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Sri Parthasarathi thunai 

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha 

Dear Sri Mukundan, 

You are indeed doing a great kainkaryam by writing about the lord's acharya, 
and to our pride our acharya, Sri Manavala mAmunigal. When you write the 
greatness of one acharya there is no room for anyone to think it as disrespect 
to any other acharya. Swami desikar is ofcourse our acharya and we have all 
enjoyed the series of posting on his greatness for quite some weeks. Now that 
Mamunigal's thirunakshatram is fast approaching it is a right time for all of 
us to think about that great mahan, Sri periya Jeeyer and you have taken the 
credit of starting writing about him first and making all of us cherish to 
have such a great acharya. 

At different times we enjoy remembering the greatnesses of different acharyas 
and talking about the same to others (mainly like-minded people to make them 
also cherish the same). Now it is the time to think of our great "Ettu 
perukkar" Sri Manavala mAmunigal. It will be very nice if more people could 
write about our acharya. Ranganatha was probably jealous of us because we say 
with pride that mAmunigal is OUR ACHARYA and that is why he also listened to 
periya jeeyer's bhagavat vishayam, stopping all his other utsavams for a year 
and submitted the "SrisailEsa thaniyan" to the revered acharya and till today 
does everything a shisya has to do to an acharya. Thereby, namperumal shares 
with all of us, the great acharya.

Let us all think positively and act according to the words of our alwars and 
acharyas. Thondaradi podi alwar says ?pEsittrE pesalallAl?. We Srivaishnavas 
are like parrots, each one of us know to only repeat what our poorvAcharyas
have said. If anyone talks against the words of our poorvAcharyas then heis 
considered as a ?moorkan? (?munnOr mozhindha murai thappAmal kEttu pinnOrindhu 
thAmadhanai pEsAdhE than nenjil thOttrinathE solli edhu suttha upadesa 
varavAtrathenbhar moorkarAvAr?). So when we write the greatness of our 
acharyas, there is no need for establishing on what pramAnam one is writing
since true Srivaishnavas do not exaggerate things and let us enjoy without any 
controversies.

Let me conclude with the words of the great Acharya, manavala mAmunigal in his 
Arthi prabhandam,

?thennarangar seer arulukku elakkAga pettrOm
thiruvarangam thirupathiyE eruppAga pettrOm
manniya seer mAran kalai vunavAga pettrOm
madurakavi sol padiyE eruppAga pettrOm
munnavarAm nan kuravar mozhigal vulla pettrOm
muzhudum avai namakku pozhudhu pOkkAga pettrOm
pinnai ondru thannil nenju pErAmal pettrOm
pirar minukkam porAmai ella perumaiyum pettrOmE.?

This is one of the excellent paasurams of mAmunigal. Let us enjoy in detail 
this paasuram in a separate posting.

Alwar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan





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