{"id":788,"date":"2013-04-01T23:13:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T23:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2013-04-01T23:13:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T23:13:59","slug":"vaduga-nambi-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/01\/vaduga-nambi-english\/","title":{"rendered":"vaduga nambi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"vaduganambi-avatharasthalam\"<\/a>thirunakshathram<\/strong>: chithrai, aswini<\/p>\n

avathAra sthalam<\/strong>: sALagrAmam (karnAtaka)<\/p>\n

AchAryan<\/strong>: emperumAnAr<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Works<\/strong>: yathirAja vaibhavam, rAmAnuja ashtOththara satha nAma sthOthram, rAmAnuja ashtOththara satha nAmAvaLi<\/p>\n

During his travel to thirunArAyaNapuram,\u00a0emperumAnAr<\/a> goes to mithilApuri sALagrAmam, where he instructs mudhaliyANdAn<\/a> to touch the water source (river) with his lotus feet. By the purity of mudhaliyANdAn’s lotus feet, the locals who bathe in the river become purified and become sishyas of emperumAnAr. One such swamy was vaduga nambi who is also known as Andhra pUrNar. emperumAnAr, out of\u00a0 his causeless mercy, blesses vaduga nambi, teaches him the most important principles of our sampradhAyam and makes him fully situated in AchArya nishtai and eventually vaduga nambi becomes inseparable from emperumAnAr.<\/p>\n

vaduga nambi was fully situated in the AchArya nishtai. He acquires a pair of sandals wore by emperumAnAr<\/a> and was performing thiruvArAdhanam to those sandals every day.<\/p>\n

Once while travelling with emperumAnAr<\/a>, along with emperumAnAr’s thiruvArAdhana perumALs, vaduga nambi also carried his thiruvArAdhana deity (sandals of emperumAnAr) in the same package. emperumAnAr was shocked to notice that and he enquired vaduga nambi why he was doing that. vaduga nambi spontaneously replied “My worshippable deity is equally glorious to your worshippable deities, so there is nothing wrong in me carrying them with your thiruvArAdhana perumALs”.<\/p>\n

Whenever\u00a0emperumAnAr<\/a> goes to perform mangaLAsAsanam, he will fully enjoy the beautiful form of periya perumAL<\/a>. The whole time, vaduga nambi will be fully enjoying the beautiful form of emperumAnAr. emperumAnAr notices that and asks vaduga nambi to look at the beautiful eyes of periya perumAL<\/a>. vaduga nambi replies using thiruppANAzhwAr<\/a>‘s words “en amudhinaik kaNda kaNgaL maRRonRinaik kANAvE<\/em>” meaning “My eyes which saw the beautiful form of emperumAnAr will not see anything else” in this case. emperumAnAr was very pleased with his AchArya nishtai and blessed him fully.<\/p>\n

vaduga nambi regularly accepted emperumAnAr<\/a>‘s sEsha prasAdham (food remnants) and after consuming them, he would just wipe of his hands on his head with reverence (instead of washing hands) – Usually while accepting prasAdham of emperumAn\/AzhwAr AchAryas since it is pure, after consuming the same, we should not wash our hands, we should just wipe our hands on our head. Once,\u00a0emperumAnAr<\/a> became perplexed seeing this and asks him to wash his hands after consuming his food remnants. nambi obliges and washes his hands. Next day, when emperumAnAr was given bhagavath prasAdham, he consumes some and gives the remnants to vaduga nambi. vaduga nambi consumes that and washes his hands. emperumAnAr is again perplexed and asks why he is washing his hands after consuming prasAdham. vaduga nambi, politely and smartly answers “I am just following dhEvar’s instructions as given yesterday”. emperumAnAr says “You have easily defeated me” and appreciates his nishtai.<\/p>\n

Once vaduga nambi was boiling milk for emperumAnAr. At that time, namperumAL arrived outside emperumAnAr’s mutt in procession. emperumAnAr calls out for vaduga nambi and vaduga nambi replies “If I come out to worship your perumAL, my perumAL;s milk will get burnt. So I wont come”.<\/p>\n

Once vaduga nambi’s relatives (who are not srIvaishNavas) come to visit him. After they leave, vaduga nambi destroys all the pots and fully purifies the place. He then goes to mudhaliyANdAn<\/a>‘s thirumALigai, picks up the pots that were discarded by him and starts using them. Thus he establishes that for the ones who have pure AchArya sambhandham, everything related to them (even discarded ones) are fully pure and acceptable to us.<\/p>\n

\"vaduganambi-emperumanar\"<\/a>When\u00a0emperumAnAr<\/a> visits thiruvananthapuram, he wants to change the Agamam of the anantha sayanan emperumAn<\/a> temple. But emperumAn had different plans. When emperumAnAr was sleeping he lifted him up and brought him over to thirukkurungudi dhivya dhEsam. emperumAnAr wakes up in the morning, bathes in the nearby river, applies dvAdhasa Urdhva pundram (12 pundrams) and calls for vaduga nambi (who is still in thiruvananthapuram) to apply the remnants on vaduga nambi. thirukkurungudi nambi himself takes the form of vaduga nambi and accept the remnants of the thirumaN (holy sand). emperumAnAr goes on to accept thirukkurungudi nambi as his sishya subsequently.<\/p>\n

After\u00a0emperumAnAr<\/a> ascending to paramapadham, vaduga nambi returns to his native village, where he preaches the glories of emperumAnAr. He would not consume srI pAdha thIrtham (charaNAmrutham) of any one other than emperumAnAr. He constantly worships emperumAnAr’s lotus feet and teaches to his sishyas\/abhimAnis that emperumAnAr’s lotus feet is the ultimate goal and spends the rest of his time in sALagrAmam and finally attains the lotus feet of emperumAnAr.<\/p>\n

In our vyAkyAnams, a few idhihyams that show the glories of vaduga nambi are seen. Let us see some of them now.<\/p>\n