Triplicane
is happy so also are vaishnavaites everywhere ~ the thiruvavathara uthsavam of
Swami Emperumanar is now on and today 6.5.2019 is day 7. In the morning there was purappadu of Sri
Ramanujar in pallakku.
BhagwadRamanuja
with his aesthetic beautiful interpretations occupies the central
place. Sri Ramanujar hailed as Udayavar, Emperumanar, Bashyakarar,
Ilayazhwaar amongst other names was born in the year 1017 at Sri Perumpudur on
‘Thiruvathirai’ thirunakshathiram in the month of Chithirai. The
greatest reformer Sri Ramanuja gave us many vedantic
treatises: Sri Bashyam, Vedartasangraha, Vedanta deepa, Vedanta
sara, the three Gadyams and more. Blessed are the people, who regularly
recite the 108 songs rendered by his disciple ThiruvarangathuAmuthanar known as
“Ramanuja Noorranthathi”. Ramanuja’s peregrinations earned him
thousands of followers, wherever he set foot, and Sri Vaishnavism continued to
thrive in these places, even afterRamanuja’s departure from this
world.
Truly
following our Acarya, We all take pride calling ourselves as Sri vaishnavas and
more as RamanujaDasan / Dasi. Our Acarya was a true teacher who
propounded the concept of saranagathi at
a sublime level while eradicating the social evils. Universal salvation was the goal of the
saviour. Deeply understanding the evils
of the society, Udayavar focussed on equanimity and social outlook in his
treatises. He codified the customs and
guided us by managing the temple at Thiruvarangam, as also many other temples
including MelukoteThirunarayanapuram.
The
theory of causation has profoundly exercised the minds of all philosphers – the
vedantins, like the sankhyas maintain the oneness of cause and effect in
essence, as opposed to the logicians who maintain that they are different. Badarayana maintains that ‘Brahman’ is not
merely the instrumental cause, but also the material cause of the
Universe. Visishtadwaita that our
Emperumanar gave us is so called because it inculcates the advaita, or oneness
of God, with Visesha or attributes. It
is there ‘qualified non-dualism’ – God alone exists; all else that is seen is
His manifestation, attribute, or Sakthi.
We
feel happy and matchless in being the followers of Bhagwat Ramanuja – and here
are some photos taken during morning purappadu
6th
May 2019
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