Full Series<\/a><\/p>\n parAsara: pAtti, while we are in the bus, can you tell us about the fourth AzhwAr?<\/p>\n ANdAL pAtti: Sure, parAsara. I am happy to know that you prefer to speak about AzhwArs<\/a> during the journey.<\/p>\n parAsara and vyAsa smile at pAtti. The bus starts from srIrangam.<\/p>\n ANdAL PAtti: The fourth AzhwAr is thirumazhisai AzhwAr<\/a>, he was fondly called as bhaktisAra. He was born on thai month magam nakshathram in thirumazhisai<\/a> near chennai to bhArgava muni and kanakAngi. He was the AzhwAr who lived the longest in this world. He lived for almost 4700 years.<\/p>\n parAsara and vyAsa drop their jaw in astonishment and ask \u201d4700 years!!!\u201d.<\/p>\n ANdAL pAtti: Yes, He traversed through most of the different philosophies before he met pEyAzhwAr.<\/p>\n vyAsa: Oh! What happened after they met?<\/p>\n ANdAL pAtti: pEyAzhwAr<\/a> taught him about perumAL<\/a> in detail and brought\u00a0thirumazhisai AzhwAr<\/a> into srivaishNavam.<\/p>\n The bus reached chathram bus stand.<\/p>\n ANdAL pAtti: He had particular interest in knowing about antharyami, the perumAL<\/a> who exists within us and he was deeply devoted to kumbakONam Aravamudhan, so much so that perumAL<\/a> exchanged his name with AzhwAr and they came to be known as ArAvamudhAzhwAr and thirumazhisai pirAn<\/a>.<\/p>\n parAsara: Wow, pAtti. Looks like he had been very close to perumAL<\/a>.<\/p>\n ANdAL pAtti: Yes, he had been. Once in a village, when he was traveling, he visited the temple in that village. The perumAL<\/a> was so fond of him, he started turning towards whichever direction AzhwAr was moving. Similarly, ArAvamudhan emperumAn<\/a> was so fond that he listened to him politely and started to get up from his reclining posture when AzhwAr asked him to do that.<\/p>\n parAsara and vyAsa eyes pop out in astonishment and ask \u201cWhat happened then pAtti?\u201d.<\/p>\n ANdAL pAtti: AzhwAr got shocked and requested perumAL<\/a> to get back to his reclining position. perumAL<\/a> was in double-mind and so he is still in half reclining position.<\/p>\n vyAsa: Oh! that is very nice pAtti. One day we should go and visit this perumAL<\/a>.<\/p>\n ANdAL pAtti: Surely, we will go some time there. He stays there for a long time. He throws all of his works into Cauvery river and retains the only 2 prabandhams \u2013 thiruchchantha viruththam and nAnmugan thiruvanthAdhi. After that he finally ascends to paramapadham and continues to serve emperumAn<\/a> in paramapadham eternally.<\/p>\n The bus reaches thiruveLLaRai<\/a>. They enter the temple and have the dharsan of thAyAr<\/a> and perumAL<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related Links :<\/strong><\/p>\n Author: jayakrishNan rAmAnuja dAsan, sArathy rAmAnuja dAsan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Previous Article Full Series ANdAL pAtti takes parAsara and vyAsa to thiruveLLaRai temple. They board a bus outside srIrangam rAja gOpuram. parAsara: pAtti, while we are in the bus, can you tell us about the fourth AzhwAr? ANdAL pAtti: Sure, parAsara. I am happy to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginners-guide","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"thirumazhisaiazhwar\"](\"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/thirumazhisaiazhwar.jpg\")
<\/a>ANdAL pAtti takes parAsara and vyAsa to thiruveLLaRai<\/a> temple. They board a bus outside srIrangam rAja gOpuram.<\/p>\n\n
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