Srimathe Ramanujaya Namah 11/13/04
Uttara Poorva Dinacharya by Sri T.A. Srinidhi Swamin - Kanchipuram - Upanyasam
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Due to our purva janma sukrutam and acharya kripa we are able to enjoy
listening about mAmunigaL. Kannan says that people who think of Me always and
talk about Me among themselves, feel happy. People who speak and people who
listen are both happy. They spend their time doing this. In the world it is
rare to find a listener when one speaks and rare to find a speaker when one
wants to listen. Hence the congruence of sri vaishanvas is very special. It
is our great bhagyam to have the anubhavam of mAmunigaL vaibhavam. mAmunigaL
was given to us as a special pearl by Emberuman to remove our "darkness".
We can say that we remember our previous janmas. How? When a child is born and
hungry it cries and feeds on mother's milk. This is an instinct carried from
poorva janma. We are being born again and again due to thinking of shabdaadi
vishayam(sense objects) resulting in kaamam which in turn results in krodham
for not getting it which then results in moham, subsequently mind becoming
weak, resulting in buddhi naasham which then results in ajnaanam resulting in
papa karmas leading to re-birth time and again. Punyam is not any
different..it is being bound in gold handcuffs whereas paapam is being bounded
by iron handcuffs. When an atma reaches yama lOka he is asked - why the atma
did not worship Keshava (klEsha naashana:). Even when the word Narayana exists,
how is it that jeevAtmAs come to hell, wonders Yama. When we have a tongue and
the word nArAyaNa , why do we end up in naraka?(Naavinaal namo naranaa - - - -
-may be recalled here).
As srivaishnavas we should always think of Alwar Emberumanar Jeeyar. All our
acharyas think of Emberumanar all the time - Emberumanar tiruvadigale tanjam.
Prapannas should not take anything as an upayam to reach Him. Even though
Varadaraja Perumal said prapatti is an upayam to Tirukacchi Nambigal, he means
that taking HIS tiruvadi as upayam is the meaning of prapatti. We should take
Emberumanar's tiruvadi as upayam as HE is Udaiyavar (ruler of both Nitya and
Leela vibhutis). This is the easiest way to attain paramapadam. When the lion
jumps from a hill to another, the bugs in the hair of the lion do not make any
effort. They automatically get transferred to the other side. Similarly we
will get transferred to paramapadam with Emberumanar sambandham. Our achAryAs,
foremost of them being mAmunigaL, therefore always had EmberumAnAr in their
minds...how does Erumbiappa know what was in mAmunigAL's mind?..As already said
earlier, a true shishya knows the mind of a sadAchAryan.
Sloka 19/20/21
Bruthyaiyee - - - -Emberuman says that He enjoys if the bhaktas have bhaagawata
seshatvam more than having bhagawad seshatvam (nedumaarkku adimai - - -).
nammAlwAr and all other AlwArs refer to bhAgavatha sheshatwam umpteen number of
times in their prabhandhams. Emberumanar says in this samsaram tree there are
2 fruits namely Bhagawad bhakti and BhAgawata bhakti. Bhagawad bhakti is to be
resorted to only when bhAgawatas are not available for tiru-arAdhana. Swamy
Alavandar wants to be an insect in a srivaishnava's home. He does not want the
position of Chaturmuka Bramha. In Yatiraja Vimshati mAmunigaL asks that he
wants to have bhakti towards the bhAgawatAs. The same is reflected in
Mukundamala "tat bruthya bruthya - - - -". In Srimad Ramayanam Shatrugna
followed Bharata to his maternal grandfather's place. He did not have the
"paapam" of Sri Rama bhakti. How can rAma bhaksthi be "pApam"?! PVP swamy says
that Shatrugna had so much bhaagawata seshatvam. Sometimes Emberuman's
tirumeni soundaryam comes in the way of our kainkaryam as we swoon seeing HIS
tirumeni. Shatrugna did not have this problem at all as he was engrossed in
kainkaryam towards Bharata. Similary mAmunigaL sishyas have so much love for
Him.
Anyone who has surrendered to Kovil Annan should be taken as parama
bhaagawatas. PBA tanian first part was given by mAmunigaL which has Swamy
Vedanta Desika's tirunamam and then the second part has mAmunigaL's tirunamam
written by PBA Himself. mAmunigaL had great respect for Swamy Vedantachariar.
mAmunigaL says nothing is as great as SVB divya shAstram.
Once two dogs were fighting and at the same time two srivaishnavas were
fighting with each other. mAmunigaL went to the dogs and asked if they learnt
SVB from him which might be reason they had a doubt and that is why they were
fighting like that. ImAmunigaLediately the srivaishnavas realized their
mistake. He would even correct others in a gentle manner using his special
persuasive skills for which he was known as vishadavaak sikamani.
Namperumal has the special name 'padinnum paada perumal'. Once when an areyar
swamy went to tiruvengdam he wanted to listen to the areyar. As a habit he said
padinnum paadiya peruman. Tiruvengadamudiyan said that tondaradipodi spoiled
this chance. Similary when madhurakavi started Emberuman was excited to listen
to him. But madhurakavi says "nil" to Him ...Yennappanil (split as yenappa nil
- - refers to Emberuman to stand still- this is to be taken in lighetr vein!).
Madhurakavi says he knows nobody other than Nammalwar. Just as Nammalwar
experienced Emberuman, Madhurakavi experienced NammmAlwar in ten special ways.
Vilaancholai pillai is shishya of PLC. Here he says that the one who shows us
the nava vidha sambandham (pita cha raksha ka sesi - - -) with Emberuman and
the atma is the acharya. Here When the bartha relationship is discussed,
Emberumanar's incident of being in the rain when Nampperumal entered the Siva
alayam is remembered here. Swamy said that Emberuman can go any where. But
the jeevAtma being the "patni" (pativrata) does not go to others which in this
case is devataantaram sambandham.
In SVB when discussing the greatness of an acharyan and sishyan PLC says that
if the acharya is interested in the kainkaryam that the shishya does to him or
shishya's wealth, then it would be wrong. The thought that the samashrayanam is
being done for the redemption of the shishya is also wrong. The acharya should
have in his mind the only goal that the sishya as being able to do kainkaryam
to Emberuman. During does samashrayanam he says
that he represents the hand of His acharya in getting the sishya towards
Emberuman with the grace of HIS acharya. Due to the upadesha the sisya becomes
interested in doing mangalasasnams to the acharya.
Sloka 22/23
mAmunigaL would go with his shishyas for Periya Perumal kanikaryam.
(The four main DDs: Kovil, Tirumalai, Perumal Kovil, Tirunarayanapuram. These
names have not been changed with time in sampradayam). The gopuram itself is a
nitya suri.The vimanas and prakaras of Kovil are praised.
Sloka 24/25
First He does mangalasasanams to ANdal. She has no match in sampradayam and
neither Her Tiruppavai.
All acharyas talk about the greatness of Andal. She is the daughter of the
"Anja kudikku oru santadiyaay - - - (alwar kudi)".
Mangalasasanam: Like "attattin patthaa naal - - -10 days from Hasta
(so Kamsa cannot find out the nakshtram of Kannan).
The 10th day after Hasta is Rohini and 10th day before Hasta is Sravanam
-Tiruvonam. He said this because he wanted to protect Kannan
(mangalasasanams).
Swamy Vedantachariar says Kannan sucked the life of Putana. All the people ran
and were worried about Kannan. At this time Nanda Gopan removed drishti for
Kannan.
When people (with deha-atmabhimanam) are compared to the rishis the latter are
like parvatam - hills and the rest are like atoms; when rishis are compared to
alwars, alwars are like mountains and rishis are like atoms; alwars when
compared to perialwar, PeriAlwAr is a mountain and other alwars are like atoms;
perialwar when compared to AndAL, AndAL is like a mountain and PeriAlwAr is
like an atom. Such is the greatness of AndAL.
URM: "Inno Tiruvaadippooram - - - "
Goda Stuti: Because of Andal's Poomaalai and Paamaalai Emberuman becomes so
happy that he gives everything we need. Swamy Vedantachariar says all rivers
should come and cleanse themselves in Godavari.
Because Godavari has the name Goda she is so special. When Sita was carried
away by rAvaNa she tells Godavari to convey the message to Rama that Ravana
abducted her. But due to the fear of rAvaNa
Godavari never said a word to Rama where as Yamuna was right there in Mathura
but was not scared of Kamsa (that's why "tooya peruya neer - - ").
Even such a Godavari became great because she has 'Goda' in her name!
Then mAmunigaL does mangalashasanams to Yatipati(Emberumanar) who became the
elder brother of ANdaL having fulfilled AndAL's "noor thada" wish at
Tirumaalirincholai by offering hundred pots of akkAravadishil per her
thitherto-unfulfilled wish.
Next mAmunigaL does mangalashanams to nammAlwar. Madhurakavi says he knows
Emberuman only because of nammAalwar. Like Tripura devi...when somebody asked
her the reason why she worshipped Sriman Narayana as para daivam, she said she
knew no veda nor sastra ... She just followed Emberumanar's direction...if
EmberumAnAr had said someone else was paradeivam she would have done
accordingly...All three namely AnDAL, MadhurakavigaL, and EmberumAnAr showed
charamaparva nishtai.
Then mAmunigaL does mangalasanams to the PranavAkAra Vimanam. Vaikuntam has
become Sri Ranga Mandiram. The great vimanam worshipped by chakravarthi
Tirumagan and then by Vibeeshanan. Finally he does mangalasasnams to Senai
Mudaliyar (viswaksEnaR), Periya Tiruvadi (Garudar), Taayaar, Perumal and Alwars.
To be continued - - --
rAmAnuja aDiyArgaL
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