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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe Ramanujaya namaha

Sri Vara Vara munaye Namaha

 

SRI ALAVANDAR VAIBHAVAM-3

 

The queen, with great happiness welcomed Yamunai Thuraivar into their 
grandpalace. The king as per the challenge, granted half of his kingdom to YT 
and sent word for his wife. And thereafter, YT settled with his wife in the 
palace and enjoyed all the luxuries of the royal life.

 

Meanwhile, ManakkAl Nambi with very great interest of seeing YT, visited his 
palace. But due to security restrictions around the palace, his wish remained 
unfulfilled. He then visited the Palace kitchen and enquired about the food 
item, which Aalavandar liked the best. He came to know that Aalavandar liked a 
variety of spinach by name "Thoothulai". Nambi thereafter began to supply the 
same for the palace kitchen. He continued this routine fora period of six 
months and stopped the practice without any notice for a period of four days. 
YT, while eating asked the cook, why he hasn't prepared "Thoothulai" for the 
past four days. The cook replied "an old Brahmin was supplying the greens for 
the past six months and he hasn't turned up forthe past four days". Aalavandar 
in turn asked the cook to inform him, whenever the Brahmin returned back. 
Nambi, returned the next day with the Thoothulai and the cook informed 
Aalavandar about the Brahmin's arrival. Aalavandar in turn instructed the cook 
to bring the brahmin in front of him.

 

The cook directed Nambi to Aalavandar and he in turn welcomed him with due 
respects and offered him a seat. He asked Nambi the reason behind the supply of 
Thoothulai to the palace kitchen for the past six months and whether he is 
interested in wealth or land in reciprocation. For this Nambi replied, he is 
not interested in any material acquisition from Aalavandar, but instead he in 
turn has a wealth in possession, which belonged to Aalavandar'sancestors. He 
also knows the place where the wealth is available and Alavandar had to make 
rrangements to remove all security restrictions for his entry into the palace, 
till all the wealth is transferred to him. Aalavandar agreed to this and from 
that day onwards, Nambi preached Aalavandar the divine meanings of all the 
Eighteen chapters of Bhagavat Gita. Aalavandar got so deeply involved in 
Nambi's teachings that he one day asked, whether there is a way by which he 
could have the darshan of emperuman, the divine lord. Nambi in turn replied, 
indeed there is a way and taught him the "meimai peruvArthai, charma slokam.

 

Listening to this, Aalavandar, like a grain that bends more and more on 
ripening, started realizing the importance of sharanAgathi. Moreover, due to 
his deep involvement with Bhagavan and Bhagavat vishayam, he slowly started 
getting aloof from the samsAram. As per, ?Nacha Jyanasya sangkOcha: na chaiva 
yama socharaha:- tasmath rangam mahA punyam konaSEVEtha buddhimAn? Nambi, then 
took Aalavandar to Srirangam and made him to have the darshan of Periya Perumal 
and prostrate before the lord. He then remarked to Aalavandar that ?This is the 
wealth your ancestors had saved for you ? ?NidhiraVyaya:? Aalavandar on 
enjoying the endless beauty of the lord, felt distressed, for having spent his 
past days in worthless pleasures and tears began to roll down his eyes as per 
the verses ?Pazhudhe Pala pagalum pOyinaVendru, anji azhudEn aravanaimEI kandu 
thozhudEn? Having the supreme anubhavam of perumal, he shed all other samsAric 
pleasures and undertook sanyAsa. (?PirandhaAr pirandhaidhum Perinbhamellam 
turandhAr thozhudhAr Aththol?) Like ThiruPPAnAzhwar who said ?andar kOn 
aniarangan en amudhinaikanda kangal mattrondrunai kAnAdhE? (meaning he didn?t 
want to see with his eyes, anyone else, after having enjoyed the supreme nectar 
of Sri Ranganathan) Alavandar too, stayed with the same determination in 
SriRangam itself for enjoying the endless anubhavams of Periya Perumal.

 

Then the following twenty became the sishyAs of Aalavandar namely, Periya 
Nambi, Thirukkottiyur Nambi, Periya Thirumalai Nambi, MaranEri Nambi, 
Thirukkacchi Nambi, AalavandArAzhwan, thirumAlai AandAn, VanamAmalai Aandan, 
DeivavAriAndAn, EsanAndAn, seeyarAndAn, thirukkoorappan, thirumOgoorappan, 
thirumOgoornindran, deivaperumAl, vagulAbharana sOmayAjiyAr, 
thirukkurugoordAsar, thirumAlirunchOlidAsar, vadamadurai pirandhAn, 
Atkondiammangi.

 

 

(To be continued)

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen,

Varadarajan Ramanuja Dasan

Sumithra Ramanuja Dasyai

 

 

 



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