiyars) and also the acharya chinnams (symbols).

Then, ramanuja pillan took his acharya?s permission and left to thirunagari and 
stayed under the divine feet of azhvar. At that time he showered the divine 
arthas of thiruvAimozhi(bhagavat vishayam) to many interested srivaishnavas. 
Meanwhile, one-day pillan?s wife prayed to azhvar to bless them with a child. 
Azhvar blessed them and due to the divine grace of azhvar, a very intelligent 
sAtvika son was born to pillan and his wife. Pillan named his son after his own 
acharya ThirunAmam.

At the same time, Sri vanamamalai Jeeyer swamy lived with all glory due to his 
acharya krupai, stayed with ripened knowledge and all atma gunas (thrineekrutha 
virinjAdhi nirangusa vibhUtaya:l rAmAnuja padhAm bhOja samAsrayanasAlina:). 
Swamy had a great regard for the pramAnams, pramEyam and pramAdhas and lived as 
par alwars and acharyas words (?adiyArkkadiyar thamakkadiyAr adiyAr 
thammadiyArradiyOngal?). Swamy followed each and every word of his acharya, Sri 
Manavala mamunigal, who lived like a mangala deepam in Srirangam, like a good 
son following his father?s words (Sreevachanabhooshanaththin semporulai 
sindhaithannAl thErilumAm vAikondu seppilumAm AriyargAl enthamakku 
nAluminidhAga nindradhu?).

Let us see the daily routine of swamy as enjoyed and given by the shisyas in 
the next posting.

(To be continued)

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai
Sumithra Varadarajan

P.S: The earlier postings have been archived at 
http://www.geocities.com/sumivaradan/General.htm

 



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