{"id":3006,"date":"2018-05-08T22:38:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T12:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2018-05-08T22:38:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T12:38:02","slug":"beginners-guide-thiruvaimozhip-pillai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/beginners-guide-thiruvaimozhip-pillai\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginner\u2019s guide – thiruvAimozhip piLLai"},"content":{"rendered":"

SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n

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AndAL pAtti was busy in kitchen cooking when kids entered the house to discuss more about\u00a0piLLai lOkAchAryar’s Sishyas.\u00a0AndAL pAtti welcomed them with broad smile. She was waiting with SrIranganAtha’s prasadam to distribute to kids.<\/p>\n

pAtti: Come in children. Here take the perumAL prasAdham. Hope everyone remembers our\u00a0 previous discussion.<\/p>\n

vyAsa: pAtti, We learnt about\u00a0kUra kulOththama dhAsar,<\/a> viLAnchOlai piLLai,<\/a> and have even learned about “AchArya abhimAname uththAragam<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

pAtti: Very proud of you kids, today I will tell more about one such Sishya of piLLai lOkAchAryar named thirumalai AzhwAr.<\/p>\n

aththuzhAy:\u00a0 pAtti , I have heard that\u00a0thirumalai AzhwAr\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>got his name due to his attachment towards AzhwAr’s\u00a0thiruvAimozhi. Am I right\u00a0pAtti !<\/span><\/p>\n

pAtti: Absolutely correct aththuzhAy, he was known as SriSailESar, SatakOpa dhAsar and most importantly thiruvAimozhip piLLai. Due to his attachment towards nammAzhwAr and\u00a0 AzhwAr’s\u00a0thiruvAimozhi he got this name. thirumalai AzhwAr had his pancha samaskaram at\u00a0 his young age at the lotus feet of\u00a0\u00a0piLLai lOkAchAryar . But after some time\u00a0 thirumalai AzhwAr\u00a0 drifted off from our\u00a0sampradhAyam\u00a0 and became the chief advisor of the madhurai kingdom .<\/span><\/p>\n

vyAsa : Oh , but\u00a0\u00a0pAtti then who brought\u00a0\u00a0thirumalai AzhwAr back into our\u00a0sampradhAyam ?<\/span><\/p>\n

pAtti : Children, I appreciate your curiosity.\u00a0piLLai lOkAchAryar during his final days , instructed\u00a0kUra kulOththama dhAsa<\/a>r and other Sishyas to reform thirumalai AzhwAr and bring him back to lead the sampradhAyam.<\/span><\/p>\n

vEdhavalli :\u00a0pAtti, what did\u00a0\u00a0kUra kulOththama dhAsa<\/a>r do to reform thirumalai AzhwAr? Can you tell us pAtti ?<\/span><\/p>\n

pAtti : Yes , Once\u00a0\u00a0thirumalai AzhwAr\u00a0 was doing his routine\u00a0 rounds in his palanquin. He comes across kUra kulOththama dhAsa<\/a>r who was reciting AzhwAr’s thiruviruththam. Since thirumalai AzhwAr had the blessings of\u00a0\u00a0piLLai lOkAchAryar, he was able to understand the greatness of dhAsar. thirumalai AzhwAr stepped down from his palanquin and requested dhAsar to teach him the meanings of\u00a0 thiruviruththam.<\/span><\/p>\n

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parASara : pAtti , tell us more about how thirumalai AzhwAr<\/span> learned from dhAsar.<\/p>\n

pAtti : dhAsar arrives to teach thirumalai AzhwAr;<\/span> he notices that\u00a0thirumalai AzhwAr is reciting\u00a0\u00a0piLLai lOkAchAryar thaniyan while applying\u00a0thirumaN kAppu and was very pleased with that. But thirumalai AzhwAr is unable to attend the class some times.\u00a0<\/span>thirumalai AzhwAr asks for pardon to dhAsar. dhAsar accepts him and gives him his SEsha prasAdham (food remnants).\u00a0thirumalai AzhwAr accepts with great joy and from then on he completely becomes detached from worldly activities, transfers the power to the young prince and leaves the kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n

During his final days, dhAsar instructs thirumalai AzhwAr to go\u00a0thirukkaNNangudip piLLai to learn thiruvAimozhi in detail. Later, he learned all rahasya arthams (confidential meanings) from viLAnchOlaip piLLai. dhAsar appoints thirumalai AzhwAr as the leader of our sampradhAyam.\u00a0After dhAsar attaining paramapadham, meditating on piLLai lOkAchAryar, thirumalai AzhwAr does all the charama kainkaryam (final rites) for him in a grand manner.<\/span><\/p>\n

vyAsa : pAtti, did thirumalai AzhwAr lead our\u00a0sampradhAyam from then onwards?<\/span><\/p>\n

pAtti : No vyAsa, as I said before,\u00a0thirumalai AzhwAr goes to thirukkaNNangudip piLLai and starts learning \u00a0thiruvAimozhi. He wants to know the meaning of all the pAsurams in detail. So\u00a0piLLai sends him to thirupputkuzhi jIyar to learn the same. Unfortunately just before his arrival jIyar had attained paramapadham.\u00a0thirumalai AzhwAr becomes very upset and then decides\u00a0to perform mangaLAsAsanam to dhEvap perumAL (kAnchIpuram varadhar).<\/span><\/p>\n

parASara : pAtti , this incident is similar like rAmanujar once visits\u00a0ALavaNdhAr, but before\u00a0udaiyavar’s arrival ALavaNdhAr attained paramapadham. Am I right pAtti ?<\/span><\/p>\n

pAtti : Absolutely correct parASara, then\u00a0he arrives to do mangaLAsAsanam to dhEvap perumAL; he was welcomed by every one there and dhEvap perumAL blesses thirumalai AzhwAr with his SrI SatakOpam, mAlai (garland), sARRupadi (sandalwood paste).\u00a0dhEvap perumAL ordered nAlUr piLLai to\u00a0teach thirumalai AzhwAr all the meanings of aruLichcheyal (dhivya prabandham)<\/a> including thiruvAimozhi eedu\u00a0vyAkyAnam<\/a> which he could not hear from thirupputkuzhi jIyar .<\/span><\/p>\n

nAlUr piLLai felt happy to teach, but he felt\u00a0his old age would not\u00a0allow him to teach thirumalai AzhwAr properly. Then dhEvap perumAL ordered nAlUr piLLai’s son nAlUr AchchAn piLLai\u00a0 to teach\u00a0thirumalai AzhwAr .\u00a0Hearing this divine order, nAlUr piLLai accepts thirumalai AzhwAr with great joy and brings\u00a0him to nAlUr AchchAn piLLai and instructs him to teach eedu along with other aruLichcheyal meanings. Hearing the incident,\u00a0thirunArAyaNapuraththu Ayi, thirunArAyaNapuraththup piLLai and others request nAlUr AchAn piLLai and thirumalai AzhwAr to come and live at thirunArAyaNapuram and continue the kAlakshEpam there so they can also learn this in detail. They accept the invitation and reach thirunArAyaNa puram\u00a0and performs the kAlakshEpam fully there. There thirumalai AzhwAr learns eedu in full depth and being pleased with him and his service attitude, nAlUr AchchAn piLLai\u00a0presents his\u00a0 thiruvArAdhanap\u00a0 <\/span>perumAL to thirumalai AzhwAr. Thus eedu 36000 padi gets propagated from nAlUr AchchAn piLLai through 3 great scholars \u2013 thirumalai AzhwAr, thirunArAyanapuraththu Ayi ,\u00a0<\/span>and thirunArAyanapuraththup piLLai. Then\u00a0thirumalai AzhwAr decides to go to AzhwArthirunagari to live there permanently .<\/p>\n

vyAsa : Isn’t AzhwArthirunagari the birth place of nammAzhwAr? I have heard that thirumalai AzhwAr is the one who rebuilt AzhwArthirunagari when it was in a very bad shape. Please tell us that chaithram pAtti.<\/p>\n

pAtti : You are right vyAsa. When thirumalai AzhwAr arrived in AzhwArthirunagari, it was like a forest. During muslim invasion, AzhwAr left AzhwArthirunagari and travelled to Karnataka\/Kerala border. thirumalai AzhwAr with great efforts, cleared the forest, reconstructed the town and the temple, re-established the temple norms. He also brought back AzhwAr with the help of madhurai king. He showed great love for AzhwAr and thiruvAimozhi. He became to be known as thiruvAimozhip piLLai as he was constantly reciting thiruvAimozhi. He also found the divine bhavishyadhAchAryan<\/a> (emperumAnAr) vigraham and established a separate temple for emperumAnAr in the western part of the town with separate 4 streets surrounding it and a sannidhi street in front of the temple. He also established care takers for this temple too. Without him, we cannot imaging the AzhwArthirunagari we are seeing and enjoying today.<\/p>\n

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Then\u00a0Hearing about thiruvAimozhi piLLai, azhagiya\u00a0maNavALan (maNavALa mAmunigaL before accepting sanyAsa) went to AzhwArthirunagari<\/a>, becomes a Sishya of him, starts serving\u00a0him and learning aruLichcheyal and its meanings from him fully.\u00a0 During his last days ,\u00a0thiruvAimozhip piLLai\u00a0starts worrying about a successor to carry our sampradhAyam after his time.\u00a0azhagiya\u00a0maNavALan vowed to take up the responsibility. thiruvAimozhip piLLai becoming very pleased with that and instructed\u00a0mAmunigaL to learn SrIbhAshyam once and asked him to fully focus on\u00a0\u00a0thiruvAimozhi\u00a0and its vyAkyAnams for the rest of his life. Later thiruvAimozhip piLLai attained\u00a0paramapadham and azhagiya maNavALan performs all the charama\u00a0kainkaryams to thiruvAimozhip piLLai .<\/p>\n

thiruvAimozhi piLLai\u00a0 dedicated his life for nammAzhwAr and thiruvAimozhi. It is by the efforts of thiruvAimozhip piLLai we have received the eedu 36000 padi vyAkyAnam which was spread widely to great heights by azhagiya maNavALa mAmunigaL subsequently. S<\/span>o children, let us pray at the lotus feet of thiruvAimozhip piLLai to give us the same attachment towards emperumAnAr and our<\/span> AchAryan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kids felt fully blessed and left AndAl pAtti’s home thinking about discussions .<\/p>\n

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