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srI:
SrI  upakAra  sangraham â?? 38
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adikAram â?? 1
poorva upakAra paramparai
(The Foremost Series of Favours) 
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SECTION â?? 5 (6) [Continued] 
(27 Favours of the Lord leading to the means for
MOKSHAM)  
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        How does the Lord make the AchAryas to safeguard the
truths enshrined in the Vedic scriptures? And why
should He do like that instead of doing it Himself? 
        Such questions could rise in our minds. It is
natural. But SwAmi Desikan is not an ordinary person
to leave them un-answered. He says BhagavAn Himself is
the first Acharya. So it becomes His duty to make
qualified persons as AchAryas to continue the
teachings for the good of the souls. 
        He also gives the authoritative quotes from the
scriptures to substantiate this truth:

        "tamimam sarvasampannam AchAryam pitaram gurum"
(Mahabharata,Sabha,41-3)

(This is spoken by Sahadeva at the Assembly of elders
just before the Rajsooya Yaj~na, suggesting that the
first worship (agra pooja) should be done to SrI
Krishna, as He is possessed of  all excellences, "He
is the AchArya, father and guru")

        In Vishnu PurAna also it is stated (5-1-14):

        "mamApyakhila-lOkAnAm gururnArAyaNo guru: /"

(nArAyaNa Who is the guru of all the worlds, is also
my guru.)

        Being an AchArya for all the worlds, the Lord ensured
the up-keep of the VEdAs and the Vedic tradition
through several ways: 
1)      The Lord Himself taught the VEdAs to Brahma first. 
2)      When they faced the danger of destruction, it was
He Who restored them to him.
3)      Through Brahma, He spread the Vedic knowledge in
the world. 
4)      The Lord also made Brahma's sons, Sanatkumara and
others, to acquire on their own spiritual knowledge,
to adapt the path of renunciation and through them
revealed the means of attaining salvation. 
5)      It was the Lord who maintained intact the tradition
of spirituality through such great seers as NArada,
ParasarA, SukhA, Sounaka and others. 
6)      The Lord entered into such great men as Krishna
DvaipAyana and others and through them published great
works like MahAbhArata and Brahma Sootras. 
7)      He himself incarnated as Hamsa, Matsya, HayagrIva,
Nara-NArAyaNa and the GitAchArya (SrI Krishna) and
revealed the spiritual truths of tatva (principles)
and hita (good means).  
8)      He made SrI BhIshma and others to confirm His
valuable teachings. 
9)      When the PAncarAtra scriptures which were
originally taught by Him became extinct again in
DvApara age and the beginning of the kali yuga, He
revealed them through Sankarshana, so that all castes,
BrAhmins, kshatriyAs, vaisyAs  and SoodrAs could
worship Him in a proper manner through the performance
of their assigned duties.
10)      The Lord assumed a new series of ten incarnations
in the forms of AzhvArs, and through them gathered the
most significant parts of the VEdAs and revealed them
in Tamil so that they are accessible to every one. 
11)      When this spiritual line of life was threatened
with obstruction by heretics, openly and covertly, He
assumed again in the land of Agastiya the forms of
many AchAryas  and imparted the teachings of the
VEdAs. 

        Among these AchAryas, Nathamuni, the son of Ishvara
Muni, brought out the works, "nyAya tatvam" and "Yoga
rahasyam". nAthamuni received the sacred tradition
from a spiritual descendant of SrI MadhurakaviyAr, and
was blessed with spiritual wisdom through
"TiruvAimozhi" directly from nammAzhvAr in his yOgic
contemplation. 
        
        This tradition continued through the line of
distinguished AchAryas upto SrI ALavantAr. His chief
disciple, SrI Periyanambi, became the AchArya of SrI
rAmAnujA, who also studied under four other AchAryas
various scriptures including the rahasya scriptures,
TiruvAimozhi, Sri rAmAyaNa etc. 

        SrI ALavantAr brought out the following eight works:
Agama-prAmANyam, purusha-nirNayam, siddhitrayam,that
is, Atmasiddhi, Ishvara-siddhi and samvitsiddhi; SrI
geetArtha-sangraham, stotra-ratnam and catuslOki. 

        SrI rAmAnuja wrote nine works: ShrIbhAshyam, deepam,
sAram, vEdArtha-sangraham, SrI GeetAbhAshyam,
SrIranga-gadyam, sharaNAgati-gadyam, ShrIvsikuNta
-gadyam and Nityam. 

        From SrI rAmAnuja onwards, different traditions
emerged to propagate the SrIvaishnava tradition and
maintenance of the Lord's temples all over the
country. 

(To continue)
dAsan
Anbil S.SrInivAsan
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