🌷🌷 *thirunakshathram today – vaikAsi swAthi – SrISaila pUrNa (periya thirumalai nambi)* 🌷🌷 thirumalai nambi is the maternal uncle of rAmAnujar and the one who bestows the name “iLayAzhwAr” to him when he was born. thirumalai nambi, was born in thirumalai by the blessings of thiruvEnkatamudaiyAn and is one of the prime sishyas of ALavandhAr. He is also known as srIsaila pUrNar. He was honoured by thiruvEnkatamudaiyAn himself as “pithAmaha” for his great attachment towards emperumAn. ALavandhAr instructs his 5 prime disciples to teach various aspects of our sampradhAyam to emperumAnAr. Of those, thirumalai nambi is given the responsibility of teaching the meanings of srI rAmAyaNam which is famously called as sharaNAgathi sAsthram in our sampradhAyam. He was a nithya kainkaryaparar (daily servitor) to thiruvEnkatamudaiyan (srInivAsar) and was engaged in bringing thIrtham (holy water) from AkAsa gangai (a water source on thirumalai) everyday. emperumAnAr wanting to bring gOvindha perumAL (embAr) back in to our sampradhAyam, sends a request to thirumalai nambi through a srIvaishNava to go and reform gOvindha perumAL. After bringing up embAr into our sampradhAyam, nambi performs upanyana samskAram and pancha samskAram to gOvindha perumAL and teaches him AzhwArs’ dhivya prabhandhams. srI rAmAnujar arrives at thiruppathi to learn srI rAmAyaNam from thirumalai nambi. He stays there for one full year. At the end of the kAlakshEpam, thirumalai nambi asks emperumAnAr to accept something from him and emperumAnAr asks nambi to send gOvindha perumAL with him. nambi happily obliges and emperumAnAr leaves thiruppathi with gOvindha perumAL. But gOvindha perumAL is unable to bear the separation from his AchAryan and returns to thiruppathi after a while. But thirumalai nambi does not even want to speak to gOvindha perumAL saying he belongs to emperumAnAr and should immediately return to him. Such was his dedication. Subsequently, gOvindha perumAL accepts sannyAsAshramam and become to be known as embAr. http://acharyas.koyil.org/index.php/periya-thirumalai-nambi/ *avathAra sthalam:* thirumalai (thiruvEnkatam) *AchAryan:* ALavandhAr *sishyas:* emperumAnAr (grantha kAlakshEpa sishya), malaikuniya ninRa perumAL, piLLai thirukkulamudaiyAr, bhattAriyaril satakOpa dhAsar *Works:* srI rAmAyaNa svApadhEsa vyAkyAnam *thirumalai nambi’s thanian:* pithAmahasyApi pithAmahAya prAchEthasAdhEchapalapradhAya srIbhAshyakArOththama dhEchikAya srIchailapUrNAya namO nama: sthAth பிதாமஹஸ்யாபி பிதாமஹாய ப்ராசேதஸாதேசபலப்ரதாய ஸ்ரீபாஷ்யகாரோத்தம தேசிகாய ஸ்ரீசைலபூர்ணாய நமோ நம: ஸ்தாத் पितामहस्यापि पितामहाय प्राचेतसादेचफलप्रदाय। श्रीभाष्यकारोत्तम देशिकाय श्रीशैलपूर्णाय नमो नमः स्तात् ।। *swAmi’s vaibhavam in thamizh* https://youtu.be/TEjeStmDNkw *swAmi’s vaibhavam in English* https://youtu.be/l7l1sgtYc3I *Life and Glories:* English – https://acharyas.koyil.org/index.php/2013/03/01/periya-thirumalai-nambi-english/ Hindi – https://acharyas.koyil.org/index.php/2015/05/31/periya-thirumalai-nambi-hindi/ Telugu – https://acharyas.koyil.org/index.php/2014/06/15/periya-thirumalai-nambi-telugu/ Thamizh – https://acharyas.koyil.org/index.php/2015/12/29/periya-thirumalai-nambi-tamil/