sri:
Frowarding previous Note from Smt. Sumitra & Sri Varadarajan
Sri Parthasarathi thunai,
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha,
Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha,
Sri VanAchala mahA munayE Namaha.
Dear bhagavatas,
In this posting, let us see the essence of the paasuram given
below briefly and there by understand the charamOpAya nishtai of Sri Erumbiappa.
"mannuyir_kAL ingE maNavALa mAmunivan *
ponnadiyAm senkamalappOthukaLai * - unnis
siraththAlE theeNdil amAnavanum nammai *
karaththAlE theeNdal kadan " (upadesa ratina mAlai-74)
Meaning: Oh! The people of this world, if you place the divine
feet of Swamy manavala mAmunivan on your head here then we are sure to be
touched by the hands of amAnavan.
Who is this amAnavan?
Let us try to explain the same with the words of mAmunigal.
"endha vudal vittu eravu mandalaththinoodhEgi
evvandangazhiththu edaiyil Avaranam Ezh pOi
andhamil pAzh azhagAr virasaithannil kuliththu
angu amAnavanAl olikonda sOdhiyum pettru
amarar vandhu edhir kondu alangariththu vAzhththi
vazhinadhaththa
vaikundham pukku mani mandapaththu sendru
nan thirumAladiyArgal kuzhangaludan koodum
nAlenakku kurugum vagai nalgu en ethirAsA" (Arthi prabhandam-24)
Here mAmunigal explains the way the jeevatma leaves this body
and travels through the archirAdhi mArgam to Srivaikundam. First the soul
leaves the body and escapes through space and leaves this mandalam (world).
Then passing through saptha Avaranam (Seven layers) it finally reaches the
Viraja River. The soul takes a divine dip in the Viraja River. Then amAnavan
(one who is different from an ordinary human, devan) touches this soul and
gives it the divine glory. At this time all the mukthas come to welcome
this soul to the nithya vibhuthi and take him inside the Srivaikundan, the land
of muktas and nithyas. Now the soul enters the mani mandapam and joins the
nithya bhagavatas(nan thirumAladiyars) over there. Mamunigal in this
paasuram requests emperumAnAr to grant him the divine abode of emperuman as
soon
as possible, as explained above.
Swamy Manavala mAmunigal sings this prabhandam in arthi to
shed this body immediately and attain paramapadam, whereas all cannot attain
this state of an Artha prapannan. So we all remain druptha prapannas and hence
erumbiappa in the above paasuram assures us that if we hold on to the divine
feet of mAmunigal here (in the leela vibhuthi), then we are sure to attain the
divine feet of emperuman and join all the nithya mukthas in the paramapadam
after shedding this body ("maranamAnAl vaikundam kodukkum piran" "vaikundam
puguvadhu mannavar vidhiyE"). Sri NammAzhvar has explained the same in his
'Soozh
visum pani mugil' padhigam. ("vandhavar edhir kolla mAmani mandapaththu
andhamil pErinbhaththu adiyarOdu erundhamai"). In a single paasuram
Swamy mAmunigal has given the meanings of the whole padhigam (11paasurams) of
nammAzhvar. So is there any doubt in saying that holding the divine feet of
such
a great acharya will lead us to the divine feet of emperumAn?
In our sampradayam, Sri Vanamamalai onnAna rAmanuja Jeeyer
swamy (the first peedAdhipadhi of the vanamamalai mutt) is considered to be the
"ponnadiyAm senkamalam" of Swamy manavala mamunigal as Sri Periya jeeyer
himself has called vanamamalai swamy as "nam ponnadikkAl Jeeyer!". Like
madurakavigal or ramanujan to Sri SaTakOpar and MudaliyAndan or AnanthAzhvan to
ethirajar, Sri Vanamamalai PonnadikkAl Jeeyer swamy remained to Swamy manavala
mAmunigal.
Adiyen beg pardon for any mistakes committed. May the learned
bhagavatas please
forgive and correct the same.
Alwar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigale sharanam
Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee
Sumithra Varadarajan
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