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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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