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SrI:
SrImathE Ramanujaya namah:

Dearest all,

Let us enjoy the seventh verse of Amudhanaarâ??s
Iraamaanusa nooRRanthAthi:

Though I am not qualified, what I am doing is apt for
my swaroopam. There is nothing worng. adiyEn due to
KooratthAzhwAn sambandham, can compose these verses.
EmperumAnAr Ramanujaâ??s glories are ineffable. yathO
vaachO nivartthanthE apraa aapya manasa sa: Where the
words can not reach, the mind also can not describe or
contemplate the glories. Knowing fully well, one
canâ??t still stop praising Ramanuja. It is oneâ??s
karthavyam [duty] to do so. It is not to fully
comprehend His glories and sing; but attempt and show
his gratitude. Why are you trying then- one may ask
me. You may try on your own acharya KoorathhAzhwAn. He
is also beyond oneâ??s description as he has crushed
three kuRumbu. [described below]. Even foe one
sthuthi, I am not qualified. How can I compose two
sthuthis â?? one on Ramanuja and another on AzhwAn. It
si AzhwAnâ??s grace that I can even think of
attempting this. He [AzhwAn] gets pleased by such an
attempt of mine because I am praising his acharya-
Paramaachaarya.    

mozhiyaik katakkum perumpuka zaan,vancha mukkuRumpaam
kuzhiyaik katakkumn^am kooraththaaz vaan_charaN
kootiyapin
pazhiyaik kataththum iraamaa Nnuchanpukaz paatiyallaa
vazhiyaik kataththal enakkini yaathum varuththamanRE. 
7

Indescribable KooratthAzhwAn (Sri Ramanujacharya's
prime disciple) has got immense and enormous greatness
in him; He could get rid of and is able to cross over
the three great pitfalls that pushes one down with its
strong influence and do great damage to the individual
(they are: False pride for being born in the highest
caste; for being blessed with the good education and
jnAnam; for being a strict follower of VairAgyam and
anushtaanam - AzhwAn has no pride even though he
fulfils and has all three above attributes! What a
personality!) I, after taking refuge at his feet, am
able to compose on the greatness of Emperumaanaar Sri
Ramanujacharya, (who enables his disciples get over
their karmic bondage and samsaaric afflictions), and
am able to go away from the track of being away from
the Greatest Bliss. Hence, there is no grievance or
regret for me. 

When one sings of Ramanuja, all sins would vanish.
EmperumAnaar, his millions of sishyas and their
sishyas, their ArAdhyan Lord RanganAthan-0 due to
Their limitless compassion and dayA on me, all my
paapms would evaporate. Emeprumaanaar, is the acharyan
of asmadhAchArya [my acharya] Swami KooratthAzhwAn,
who has crossed the great pitfalls. Thus my sthuthi is
also kind of Acharya sthuthi. As per saasthrAs, when
Acharyaâ??s acharya is present, one should first
prostrate at Pracharya and then only Acharyan. It is
Sishya kruthyam. 

Sishyaâ??s Parama purusha praapthi [The ultimate goal
of attaining Parama Purushâ??a Lotus Feet] alone is
the consideration and thinking of Acharyas.
Acharyaâ??s glory and praising their greatness alone
is the goal and thought of sishyas. KooratthAzhwAn
thus has been immensely pleased about these verses
that are sung in praise of his acharyan, Swami
Emperumaanaar and thus adiyEn [Amudhanar] is also
happy about that as it is my acharyan ThiruvuLLam.
Kaimkaryamaavadhu Swami ugandha yEval thozhil
seyvadhu- says Swami Desikan. Kaimkaryam is serving
what is acharyaâ??s thiruvuLLam [in acharyanâ??s
mind]. Thus, these verses are accepted and are enjoyed
by Acharyan, Praachaaryan as well as all millions of
Paramacharyaâ??s sishyas.Mozhiyai kadakkum.. vanja
mukkuRumbaam kuzhiyai kadakkumâ?¦

One may read and understand the life of Swami
KooratthAzhwAn here:
http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/jan2001/0164.html

AmudhanAr further says kooraththAzhvan is the person
who has surpassed the mukkuRumbhu.  What is
mukkuRumbhu? 

Smt Sumitha Varadarajan adds: 
It is nothing but considering oneself great due to the
wealth he possesses, or due to the family or caste in
which he is born or due to his educational
qualification or intelligence.  KooraththAzhvan had
all the three.  He was so wealthy that he used to do
anna dhAnam throughout the day which even surprised
perundEvi thAyar of kAnchipuram, who is none other
than the goddess of wealth (SridEvi). KooraththAzhvan
was a high class Brahmin but he never cared about
that, he cared about only rAmAnuja sambhandham and
considered all rAmAnuja sambhandhis irrespective of
their birth to be equal.  Thirdly, the intelligence of
ooraththAzhvan.   Azhvan is the prime reason for us to
have got SribhAshyam today.  He was an Ekasandha krAhi
(one who learns all the lessons in just one session). 
He just out of interest scanned through the pages of
the bhOdhAyana vriththi grandham got from the
saraswathi bandharam during the nights when ethirajar
was asleep.  

After losing the grantham to others, rAmAnujar was
struck with grief but Azhvan with great confidence
assured that he can recollect whatever he has read in
the two or three nights and since he has seen through
the whole book he will help EmperumAnAr with the
writing of SribhAshyam.  Only with this confidence
EmperumAnAr started writing the bhAshyam and completed
it successfully.  In appropriate places, Azhvan
corrected EmperumAnAr without any hesitation.  Such
was the understanding between the acharya and shisya. 
But at no time did Azhvan feel that he is more
intelligent and great. He always considered himself to
be only the shisya of EmperumAnAr.

The three egos, which generally puts down a person was
won by koorththAzhvan and that has been remarked by
amudhAnAr in the above paasuram.

Azhvan gave his darshan for our darshanam (rAmAnuja
darshanam).  He is the acharya who saved the life of
our ethirajar.  Even when ethirajar forced him to pray
to the lord to grant him vision he refused saying that
it is against the norms of a prapanna to ask for
anything from the lord.  A prapanna is deemed to
accept whatever the lord grants him and always remain
in the service to the lord.  KooraththAzhvan showed it
in practice.  Even after loosing vision he did not
keep quiet but continued to do pushpa (flower)
kainkaryam to Azhagar in thirumAlirunchOlai.  He sang
excellent prabhandams famously known as panchastavams
viz., Sri Vaikunda stavam, athimAnusha stavam,
sundarabhAhustavam, VaradarAja stavam, Sri stavam.
Thanks to Smt Sumithra Varadarajan. [if one wishes to
inculcate Athma guNAs, one needs to constant
contemplate on Swami KooratthAzhwAnâ??s glories. ]

AzhwAn, even when Ramanjua was writing the Sri
bhashyam, used to write what Ramanuja orally tells and
AzhwAn will check if it is alignment with what he had
read in bodhayanavritthi. If there is any
inconsistency, he would not even voice due to greatest
respect for acharyan and Ramanuja would understand and
revisit what he had said to enhance and improve upon.
AzhwAn would happily start again. That is sishya
lakshaNam. 

Though he himself had such an apaara jnAnam, he had
sent his sons Vyaasa bhattar and Parasara bhattar to
Embaar. No vidhyAmadhakuRumbu. 
EmeprumAnAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan      


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