🌷🌷 *thirunakshathram today – vaikAsi anusham -- parAsara bhattar* 🌷🌷 parAsara bhattar is the illustrious son of kUrathAzhwAn and ANdAL ammangAr. He and his younger brother vEdha vyAsa bhattar were born out of sriranganAthan’s prasAdham consumed by ANdAL. Both bhattars were born to AzhwAn and ANdAL out of the prasAdham from periya perumAL. Once when AzhwAn and ANdAL were lying down in the evening without consuming any prasAdham (AzhwAn was doing unja vruthi and on that day due to rain he was unable to collect any grains), they hear the final naivEdhyam bell ringing from the temple. ANdAL says to emperumAn “Here you have AzhwAn who is your pure devotee without any prasAdham but you are enjoying nice bhOgam there”. Understanding this, periya perumAL sends his prasAdham to AzhwAn and ANdAL with all his paraphernelia through uththama nambi. Seeing the prasAdham coming in, AzhwAn is awe-struck. Immediately, he turns to ANdAL and asks did you complain to emperumAn and ANdAL admits her request. AzhwAn becomes upset for insisting emperumAn to provide for their prasAdham. He accepts 2 handfuls of prasAdham alone, consumes some and gives the remnants to ANdAL. Those 2 handfuls of prasAdham eventually blesses them with two beautiful children. embAr performs dhvaya mahA manthrOpadhEsam to both parAsara and vEdha vyAsa bhattars when they were only 11 days old and emperumAnAr orders him to be the AchAryan for both of them. emperumAnAr also instructs kUrthAzhwAn to give parAsara bhattar as an adopted son for periya perumAL and AzhwAn does so. bhattar was also taken care off by sriranga nAchiAr herself in her sannidhi when he was very young. When bhattar was very young, he once comes to periya kOil for mangalAsAsanam. At that time after bhattar worships periya perumAL, he comes out and emperumAnAr tells ananthAzhwAn and other srivaishnavas, that bhattar should be treated just like himself. bhattar was extremely brilliant right from his childhood. After growing up bhattar becomes the dharisana pravarthakar of the sampradhAyam. bhattar had many special qualities like extreme humility, magananimity and he was a great rasikar of aruLicheyal meanings. bhattar is very attached to sriranga nAchiAr who is his mother. He is attached to her even more than periya perumAL. Once when namperumAL adorns nAchiAr thirukkOlam and asks he if looks like sriranga nAchiAr, bhattar says that the karuNai in her eyes are not to be seen in the eyes of emperumAn. sriguNa rathna kOsam is his outpourings of his attachment towards sriranga nAchiAr. One of the highlights of bhattar’s life is him going to thirunArAyaNapuram to debate and bring nanjIyar in to our sampradhAyam. It was emperumAnAr’s divine order that nanjIyar should be reformed. bhattar was the first to document rahasya thrayam in a grantham. His ashta slOki is a master piece, where thirumanthram, dhvayam and charama slOkam are explained excellently in just eight slOkams. Also, in srirangarAja sthavam, he explains most complicated sAstra arthams in simple slOkams. In vishnu sahasranAma vyAkyAnam, he shows that each thirunAmam relates to a particular guNam of emperumAn and his explanations are of absolute beauty. sri guNa rathna ghOsam is a dedication to sriranga nAchiAr which is unparallel to any other work. Let us pray at the lotus feet of bhattar that we also develop such attachment towards emperumAn and AchAryan. http://acharyas.koyil.org/index.php/parasara-bhattar/ *avathAra sthalam:* srIrangam *AchAryan:* embAr *Works*: ashta SlOkI, srirangarAja sthavam, sri guNa rathna kOsam, bhagavadh guNa dharpaNam (vishnu sahasranAma vyAkyAnam), srirangarAja sthOthram *bhattar’s thanian* srI parAsara bhattArya srIrangEsa purOhitha: srIvathsAnga sutha: srImAn shrEyasE mEsthu bhUyasE ஸ்ரீ பராஸர பட்டார்ய ஸ்ரீரங்கேஸ புரோஹித: ஸ்ரீவத்ஸாங்க ஸுத: ஸ்ரீமான் ச்ரேயஸே மேஸ்து பூயஸே श्री पराशर भट्टार्यः श्रिरङ्गेश पुरोहितः | श्रीवत्साङ्ग सुतः श्रीमान् श्रेयसे मेस्तु भूयसे || *swAmi’s vaibhavam in thamizh* https://youtu.be/v56hEV4KjKA *swAmi’s vaibhavam in English* https://youtu.be/JdV0Y6o61BA Life and Glories: English – https://guruparamparai.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/parasara-bhattar/ Hindi – https://guruparamparaihindi.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/parasara-bhattar/ MalayALam – https://guruparamparaimalayalam.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/parasara-bhattar/ Telugu – https://guruparamparaitelugu.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/parashara-bhattar/ Thamizh – https://guruparamparaitamil.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/parasara-bhattar/