SrI:
Dear BhakthAs of Lord PaarthasArathy :
Today , we will commence the study of Swamy Desikan's
Tamil Prabhandham entitled GeethArTa Sangraham .
Originally Swamy AaLavanthAr blessed us with the SrI Sookthi known as
"GeethArtha Sangraham " in Sanskrit .That contains the essence of Lord
PaarthasArathy's upadEsam to us using ArjunA as a vyAjam at KurukshEthram .
AchArya RaamAnuja wrote a commentary for that SrI Sookthi ( SrI GeehtA
BhAshyam) in Sanskrit to make sure that the meanings housed in Swamy
AaLavanthAr's SrI Sookthi are preserved without any distortions.
Swamy Desikan followed the foot steps of AchArya RaamAnuja
and blessed us with his detailed commentary on GeethA BhAshyam
named "Taathparya Chandrikai " . Swamy Desikan rejected
the vipareetha vyAkyAnams for GeethA by resting his commentary on
AchArya RaamAnujuA's BhAshyam . Swamy Desikan went further and
created a short commentary on GeethArTa Sangraham named GeethArTa
Sangraha Rakshai in Sanskrit . Finally , out of his infinite compassion for
us , Swamy Desikan blessed us with a Tamil Prabhandham called
GeethArTa Sangraham for us to become conversant about
the quintessence of SrImath Bhagavath GeethA . All the Tamil Paasurams
of GeethArTa Sangraham are set in KattaLai KalitthuRai metre.
There are two benedictory verses ( Taniyans) for Swamy Desikan's
Tamil Prabhandham .One is set in the metre of nErisai veNNpaa and
the other is set in the shorter KuRaL VeNNpaa .
Taniyan 1: nErisai VeNNpaa
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katta poruL virittha kAsiniyil nAnn maRayin
ittap-poruL iyampum inn poruLaic-chittar thozhum
VedAntha Desikanai mEvuvAr tangaL Thirup-
paadhAmbhuyam adiyEn paRRu
( Meaning): The lotus feet of Swamy VedAntha Desikan ,
who is worshipped by pious scholars with bhakthi are my refuge.
He is delectable to us through the anubhavam of His SrI
Sookthis. He gave us the inner meanings of the difficult
passages of the four Vedams for the residents of this world
through His dhivya Sookthis .
Taniyan 2: KuRaL VeNNpaa
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Geethai mozhintharuLum VedAntha DesikanAr
paadhAra vinthamalar paRRu
(Meaning) : The lotus feet of Swamy VedAntha Desikan
who blessed us with the divine prabhandham of GeethArTa
sangraham ( the essence of SrImath Bhagavath GeethA)
are the refuge for us all .
General Introduction
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The parama rahasyam of Charama slOkam was covered
in the last set of postings. Through that charama slOkam ,
Bhagavan performed upadEsam for us through use of
Arjunan as an excuse (vyAjam) . This charama slOkam
containing the method to observe Prapatthi is easy to practise
for gaining the Moksha Phalan . The SaraNAgathy Saasthram
is housed in the charama slOkam of Bhagavath Geethai ,
which is the essence of Upanishads . Geethai was blessed to us
directly from the lips of BhagavAn Himself for our ujjevanam.
All of our PoorvAchAryAs have therefore helped us to understand
the true meaning of GeethA with their comprehensive commentaries.
Swamy AlavanthAr was the first among our PoorvAchAryAs to
open our spiritual eyes with his SrI Sookthi of GeethArTa Sangraham .
With His incisive intellect , Swamy AlavanthAr captured the essence of
GeethA Saasthram in 32 SlOkams and opened the doors for other
VaishNavite AchAryAs to elaborare on the most important Bhagavath
Saasthram . .
Swamy Desikan with his superb genius captured the essence of
the 32 Sanskrit slOkams of Swamy AlavanthAr in 21 Tamil
Paasurams including the Phala sruthi .
There are 18 chapters in SrImath Bhagavath Geethai.
Our PoorvAchAryAs divided these 18 chapters in to
three subsets consisting of six chapters ( ShaDkams ) .
The first set of six deal with Karma and Jn~Ana yOgams .
The second shaDkam covers Bhakthi yOgam . The first
half of the third Shadkam deals with the Svaroopams and
SvabhAvams of ChEthanam , achEthanam and the Prapancham
resulting from their union as well as the true state (nija nilai)
of SarvEswaran . The second half of the third Shadkam covers
the ways to observe Karma , Jn~Ana , Bhakthi yOgams and
the dependence on SaashtrAs for a chEthanam like Arjunan
to understand clearly that SrIman NaarAyaNan is the Para Brahmam
celebrated in VedAnthams .
Swamy AlavanthAr's summary of the above meanings relating to
the entire GeethA Saasthram has taken the form of the first slOkam:
svadharama-jn~Ana -VairAgya saadhya-bhakthyEka gOchara:
NaarAyaNa : Param Brahma GeethAsAsthrE Sameeritha:
Swamy Desikan's First Paasuram of GeethArTa Sangraham
is a wonderful echo of the above summary of Swamy ALavanthAr .
326. The Essence of the Meaning (SaarArTam) of GeethA Saasthram
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karumamum Jn~Amum koNDu yezhum kAthalukku ohr ilakku yenRu
aru maRai ucchiyuL aadharitthu othum arum biramam
ThirumahaLODu varum ThirumAl yenRu ThAnn uraitthAn
dharumam uhantha Dhananjayanukkavan SaaraTiyE (1)
(meaning): After anushtAnam of Karma yOgam to control
one's mind , Jn~Ana yOgam has to be practised for aathma
SaakshAthkAram to pave the way for the anushtAnam of
Bhakthi yOgam .The entire assembly of VedAnthAs declare
that the target of this Bahkthi yOgam is the Parabrahmam
celebrated asSrIman NaarAyaNan .For Arjunan rooted in
dharmam , KaNNan revealed that He is indeed that
Parabrahmam .
In this paasuram , the progression of Karma , Jn~Ana , Bhakthi
yOgams referred to by Swamy AlavanthAr is covered with
the following references :
1." Karumamum Jn~Anamum koNdu " = based on Karma and Jn~Ana yogams
which are covered in the First ShaDkam .
2. " yezhum Kaathalukku " = Bhakthi yogam , the topic of the second
shaDkam is dealt with here .
3." arum Brahmam " = the Brahmam , which is distinctly different
from chEthana and achEthana vargams is the topic of the first
half of the third ShaDkam .This Brahmam is the One celebrated
in Upanishads ( " aru MaRai ucchiyuL aadaritthu Odhum arum
Brahmam "). This Brahmam is SrIman NaarAyaNan appearing
with MahA Lakshmi (" ThirumahaLODu varum ThirumAl " ).
4. "Dharumam uhantha " = to be bound by the SaasthrAs is hinted here.
This covers the second half of the third ShaDkam .
5. To that Arjunan (Dhananjayan) rooted in Dharmam ( dharumam
uhantha Dhananjayan) , Lord PaarTasAraty revealed that
SrIman NaarAyaNan is none other than Himself ( " arum Biramam
ThirumahaLODu varum ThirumAl yenRu ThAnn uraitthAn").
6. Lord revealed that He is indeed the lakshyam(gOchara: ) of
that bhakthi yOgam (" yezhum kaathalukku ohr ilakku yenRu uraitthAn") .
For additional literature on GeethArTa Sangraham , please refer to
the following earlier postings and recordings:
Swamy AlavanthAr's GeethArtha Sangraham has been covered by adiyEn
and has been archived in four postings of Bhakthi list ( Novemebr 7,11and
23 , 1995.) :
http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/srchives/index.html
The text of GeethArtha Sangraham is available at :
http://ramanuja.org/desika/geetha15.txt
The recitation of GeethArtha Sangraha by SevilimEdu Swamy
lasting 7 minutes is available at :
http://www.ahobilamutt.org/dpaudio.html
Swamy Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,
NaarAyaNa , NaarAyaNa , NaarAyaNa
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradachAri Sadagopan
SrimathE SrI Lakshminrusimha Dhivya PaadhukA Sevaka
SrIvaNN SaThakOpa SrI NaarAyaNa YathIndhra MahA DesikAya Nama:
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