Ramanuja

adiyEn recently visited kOil and fortunate to attend
vasantha Uthsavam of NammperumAl and thAyar. Now
thAyAr vasantha uthsavam is going on. During this visit
adiyen visited SriVaishnavaSri (Sri Vaishnava book store)

During the chat adiyEn, comes across the sad news of
demolishing the old matam(Azhagiya singar matam) where
the footprints of poorvAchAryars of Shrimath Azhagiya Singar
(from the 1st Shrimath Singar onwards) and their dusts were
present are now going to loose because of reconstruction of
mutt building. The problem of this new construction is that,
these people(building contractors) dont know the value
of the DUSTS FROM poorvAchAryArs foots which is there
in the present day matam floors. Some of the valuable
paintings also present which is not taken care in the
new construction. By laying MARBLES on the floors, where
the dusts of our poorvAchAryAs were present, we lost the
bhAgyam of touching those dusts when we visit those matams.

An example was the Vaibhavam of Sri ManavAla mAmunigal.
When ManavAla Mamunigal constructed his matam at present
east chiththirai street, he took sands from Sri Kaatazhagiya
Singar koil and still that sands can be seen at Manavala
maamunigal sannidhi. ManavAla mAmunigal called that sands
as “Rahasyam Vilaintha Mann”, since only at Kaatazhagiya
singar koil, Pillai lOkAchAryar used to give discourses
to his sishyAs. This shows that the dusts and footprints
of our achAryas wherever is available, has to be preserved
which yields blessings and jaanam whenever we visit those
places again. Only the people who have great bhAgyam can
have the contact with those great dusts of poorvacharyars.

Similarly, the matam where Shrimath Ramanujar lived for
many years at Sri Rangam had been reconstructed with
new marbles on the floor. Thereby we lost the divine dusts
from Shrimath Ramanujar where he might have walked and lived
there for many years. The contact of even those small dusts
will drive away all our sins and is great bhAgyam. ADiyen
feels very sad on this culture of marble flooring at the
old matams where our poorvAchAryArs lived!!!

Adiyen REQUESTS all the bhagavathas and bhakthas of ALL
MUTTS to prevent the reconstruction of old mutts by
laying MARBLES on FLOOR !!! Marbles wont give any value
to our divine mutts except the luxurious looks which is
not required at the mutts!!@~!

Marble flooring, marble walls loses our divine looks and
purity of divine places. Thats why, this is not recommeded
at the vaishnavite temple premises. The same can be followed
at the mutts also.

Adiyen extends HUMBLE REQUEST to all those who have in
touch with mutts to STOP this marble flooring at the old
mutts where our poorvAchAryArs dusts ,footprints were present…

Only if we do now, this can be handed over to the next gene
rations. Its our responsibility to preserve this !

PS:  This issue has been discussed in “Paanchajanyam” monthly news
paper from Sri Rangam.

ShrimathE Ramanujaya namaha:

There was an interesting story, how thirukkachchi nambigal

came to do aalavatta kainkaryam at thirukkachchi. Thirukkachchi

nambigal went to Sri Rangam first, and started doing aalavatta

kainkaryam to periyaperumAl. But periaperumAl said that,

“Since I am lying in middle between two ubaya kAveri rivers,

it’s so cool here. Your aalavatta kainkaryam is not required and

suitable for me here!”

Now thirukkachchi nambigal moved to thirumalai to do

aalavatta kainkaryam for thiruvEnkatamudaiyAn. There

also thiruvEnkatamudaiyAn said that, “the water from falls

already produces chillness as alwar says “kulir aruvi vEnkatam”

in one of pAsuram. PerumAl who lies on river bed itself, where summer

will be very hot, doesnt need your kainkaryam. Whereas here,

only for some days you can see sun. Hence your kainkaryam is

not suitable for me !”.

Now thirukkachchi nambigal moved to thirukkachchi to do

aalavatta kainkaryam to pErarulAlan. Only here aalavattam

is necessary because of heatness in pErarulAlan since HE

came from yAgakuntam performed by Brahma. HE sacrificed

HIMSELF all the way from Sri Vaikuntam to appear infront

of Brahma in yAga kuntam. Not only to appear for Brahma but

also to give darshan to poor AthmA’s like us who can not

visualize HIM directly. So HE proved again as “varadan”!!!

ShrimathE rAmAnujAya namaha||

According to archAvathAram, emperumAn is not going to talk

or response to anyone. The only response is HIS beautiful smile

always. This what our poorvAchAriyars states as,

“archAvathAra samAthiyai tholaiththu kondu avan oru naalum

yaarudanum pEsuvathillai, pEsa pOvathumillai ! ”

But at some instances, our beloved emperumAn losed HIS

archAvathAra samAthi, and started talking with some of HIS

close antharangargaL.

There are three antharangargaL at three important divya dEsams.

As stated by nAyanAr in his great “Acharya Hrdayam”

“panipoovum aalavattamum veenaiyum kaiyumaaga

pushpa thyAga bhOga mandapangalil………………….”

at Tirumala — pushpa mandapam

at permAl kOil — thyAga mandapam

at kOil — bhOga mandapam

At kOil, there was an antharanga paniyAl called Thiruvilakku

Pichchan. His duty was to hold deepam near Sri RenganAthar

sannithi. When Nampillai was delivering discourse to his

sishyAs, periyaperumAl got interest in Nampillai’s upanyAsam

and thereby losing HIS archAvathAra samAthi, periyaperumAl

stood up from resting on AadhisEshan. When HE was about

to cross the karbhagriham, HIS sowkumArya thirumEni

touched Thiruvilakku Pichchan. PeriaperumAl says that,

“I heard that Nampillai is doing kalAkshebam about me!, I

stood up just to hear that”. On seeing PeriyaperumAl

stood near him, as collection of large dark clouds -kariya

thiranda uruvam pOlE - Thiruvilakku pichchan says that, “Swamin,

You are not supposed to get from your AdhisEshan and come

out of this garbhagriham. So go and be there in your form.

If you want to listen Swamy Nampillai’s upanyAsam, listen from

inside itself”. From that day onwards, still now PeriyaperumAl never

lost HIS archAvathAra samAthi!!. This is well explained in

Swamy Nampillai’s vaibhavam.

At thirumalai, thiruvEnkatamudaiyAn lost HIS archAvathAra

samAthi and discoursed thirumanthra rahasyam to a King called

ThondaimAn Chakravarthi which is also sang by Thirumangai alwar

in his pasuram.

At thirukkachchi, our pErarulAlan, lost HIS archAvathAra

samAthi and started speaking with Thirukkachchi Nambigal

at many times. Whenever doubt arises, thirukkachchi

nambigal would ask pErarulAlan, and pErarulAlan would

also respond to thirukkachchi nambigal through archAvathAra

thirumukham. That was the close relationship between the

thirukkachchi nambigal and pErarulAlan. This was well

explained by Swami ManavAla mAmunigal in DEVARAAJA

MANGALAM.

“srikAnchee pUrnamisrEna preethyaa sarvaabhibashinE |

adheetharchaavyavasthaaya hasthyathreesaaya mangalam ||”

Sri ManavAla mAmunigal states that, “ srIkAnchee

pUrnamisrEna preethyaa……”. PerarulAlan out of

HIS preethi on Kanchi pUrnar alais Thirukkachchi

nambigal, starts speaking with him by losting HIS

archAvathAra samAthi. By knowing this, our

emperumAnAr apart from his five Acharyans, considers

Thirukkachchi Nambigal also as one of his Acharya.

Through Thirukkachchi Nambigal, emperumAnAr

enquired answer for his doubts from pErarulAlan.

EmperumAnAr also didnt revealed what were his

doubts to thirukkachchi nambigal. Usually after

aalavatta kainkaryam, thirukkachchi nambigal would

left immediately. But on that day, he was standing near

pErarulAlan with some thing in his mind. Now our

pErarulAlan starts asking thirukkachchi nambigal,

“Why are you waiting for ?”. Thirukkachchi nambigal

says that, “ my sishyA, has some doubts and he wants the

answer from YOU for that!”. As soon as hearing this

from thirukkachchi nambigal pErarulAlan started telling

six words as if HE was expecting this doubt would arise

from Shrimath Ramanujar earlier itself!

PerarulAlan answered important “SIX WORDS”

(“Aaru vaarthaigal”) to Thirukkachchi nambigal, as

answers for emperumAnAr doubts. This six words

forms a base (as foundation) for establishing

VishistAdvaita SidhdhAntham by Swamy Ramanujar.

So, without pErarulAlan’s six words, its difficult to imagine

our sampradhAyam! HE saved our sampradhAyam by

giving these words from HIM (namm sampradhAyaththai

rakshiththu koduthavar dEva perumal alias pErarulAlan)

By this pErarulAlan proved that HE is VaradarAjan again!!

- King among giving boons (varam tharuvathil rAjA)!!!

(To be continued in next article)

Shrimathe rAmAnujAya namaha||