🌷🌷 *thirunakshathram today – vaikAsi visAgam - SrISailESa (thiruvAimozhi piLLai)* 🌷🌷 Born as thirumalai AzhwAr, eventually became to be famously known as thiruvAimozhi piLLai due to his interest and propagation of thiuvAimozhi. thirumalai AzhwAr had his pancha samskAram done at a young age at the lotus feet of piLLai lOkAchAryar. He was a great scholar in tamizh and also a great administrator. He drifted off from the sampradhAyam and became the chief advisor of the madhurai kingdom as the king died at an early age leaving behind his young sons at the care of thirumalai AzhwAr. piLLai lOkAchAryar during his final days, had his divine mercy on thirumalai AzhwAr and instructed kUra kulOthama dhAsar and other sishyas to reform thirumalai AzhwAr and make him the leader of our sampradhAyam. kUra kulOthama dhAsar then ventured out to meet thirumalai AzhwAr. During this time (little after when the muslim invasion happens), nammAzhwAr travels from AzhwAr thirunagari and stays with namperumAL in kOzhikOde for some time. But when namperumAL leaves from there, due to some internal disagreements between the local people, AzhwAr does not travel with him. At that time, AzhwAr is taken to the south west region into the mountainous areas and fearing for thieves and robbers he was placed in a box and kept under a cliff for safety. After some time, a srivaishnava named thOzhappar who was very attached to nammAzhwAr, comes to thirumalai AzhwAr, requests for a bunch of soldiers for protection to go and rescue nammAzhwAr. thirumalai AzhwAr gladly arranges the same and thOzhappar guides the soldiers to the cliff. When everyone was scared to go down the cliff thOzhappar volunteers to go down. At that time, the srivaishnavas from AzhwArthirungari appreciates thOzhappar and tells him that from that day onwards he will get special mariyAdhai/prasAdham from AzhwAr for his efforts. He goes down in a winch kind of arrangement, places nammAzhwAr safely and sends him up. When the second time the winch was sent down to bring thOzhappar he some how slips and falls down the cliff and attains paramapadham immediately. nammAzhwAr immediately pacifies thOzhappar’s son and says to him that he himself will be the father of thOzhappar’s son. Thus thOzhappar’s efforts (with the help of thirumalai AzhwAr) help bring nammAzhwAr back to thirukkaNAmbi where he stays from then onward. Subsequently, thirumalai AzhwAr completely becomes detached from the loukIka activities, transfers the powers to the young prince and leaves the kingdom and stays with kUra kulOthama dhAsar all the time. During the final days of dhAsar, dhAsar instructs thirumalai AzhwAr to go to thirukkaNNangudi piLLai to learn thiruvAimozhi in detail and viLanchOlai piLLai to learn all rahasya arthams. dhAsar also appoints him as the leader of our sampradhAyam. Towards the end of his life, thiruvAimozhi piLLai, starts worrying about a successor to carry our sampradhAyam after his time. At that time, azhagiya maNavALa perumAL nAyanAr vows that he will take up that responsibility and fulfill his desires. Very pleased with that, thiruvAimozhi piLLai instructs him that he should learn sribhAshyam once but focus fully on thiruvAimozhi and its vyAkyAnams for the rest of his life with the mind fixed on doing mangaLAsAsanam to periya perumAL at srirangam. It is by his efforts we see AzhwAr thirunagari in its current shape with AthinAthar AzhwAr temple and bhavishyadhAchAryan (emperumAnAr) temple. It is by his efforts we see AzhwAr thirunagari in its current shape with AthinAthar AzhwAr temple and bhavishyadhAchAryan (emperumAnAr) temple. Also, It is by the efforts of thiruvAimozhi piLLai we have received the eedu 36000 padi vyAkyAnam which was propagated to great heights by azhagiya maNavALa mAmunigaL subsequently. http://acharyas.koyil.org/index.php/thiruvaimozhi-pillai/ *avathAra sthalam:* kunthInagaram (konthagai) *AchAryan:* piLLai lOkAchAryar *Sishyas:* azhagiya maNavALa mAmunigaL, satagOpa jIyar (bhavishyadhAcAryan sannidhi), thathvEsa jIyar, etc *Place where he attained paramapadham:* AzhwAr thirunagari *Works:* periyAzhwAr thirumozhi svApadhEsam *thiruvAimozhi piLLai’s thanian* nama srIsailanAthAya kunthI nagara janmanE prasAdhalabdha parama prApya kainkaryasAlinE நம ஸ்ரீஸைலநாதாய குந்தீ நகர ஜந்மநே ப்ரஸாதலப்த பரம ப்ராப்ய கைங்கர்யஸாலிநே नमः श्रीशैलनाथाय कुन्ती नगर जन्मने । प्रसादलब्ध परम प्राप्य कैंकर्यशालिने ॥ *swAmi’s vaibhavam in thamizh* https://youtu.be/ui36G7FcbZ8 *swAmi’s vaibhavam in English* https://youtu.be/Br-imTurpHY Life and Glories: English – https://guruparamparai.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/thiruvaimozhi-pillai/ Hindi – https://guruparamparaihindi.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/thiruvaymozhipillai/ MalayALam – https://guruparamparaimalayalam.wordpress.com/2016/01/30/thiruvaimozhi-pillai/ Telugu – https://guruparamparaitelugu.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/thiruvaimozhi-pillai/ Thamizh – https://guruparamparaitamil.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/thiruvaimozhi-pillai/