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Sri Parthasarathi thunai
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha
Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha
Sri VanAchala mahA munayE Namaha

SrisailEsa dayA pAthram deebhakthyAdhi gunArnavam
Yateendra pravanam vandhE ramya jAmataram munim

RamyajAmatru yOgeendra pAdha rEkhA mayam sadhA
thathAyathatAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE

Pranams,

Sri:pathi, Sri VaikundanikEtanan,
aVapthasamasthakAman, Sriman Narayanan, the bhagavan
who enjoys all the comforts in his divine abode, Sri
Vaikundam along with his divine consorts Sri, bhoo and
nElA devis and with all the nithya sooris, viz.,
garuda, vishvaksEna, anantha and others, inspite of
all these celebrations, like a father who is in the
thoughts of his son, away in a foreign country, while
celebrating some festival at home with his other sons,
emperuman also was immersed in the thoughts of the
jeevatmas which were unable to enjoy him like the
nithya sooris(?vaikundethu parE lOkE sriyAsArtham
jagathpathim! AstE Vishnu rachintyAtma bhakthair
bhAgavathair saha!!?).

Emperuman?s kainkaryam at all times, at all places and
at all conditions is a right to all jeevatmas. But
seeing the sad state of the jeevatmas which lack this
kainkaryam and those which do not even realize that
they are lacking such enjoyment, emperuman?s
dayai(mercy) fell on such jeevatmas. Hence he lost
interest in all the enjoyments in the nithya mandalam
and felt lonely(?sa AkAki na ramathE?). So he gave the
jeevatmas which were dormant the karna
kalEbharams(activeness). Emperuman gave life to those
jeevatmas, which lay like birds without wings to enjoy
his kainkaryam. But unfortunately, these jeevatmas
like cutting a cow with a knife given to cut sacrad
grass (samith) or like pricking the eyes with a stick
given to remove the weeds started using the life given
by perumal for enjoying lowkikam. Perumal gave them
the boat to come ashore but the jeevatmas used the
same boat to submerge themselves. As per alwars
words, ?Akkaiyin vazhi vuzhandru? the jeevatmas acted
as per the instructions of their sense organs and
hence fell again and again in the cycle of life and
death(mAri mAri pala pirappum pirandhu).

To help the jeevatmas out of this cycle, emperuman
gave the sAstras (?sAshanAth sAstram?). The jeevas
never cared about the sastras but remained indifferent
as per the following verses:

?IswarOham aham bhOgi siddhOham bhalavAn sukhee
AtyObhi janavAnasmi kOnyOsthi sadrushO mayA?
?yOnyatha sandham AthmAnam anyatha pradhipathyathE
kimthEna na krutham papam chOrEna AthmA pahArina?

A king who wants peace and not war first sends his
messengar to the enemies court but if the enemy
doesn?t accept peace then the king has no other go
than to go for the war himself. Similarly emperuman
sent the sastras as his messengar but the jeevatmas
disregarded the same so emperuman now decided to come
to the leela vibhuti himself taking various avatars
inorder to change the jeevatmas. But then this again
gave little fruit. The only result was the
difficulties emperuman underwent (manisarkkAi
padAdhana pattu). The jeevas remained with ahankara
and mamakara and preferred to go to naraka like ravana
and duriyOdhana even when emperuman appeared in front
of them and showed his powers and wanted to grant them
moksha.

Even after so much insult from the jeevatmas
emperuman, the kind father couldn?t leave his sons to
suffer. So like catching a animal with another
trained animal he decided to send the alwars who were
none other than the nithya sooris- srivatsa,
kowsthuba, vaijayanthi, vanamalai, sri, bhoomi, neela,
Sri Panchajanyam, ananda, garuda, and vishvaksenar. 
Emperuman ordered them to be born in different places
in different varnas and spread the messages(rahasyams)
already given by him in the sastras for the upliftment
of the jeevatmas. The alwars did as per the order of
emperuman. Since the alwars were more contained to
their bhakthi and anubhavams, then the acharyas took
birth to spread the words of the alwars. The acharyas
spread the message of our sath sampradAyam along with
acharya shisya bhAvams.

To felicitate the divine work of the alwars and
acharyas in our guru paramparai two great works, Guru
paramparA prabhAvam and Yatheendra pravana prabhAvam
were given by our poorvAcharyas. In our guru
paramparai garland the last ratnam was Sri ManavAla
mAmunigal who became the acharya of Sri ranganatha
himself. The prathama and sat sishya of Sri Mamunigal
was Sri VanamAmalai Ramanuja jeeyar swamigal. 
Yatheendra pravana prabhAvam, talks in detail about
the acharya, mAmunigal but only briefs the important
occasions in the life of the shisya, ponnadikAl
jeeyer. Hence Sri Vara mangai muni Vaibhavam, which
gives a detailed life history of Sri vanamAmalai swamy
was written, based on which we will proceed from the
next posting.

(To Be Continued)

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai
Sumithra Varadarajan




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