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
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