THIRUKOLUR PEN PILLAI RAGASIYAM-69

Did I say that all great devotees of Vishnu are like ocean and all their words are sound of the ocean, like periya Nambi who was referring to Maraneri Nambi

My dear children in the spiritualy advanced world of veda patti our friend Thirukkolur Pen Pillai 's quote is  - "kadal osai endreno perianambiyai pola" - in this we are going to know about the immense value of srivaishnavasampradayam

and the greatness of our poorvacharyas.

We are going to meet a true sishya. He is the disciple of swami Alavandar. He is from a bavkward community by birth. His livelihood is farming and one day when he was ploughing his land he was hungry and he took out some soil from his field and washed it throughly and ate it. On seeing this Alavandar asked him why you are eating the mud,he told Alavandar "iam giving soil to the soil"- that is for my body, which is made of pancha bhootha iam giving this(prithvi)

Alavandar was surprised to hear such an excellent philosophy of life, from a lower caste ordinary farmer.  He is as great as Maran kurugur nambi (Nammalvar) and is equivalent to maran hence named him Mara ner nambi and asked him to join Alavandar. Maraner told Alavandar that he is from an uprest class for which Alavandar told him that,for the one who is always living with his soul full of divine thoughts , the kulavedam(communal discrimination)wont be there. 

On hearing this Maraner left his home leaving his farm, village, equipments, cattle, family ho me etc., Alavandar has carried out all the religious sampradaya prescribed for vaishnava such as shanka chackra lanvhanam viz Samasreiyanam and given him the status of a srivaishnavan. Maraner nambi has constructed a small hut on the river bank (ALAVANDAR PADI THURAI) and has made small replica of Alavandar with clay and was doing pooja and worshipped him. He uses to listen to the religious discourses of Alavandar with rapt attention.  As Maraner used to feel that he is an untouchable man, he stays away from the asthika goshti and listened to the kalakshebam in isolation. But to make his lecture audible to Maraner Alavandar usedto deliver with full throat eventhough it is painful to speak out that much loudly. 

People started thronging in large number to listen to Alavandar discourse and there was no proper space to accommodate bakthas. Then it was decided to constrct a huge auditorium like for this purpose and have done so. Alavandar has decided to conduct the housewarming on an auspicious day after performing punyakavachanam. Meanwhile Maraner nambi went there to take a look at the place and the staff over there took him around to all corners there and Maraner has seen the Hall very happily.  The next day when Alavandar came there for gruhapravesam, the staff told that the previous day only Maraner visited that premises.

Alavandar then told them, where is the need for punyakavachanam for a place where Maraner stepped in, as he himself is an incarnation of Holiness and made it true in words and spirit and called off the punyakavachanam as he considered maraner as a PUNITHAN - a sacred human. 

Due to karma of his earlier birth, Alavandar has got a huge tumour like ailment called 'rajapilavai',and got untold suffering when Bhagavan told Alavandar to transfer his ailments to one of his sishya so that he will become normal- for which Alavandar told he could not tolerate his sishya suffering and refused to do so.

Perumal told 'your services are more essential for our sampradaya'.

Knowing this Maraner approached Alavandar asking him to give his pulavai as Acharya prasadam and though Alavandar tried his best to refuse, Maraner forced him and got it. Maraner endured with the dangerous, serious and painful disease of Alavandar. 

As years roll on, Alavandar has foreseen his end and called his sishya and told them that they should extend all support to Maraner exactly as they were doing it to him as Maraner is very important to him. 

Then he left for  paramapadam. One of the ardent devotee of Alavandar  perianambi felt extremely sad to see Maraner nambi suffering in his cottage in loneliness. He took the complete responsibility of looking after Maraner nambi doing all services to him. Everyday he visited nambi given bath,apply thirunan and srichoornam as dwadasa (12) urdvapundrams, offering food till leaving him to his bed etc., 

As Maraner nambi realizes that his end is approaching, he called perianambi and told him that as his sareeram  was consecrated by Alavandar and sanka chakra lanchanam done by him,he requested not to handover his body to his community people, after his death for which perianambi told please dont worry ill take care. Maraner by worshipping the self made statue of his acharya alavandar has breathed his last. 

Perianambi has performed all the funeral rights and rituals with utmost sincerity and without any lapse. But the local public, seeing the way perianambi performed the funeral of Maraner have taken it to Ramanujar-as a complaint. Ramanuja knew it very well that his guru will never be wrong but he wanted them to get the suitable reply to those fault finders only from perianambi himself and met nambi to discuss about it. The reply that perianambi gave was amazing.

You know who performed the anthim sanskara for viduran who is from a backward class?it is the great king Dharma. So also purushotam sriramar only performed the funeral rights of Jatayu. Now is maraner inferior to vidura or jatayu? Am i greater than Dhramaputra or sri Rama?

From whichever caste kulam one belongsto, if he is a vishnubakthan he is SWAMI for me as told by Nammalwar 

The pasurams of alwars are meaningful and divine and if you accept it whatever i have done is right and incase you do not respect the value of the pasurams the pasurams you are chanting daily are just like mere meaningless noise that huge tides produce in the seashore. 

I never knew such valuable secrets philosophy as Maraner nambi and what status i have got? Penpillai asked for which Ramanujar gave the nice reply, 'if one masters the ideals and principles of srivaishnava sampradaya irrespective of the caste the kula, the society he belongs to, all will fall on the one single line, without any difference and follow the foot steps of an acharya and worship lord Vishnu. They too could aspire for moksham also. 

It is always wrong to go in for an investigation about the background of Bhagavathas because they are the devotees of Bhagwan and are very close to Perumal - Ramanujar told very clearly.

When asked about whom you are going to speak next, Penpillai told Ramanujar 

"Sutri kidantheno malaiandanai pola " - a fantastic subject. 

Ram Ram