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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

GREATNESS OF VANAMAMALAI JEEYER SWAMY

1. Swamy was responsible for acting as purushakaram (recommendation) for annan 
and others to surrender to the divine feet of Sri Periya Jeeyer and also 
accepted a few of them as his shisyas as per the order of Sri Periya Jeeyer.


2. Swamy was responsible to bring appillai and appullAr to the divine feet of 
Sri Periya Jeeyer swamy. First swamy convinced periya jeeyer to accept them as 
his disciples and then he went to the banks of kaveri and along with the help 
of erumbiappa, swamy brought both appillai and appullAr to the divine feet of 
Periya Jeeyer and made them the two among the ashtadiggajas of Sri Mamunigal.


3. Sri Periya Jeeyer himself used to praise and call Swamy as ?PonnadikkAl 
Jeeyer?.


4. Periya Jeeyer considered swamy his very close disciple and also an atma 
bandhu and also wanted vanamamalai swamy to get all the pleasure and treasure 
he obtained. And hence made swamy sit in his seat and presented his thirukkai 
Azhvars in the hands of vanamamalai swamy and asked him to do samAsrayanam just 
like him.


5. Then Periya Jeeyer appointed ashtadiggajas for vanamAmalai Jeeyer swamy just 
like his own ashtadiggajas.


6. Further Periya Jeeyer sent vanamamalai swamy to tour in the northern states 
as his representative and fulfill his wish to uplift all jeevatmas overthere 
and bring them to our sampradayam by giving them ramanuja sambhandamthrough 
samAsrayanam.


7. During his last days, Periya Jeeyer instructed his upadandam, 
thiruvAzhimOdhiram and thiruvadinilai of his own acharya thiruvAimozhi pillai 
to be given to vanamamalai Jeeyer, though swamy was not near periya Jeeyer at 
the time when periya jeeyer attained paramapadam.


8. Periya Jeeyer had his special grace on vanamamalai swamy.


9. Vanamamalai swamy also was blessed specially by Periya perumal, and thatis 
why he gifted him the aranganagarappan and himself went with him to 
vanamamalai. There is no need to say that vanamamalai perumal, who have got his 
divine consort, srivaramangai nAchiyar as kannikAdAnam from swamy had his 
special wishes for swamy and that is why he gave all the responsibilitiesof the 
deivanAyakan sannadhi kainkaryams to swamy himself. Next thiruvEnkatamudaiyan, 
showed the greatness of swamy and his acharya bhakthi in the dream of 
thiruvEnkata periya kElvi Jeeyer and thus showed his love for Vanamamalai 
Jeeyer. And nAchiyar in thirumalai accepting swamy as her father, shows largely 
the great mahimai of PonnadikkAl Jeeyer swamy.


10. With the blessings of all the perumals swamy did a lot of kainkaryam in the 
deivanAyakan sannadhi, thirukkurungudi nambi sannadhi and also in spreading our 
ramAnuja darshanam all over India.


11. The greatness of swamy lies mainly in his acharya nishtai 
(charamOpAyanishtai). Though he took sanyasa even before his acharya, nayanar 
(Sri Manavala mamunigal) still he remained with great prathipaththi towards his 
acharya and considered mAmunigal to be upaya and upEyam (as per the well known 
verses, ?DevumattrariyEn? (Madhurakavi bhAvam); ?GururEva param brahma gururEva 
paramdhanam l gururEva param kAma: gururEva parAyanam ll gururEva parA vidhyA 
gururEva parAyathi: l yasmAth sadhupadhEshtasow thasmAthgurutharO guru: ll? 
?theemanam keduththAi? ?maruvithozhum manamE thandhAi? ?ariyAdhana ariviththa? 
?peedhagavAdaipirAnAr piramaguruvAgi vandhu? ) .


12. Though swamy was blessed with a birth in a high caste Brahmin family 
(?therulkol nAnmarai vallAr?, ?thEru jnanaththar? ?senthozhilavar?, ?thelliyAr 
thirunAnmaraigal vallAr?,?seidhavElviyar vaiyaththEvar?) and also a wealthy 
family and remained with great knowledge and intelligence still swamy didn?t 
possess even a little bit of pride due to all these. His mind was clear from 
the mukkurumbhu (?vidhyAmathO dhanamatha:thrithEyO bhijanOmatha:?)

With all these and many more greatness, swamy remained with parama krupai on 
everyone and established our sampradayam in the world as per the wish of his 
acharya. Swamy showed love and care towards all including plants and animals 
and wanted to uplift each and every jeevatma without any barriers tothe divine 
feet of emperuman. In this way swamy remained acting as the bridge between the 
paramatma and jeevatma for sometime. Then wanting to go to the divine abode of 
emperuman, swamy shed all his interest in this leela vibhuti (thAjya bhoomiyilE 
jihAsaiyum) and prepared himself to go to the nithya vibhuthi (prApya 
bhoomiyilE prAvanyam).

We will all join the ceremony of swamy?s paramapada prApthi in the forth-coming 
postings.

(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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