avathAra sthalam<\/strong>:\u00a0 thirukkaNNAmangai<\/p>\n AchAryan<\/strong>: nAthamunigaL<\/a><\/p>\n Place where he attained paramapadham from:<\/strong> thirukkaNNAmangai<\/p>\n Works<\/strong>: nAchiyAr thirumozhi thaniyan starting with “alli nAL thAmarai mEl<\/em>”<\/p>\n thirukkaNNamangai ANdAn, who is a dear sishya of nAthamunigaL<\/a>, was born in thirukkaNNamangai dhivya dhEsam. He is greatly glorified by our pUrvAchAryas for his utmost faith in bhagavAn<\/a>‘s rakshakathvam (protection).<\/p>\n His glories are revealed in srIvachana bhUshaNa dhivya sAsthram by piLLai lOkAchAryar<\/a>. While explaining about the most ideal\/exalted examples for upAyam (means to pursue bhagavAn<\/a>) and upEyam (goal – to serve\u00a0 bhagavAn<\/a>), he says in sUthram 80 “upAyaththukku pirAttiyaiyum, dhraupathiyaiyum, thirukkaNNamangai ANdAnaiyum pOlE irukkavENum; upEyaththukku iLaiya perumALaiyum, periya udaiyAraiyum, piLLai thirunaraiyUr araiyaraiyum chinthayanthiyaiyum pOlE irukkavENum” (\u0b89\u0baa\u0bbe\u0baf\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1 \u0baa\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd, \u0ba4\u0bcd\u0bb0\u0bcc\u0baa\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd, \u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0ba3\u0bae\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc8 \u0b86\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bcb\u0bb2\u0bc7 \u0b87\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb5\u0bc7\u0ba3\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd; \u0b89\u0baa\u0bc7\u0baf\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1 \u0b87\u0bb3\u0bc8\u0baf \u0baa\u0bc6\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bbe\u0bb3\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd, \u0baa\u0bc6\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0baf \u0b89\u0b9f\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd, \u0baa\u0bbf\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3\u0bc8 \u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0ba8\u0bb0\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc2\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b85\u0bb0\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bb0\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bbf\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0baf\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bcb\u0bb2\u0bc7 \u0b87\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb5\u0bc7\u0ba3\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd<\/em>). In this sUthram and the next few sUthrams, upAyam and upEyam are explained with excellent examples. upAyam is the process and upEyam is the goal. According to sAsthram, bhagavAn<\/a> is the explained as the best means and eternal kainkaryam (service) to bhagavAn is the top-most goal. Since, bhagavAn<\/a> is fully capable, he can easily uplift anyone – so he is the best upAyam. Since\u00a0srIman nArAyaNan<\/a> is the supreme lord of everyone, kainkaryam to\u00a0srIman nArAyaNan<\/a> and his divine consort srI mahAlakshmi is said to be the best upEyam. Here, few examples are given for upAyam and upEyam – let us see them briefly now:<\/p>\n upAyam<\/strong><\/p>\n ANdAn’s nishtai is beautifully explained by our mAmunigaL<\/a> in this sUthram’s vyAkyAnam, once ANdAn saw a dog is attacked by a person. The owner of the dog becomes very angry and fights the person who attacked his dog. They both pull out their knives and attack each other and even are ready to kill each other. Seeing this, a great realization dawns on ANdAn. ANdAn thinks “If an ordinary person who owns of a dog becomes greatly agitated and can go to the extent of killing some one else who attacked his dog just because the dog is owned by him, how would srIman nArAyaNan<\/a> who is the supreme lord feel, if some one surrendered to him is suffering and trying to protect oneself?”. Thinking this, he immediately gives up all his attachments and goes into the temple and lies down happily without any more worry about protecting himself. Here, giving up of all actions could be easily understood for not doing anything. But mAmunigaL<\/a> beautifully explains this principle in his vyAkyAnam. His divine words are “svarakshaNa hEthuvAna svavyApArangaLai vittAn enRapadi” (\u0bb8\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0b95\u0bcd\u0bb7\u0ba3 \u0bb9\u0bc7\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bbe\u0ba9 \u0bb8\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bb5\u0bcd\u0baf\u0bbe\u0baa\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bc8 \u0bb5\u0bbf\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0baa\u0b9f\u0bbf<\/em>) – this means he gave up all actions that are related to protecting oneself. This means, he continued to perform wonderful kainkaryams towards emperumAn<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> but only gave up efforts to protect oneself. Ay jananyAchAryar<\/a> too highlights the exact same principle. This can be understood from the subsequent sections, especially in the incident highlighted in thiruvAimozhi 9.2.1 vyAkyAnam.<\/p>\n upEyam (kainkaryam) – a very brief explanation of the remaining part of sUthram 80 and the subsequent sUthrams He then lived the rest of his life serving thirukkaNNamangai emperumAn<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> and then gloriously ascended to paramapadham to continue his divine service to paramapadhanAthan.<\/p>\n ANdAn’s life and glories are identified in a few places in vyAkyAnams and pUrvAchArya granthams. Let us see them now.<\/p>\n Thus, we have seen some glimpses of the glorious life of thirukkaNNamangai ANdAn. Let us pray at his lotus feet that we too get such full faith on emperumAn<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n adiyen sarathy ramanuja dasan<\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) – <\/span>https:\/\/koyil.org<\/span><\/a><\/span> Sources: vyAkyAnams, charamOpAya nirNayam, vArthAmAlai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" srI: srImathE satakOpAya nama: srImathE rAmAnujAya nama: srImadh varavaramunayE nama: srI vAnAchala mahAmunayE nama: thirunakshathram: Ani sravaNam (thiruvONam) avathAra sthalam:\u00a0 thirukkaNNAmangai AchAryan: nAthamunigaL Place where he attained paramapadham from: thirukkaNNAmangai Works: nAchiyAr thirumozhi thaniyan starting with “alli nAL thAmarai mEl” bhakthavathsalan emperumAn with thAyAr – thirkkaNNamangai thirukkaNNamngai ANdAn – thirukkaNNamangai thirukkaNNamangai ANdAn, who is a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,48],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-other-acharyas","tag-guruparamparai-english-tag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Thirukkannamangai_bhakthavatsalan\"](\"https:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/thirukkannamangai_bhakthavatsalan.jpg?w=584\")
<\/a>bhakthavathsalan emperumAn with thAyAr – thirkkaNNamangai<\/p>\n![\"thirukkannamangai-andan-thiruvarasu\"](\"https:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/thirukkannamangai-andan-thiruvarasu.jpg?w=584\")
<\/a>thirukkaNNamngai ANdAn – thirukkaNNamangai<\/p>\n\n
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