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Sri Parthasarathi thunai
Srimathe Ramanujaya namaha
Sri Vara Vara munaye Namaha

SRI ALAVANDAR VAIBHAVAM-4

All the twenty sishyas of Aalavandar were great
scholars and involved themselves in the spreading of
our sampradayam. 

ManakkAl Nambi then instructed Aalavandar to meet an
acharya named Kurugai KAvalappan and learn one another
rahasyam from him. Aalavandar then asked Nambi, to
explain more about that rahasyam and enquired why he
didn?t know the same. For this Nambi replied, ?when
your grandfather Nathamunigal wanted to teach the Yoga
rahasyam to my Aacharya Uyyakondar, he refused to
learn that saying ?pinam kidakka manam punaralAmA ?
sarEravasana dasaiyilE AbyAsikka amaiyum? and hence he
explained that he couldn?t learn the same, from his
Aacharya. Thereby he instructed Aalavandar to learn
the rahasyam from Kurugai Kaavalappan, as per the
commandments of his grandfather sriman Nathamunigal.

When Nambi was staying in Srirangam, rejoicing the way
Aalavandar was taking care of the darsanam, he had
five sishyas under him namely, Aalavandar,
Deivaththukkarasu Nambi, Komadaththu Thiru
Vinnagarappan, Siruppulloorudaiya pillai and
Vangipuraththu Achchi.

Then, Nambi continued to give his divine arthas or
meanings to his sishyas and continued spreading the
sampradAyam until his final days. In his concluding
days, he told Aalavandar that, since he had both
sareera and gnyana sambandam (relationship) with
Sriman Nathamunigal, he advised to consider him, as
both prApagam (path) and prApyam (goal) and to develop
a sishya like Aalavandar to establish the darsanam and
to stay in Srirangam throughout.
He then meditated on the holy feet of his Acharyan,
Uyyakondar and attained paramapadam. Nambi, thereby
satisfied the wishes of his Acharya (Uyyakondar) as
well as his paramAcharya (Nathamunigal). By the
demise of Nambi, all sishyas including Aalavandar,
were grief stricken. But, they later on consoled
themselves and Sri Aalavandar continued to perform the
final karmas like BrahmamEdam to the demised soul.

ManakkAl Nambi Thirunakshatram (Birth Star) -
Maasiyil Magam.

Thaniyan
?AyathnathO yAmunam AthmadAsa malarkkaathrArpana
nishanragEna ? ya: kreethaVAnAsthita yowVa rAjyam
nAmAmitham rAma mamEya sathyam?.

(To be continued)

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam
Adiyen,
Varadarajan Ramanuja Dasan
Sumithra Ramanuja Dasyai



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