Ramanuja

Dear BhAgavathAs,

adiyEn want to remember the great sishyA of emperumAnAr, Sri ArulAlapperumAl EmperumAnAr on the account of his thiruavathAra nakshatram on Karthigai, Bharani - 3^rd Dec. He is one of the important sishyA of emperumAnAr. While allotting different kainkaryams to different sishyAs, emperumAnAr allotted performing thiruvArAdhanam to his thiruvAradhana perumAl-Sri pErarulAlan to Sri ArulAlapperumAl EmperumAnAr. That was his greatness.

We know that, ArulAlapperumAl EmperumAnAr was an advaita sanyasi with the name-yajNya mUrthi, and he wants to debate with Swami EmperumAnAr. They agreed to debate for 18 days and both came to an agreement that if one fails to win, then what should be done on that side. YajNya mUrthi agreed that, he will enter into Swami EmperumAnAr’s siddhAntham and will change his name to Swami EmperumAnAr’s name if he fails to win. Similarly Swami EmperumAnAr agreed that, he wont touch grantham – Grantha SanyAsam – if he fails to win in the debate.

Till the 16^th day, there was no result of winning on either side. On 17^th day, yajNya mUrthi became stronger in his debate and appeared that he would win. On the same day, Swami EmperumAnAr returned to his SrimaTam with extreme grief and poured his feelings to thiruvAradhana perumAl pErarulAlan. The next day, Swami EmperumAnAr while entering into the debate hall, by seeing Swami’s majestic appearance, yajNya mUrthi surrendered in the lotus feet of EmperumAnAr.

With the help of tips given by pErarulAlan in Swami’s swapnam, Swami defeated the mAyAvAdha siddhAntham. Since Swami defeated yajNya mUrthi in the debate, according to the agreement, yajNya mUrthi had to enter into our Swami EmperumAnAr’s siddhAntham by changing his name into EmperumAnAr’s name. But Swami realized the help of PerarulAlan, without HIM it won’t be possible for Swami to defeat yajNya mUrthi. Also in swapnam, pErarulAlan said that, “Oh! IlaiyAzhweer, Don’t worry. I had brought you a sishyA who is on par with you in all aspects”. Hence EmperumAnAr gave the new name to yajNya mUrthi as “ArulAlapperumAl”, then Swami according to the agreement added his name which results in “ArulAlapperumAl EmperumAnAr”. After became the sishyA of EmperumAnAr, ArulAlapperumAl EmperumAnAr performed nithya kainkaryam to his AchAryar Ramanujar. He was one of the gift to our sampradhAyam given by pErarulAlan – Varadha PrasAdham. Again pErarulAlan proved that “HE IS VARADHAN” - - dhEvarAja! dhayAsindHO! dhEva dhEva! JagathpadhE!

yatirAja dayApAtram yatipankti viBUSaNam |
dayApAla munim vandE desikAgrE saram saDA ||

Dear BhAgavathAs,

Sri NampiLLai’s thiruavathAra uTsavams is going to be celebrated on 4^th-Dec the same day of Thirumangai Azhwar’s thiruavathAra day. Vadakkuth-th-thiruveedhi piLLai is one of great sishyA of Sri NampiLLai.

When Vadakkuth-th-thiruveedhi piLLai was doing nithya kainkaryam to the lotus feet of his achAryar Sri NampiLLai, his mother named Ammi complained to Sri NampiLLai that, her son is not interested in gruhasta life and appealed Sri NampiLLai to advice him, so that his gn~Anam would be transferred to his descendents. Sri NampiLLai ordered Ammi to bring Vadakkuth-th-thiruveedhi piLLai and blessed him to enter into gruhasta life. Through achArya’s bless, Vadakkuth-th-thiruveedhi piLLai presented a santhAnam to Sri Vaishnava sampradhAyam named Sri PiLLai lOkAchAryar.

Sri piLLai lOkAchAryar was born to Vadakkuth-th-thiruveedhi piLLai through the bless from NambUr VaradhAchAryar alais Sri NampiLLai. This is AchAryar Varadha PrasAdham. Another Varadha PrasAdham is by Lord PerarulAlan himself. We know, PiLLai lOkAchAryar is amsam of Kanchi PerarulAlan. Hence PiLLai lOkAchAryar is said to be “Varadha Dwaya PrasAdham”

One Varadhar – NambUr VardhAchAryar (Carama parva AchAryan)

Another Varadhar – Kaanchi VaradharAja perumAl (Pradhama parva AchAryan)

So, Lord DevaperumAl at thiru-k-kachchi is said to be PerarulAlan as HE is famous for HIS boons showered to our SampradhAyam and to HIS adiyArs - “arTithArTa paridhAna dhIkshithan”

“dhEvAdhi dhEvanai chenRU nAm sEvithAl

AvAvendru ArAinthu arul”

Dear BhAgavathAs,

adiyEn after looking into the Sri Ramanuja Journal Issue 2 Volume 2, the avatAra day of Eyunni mAdhavap perumAl, disciple of Swami NampiLLai falls on the same day of ArulAlapperumAl EmperumAnAr thiruavatAra day.

UpadEsa rathina mAlai – 48, 49, clearly explains the flow of “Edu” from AchArya NampiLLai to the remaining through Sri ManavAla mAmunigal.

Edu was written by Vadakku-th-thiruveedhi-pillai and since he had written that without obtaining perimission from his AchAryar, Swami NampiLLai didn’t allowed Edu to be read by anybody. Eyunni mAdhavap perumAl received anugraham from NamperumAl, then Edu was given to him by Sri NampiLLai. Then it was given to his son PadhmanAbap perumAl. The lineage was as follows:

Sri NampiLLai –> Eyunni mAdhavap perumAl –> PadhmanAbap perumAl –> nAlUr piLLai –> nAlUrAchchAn piLLai

(Excerpt from PBA Swamins DivyArtha Dheepikai , UpadEsa rathina mAlai – 49)

Now adiyEn likes to start with the vaibhavam of nAlUr piLLai. Because, only nAlUr piLLai gave Edu to the world (allowed everyone to read) which was held by only one person till PadhmanAbhap perumAl.

The following is the excerpt from Sri.U.Ve.Velukkudi Krishnan Swamin’s “Thiru-k-kachchi – DivyadEsa Vaibhavam” upanyAsam.

PadhmanAbhap perumAl gave Edu to nAlUr piLLai. Till PadhmanAbhap perumAl, “Edu” exists in this world under only one person. It was not released publicly which allowed everyone to be read. Edu was transformed from one person to another person and not to be read by anyothers except the one who owns.

When nAlUr piLLai was standing infront of Sri PerarulAlan sannidhi at thirukkachchi to receive the Edu from PadhmanAbhap perumAl, he prayed to pErarulAlan while satAri was placed on his head that, “Only YOU have to help in releasing this Edu, so that everyone will be benefitted in reading this. If not, after accepting the AchAryan’s word, adiyEn can’t change that. This is the right time that You have to help adiyEn”. By understanding the nAlUr piLLai’s manOratham, Sri PerarulAlan through archaka ordered PadhmanAbhap perumAl to give Edu to nAlUr piLLai and through him release it to the world so that everyone can learn and be benefitted.

Everyone can give their own words. But here Sri VaradharAja perumAl gave the words of others - “Edu” - to the world. Again he proved that “HE is VARADHAN”. HE is known to be a rakshagar of Sri Vaishnava SampradhAyam by giving so many boons to his adiyArs.

Srinidhim nidhim-apAram-arTinAm 
arTithArTa paridhAna dhIkshitham
Sarva-bhUtha-suhrutham  dhayAnidhim 
DevarAjam adhirAjam AasrayE |

Sri:||

Dear BhagavathAs,

adiyEn will try to clear the doubts raised by you, under the guidance from our beloved AchAryAs. If there is any mistakes, please pardon adiyEn for that.

> Is Mukti/Liberation as cheap as it is “portrayed/interpreted” as in our

> Shastras???

First adiyEn wants to clearly tell that, Mukti/Liberation IS NOT CHEAP as you think. Liberation or adiyEn can say that reaching Sri Vaikuntam to perform nitya kainkaryam to Sri VaikuntanAthan.

IN ONE LINE ADIYEN CAN SAY THAT, IF YOU WANT TO REACH PARAMAPADAM OR OBTAIN LIBERATION FROM THIS WORLD,

According to our sampradhAyam, we have to perform saranAgati to DivyaDhampathi’s through AchArya sampandham. WITHOUT AchArya sampandham, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE.

Adiyen will try to explain this based on the following:

Sri Pillai lOkAchAryar in his Sri Vacana Booshanam says:

“Iththaiyozhiya bhagavath sampandham dhurlabam”

—- 440 Soothram

There are 9 types of relationship between the JeevAthmA and ParamAthmA which is called as “Navavidha Sampandham” which can’t be broken by even EmperumAn - “unthanOdu uravEl namakku ingu ozhikka ozhiyAthu” as said by Sri Andal in ThiruPaavai.

For 440 soothram, Sri Manavala Mamunigal in his vyAkyAnam explained as below:

Eventhough it is said that, the relationship between the jeevAthmA and ParamAthmA is “anArchiththam”, then why Pillai lOkAchAryar says that without the AchArya sampandham, there is NO bhagavath sampandham. Because, the jeevAthmA has to know this gn~Anam of relationship with ParamAtmA. The jeevAthmA obtain this gn~Anam ONLY through AchAryan’s upadEsam. Without AchArya sampandham, jeevAthmA doesn’t have this gn~Anam. Hence Pillai lOkachAryar says that without the sampandham of AchAryan, bhagavath sampandham is NOT POSSIBLE. Till the jeevAthmA gets AchArya sampandham, it’s devoid of sampandha gn~Anam.

This can be explained by using the following example:

It’s said that, theertha yAtra, Ganga SnAnam will lead to mOksham. Eventhough there are lot of fishes in the River Ganges, will it attain mOksham? since it’s always present inside the river water. NO DEFINITELY NOT!!! Because those fishes doesn’t had the gnAnam that, the Ganga water came from emperumaan’s thiruvadi.

Again adiyEn want to explain through the excerpt from Sri Velukkudi VaradhAchAryar Swamin upanyAsam on “VisishtAdvaitam” concept. In that, Swamin said that, When peoples were asking permission to go Teertha yAtra to Ganga, Manu Bhagavan enquired each people “Do you accept that Emperuman is our Swamin, and we are HIS dAsars(adiyArs)?”. For those people who accepted, Manu used to tell, “You NO need to go theertha yAtra, since you are having the gnAnam of our relationship with emperumAn. Those theertha yAtra is meant only for those who dont have that gnAnam.” And for those people who doesn’t accepted, Manu used to tell, “You also NO need to go theertha yAtra, because it WONT fetch you anything, since you don’t want to accept the sampandha gnAnam with emperumAn.”

The above is the excerpt from Manu Smruthi. Those theertha yAtra and other karmA’s are only meant for obtaining sampandha gnAnam with Bhagavan. Once sampandha gnAnam with emperumAn is obtained, then the JeevAtma will obtain Liberation. In our sampradhAyam the sampandha gnAnam is obtained ONLY through AchArya sampandham, NOT THROUGH ANY OTHER MEANS like going to theertha yatra, doing xyz, etc…..

Hence WITHOUT taking shelter under AchAryan, one cannot attain paramapadam or mOksham.