{"id":1280,"date":"2013-12-30T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2013-12-30T08:00:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T08:00:45","slug":"kura-narayana-jiyar-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/30\/kura-narayana-jiyar-english\/","title":{"rendered":"kUra nArAyaNa jIyar"},"content":{"rendered":"

sri:
\nsrimathE rAmAnujAya nama:
\nsrimadh varavaramunayE nama:
\nsri vAnAchala mahAmunayE nama:<\/p>\n

thirunakshathram<\/strong>: mArgazhi kEttai<\/p>\n

avathAra sthalam<\/strong>:\u00a0 srIrangam<\/p>\n

AchAryan<\/strong>: kUrathAzhwAn<\/a>, parAsara bhattar<\/a><\/p>\n

Place where he attained paramapadham from:<\/strong> srIrangam<\/p>\n

Works:<\/strong>\u00a0 sudharsana sathakam, sthOthra rathna vyAkyAnam, srIsUktha bhAshyam, upanishadh bhAshyam, nithya grantham (thiruvArAdhanam), etc<\/p>\n

sishyas:\u00a0 <\/strong>chEmam jIyar, thirukkurugaip pirAn jIyar, sundhara pANdiya dhEvan, etc.<\/p>\n

Born as the son of siRiya gOvindha perumAL (who is the brother of embAr<\/a>) on mArgazhi kEttai in srIrangam, he becomes to be known (after accepting sannyAsam) as kUra nArAyaNa jIyar, nalam thigazh nArAyaNa jIyar, nArAyaNa muni, periya jIyar and srI ranga nArAyaNa jIyar.<\/p>\n

\"emperumanar-azhwan-bhattar\"emperumAnAr<\/a>, kUrathAzhwAn<\/a>, bhattar<\/a><\/p>\n

Before becoming a sannyAsi he had a son named “eduththa kai azhagiya nAyanAr”. He was a sishya of kUrathAzhwAn<\/a> first and subsequently he\u00a0 becomes a sishya of AzhwAn<\/a>‘s son bhattar<\/a> and learns from\u00a0 him too.<\/p>\n

He performed many external kainkaryams in srIrangam temple such as constructing pArthasArathy sannidhi, garudAzhwAr sannidhi, etc and internal\/confidential kainkaryams\u00a0 to periya perumAL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

vEdhAnthAchAryar<\/a> who appears much later to kUra nArAyaNa jIyar refers to him as periya jIyar in his works (Note: It appears that there is another kUra nArAyaNa jIyar who appears some time after vEdhAnthAchAryar<\/a>‘s time). vEdhAnthAchAryar<\/a> quotes jIyar’s sthOthra vyAkyAnam in his own sthOthra vyAkyAnam. He also quotes jIyar’s srI sUktha bhAshyam and nithya grantham in his rahasya thraya sAram. As kUra nArAyaNa jIyar was a sishya of kUrathAzhwAn<\/a> and thus should have been elder to nanjIyar – so to distinguish between nanjIyar<\/a> and kUra nArAyaNa jIyar – vEdhAnthAchAryar<\/a> should have identified him as periya (big) jIyar.<\/p>\n

mAmunigaL<\/a> quotes kUra nArAyaNa jIyar’s upanishadh bhAshyam in eedu pramANa thirattu (collection of pramANams for nampiLLai<\/a>‘s eedu mahA vyAkyAnam). mAmunigaL<\/a> also glorifies kUra nArAyaNa jIyar as “suddha sampradhAya nishtar” (one who is firmly situated in our pure sampradhAyam).<\/p>\n

kUra nArAyaNa jIyar is known to be a sudharsana upAsakar. Once kUrathAzhwAn<\/a> tells jIyar “We are born in srIvaishNava family where it is considered to be inappropriate to engage in upAsanA – we fully depend on bhagavAn<\/a> for anything instead of engaging in self-efforts such as upAsanA”. jIyar responds “my upAsanA is not for my benefit. It is only for the service of bhagavAn<\/a> and bhAgavathas”.\u00a0 There are a couple of incidents in the life of jIyar which demonstrate this principle.<\/p>\n