NITHYA ANUSANDANAM - Dhaniyan 1

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NITHYA ANUSANDANAM

Nithya Anusandanam is a set of Pasurams from Dhivya Prabhandam, which a Srivaishnava have to recite daily.I would like to share the meaning of it daily along with Pasurams.

First We look into Dhaniyan, What is Dhaniyan? Why to recite Dhaniyan?

Each generation expresses its devotion and gratitude to  its acharya in a unique composition called a dhaniyan 

Whenever you start reciting Slokas,Pasurams,Upanyasam start it with this PODHU DHANIYAN. Also you have to recite your Acharyar Dhaniyan. It is insisted because reaching lord through your Acharyar is great. Adiyen Belongs to Anandhazvar Acharya Thirumaligai.

An Acharya dispels the darkness of the mind and enlightens us with knowledge. There is no way in which the sishyas can repay the Acharyan for his great help .Even  the God canot describe the right way to repay his acharyan for this great help.

The only way sishyas can do is to meditate on his acharyas glories and praise him. All these attempts of eulogizing their acharya Will never compensate , for the abundant help that they received from their acharya Tanian represents .Our involvement ,our sincerity, our duty, and our respect towards our Acharya. Acharyas are many  and Tanians are also many. 

Depending upon the Acharya Parampara, tanians will also differ.There may be two tanians for the same Acharya depending upon their vaibhavam.A tanian may be small or big but have the same respect.The greatness of the Tanian can really be understood only by the those, who have  Acharya sambandham .It is essential one should learn and recite the Tanian of his Acharya everyday and be blessed.

Please Listen to the above video, its SANDHAI murai of Dhaniyan.

So here we start from the 1st Dhaniyan of Manavala Mamunigal, given by Lord Renganathar (Azhagiya Manavalan)

SrisailEsa dayApatram dhIbhaktyAdi gunArnavam

yatIndra pravanam vandE ramyajAmAtaram munim.

SrisailEsa dayapatram – SrisailEsa Lord Srinivasa = 'a'. dayApAtram - one who is bestowed with His kripa = jIva = 'ma'. So 'ma' is the servant of 'a'. SrisailEsa would actually mean tiruvoimozhi pillai. Even in this case acharya is none other the Lord himself "sAkshAt nArAyanO deva:...". So he can also be denoted by 'a'

dhIbhaktyAdi gunArnavam - wisdom and devotion. In our sampradAya - jnAna would in fact mean seshatva jnAna only. Devotion would also come to a servant only. So both these denote seshatvam.

yatIndra pravanam - Who is a yatIndra ? one who unites the jIvatma with the paramAtma with his upadesa = a bhagavata or an acharya. pravanam - servitude to a bhagavata or an acharya. A person is acclaimed as a servant to the Lord only if he is a servant to a bhagavata. bhagavatseshatvam is fulfilled only if he is a bhAgavata sesha. This is the inner meaning of om. So this also connotes seshatvam.

ramyajAmAtaram munim - ramyajAmAta = azhagiya manavalan = ranganatha  = 'a'. muni = one who meditates (mananam karoti iti muni:)= jIva = 'ma'. So one who always thinks about ranganatha as his Lord is His sesha.  This phrase also denotes seshatvam

Since all the four parts of SrisailEsa mantram explains the meaning of Om , this is praised as a mantram.

SrisailEsa mantram is not only equal to tirumantram. In fact it excels. tirumantram is a rahasya. But since it is a part of veda - any one who has the right to chant veda can chant tirumantram. He may be a karma or jnAna or bhakti yogi. Hence in the true sense it is not a rahasya. But is that the case with SrisailEsa mantra ? No. Only  prapannAs chant this. So this truly is the rahasya. Moreover the Lord first propounded tirumantram. Realising its limitations, later on brought out SrisailEsa mantram in his anushtanam.

After all these, will anyone have a doubt that SrisailEsa dayapatram is THE MANTRAM. Let us all chant on the greatness of Manavala Mamaunigal - acharya of the prathamacharya.