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Sri Parthasarathi thunai
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha
Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha

SrisailEsa dayA pAthram deebhakthyAdhi gunArnavam
Yateendra pravanam vandhE ramyajAmataram munim

Once Sri Ramanuja was delivering a lecture (kAlashEpam) on rAmAyanam. Thatday 
the topic happened to be vibheeshAzhvAn sharanAgathi. Sri Ramanujar started 
explaining the way vibheeshana came and stood in the air and waited for the 
approval of rAma piran to join his ghosti. Meanwhile sugreeva and others 
objected saying he was the brother of ravana and since he has come in a wrong 
time, in a wrong way etc, he should not be accepted. While Sri Ramanuja went on 
saying about the discussion between the members of the rAmaparivar, about 
whether to accept vibheeshana or not, one of his disciples pillai vurangAvilli 
dAsar stood up from his place and started leaving.

It was unusual for anyone to leave in the middle, while rAmAnuja was delivering 
kalashepam. Amazed by the act of dAsar, rAmanuja asked him the reason. For 
which he replied, ?When vibheesha, who was a dharmAtma had to faceso many 
opposition to attain the divine feet of perumal, then how can a sinner like me 
attain perumal?s feet without a massive trial session? Thisthought upset me and 
hence iam leaving.? Immediately ethirAjar said, ?Sit down. That was rAma ghosti 
and hence there was opposition for vibheeshana but this is rAmAnuja ghosti and 
hence there is no hinderance for anyone here to attain the divine feet of 
emperuman?.

Then swamy ethirajar further explained why there was no doubt for rAmAnuja 
sambhandis to attain moksha. Swamy explained as follows:

?You (pillai vurangAvilli dAsar and others in the ghosti) will attain 
emperumAn?s feet if I attain moksha, I am assured moksha if periya nambigal 
attained the same, periya nambigal is assured moksha if alavandaar attainedthe 
same, Alavandaar is assured moksha if manakkAl nambi (pundareekakshar)attained 
the same, manakkAl nambi is assured moksha if uyyakondar attainedthe same, 
uyyakondar follows nAthamunigal, nAthamunigal follows nammAzhvar, nammAzhvar 
follows vishvaksEnar, vishvaksEnar follows periya pirAtti, andthAyar follows 
perumal. Do you have any doubt in perumal having the control of moksha? If not, 
then we are all assured of the same without any trial? said Sri RamAnuja.

By this it has been clearly proved that everyone who has a relation with 
rAmAnuja are assured moksha. Our direct acharyas put us under the divine feet 
of emperumAnAr. That is what Sri Mamunigal says in Arthi prabhandam (12)

?dEsan thigazhum thiruvAimozhippillai
mAsil thirumalaiyAzhvAr * ennai nEsaththAl
eppadiyE enni ninpAl sErthAr ethirAsA!
AppadiyE nee seytharul ?

Meaning: Oh ethirajA! My acharya who is being praised by everyone Sri 
thiruvAimozhipillai, the flawless thirumalaiAzhvar, due to the great love he 
hadtowards me put me into your divine feet with a thought to uplift this 
souland make me reach the divine feet of emperuman. So please fulfill his wish 
accordingly.

When lost in a big ocean, a lifeboat saves us and takes us towards another ship 
which inturn shows us the shore. Similarly thiruvAimozhipillai was the lifeboat 
that saved mAmunigal from the miseries of the world and put him into the divine 
feet of emperumAnAr (the big ship) who transports innumerable jeevatmas from 
this world of misery to the world of ever joy (nithya vibhuthi, Sri Vaikundam) 
and places us in the permanent kainkaryam of emperuman. The lifeboat is 
absolutely essential for each one of us and hence we all should be highly 
grateful to our acharyas who save our soul but all the lifeboats finally reach 
only the big ship. EthirAja. So now that Sri Mamunigal has been thrown into the 
feet of rAmanuja by his acharya, he begs ethirajar to cut his samsAric relation 
and send him to the divine abode of emperuman. That is the main essence of 
mAmuni's Arthi prabhandam.

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Is emperumAnAr capable of only transporting us to the nithya vibhuthi or does 
surrendering to his feet give us any joy in this world too? Mamunigal explains 
in his paasuram-55 what all he has obtained here, in this leela vibhuti due to 
the divine grace of the acharya.
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We will see in the next posting.

(To be continued)

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai
Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 


 



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