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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe Ramanujaya namaha

Sri Vara Vara munaye Namaha

 

Sri ILaiyAzhwAr Vaibhavam-14

 

On sending his wife back to her parents place, IlaiyAzhwar decided to take up 
sanyasam as per the verse, ?ellaramallEl thuravaram?. Swamy was forced to take 
up this decision since he felt that it was not wise enough to live a lifetime 
with such a wife who didn?t even help him out to welcome visitors (athithi 
sathkAram) in the proper way, which was an important duty of a gruhasthan 
(?athithisathkArayokyaiyendrikE prathikoolayAi erukkira bhAryaiyai savAsanamAga 
tyajiththu sanyasikkakkadavan?). So lLaiyAzhwar decided to sacrifice this 
samsaram and hence went to the thiruvanantha saraswith the following verses 
meditated in his mind, ?ananthasarasi snAthvA vimAnas chAyayAnvithE I vimukthas 
sarvapApEbhyO vishnulOkam sa gachchathi II?. On reaching the divine water swamy 
took his divine dip with the verses, ?samyagn nAgAhvayE theerthE vigAhya 
gadhakilbhisha: I nirasthEtharabhOgAsO varadham sharaNangatha: II? 
reverberating in his minds.

 

Swamy then did the sankalpam (take a oath) to sacrifice everything 
(?yathOkthakAriNam bhikshum bhagavantham vA guruthvEnAngeekruthya 
sanyAsAshramAsrayisyAmi?) and then reached the divine temple of pErarulAlan 
(?thozhuthezhu thondargal thamakkup piNiyozhiththamarar peruvisumbharulum 
pErarulAlar?) and recited the divine paasuram of azhvar, ?thAyE thandhaiyendrum 
thAramE kilaimakkalendrum nOyE pattozhindhEn? and then submitted his wish to 
sacrifice this samsaram which has been like a disease separating him 
frombhagavath bhAgavatha Acharya kainkaryams and requested emperuman to bless 
him with only the service at his divine feet. And hence swamy humbly requested 
perarulAlan to bless him with thrithaNdam, kAshAyam etc taking the position of 
his acharya (?thrithaNdam vaishnAvam lingam viprANAm mukthi sAdhanam I nirmAnam 
sarvadharmANAmithi vEdhAnusAsanam II?

 

PerarulAlan was highly pleased with iLaiyAzhwar?s request and hence he 
presented the same through the archakar (?thrithaNda mupaveethanja vAsa: 
kowpeenavEshtanam I sikyangavasamithyEthath pipruyAthyAvadhAyusham II?) 
andordered iLaiyAzhwar to adorn the thrithaNdam and kAshAyam till he lived here 
and also renamed him as ?erAmAnusa muni? and also ordered thirukkachchi 
nambigal, to go and leave erAmAnusa muni in the mutt, ?nammirAmAnusanai 
madaththilE vaiththuvArum? and thereby thirukkachchi nambigal obliged to the 
same.

 

(To be continued)

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen,

Varadarajan Ramanuja dAsan

Sumithra Ramanuja dAsee

 

 

 

 



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