Sri Vaishnava Sampradayam- Sath Sampradayam!!

"Swami Ramanuja and Yadava Prakashar' s meet: Part 3" S wami Ramanuja continues to do the "Theertha" kainkaryam in Kanchipuram. He meets his mother Smt. Kanthimathi and tells her what happened in the school and during the holy tour. She was taken back, but uttered to Swami Ramanuja- " Ramanuja- my child! With Lord's grace, you have come back safe. Continue doing services (kainkaryam) to the Lord of Kanchipuram. The ultimate purpose of life is to render unconditional service to the Divine couple and attain salvation!This is a divine play that Lord had played with you. It would be a divine plan and would have some purpose. So, leave everything to Lord and surrender unto His holy feet." Hearing these words, Swami Ramanuja pays respect to his mother and gets back to serve the Lord of Kanchipuram- Varadaraaja Perumal! fig: Kanchi Varadaraja Perumal Smt. Kanthimathi ammanga expressed her desire of seeing her son enter the Grushasthaashram...

"Swami Ramanuja and Varadaraaja Perumal!: Part 2" S wami Ramanuja escapes from the troop and keeps running in the forest. He loses his way and is lost in the forest. He feels very tired running around the forest and decides to rest under a tree for some while. Time passes and when Swami Ramanuja wakes up from his sleep, he finds a hunter couple in the forest. The young hunter couple were looking very attractive and elegant. The lady had beautiful eyes that could pull any one into her charming beauty. Her radiant face and the eternally elegant look that she possessed were impeccable. She was beautifully dressed in a maroon saree with golden border and wore small ornaments around her neck. The bangles she wore made sound like a musical instrument. She wore dazzling ear rings which glittered from a distance and dressed her hair with beautiful flowers. She seemed to be the most gorgeous lady in the world. fig: Hunter couple and Swami Ramanuja in forest While the...

"Birth and first schooling of Swami Ramanuja.. " A lmost 1000 years ago, in a place called Sri Perumbhuthur , in Tamil Nadu, there lived a pious Bramhin couple- Kesavacharya and Smt.Kanthimathi . The couple were born Bramhins, and dedicated their life in the service of Lord and in rendering unconditional service to the devotees in that village. After many years of their marriage, Swami Kesavacharya, expressed his desire of having a child with Lord’s grace and sought blessings from Swami Periya Thirumalai Nambi - brother of Smt.Kanthimathi. The couple was blessed with a baby boy on Chithirai (Tamil month) month of Thiruvadhirai nakshathram (star) at Sri Perumbhuthur. fig: Birth of Swami Ramanuja Swami Periya Thirumalai Nambi was overwhelmed with joy when he heard the news of his dear sister giving birth to a baby boy and came to Sri Perumbhuthur. He was happy to know that his second sister- Smt. Mahadevi was also blessed with a baby boy.  Looking at the two cu...