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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

As Vanamamalai swamy proceeded his journey, at various divya desams the 
srivaishnavas crowded around and started saying the praises of swamy as follows:

?kOil manavala mAmunivan ponnadiyAm senkamala pOdhugal vandhAr? (one who has 
come, is the divine lotus feet of manavala mAmunigal at srirangam)
?Varamangai mA munivan vandhAr? (the great varamangai muni has come)
?DeivanAyagarkku eniya desikanAr vandhAr? (deivanAyagan?s beloved acharya has 
come)
?EmperumAnAr darisanaththai valarkkumavar vandhAr? (the one who spreadsand 
establishes rAmanuja darshanam has come).

Accompanied with all these praises and with the sound of divine instrumentsand 
thiruchinnam being played, swamy?s ghosti proceeded forward. Attracted by 
swamy?s procession the locals in various places, considered swamy to be like a 
light which has appeared to remove all their darkness and similar to a sudden 
rain which has been showered in a draught affected area. Many came and fell 
under the divine feet of swamy. Swamy showered his graceon all those ignorant 
people and gave them the rAmAnuja sambhandam. All of them became ?meiadiyArgal? 
?thirumAl adiyArgal? (?thiruththi thirumagal kelvanukkAkki ?arangan seiya 
thAlinaiyOdArththan?) 

Swamy then proceeded further north, had the darshan of dwarakAdeesan at 
dwarakai, and then proceeded to brindavan, kEdharam, jillikAranyam, 
naimisAranyam and sAlagramam. After the divine darshan at salagramam 
Vanamamalai Jeeyer proceeded towards badrikAshramam. The shisyas were elated to 
see the way in which their swamy went from one place to another, bringing many 
people, who have been left for so many years in dark to the light of ramanuja 
darshanam. The shisyas admired their swamy?s Jnana, bhakthi, vairakhyam and 
eulogized swamy as follows:

?Our swamy, vanamamalai ramanuja Jeeyer is like the thick dark clouds; This 
cloud has absorbed the water of knowledge from the ocean of wisdom, Sri 
manavala mamunigal; Then as per the order of the ocean, his acharya, this cloud 
has now moved towards the northern direction and due to its impartial pity for 
all, has showered the rain of krupai on one and all without any 
differentiation; Due to this the greenery of emperumAnAr darshanam which was 
earlier drooping has gained strength and has flourished?.

With such admiration for their swamy in the minds of the shisyas, swamy andthe 
shisyas reached the divine place where the thirumanthram took birth, 
BadrikAsharamam. They did mangalAsAsanam to nara and narayanan and then with 
gratefulness and due regard swamy constructed a mandapam for nara-narayanan and 
celebrated a grand festival for nara-narayanan and stayed there for some more 
days doing mangalAsAsanam to the prathama guru, narayanan.

Then, after taking the permission of nara-narayanan swamy proceeded to the 
banks of ganga, where once udaiyavar had taken a dip and considering it to be 
the most sacred place bathed in the gangus (?gangai gangai yenna vAsagaththAlE 
ezhumaiyum koodi Eendiya pavam eriapozhuthalavinil kazhividhum perumai yudai 
gangai?, ?thirumAl kazhalinai keezh kuliththu?). The river ganga is considered 
to be the sreepAda theertham (water that washed the divine feet of emperuman) 
of emperuman in thiruvikramAvathAram. So it is very sacred and hence just by 
the utterance of the name ?ganga? one can get rid of crores of sins he has 
accumulated over many crores of time. In such a sacred river in the same place 
where acharya ramanuja took a divine dip, our swamy also bathed and changed 
clothes, adorned himself with the divya dvAdasa pundram and then had darshan of 
perumal at ?kandamennum kadi nagar?.

>From there swamy then started his return journey towards the southern 
>direction.

(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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