Mantralaya-280

Background

World devotees let us offer our Shirasaashtanga Namaskara to the Trikaalasmaraneeya yatis in this holy week.

The historical procession of Bhaatta Sangraha,  Sri Raghavendrateertha Gurusarvaba  felicitated the king Tirumalanayaka and the minister NeelakanthaDixit and the immense joy of the satvikas are described in Mantralaya(280).
 

Meaning

KrutaMaalikaSaridalankrutaamgaanMadhurabhidhaamMadhuraVaangmahapureem
TadadheeshSamasadiVijityaPanditaanBahumaanitoyativaroMaheebhrutaa

Described wonderfully that offering several gifts to Rayaru king and minister felt happy and surrendered with a smile and satisfied. Madhurai is on the bank  Krutamaalika river and Madhurai is filled with art, literature with easthetic sense.

Our Sri Vadeendrateertharu , the great grandson of of our Rayarus poorvashrama and the fifth pontiff after Rayaru, Rayaru is the 17th.pontiff and  Sri Vadeendrateertharu is the 22nd.pontiff of our Sri Madhwacharya Peetha, has beautifully described in the famous grantha Gurugunastavana about the grand procession of Bhaatta sangraha of our Sri Raghavendrateertharu:

MantriSriNeelakanthaabhidhamakhimaninaaBhattaTantraanubandhe
GrantheTaavatvadeeyeKariniGunavidaaropitaeabhyrnaaya
KeertistaeRaghavendraVrutiSumatiManeNyoonamannyoonvegaa
DwingNaagaaNaarurukshuhuSwamapiSahasadhaavadishtaadigantaan

World devotees please note the meaning of this shloka of Gurugunastavana:  In the Vrutas and the Sumatis, Rayaru has performed all the vrutas and attained good knowledge,So Rayaru is second to none! No one is equal to Rayaru. In Adwaita Poorvameemaamsa Rayaru is highly efficient and the lover of knowledge,Gnyana and good qualities. All these qualities are described in Sanskrit in one word by Sri Vadeendrateertharu  Sumatimane.

When King Tirumalanayaka and minister Neelakantha Dixit expressed their desire that they wish to have the grand procession of Bhaattasangraha on the elephant placing on the golden ambari. Rayaru happily agreed for this. The grand procession carrying Bhaattasangraha of Gajaraja denotes that the name and the fame of Rayaru has quickly  spread in all the directions. Our Vadeendrateertharu described that owing to the Elephants Procession of Bhaattasangraha in Madhurai the glory of Rayaru has spread through out the world. The Digvijaya of Madhurai is a record of Vidya Mutt Dwaita Mata and of our Acharya Madhwa Philosophy. In this respect our Temple City Madhurai was graced and Blessed highly by this kind action.

All the  works of our Yatiraat Sri Ramaaradhaka Punya Murty Sri Raghavendrateertha Gurusarvabhoumas are really superb and unimaginable even to think that is it possible for a single chetana to do all this. We find Daivatva , Divytava, Panditya and too affectionate to Manukula. We ordinary devotees are greatly Blessed when we know these  noble qualities of our Sri GuruRaghavendrateertharu of Mantralaya.These divine,noble qualities of our Rayaru are flowing like the river of Tungabhadra. Today there is misconception, misunderstanding and misbehaving in almost all the houses. As they lack Faith, Belief and Respect to the Elders. For them the Madhurai Vidwat Sabha will guide them on the right path. All the Adwaitis highly satisfied with the answers by our Rayaru. They were overwhelmed with joy and made a historical procession of Bhaatta Sangraha. Let anybody come to Rayaru, Rayaru always bestowed and blessed the appropriate reply. As Rayaru offered everything to Sri Hari and surrendered and said:

NaahamkartaaHarihikartaa

In this way though Rayaru reached the highest divinity, power of divinity never said he got and achieved in turn said: it is all yours. This is the greatness of ourSri Raghavendra.

At this juncture I wish to describe  that our 37th.pontiff Sri Sujayeendrateertharu who was popularly called as the architect of Mantralaya, on the eve of the 300years Aradhana Mahotsava of Sri Raghavendrateertharu printed and published the copies of  our Yatiraatas BHAATTA SANGRAHA and placed them on the golden peetha on the elephant and made a grand procession in Mantralaya on the day of Aradhana. This reminded the procession of Madhurai about 382 years back.

As the procession of Gajaraja reached Saraswatee Mandira after having walked with style in all the streets of Madhurai Sri Raghavendrateertharu welcomed warmly. That day evening in the Saraswatee Mandira Rayaru addressed the samaaropa in the most decent and dignified way. Though the crowd was uncontrollable there found a pin drop silence when Rayarus address began. Became extremely happy, shed tears and said for themselves that they were highly blessed by Rayaru. Sri Raghavendrateertharu presented a golden pratima of Sitarama ,Padaka, ornament of pearls(Muttina haara) and a pair of pure silk shawls to king Tirumalanayaka and Blessed him. In the same way Rayaru called Sri NeelakanthaDixit and announced the Prashasti of Vidwatchoodamani and conferred that honour amidst the thick gathering of SaraswateeMandira. Offered a pair of pure silk shawls, Phala Mantrakshate and received the Blessings of GuruRayaru with honour. The paraphernalia of the Madhurai king felt as though they were in the world of Sri Hari. The entire public again made jayakara they cannot control their joy and ecstasy:

JAYA GURURAGHAVENDRA JAYA VIDYA MATHA YATIVARENYA

JAYA SRI RAGHAVENDRA PRABHO.

In short the Temple City  Madhurai Digvijaya is a record in the history.GuruRaya completely gave his heart to the sober culture, divine nature and the  versatile affection of the people of Madhurai. In the South India the Madhurai is exhibiting and enjoying the same cream of culture and attracting the devotees. Sri Raghavendrateertharu along with the Royal family visited the famous temples of Sri Sundareshwara and Sri Meenakshi and availed the divya darshana. Offered all the success and the grandeur of Madhurai to Lord Rudradevaru and Meenakshi Ammal and did samarpana to Sri Hari and Vyudevaru and to his great Gurus:

Sri Vijayeendrateertharu and Sri Sudheendrateertharu.

One more important thing we come to know here that all the stalwarts of Adwaitis Pandits accepted Rayaru as their Guru owing to the Bhaatta Meemaamsa.

Thus our Rayaru bade farewell to the people of Madhurai. The people of Madhurai were unwilling to separate from Rayaru, they wanted still more days to spend with Rayaru. But Yati Dharma Paalana is the prime duty, so Rayaru said good bye to all. We feel how the people were fortunate to see Rayaru, listen to Rayaru and were Blessed by Rayaru. What an amount of punya they had in their lifetime.
 
 
 

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