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CH, XXXV. KljRESA TAKING FINAL LEAVE. 229
hosts to claim thee as their own ! Luckless are we here and
this sleeping Lord here, Raiiga, to lose thee ! But let me not,
my dearest, change thy mind and disturb thy plans. Be it as
thou wiliest. All hail to thco, my son ;
go, go to the Blessed
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Eternal Kingdom and rule there in eternal peace and bliss !!
So saying, Ramanuja drew liim closer into his embrace and
fondly stroking him on the back, continued :
" Azhvan ! I salute thee ; thou hast now my leave to
depart." Kuie?a spoke not a woi"d. " His heart was too full
for expression. He fell at R§,niauaja's feet like a senseless
block of wood. RSimanuja speedily raised him up, when
Kur6sa pressed his holy feet on his head and to his breast, and
prayed for the administration of the holy water washed of his
feet. Ram&nuja administered it in serene solenuiity and Kuresa,
took it ' after addressing the memorial verse :
" Ramanuj.i's Holy Feet are my Refuge—Ramanuja, my
blessed guru ; the Ocean of Mercy,—Rdmanuja who so loves
the gold of God's I'eet that all else to him is di-oss."
Ramanuja made a move now towards his
Math, towards
the North River (KoUadam), KureSa following him a little
distance. " Pray stop now," enjoined Ramanuja and KureSa
with folded liaiids retraced his steps to a pandal close by
Azhvar's house. He now called his wife Andal-ammai lo his
side and asked her what her wish was. She said "
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Sire,, thy wish is my wish. My own, I have none." So saying
He now called his sons
she fell on his feet with folded hands.
Bhattarya and Sri-Rama-p-pil;ai to his side, and counselled
them thus: "Dear children, ye have no bereavement to bemoan,
for ye have Lord Ranga, your Father, and His Holy
Spouse is your ilother. By them ye have been brought up. But
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Wasliing the feet of lioly men among the Srivaishnavasisdone in
is an oriental ceremony, whicli order to imbibe the magnetic in-
Chritt himself did to his disciples, fluence of the Epiritnal person as
The sipping of the water (known a, cure both for physical as well as
as Sripfidatirtha) which prevails psychical ills.