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240 rA.MANU.TA'S fiREATNESS. CH. XXXVri.
8. TAmunachfLrya when lie was at K&nchi-pura on a visit,
and saw RELmflinuja, following in the
train of yi!idava-praka.sa,
pointed him out to his disciples, saj-ing; :—" Look, He will be
the first leader of our faith."
9. Mah&piirna proved llatnanuja's greatness thus :—One
day he and his daughter AttulAy-amnia, were seated in their
house, when llamilnuja happened to enter with his train of
disciples. MSihitpiirna at once got up and prostrated him.self
before him. His daugliter asked him how he could do such
an act of obeisance to Kaminuja, who was his disciple. Purna
replied "
: Those feet and this head are a match to each other."
Another day RAmAnuja was returning from his bath in the
K3,veri, when MahApuriia meeting him did obei.sance. But
Rimanuja stood erect instead of returning this customary
homage, and simply lifted up his Guru. Ra,manuja's disciples
asked him to explain his unusual conduct. He said ;
" My
Guru wishes to please him.SL'lf by honoring me. If that is his
pleasure, it is my pleasure. I should not cross him ." The
disciples next asked Purna to explain his unusual behaviour.
" He said :— " Sirs, I saw in RaiiiJlnujamy own Guru—Yamuna
after my own Gum, all the perfections of a Guru find their
haven in Ramitnuja." And Pilrna made liis own son Pundarikftksha
the disciple of R4mAnuja.
10. It has already been related, that Goshthi-purna—the
second Guru of Ramanuja,—revealed the secrefs of religion to
Rimanuja by exacting a promise that he would not impart the
same lo others; but tliat Rftniaiiuja broke the promise auon by
openly declaring the secrets (o all in the Temple ; that Purna
became wroth on coming to know this and demanding an explanation
from Ramfiuuja, the latter
confessed his fault, but sub-
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Satliajit the cloud, from Si-isa's Sea of Grace
Drunk deep, rains down on Natha-Hill;
R5,ma, Padmaksli, two rills thence rippling down
Unite in Yiinuu-Hi'ook, to gulf
Yatiraja's Lotus-Lake, by countless Floodgates
To flood the Pastures of iiarohed souls.