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Ramanujar was little disappointed, as he was not able to get Thirukkacchi 
Nambigal as his AchArya. He still wanted to get some kind of sambandham with 
Thirukkachi Nambigal. He decided to invite Thirukkachi Nambigal to his house 
for lunch, and planned to eat the left over of the food that Nambigal had 
eaten. 

Can one eat the left over food of another person? There are 5 cases, where this 
can be done. They are with the food eaten by:

   Elder Brother
   Father
   Husband
   BhAgavathAs
   AchAryan

Thondaradippodi Azhwar has indicated about this in his ThirumAlai as,

?pOnakam seytha sEdam tharuvarEl punitha manRE??

Azhwar refers to the sanctity of food eaten by BhagavathAs.

Raman sent Lakshmanan to Sugriva?s place to get him back. Since Sugriva was not 
able to keep up his word on returning on time, Lakshmanan went to Sugriva?s 
place with full of anger. In order to please Lakshmanan, Tharai, the wife of 
Sugrivan got a plate full of fruits to Lakshmanan, with the thought that 
Lakshmanan was a royal person. This was what Lakshmana immediately replied to 
her,

?Thara, you don?t know what I eat. I don?t eat anything that Raman has not 
eaten. If there is something that is not eaten by Raman, it is equivalent to 
the food eaten and left over by a dog.?

That was the kind of bhakti shown by Lakshmanan. There is also an interesting 
story. There was a person, who used to start eating with Thayir Amudhu (curd). 
One day, when asked why he was eating in reverse order. For that, the person 
replied that he eats on the leaf that was used by his AchAryan. In order to get 
the anubhavam of the prasAdham, he started eating from where his AchAryan had 
left. 

Let us look at another interesting story. A shaiva sanyasi used to live on the 
other side of Tamraparani. He had a dog with him. Due to severe drought, the 
river got completely dired. He decided to let atleast his dog to go to the 
other bank of the river, where NammAzhwar (SriVaishnavite) lived. This side of 
the river was full of SriVaishnavates. Hence, the sanyasi did not want to get 
to this side to get his food. Because of hunger, the dog ate the food left over 
on the banana leaves. In the evening, the dog wanted to return to his master?s 
place. Due to heavy rain, the river got flooded. When the dog stepped in to the 
river, the sanyasi witnessed a very interesting thing. He saw the kapAlam of 
dog getting burst, and the soul of dog being carried away to SriVaikuntam. The 
sanyasi immdiately realized the greatness of NammAzhwar and started singing in 
praise of him. If we look at the life of dog, just because it ate the left over 
food of BhagavathAs, it got Moksham. 

Let us see if Ramanujar was able to get what he wanted from Thirukkachi 
Nambigal in the next posting?

aDiyEn,

ramanan


                        
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