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A:CHA:RYAS

YATHIRA:JA VIMSATHI

Present, Future or Past, -
May My Wealth Always Last!

By Sri Sri Sri Ahobila Ramanuja Jeeyar Swamiji

The title sounds tempting- but is it possible? The answer is a sure ‘yes’. Read this article and see how
you too can become as wealthy as this great, noble man who attained it!

By consuming medicines one attains relief from Na:ra:yana. Ra:ma:nuja sought the refuge of
physical diseases. But man is afflicted with the protection in the divine feet of Namma:lwa:r.
disease of worldly entanglement for which there is
no cure with ordinary medicines. Sri: Manava:la Such great Ra:ma:nuja removes faults of all those
Ma:muni bestowed a wonderful antidote of a who seek refuge in him. I pay my obeisance to
stho:thram called “Yathira:ja Vimsathi”, to uplift Ra:ma:nuja who is a Yathi or a sage.
all those of us who are unable to swim across
the ocean of worldly existence! By studying this The words para:nkusa pa:dabhaktham in the above
stho:thram we shall receive the grace of Bhagavad stanza, tells about Ra:ma:nuja’s subservience
Ra:ma:nuja. Becoming free from all faults, we shall
earn undiminished wealth. towards Namma:lwa:r.

Wealth means – the service to God. Mundane Once Ra:ma:nuja was contemplating on the
wealth is transitory, but service to God lasts as meanings of a verse from Namma:lwa:r’s
long as the soul exists. Materialistic wealth leads compositions, minninnilai ila mannu ira:kkaigal.
to sorrows and fear of its protection. But the
wealth of service towards God and a:cha:ryas In this verse Namma:lwa:r says, “How foolish it
always gives bliss. Such is the kind of fortune, the would be if man thinks of pursuing his work only
stho:thram called Yathira:ja Vimsathi. under the light that flashes during a thunderstorm,
worships God only in the later stages of life, always
Ma:muni begins the stho:thram with a prayer to postpones his journey to divyade:sams? Life is like
Ra:ma:nuja, to remove all obstacles that might a spinning-top that exists only for a second. Even
come in the way of composition. He first describes the next moment of life is unpredictable. And, so

the glory of Ra:ma:nuja - leave the selfish attitude.” Ra:ma:nuja was deeply

sri:ma:dhava:nghri jalajadvaya nithya se:va motivated by this verse. He wholeheartedly accepted
pre:ma vila:saya para:nkusa pa:dabhaktham| Sri: Namma:lwa:r’s teachings and immediately
ka:madi do:sha haram a:thma pada:sritha:na:m
ra:ma:nujam yathipathim pranama:mi mu:rdhna|| left his place to take initiation from his a:cha:rya,
Periyanambi at a place called Madhura:nthakam in
Namma:lwa:r’s heart is overwhelmed with love
the temple of Erikaththa Peruma:l.
for having served the divine, lotus feet of Lakshmi

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