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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

Vanamamalai ponnadikkAl swamy got himself mentally prepared to leave this 
samsAric world and start his journey towards the nithya vibhuti of emperuman. 
Considering this body to be the hinderance, swamy prayed to his own acharya to 
remove the obstacles and accept him into the divine abode of emperuman. Due to 
the prayer, swamy fell sick putting all the shisyas in grief. The shisyas 
lamented saying, ?Oh! This world without swamy will be like stars without moon, 
a crown abandoned without a king, a pond without a lotus, a ahothi without fire 
and a recitation without vedic scholars?. All the shisyas crowded around swamy 
with deep sorrow.

Jeeyer swamy saw the shisyas in grief and thought of selecting one of them to 
proceed him as the next peedhAdhipathi, to take care of the 
kainkaryams.Meditating on his own acharya, swamy selected one of his 
intelligent shisyas, well versed in all sastras, kalamoor varadamuni as the 
next acharya tofollow him and called him ?Vanamamalai ramanuja jeeyer? with his 
own mouth and made him the second peedhAdhipathi of the vanamamalai mutt. Then 
swamy submitted varadamuni under the divine feet of the divine couples, 
deivanAyakan and srivaramangai nAchiyar and requested them to accept him to 
their nithya kainkaryam.

Swamy then instructed all his disciples to be under the control of varadamuni 
and continue with bhagavat/bhAgavata kainkaryams. At this time, some 
Srivaishnavas happen to come from thirukurungudi and they requested swamy to 
appoint a Jeeyer for the kainkaryam of nambi. Swamy selected one among them and 
instructed him to be in the nithya kainkaryam of thirukurungudi nambi, but be 
under the control of vanamamalai Jeeyer and act according to his words. The 
nambi Jeeyer also accepted the same with gratefulness and proceeded towards 
nambi sannadhi.

Then vanamamalai varada Ramanuja jeeyer and ramanuja pillan, after getting the 
permission from their acharya, got two divya mangala vigrahams of swamyand 
requested swamy to grace the vigrahams, so that after swamy leaves to the 
divine abode of emperuman, they can all still have darshan of swamy in archA 
roopam, in the mutt. Jeeyer showered his karunA kataksham on the vigrahams 
touched them with his divine hands and gave one to varada muni to bekept in the 
vanamamalai mutt always. Swamy then gave the second vigraham into the hands of 
ramanuja pillan. On consecration of swamy?s archA vigraham in the mutt even 
deivanAyaka perumal and srivaramangai nAchiyar were filled with ecstasy since 
this removed their grief of getting separated fromswamy.

Swamy then called the kainkarya paras (persons involved in the service of 
perumal) in the deivanAyakan sannadhi and apologized for all the knowingly or 
unknowingly done apacharyams (mistakes). The kainkaryaparas replied, ?Oh! swamy 
devarir can do mistakes only if vanamamalai perumal can ever commit a sin. Both 
are never possible?. Swamy then told them ? I have appointed varadamuni to be 
the next jeeyer of the mutt and also to take care of the nithya kainkaryam of 
perumal. Please consider him to be my representative and continue the 
kainkaryams in the temple as usual?.

Swamy then did dhadhiyArAdhanam and accepted prasadams from srivaishnavas and 
showed his deep regret for any mistakes he could have committed till date. Then 
swamy?s arthi to reach the divine feet of emperuman reached its height and 
hence he started meditating on the divine feet of his acharya Periya Jeeyer and 
uttered, ?EmperumAnAr thiruvadigale sharanam? ?Jeeyerthiruvadigale sharanam? 
and remained in silence while the shisyas with folded hands started reciting 
brahmavalli, bhruhuvalli, Soozhvizhumpanimugiland then all the divine 
instruments along with thiruchinnam was played when Jeeyer swamy meditated on 
his acharya?s thiruvadi and swamy?s soul got itself released from the body and 
through the sushumnAnAdi, smashing the brahmaratham continued its journey 
towards the divine abode of emperuman. Thereby swamy attain paramapadam to get 
himself into the divine service of paramapadanAdhan along with all the nithya 
sooris.

(To be continued)

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai
Sumithra Varadarajan

P.S: The earlier postings have been archived at 
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