Sri Parthasarathi thunai Srimathe ramanujaya
Namaha Srimad Vara Vara munayE
Namaha Sri vanAchala mahA munayE
Namaha Swamy pillai ulagariyan
was born in an auspicious Iyppasi sravanam day. He was born as the son of vadakku
thiruveedhip pillai an ardent disciple of swamy Nampillai. Due to his great acharya bhakthi vadakku
thiruveedhippillai named his son after his acharya as pillai ulagariyan.
This year?s Iyppasi
thiruvonam happens to be the 800th birthday celebration of our
revered pillailokacharya. The great
works done by this acharya in his lifetime cannot be expressed by mere
words. Pramanam and prameyam are
two eyes of our Srivaishnava sampradayam.
Few acharyas concentrated on preserving the pramanas and others
concentrated on kainkaryams to the prameyam. But pillai lokacharya was one of the
great acharyas who worked for the upliftment of the pramanam as well as the
prameyam. During the muslim
invasion, the head quarters of Srivaishnavism Srirangam was in a great
danger. Everyone ran out of the
city. In order to protect
namperumal from foreign hands, swamy ran along with other devotees carrying
namperumal not minding his old age.
But due to all the hardships faced on the way swamy attained paramapadam
at jodhiskudi. But before that he
had shown his successor the great acharya to take over after him, Sri
thiruvaimozhi pillai to this world. Swamy pillailokacharya has
done 18 divine works to preserve the pramanas. Those are called the ashtadasa
rahasyas. Swamy has given all the
essence of the sampradayam in a very lucid form. But for pillai lokacharyas divine
literary works many divine meanings in our sampradayam would have been Greek and
Latin for all of us today. Swamy
predicting our ignorance earlier has given all the arthas like a juice that
could be readily had. Moreover
swamy manavala mamunigal?s vyakhyana for this divine works is a great tonic for
all of us interested in learning the inner divine meanings of our
sampradaya. During this occasion of
the 800th birthday celebration of that great acharya it is a very
great duty of all the Srivaishnavas to think about that revered acharya and talk
and learn a lot from his life and works.
Swamy pillailokacharya remained a brahmachari throughout his life and
worked fully for the upliftment of the ramanuja darshanam. So don?t we atleast have the
gratefulness as srivaishnavas to remember this mahacharya during this wonderful
occasion and show our small gratitude towards the magnanimity showed by
pillailokacharya to the whole Srivaishnava
community? Adiyen now takes the
privilege to translate and write a few words on the great work ?pramEya sEkaram?
as a tribute to the mahacharya. All
mistakes are purely adiyen?s and if this effort is in anyway helpful to spread
the message of the acharya then all the credits goes solely to pillaiulagariyan
and of course adiyen?s acharyan HH Sri Kaliyan vanamamalai jeeyer
swamy. LokacharyAya guravE
Krishna pAdasya soonavE I SamsAra bhOgi sandhasta
jeevajeevAtavE namaha II vAzhi vulagAsiriyan
vAzhiavan mannukulam vAzhi mudumpai ennum
mAnagaram-vAzhi manan soozhindha pErinbha
malgu migu nallAr enansoozh indhirukkum
eruppu? Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer
thiruvadigalE sharaNam Adiyen ramanuja
dAsee Sumithra
Varadarjan azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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