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Srimathe Ramanujaya Namah                    11/13/04

Uttara Poorva Dinacharya by Sri T.A. Srinidhi Swamin - Kanchipuram - Upanyasam 
# 5 

Due to our purva janma sukrutam and acharya kripa we are able to enjoy 
listening about mAmunigaL.   Kannan says that people who think of Me always and 
talk about Me among themselves, feel happy. People who speak and people who 
listen are both happy. They spend their time doing this.  In the world it is 
rare to find a listener when one speaks and rare to find a speaker when one 
wants to listen.  Hence the congruence of sri vaishanvas is very special.  It 
is our great bhagyam to have the anubhavam of mAmunigaL vaibhavam.  mAmunigaL 
was given to us as a special pearl by Emberuman to remove our "darkness".
We can say that we remember our previous janmas. How? When a child is born and 
hungry it cries and feeds on mother's milk. This is an instinct carried from 
poorva janma. We are being born again and again due to thinking of shabdaadi 
vishayam(sense objects) resulting in kaamam which in turn results in krodham 
for not getting it which then results in moham, subsequently mind becoming 
weak, resulting in buddhi naasham which then results in ajnaanam resulting in 
papa karmas leading to re-birth time and again.  Punyam is not any 
different..it is being bound in gold handcuffs whereas paapam is being bounded 
by iron handcuffs. When an atma reaches yama lOka he is asked - why the atma 
did not worship Keshava (klEsha naashana:). Even when the word Narayana exists, 
how is it that jeevAtmAs come to hell, wonders Yama.  When we have a tongue and 
the word nArAyaNa , why do we end up in naraka?(Naavinaal namo naranaa - - - - 
-may be recalled here). 
As srivaishnavas we should always think of Alwar Emberumanar Jeeyar. All our 
acharyas think of Emberumanar all the time - Emberumanar tiruvadigale tanjam. 
Prapannas should not take anything as an upayam to reach Him.  Even though 
Varadaraja Perumal said prapatti is an upayam to Tirukacchi Nambigal, he means 
that taking HIS tiruvadi as upayam is the meaning of prapatti.  We should take 
Emberumanar's tiruvadi as upayam as HE is Udaiyavar (ruler of both Nitya and 
Leela vibhutis). This is the easiest way to attain paramapadam. When the lion 
jumps from a hill to another, the bugs in the hair of the lion do not make any 
effort.  They automatically get transferred to the other side.  Similarly we 
will get transferred to paramapadam with Emberumanar sambandham. Our achAryAs, 
foremost of them being mAmunigaL, therefore always had EmberumAnAr in their 
minds...how does Erumbiappa know what was in mAmunigAL's mind?..As already said 
earlier, a true shishya knows the mind of a sadAchAryan.
Sloka 19/20/21
Bruthyaiyee - - - -Emberuman says that He enjoys if the bhaktas have bhaagawata 
seshatvam more than having bhagawad seshatvam (nedumaarkku adimai  - - -). 
nammAlwAr and all other AlwArs refer to bhAgavatha sheshatwam umpteen number of 
times in their prabhandhams.  Emberumanar says in this samsaram tree there are 
2 fruits namely Bhagawad bhakti and BhAgawata bhakti. Bhagawad bhakti is to be 
resorted to only when bhAgawatas are not available for tiru-arAdhana.  Swamy 
Alavandar wants to be an insect in a srivaishnava's home. He does not want the 
position of Chaturmuka Bramha.   In Yatiraja Vimshati mAmunigaL asks that he 
wants to have bhakti towards the bhAgawatAs.  The same is reflected in 
Mukundamala "tat bruthya bruthya - - - -". In Srimad Ramayanam Shatrugna 
followed Bharata to his maternal grandfather's place.  He did not have the 
"paapam" of Sri Rama bhakti. How can rAma bhaksthi be "pApam"?!  PVP swamy says 
that Shatrugna had so much bhaagawata seshatvam.  Sometimes Emberuman's
 tirumeni soundaryam comes in the way of our kainkaryam as we swoon seeing HIS 
tirumeni. Shatrugna did not have this problem at all as he was engrossed in 
kainkaryam towards Bharata.  Similary mAmunigaL sishyas have so much love for 
Him.  
Anyone who has surrendered to Kovil Annan should be taken as parama 
bhaagawatas.   PBA tanian first part was given by mAmunigaL which has Swamy 
Vedanta Desika's tirunamam and then the second part has mAmunigaL's tirunamam 
written by PBA Himself.  mAmunigaL had great respect for Swamy Vedantachariar.  
 
mAmunigaL says nothing is as great as SVB divya shAstram.
Once two dogs were fighting and at the same time two srivaishnavas were 
fighting with each other. mAmunigaL went to the dogs and asked if they learnt 
SVB from him which might be reason they had a doubt and that is why they were 
fighting like that. ImAmunigaLediately the srivaishnavas realized their 
mistake. He would even correct others in a gentle manner using his special 
persuasive skills for which he was known as vishadavaak sikamani.
Namperumal has the special name 'padinnum paada perumal'. Once when an areyar 
swamy went to tiruvengdam he wanted to listen to the areyar. As a habit he said 
padinnum paadiya peruman.  Tiruvengadamudiyan said that tondaradipodi spoiled 
this chance. Similary when madhurakavi started Emberuman was excited to listen 
to him. But madhurakavi says "nil" to Him ...Yennappanil (split as yenappa nil 
- - refers to Emberuman to stand still- this is to be taken in lighetr vein!). 
Madhurakavi says he knows nobody other than Nammalwar.  Just as Nammalwar 
experienced Emberuman, Madhurakavi experienced NammmAlwar in ten special ways.
Vilaancholai pillai is shishya of PLC.  Here he says that the one who shows us 
the nava vidha sambandham (pita cha raksha ka sesi - - -) with Emberuman and 
the atma is the acharya. Here When the bartha relationship is discussed, 
Emberumanar's incident of being in the rain when Nampperumal entered the Siva 
alayam is remembered here.  Swamy said that Emberuman can go any where.  But 
the jeevAtma being the "patni" (pativrata) does not go to others which in this 
case is devataantaram sambandham. 
In SVB when discussing the greatness of an acharyan and sishyan PLC says that 
if the acharya is interested in the  kainkaryam that the shishya does to him or 
shishya's wealth, then it would be wrong. The thought that the samashrayanam is 
being done for the redemption of the shishya is also wrong. The acharya should 
have in his mind the only goal that the sishya as being able to do kainkaryam 
to Emberuman. During does samashrayanam he says 
that he represents the hand of His acharya in getting the sishya towards 
Emberuman with the grace of HIS acharya.  Due to the upadesha the sisya becomes 
interested in doing mangalasasnams to the acharya.  
Sloka 22/23
mAmunigaL would go with his shishyas for Periya Perumal kanikaryam. 
(The four main DDs: Kovil, Tirumalai, Perumal Kovil, Tirunarayanapuram. These 
names have not been changed with time in sampradayam).  The gopuram itself is a 
nitya suri.The vimanas and prakaras of Kovil are praised.  
Sloka 24/25
First He does mangalasasanams to ANdal.  She has no match in sampradayam and 
neither Her Tiruppavai.  
All acharyas talk about the greatness of Andal. She is the daughter of the 
"Anja kudikku oru santadiyaay - - - (alwar kudi)". 
 Mangalasasanam: Like "attattin patthaa naal - - -10 days from Hasta 
(so Kamsa cannot find out the nakshtram of Kannan).  
The 10th day after Hasta is Rohini and 10th day before Hasta is Sravanam 
-Tiruvonam.  He said this because he wanted to protect Kannan 
(mangalasasanams). 
Swamy Vedantachariar says Kannan sucked the life of Putana.  All the people ran 
and were worried about Kannan.  At this time Nanda Gopan removed drishti for 
Kannan. 
When people (with deha-atmabhimanam) are compared to the rishis the latter are 
like parvatam - hills and the rest are like atoms; when rishis are compared to 
alwars,  alwars are like mountains and rishis are like atoms; alwars when 
compared to perialwar, PeriAlwAr is a mountain and other alwars are like atoms;
perialwar when compared to AndAL, AndAL is like a mountain and PeriAlwAr is 
like an atom. Such is the greatness of AndAL.
URM: "Inno Tiruvaadippooram - - - "
Goda Stuti: Because of Andal's Poomaalai and Paamaalai Emberuman becomes so 
happy that he gives everything we need. Swamy Vedantachariar says all rivers 
should come and cleanse themselves in Godavari.
 Because Godavari has the name Goda she is so special.  When Sita was carried 
away by rAvaNa she tells Godavari to convey the message to Rama that Ravana 
abducted her.  But due to the fear of rAvaNa 
Godavari never said a word to Rama where as Yamuna was right there in Mathura 
but was not scared of Kamsa (that's why "tooya peruya neer - - "). 
 Even such a Godavari became great because she has 'Goda' in her name!
Then mAmunigaL does mangalashasanams to Yatipati(Emberumanar) who became the 
elder brother of ANdaL having fulfilled AndAL's "noor thada" wish at 
Tirumaalirincholai by offering hundred pots of akkAravadishil per her 
thitherto-unfulfilled wish.
 
Next mAmunigaL does mangalashanams to nammAlwar. Madhurakavi says he knows 
Emberuman only because of nammAalwar. Like Tripura devi...when somebody asked 
her the reason why she worshipped Sriman Narayana as para daivam, she said she 
knew no veda nor sastra ...  She just followed Emberumanar's direction...if 
EmberumAnAr had said someone else was paradeivam she would have done 
accordingly...All three namely AnDAL, MadhurakavigaL, and EmberumAnAr showed 
charamaparva nishtai. 
Then mAmunigaL does mangalasanams to the PranavAkAra Vimanam.  Vaikuntam has 
become Sri Ranga Mandiram.  The great vimanam worshipped by chakravarthi 
Tirumagan and then by Vibeeshanan. Finally he does mangalasasnams to Senai 
Mudaliyar (viswaksEnaR), Periya Tiruvadi (Garudar), Taayaar, Perumal and Alwars.
 
To be continued - - -- 

rAmAnuja aDiyArgaL


 






                        
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