An ineteresting episode involving Nadadur Ammal & 'adiyEn'
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• July 16, 1999
Dear members, Once when Sri Nadadurammal was young, he wanted to learn Sri Bashyam from his father Nadadur alvan. Alvan, however, asked Ammal to go to Engal Alvan (also known as Vishnu chiththar) at Tiruvellarai and learn it from him. So, Ammal went from Kanchi to Tiruvellarai and knocked at the door of engal alvan. When Engal Alvan asked to who it was knocking at the door, Nadadurammal is said to have replied as 'I' (nNaan). To this, Engal Alvan replied "nNaan seththu nNii vaa" meaning "Let the conciept of "I" die and then return". So Nadadruammal returned to Kanchi and recounted the events to his father. Nadadur Alvan then told ammal to giveup the sense of Ego and 'I' and start refering to himself as "Adiyen" (your obedient servant). Having shed his ego, Nadadur ammal went back to Tiruvellarai and became a sishya of Engal Alvan.Engal Alvan also came to be known as Ammal Acharyan, whose descendents till today go by this name. aazhvaar emperumaanaar acharyarkal jeeyar thiruvadikalE Saranam, Adiyen Venkatesh Elayavalli
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