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There lived a great bhakta by the name Kurumbarutha Nambi. He was a potter. He 
made an idol of ThiruVenkadamudayan and worshipped him with flowers made of 
'left over clay' everyday. Another bhakta also lived during the same time. He 
was Thondaman Chakravarthy. He was not only a great bhakta of 
ThiruVenkadamudayan, but also a close friend of Him. ThiruVenkadamudayan has 
even done MatrOpadesam to this king. He also used to worship 
ThiruVenkadamudayan with flowers everyday, but with golden flowers. Every time 
he entered the sannidhi of ThiruVenkadamudayan, he saw mud flowers on 
ThiruVenkadamudayan?s crown. He used to ask ThiruVenkadamudayan about this 
strange thing. But ThiruVenkadamudayan refrained from revealing the details of 
Kurumbarutha Nambi (Reason being: Kurumbarutha Nambi once had requested Perumal 
not to reveal any information about him. If ThiruVenkadamudayan does so, then 
Nambi will no longer be alive in this world). One day, ThiruVenkadamudayan 
decided to take Kurumbarutha
 Nambi out of samsaric world (Moksham), and so finally revealed the details 
about Nambi to the king. Thondan king was immediately looking out for 
Kurumbarutha Nambi. When he really saw the state of Nambi, he fell at his feet 
thinking that such a poor person was also able to perform kaimkaryam to 
Perumal. As per Perumal?s vakku, Nambi reached paramapadam before the king 
stood up in normal posture.

Let us see why Nambi was called Kurumbarutha Nambi

There is an interesting reference to Ramanuja Nootrandadhi here.

Mozhiyaikkadakkum perum pugazhAm vanja mukkurumbAm kuzhiyaikkadakkum nam 
KoorathAzhwan saran koodiya pin?.

There are three types of kurumbu because of following:

   Good Looking 
   Education 
   Wealth

A person can get proud because of any of the above three reasons. An extra 
thing like even the kulam of birth can also be attributed to this impact. When 
we talk about Kurumbarutha Nambi, he was not attached to all the above three 
attributes. Hence he was known as Kurumbarutha Nambi.

Let us see what exactly were the types of flowers offered by him in the next 
posting..

aDiyEn,

ramanan



                
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