When he finally came back, it was through him that Lord Varadaraja conveyed his wish to Ramanuja.Īccordingly Kanchipurna advised Ramanuja that it was the Lord's wish that he leave for Srirangam and find solace in Sri Mahapurna. When he approached Kanchipurna about this, Kanchipurna politely refused as he did not belong to the same caste as Ramanuja and told him that he would get a more appropriate guru. Meanwhile in Kanchi, Ramanuja met with Kanchipurnaa fellow devotee, regularly and soon decided that he would become Kanchipurna's disciple. So it was finally decided that Sri Mahapurna should once again go and invite Ramanuja to Srirangam. Heart-broken, Ramanuja then left for Kanchi and refused to worship Sri Ranganatha for he held him responsible for taking away Yamunacharya from this world.īut as time passed by, Tiruvaranga Araiyar and other senior members of the Vaishnavite order felt that there was a vacuum after Yamunacharya's demise and that they lacked a person who could interpret the Vedas and Sastras like Yamunacharya. But bad news awaited them at Srirangam and they both come to know that Yamunacharya had died. When Mahapurna met Ramanuja and informed him of his guru's desire, Ramanuja was overjoyed and they both immediately left for Srirangam. When it was time to pass on the legacy, the acharya decided that he would call upon Ramanuja.Īccordingly he summoned Sri Mahapurna, a discple who was helping him out with the temple affairs and asked him to go to Kanchi and bring Ramanuja. Yamunacharyathe Vaishnavite acharya and the religious head of the Ranganathasamy temple at Srirangam had been closely following Ramanuja from a very young age. During this period, Ramanuja's discourses and fame reached far and wide. When Ramanuja and his guru Yadava Prakaasa parted ways due to their differences in interpreting the Vedic literatureRamanuja became a devotee of the Varadaraja Perumal temple in Kanchi. Ramanuja grew up in the Tamil culture, in a stable society during the rule of the Chola dynasty. Modern scholarship has questioned the reliability of these hagiographies. Other late biographies include the Yatirajavaibhavam by Andhrapurna. Ramanuja renounced his married life, and became a Hindu monk. His followers in the Vaishnava tradition wrote hagiographies, some of which were composed in centuries after his death, and which the tradition believes to be true. Ramanuja was born in the village of SriperumbudurTamil Nadu. The mummified body of Ramanuja is preserved at the Ranganathaswamy Temple in Srirangam using sandalwood paste and saffron.
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