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Sri Parthasarathi thunai
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha
Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha
 
Adiyen was just going through the great book ?charamOpAya Nirnayam? authored by 
nayanArAchAn pillai, son of the great acharya, parmakArunikar Sri PeriyavAchan 
pillai. The book is simply superb and is absolutely necessaryfor each and every 
ramanuja adiyar to possess and cherish this valuable possession. Adiyen is now 
going to present just a small portion of this masterpiece that really pierced 
into even a hardhearted person like adiyen. This book actually tells us the 
upayaupEyathvam of swamy EmperumAnAr as shownthrough various incidents in the 
life of our poorvAcharyas. Swamy emperumAnAr is considered as the only uthAraka 
Acharya (one who uplifts the masses) by even the acharyas who preceded him. 
Swamy Nammazhvar himself showed this rahasyam through his ?poliga poliga? 
paasuram and also expressed the same to nathamunigal before handing over the 
bhavishyadhAcharya vigraham.The whole book is so interesting that we are unable 
to place the book down before really completing it. 
What a great pradhipaththi, madurakavibhavam (?devumattrareyEn?) did our 
acharyas possess? Really amazing! No words can really explain the deepacharya 
bhakthi that each one of them possessed. 
 
Once ananthAzhvan, echchAn, thondanoor nambi and marudhoor nambi who have 
surrendered to the divine feet of arulAlaperumal EmperumAnAr (as per the order 
of Swamy EmperumAnAr) prostrated udayavar and asked, ?Does this athma have a 
single acharya or does it have many?? Swamy replied, ?Go and ask ponnachiyar?. 
They went to ponnachiyar and told her, ?EmperumAnAr asked us to ask you this 
query of ours. Does the athma have a single acharyaor many? Please clarify our 
doubt?. Immediately ponnachiyar shuffled her loose hair and tied it together 
and made it into a hairball and uttered, ?Adiyen cannot confirm the answer to 
this question. Will a weak person like me know such a great thing? EmperumAnAr 
himself has to answer this question?? And then she picked up the saffron twine 
on the floor and knotted it around her hair and went inside.
 
They all returned with disappointment back to udayavar?s place and prostrated 
swamy who enquired them about the reply they obtained. Immediately they told 
him that she said that she doesn?t know the answer and that only emperumanar 
can clear the doubt. Swamy asked, ?what did she do while youwere there?? They 
told him about ponnachiyar?s act of shuffling her hair and then tying it with 
the saffron twine and then going inside. Swamy was highly pleased and he said, 
?So she hasn?t sent you without the answer. She has answered your query with 
her action but you were unable to understand.? Surprised to hear the same they 
all requested swamy to explain in detail to them.
 
Swamy udaiyavar explained as follows:
 
? She shuffled her hair to show that while thinking about the acharya to this 
Athma in different angles we assume that there are many acharyas. Then she tied 
them all together thereby indicating that but the actual fact isthat there is 
only one acharya who uplifts the Athma and shows the correctpath (the divine 
abode). By picking the saffron twine from the ground, she indicated the special 
acharya who is capable of uplifting all, the one who has accepted the sanyAsa 
ashrama and thereby adorns kAsAyam, thereby indicating to my own self. Then she 
placed it on her head indicating that EmperumAnAr is the head of all acharyas. 
Then she went inside indicating that she has placed such an acharya deeply 
inside her heart (?pEni konarindhu pughudhavaiththukkondEn pirithindri?) In 
this way she has showed the way ramanuja adiyars have to place swamy inside 
their hearts and cherish the divine experience.? In this way swamy expressed 
his greatness as an acharya through ponnachiyar.
 
Alwar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam
Adiyen rAmAnuja dAsee
Sumithra Varadarajan



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