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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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