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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

thathAyaththAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE

 

HH Sri Vanamamalai kaliyan ramanuja Jeeyer 1853-1867 (Twentieth pattam)

 

Swamy?s kainkaryams contd.

 

While swamy stayed in seetharamapuram, swamy blessed many interested devotees 
with panchasamskaram and his divine sripada theertham. Further swamy blessed 
devotees with his excellent upanyasams and showed the right path to the 
confused devotees and uplifted many. All the devotees over there were very 
happy to hear the divine meanings showered on them by swamy and therebythey 
submitted lot of gold, precious gems and costly clothes to the divinefeet of 
swamy. Swamy stayed there for some months and then after consoling the 
devotees, who felt sorry to get separated from swamy, started his journey back 
to Vanamamalai.  

 

On the way back, in the middle of krishnaveni and gOdavari swamy was 
deeplyhonoured by wealthy persons over there and many Srivaishnavas. On the 
wayswamy visited veerapaththanam alias thOttavalloor where swamy was greatly 
honoured by the chief of that place who submitted a number of precious gemsand 
pattu peedhAmbharams and huge amount of wealth to the divine feet of swamy. 
Then when swamy reached sanivAra pettai, nAthan jeeyer who has been away from 
swamy for the past two years came and prostrated swamy and stayedwith swamy for 
some days in order to get over his grief of staying away from swamy. Then 
nAthan jeeyer got permission from swamy to go to bhakyapuram and have the 
darshan of charama stalam of pattarbiran jeeyer swamy and then return back to 
Nathan koil. Then kaliyan swamy continued his journey, stayed on the way as per 
the request of the srivaishnavas and finally reached thirumalai to do 
mangalasasanams to thiruvenkatamudaiyan.

 

Meanwhile, nAthan jeeyer who visited bhakyapuram and stayed there for some days 
deciding to return back to Nathan koil on the way visited thirumalai to do 
mangalasasanams to ?minni mazhai thavazhum venkataththu viththagan?. Seeing 
kaliyan swamy over there nAthan jeeyer was put to great surprise and ecstasy to 
have had the great bhakyam of having the darshan of alarmEl mangai urai mArban 
along with the purushakaram of his acharyan and thereby he fell to the feet of 
swamy and did shAshtAnga pranamam and bursted outwith his bhAkya vishEsham in 
front of swamy.

 

Kaliyan swamy was even more elated like a father meeting his son who has been 
in a far of country for many years. Thereby swamy visited first govindarajan in 
the foothills of thirumalai along with nAthan jeeyer and then visited thayar 
sannadhi (alarmEl mangai), did mangalasasanam and then climbed the thirumalai. 
There swamy was greatly welcomed by thiruvenkatamudaiyan. Then swamy first had 
the darshan of the thirugopuram and then in order swamy prostrated all the 
divine places in thirumalai and along with his shisyasdid mangalasasanams to 
thiruvenkatavan. At that time, thiruvenkatamudaiyan honoured swamy and after 
arulappadu said, ?Jeeyer! While seeing you andnAthan jeeyer together today it 
is like seeing Periya jeeyer and Vanamamalai jeeyer? and then honoured them 
with thiruparivattam, theertham, SrisatakOpan and prasadams. After accepting 
them humbly swamy bid goodbye and started his journey from thirumalai.

 

Then swamy visited bhoodhapuri and did mangalasasanams to Sri ethirajar andfrom 
there proceeded to aththigiri and did mangalasasanams to all the surrounding 
divya desams and proceeded to chola desam. There swamy had the divine darshan 
of ?kArAr puyarkai kalikandri? and then further did mangalasasanams to all 
other divya desams while swamy lost strength in his body and hence swamy 
decided to stay in Nathan koil for sometime and regain a little of his strength.

 

But unfortunately, swamy realized that even after a little stay in Nathan koil 
his health only deteriorated and hence swamy was put to deep thought. Swamy 
wanted to appoint the next follower to the peedam, an acharyan to take care of 
the disciples after him. Swamy after deep thought decided that the right person 
to follow would be Nathan jeeyer who was then taking care of the kainkaryams in 
Nathan koil and one who has learnt all the ubhaya vedanthams from him. So swamy 
called nAthan jeeyer and blessed him with the thirunAmam ?madurakavi ramanuja 
jeeyer? and made him the next successor.

 

In a very few days swamy?s health became very bad and with great Arthi swamy 
requested madhurakavi swamy and the rest of the srivaishnavas to bless him with 
the sripadatheertham with grace. ?Can we adiyars do such a thing to the great 
jagath swamy? Please don?t order us to do this?? begged the disciples. 
Meanwhile kaliyan swamy meditated on the divine feet of pattarbiran swamy and 
reached the divine abode of emperuman. In this way swamy followed the footsteps 
of the poorvacharyas and remained in the peedam with a number of disciples for 
a period of 14 years. Madhurakavi swamy who was deeply struck by grief due to 
the separation from his acharyan slowly consoled himself and then completed the 
final rites to swamy in the appropriate manner and also completed the 
thiruadhyayanam filled with sraddhAbhakthi.

 

CharamAnusandhAnam

 

ApthEsmin prabhavAhvayE dhinagarE yugmam gathE shAmalE, pakshE sowmyadhinE 
jalOduni subhE prAdhardvidheeyadhithow I Srimath vyOmagireesha 
samyamivara:sriman kalidvamsaka: svAchAryasya padhathdvayam samagamath padmam 
yathA shatpadha: II

 

Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

 

(To be continued)

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee,

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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