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SrI:
SrImathE Ramanujaya namah:

Dearest all,

After PeyAzhwArâ??s ThirukkaNdEn pon mEni kaNdEni; [I
am blessed to have seen the golden hued SrI visishtan
Sriya: Pathi Sriman Narayanan.], Amudhanaar brings in
the other AzhwAr â?? ThiruppANAzhwAr who said: 

arangatthammAn Thirukkamala paadham vandhu yen
kaNNInuL okkinRadhae..after having seen and enjoyed
the lotus feet of Lord Ranganathan, 

kOvalanaay en amudhanaik kaNda kaNgaL maRRonRinaik
kaaNaavE.. [having been blessed to see my Amudhan
[RanganAthan- sweet nectar] with the eyes, they [the
eyes] would not see anything else. AzhwAt then united
with the Lord then and there at the sanctum sanctorum.


Emperumaanaar Ramanujaâ??s involvement on
ThirupPANAzhwAr SrI sookthi and the glory of AzhwAr is
mentioned in this verse of Amudhanaar. 

Thirukkamala paadham- The Lotus Feet of the Lord is
mentioned. It would also mean the lotus feet that is
gently squeezed by PiraaTTi [Thiru] Sri Mahalakshmi.
Also, EmperumAnAr had mentioned: wherever the Lord is
referred to; PiraaTTi is also addressedâ?¦
[emperumaanaai sollumidamellaam Piraattiyaiyum
solliRRaam.] 

11th verse on PEyAzhwAr: 

cheeriya naanmaRaich chemporuL chenthami zaalaLiththa
paariya lumpukazp paaNperu maaL,chara Naampathumath
thaariyal chenni iraamaa NnuchanRanaich
chaarnthavar_tham
kaariya vaNmai,en Nnaalchollo Naathik katalitaththE.
11

The Greatest ThiruppANAzhwAr sang the lovely pAsurams
in sweet, simple Tamil language; It is the complete
essence of all four Vedic truths, housing the Nature
and most auspicious (KalyANA guNAs) attributes of
SarvEshwaran Sriya: Pathi Sriman Narayanan as They
are. Sri Ramanujacharya adorned His Head with the
beautiful Lotus Feet of this AzhwAr. I can not choose
to describe in words the greatness of Bhagawathas (who
have held on to the Lotus feet of Sri Ramanujacharya
in this world surrounded by oceans (of sishyas of
Ramanuja?)) on their strictest adherence to saasthrAs
and their anushtaanam. 
 
When MudhalAzhwArs joined at the small corridor of
MrugaNdu maharsihiâ??s ashramam at Thirukkovaloor, The
Lord Himself appeared and shows Himself to them. Swami
Desikan acknowledges in Srimadh Rahasya Traya Saaram
(AchAryakruthyAdhikAram) the purposeful deed of the
Lord in pressing tightly the three AzhwArs huddled
together in the rEzhi of Mruugandu maharishi's
aasramam this way :

pAttukkuriya pazhayavar moovarai(p)  pandorukkAl 
    mAttukkaruL taru mAyan malinthu varutthuthalAl 
nAttikkiruL seha nAnmaRai anthi nadai viLanga 
     veetukkidaikkazhikkE veLikkAttum ammeyviLakkE 

The Lord of wondrous deeds, who blesses His wealth
(viz) the chEthanAs,  pressed Himself  tightly once
upon a time at ThirukkOvalUr  the three of His great
bhakthAs, who were extraordinarily qualified to sing
about Him . When squeezed tightly by Him in a limited
space , there arose the true lamp of light ( the three
ThiruvandhAthis ), which served to banish the darkness
of  false knowledge and helped to illumine the world
with the effulgence of the essence of the four vEdAs
and revealed the two upAyAs, Bhakthi and Prapatthi for
our salvation.

Whereas, PaaNan was mentally enjoying His dhivya
mangaLa vigraham everyday from afar. [Extract from Sri
Muralidhar Rangaswamyâ??s wonderful write up:] Since
the Azhwar could not go to the Temple, he used to come
to the banks of the Cauvery river and sing about the
glory of Ranganatha and lose himself in a  trance like
state. On one of those days,when he was totally
oblivious to  his surroundings, the temple priest of
Lord Ranganatha came to the river to collect  water
for the tirumanjanam of the Archa Moorthy. He saw  our
Azhwar and  thought that since he was a man of lower 
caste and therefore, he should move away to permit the
collection of the water for the daily Tirumanjanam of
Sri Ranganatha without pollution. The name of the
priest was Loka Saranga Muni. He was called a Muni by
the residents of Sri Rangam  because of his
scholarship and devotion. He devoted every moment of
his life to the service of the Lord at Sri Rangam.
        
The Azhwar was lost in the thoughts on the beauty of
Lord Sri Ranganatha and did not hear the shouts of
Loka Saranga Muni asking him  to move away. The priest
got irritated at the non-response and threw a small
stone at  the Azhwar to wake him up from his trance.
The pebble missed the water and hit the Azhwar in on
the forehead and opened a wound from which blood began
to gush forth. 

The Azhwar woke up and realized the situation,
apologized for his unawareness and moved away. The
priest collected the water in his  pot and reached the
inner sanctum of Lord Ranganatha. There , he saw to
his sorrow and astonishment  blood oozing  from the
forehead of the Lord at the same site, where the
Azhwar had  a wound earlier. The Muni recognized his
apacharam and went home and had restless sleep. 

In his dream appeared the Lord of Sri Rangam and
commanded the priest to bring the Azhwar to the temple
next day as a praayaschittam for the Bhagavata
apacharam to the Azhwar. The priest woke up at that
dawn  and rushed to  the banks of Cauvery  and saw the
Azhwar  pouring his heart out to Sri Ranganatha
through his songs. 

The Muni conveyed to the Azhwar , the message of the
Lord to come to HIS temple. The Azhwar refused , since
he felt that  as a man of lower caste, he was not fit
to set foot in the holy city of Sri Rangam or enter
the most sacred sanctum of the Lord there. Loka
Saranga Muni was desperate to make amendments for his
boorish act and persuaded the Azhwar to ride on his
back, despite the latter's protests to the sanctum of
the Lord to avoid touching the sacred ground of Sri
Rangam
 
Azhwar was thus transported to the sanctum and earned
the title as Munivahana. During this ride, the Azhwar
closed his eyes thinking about the blessings of the
Lord. On reaching the inner court of the Lord of  Sri
Rangam , the Azhwar descended from the back of the
elderly priest, opened his eyes to feast on the beauty
of the Lord and burst forth in a song known as
AmalanaadhiPiran, which is a reflection of the
Sampoorna Bhagavad Guna Anubhavam of the beauty of the
Lord from HIS Lotus feet to HIS crown. 

At the end of this tribute, the Azhwar declared that
the eyes that have seen his amudhan Lord Rangan will
never rest on anything else,  and thus having said,
after seeing the Lord of Sri Rangam and he united with
the Lord right there and then.

Kondal Vannanai Kovalanaai: Lord Ranganatha is the
supreme emperor of the whole world and all the people
(residing there); he who is of the black color of the
clouds as well as the nature of the clouds; who ,as
Lord Gopala, ate butter with his mouth; who has stolen
my mind and heart; and who is my immortal ambrosia; my
eyes that have looked at His beauty; these eyes, that
have seen my Nectar, will never see anything else. 

His verses are the essence and seed of all Vedas; like
the praNavam which is the essence of all Vedas. His
ten verses â?? the first three of which start with the
letter aâ?¦ [amalanaadhipiraan], u [uvandha
uLLatthanaay]; and ma [mandhipaay.. ]. 

SaraNaam padmatthaariyal- Alas! We are not blessed to
have AzhwArâ??s legs as our garland around our neck
like Sri Loka saranga muni was blessed with!- that was
EmperumAnaar ThiruvuLLam [enjoyment]. 

kadalidatthE- in the world surrounded by oceans; also
meaning- the Lotus feet of EmperumAnAr in this world
surrounded by the oceans of sishyaas. In this cosmic
material world of prakruthi sambandham, EmperumAnAr
lotus feet alone is our refuge.  

AzhwAr EmpermAnAr Desikan ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan

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