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 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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