Sri Parthasarathi thunai Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha Sri VanAchala mahA munayE Namaha SrisailEsa dayA pAthram deebhakthyAdhi gunArnavam Yateendra pravanam vandhE ramya jAmataram munim RamyajAmatru yOgeendra pAdha rEkhA mayam sadhA thathAyaththAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE HH Sri Vanamamalai Periya Pattarbiran jeeyer 1843-1853 (nineteenth pattam) Swamy?s kainkaryams (Contd.) While swamy reached the outskirts of mahisoorapuram, the king welcomed swamy along with others holding the respective honours (poornakumbam etc) and then made the required arrangements for swamy and his shisyas to stay. Thenthe king visited swamy, along with his wife and family and prostrated swamy and waited for swamy?s blessings, while swamy blessed him with his Sri pAdha theertham. Then the king requested swamy to advice him in the right path so as to overcome this ocean of samsAram. Swamy was highly pleased with the king?s request and hence he did an elaborate and strong upanyasam based on ethihasa puranas and the paasurams of Azhvars on the topic of artha panchakam for 5 to 6 days. Listening to swamy?s sweet and outbursting upanyasams the king was elated and he then considered his janma to have hadits essence. The king with high esteem praised swamy and prostrated to the divine feet of swamy and then turned his look towards his wife. His wifeunderstood the thought at the back of the king?s mind and hence she immediately removed the makarakandikai (a type of precious jewel worn in the neck) from her neck and gaveit in the hands of the king who added a beautiful pearl chain to the same and submitted to be adorned by swamy and further submitted number of precious jems, gold and huge wealth. Swamy accepted the same for the pleasure of the king, blessed them and thencalled for the vidwans in the kingdom and honoured them appropriately. Then swamy told the king about his return journey while the king came along with swamy for a short distance and then prostrated swamy and returned back. Then the king of vanapparuththi samsthAnam who came to know about the greatness of swamy wanted to prostrate swamy along with his family and hence metswamy on the way and submitted his invitation to swamy. Swamy also accepted his request with grace and did samasrayanam to him along with his familyand made him his close disciple. He was highly pleased to be blessed withswamy?s grace and hence he submitted precious clothes and other jems to the divine feet of swamy along with one or two villages. Meanwhile, krishnasreshti and others who were swamy?s disciples in a responsible post in bhakyanakaram (hyderabad) coming to know about swamy?s visit to vanapparuththi very close to their city wanted to invite and honour swamy in their place, placed the same request under the divine feet of swamy. Though swamy?s interest was then circling around having the divine darshan of Sri varamangai nachiyar back home, still not being able to disappoint his disciples, swamy filled with grace visited bhakyanagaram and stayedthere for sometime and then rushed back to sirivaramangala nagar. (To be continued) Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee, Sumithra Varadarajan --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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