SrI:
It is marvellous to hear the good news about the
grand celebrations
at TaarAmaNi ( a suburb of Chennai ?) for the
Thirunakshathram of
the MahAn , VaikuntavAsi Thirupukkuzhi Swamy
.
I would like to brief you on another important
aspect of the celebrations
at Kaanchipuram at
Thiruppukkuzhi Swamy's aasramam at
Sri RangarAja Veedhi , where Swamy lived
during his jeeva dasai and
performed KaalakshEpams and is being
used by his sishyAs even today.
SrI RangarAja Veedhi is known for TWO main
things:
1. ThirukkuruhaipirAn PiLLAn's Sannidhi , where you
can
have the darsana soubhAgyam of the archA vigrahams of
Swamy Nathamuni , SrI Periya Thirumalai Nambi , Sri
PiLLAn ,
SrI Panchamatha Bhanjana Taata Desikan , who was
originally
a sishyar of HH Shad Paraankusa Desikan ( the
6th pontiff of
AhObila Matam).This Ahobila Matam AchAryan is
peforming
AaarAdhanam even today to at Ahobilam to SrI
Lakshmi
Nrusimhan in a cave in Ahobilam.
2. Thiruppukkuzhi Swamy's Aasramam with the archA
vigraham of
Swamy Desikan , the AarAdhana Moorthy of TPK Swamy
.
In addition to that sacred vigraham , the archais
of SrI HayagrIvan,
SrI Lakshmi Nrusimhan , SrI SeethA LakshmaNa
SamEtha
SrI Raamachandran , Swamy NammAzhwAr and
BhAshyakArar
are at this Aasramam .It will not be an exaggeration to say that Our
whole Guru Paramparai down to Swamy Desikan is right there
in this Aasramam .
It is at this Aasramam , the Kaanchi part of
the Celebrations of
TPK SWamy's 181st
Thirunakshathram will be conducted from
Nov 13-16 .SrIman P.V.SatakOpa TatachAr Swamy has taken
the responsibility to have Chathur Veda PaarAyaNam , Dhivya prabahndha
PaarAyaNam, small
vidvath sathas and TadhIyArAdhanam .The crucial
requirement is
to realize the 3 Laks of Rs budget quickly.
Please support this Kaimkaryam and send e-mail to
SrIman
Satakopa Tatacharya Swamy (tatacharya@xxxxxxxxx ).Alternatively
,
you can send your draft to ICICI Bank at
Kanchipuram for Sri VP TV
Charitable Trust ( Account Number
606601112330 , Kanchipuram
Branch ). If you wish to contact me , I will be happy to help
with additional details on your participation.
Why we should celebrate TPK Swamy's Vaibhavam at
many places ?
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The celebrations for such a MahAn should be done at
as many places
as possible and particularly at places where ever
there are Swamy
Desika BhakthAs . Any one who has crossed the gopura vaasal of
Kanchi VaradarAja PerumAL Temple and
Thondaradippodi Vaasal ,
or any one who has climbed up the steps of
Hasthi Giri to have
the darsana soubhAgyam of Lord VaradarAjAn or
any one who has
visited the Sannidhi of Swamy Desikan at Thuppul or
any one
who has participated in the grand MangaLAsAsanam
of
Swamy Desikan on His Thirunakshathram day at
Hasthigiri
will have to remember with gratitude the MahOpakAram of
Thirupukkuzhi Swamy , whose 181st Thirunakshathram is being
celebrated BOTH AT TAARAAMANI AND
KAANCHIPURAM
during the Nov 13-16 , 2003 time
frame.
We are planning to celebrate the 181st
Thirunakshathram at
Lord RanganAthA's temple at Pomona , NY with the
recitation
of Swamy Desikan's Sahasra Naamams created by
Thirukkudanthi
Desikan and a special arcahnai on that day for
Swamy Desikan.
(1)Thiruppukkuzhi Swamy was the Mudhal
TheerthakArar in recognition of
his life long services to SrI MahA Devi
SamEtha VaradarAja PerumAL
and Swamy Desikan , the Kula Mani of Thuppul .He
was the nirvAhakar
of the day to day affairs at Lord VaradarAjaa's
temple for many years.
(2) At Kaanchipuram , the seat of Thirupuukkuzhi
Swamy
(TPK Swamy ) is the
one of the most important centres of
VisishtAdhvaitham and VaishNavite AchAryAs from Swamy
Naatha Muni to the
present day AchAryAs . Let us follow
the happenings over
1200 years at PerumAL Koil in the context of
the Thirunakshathram celebrations for TPK
Swamy .
The Location for the Kaanchi
Celebration
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The celebrations at Kaanchi will take place at TPK
Swamy's
aasramam in SrI RangarAja Veedhi in front of the
AarAdhana
Moorthy of TPK Swamy, Swamy Desikan . This is
where future
stalwarts in VisishtAdhvaitha SiddhAntham were trained by
SrI TPK Swamy.
Chathur Veda ParAyaNam , Dhivya Prabhandha
GhOshti
and small vidvath sathas and TadhiyArAdhanam will
take place
during Nov 13-16 at the Aasramam of TPK Swamy
.
Just as the reunion of Swamy Desikan at SrI
PerumbhUthur
with ThiruveLLUr EmperumAn took place on Oct 11
after a lapse of 55
years( last reunion was in 1948 ) , this
Thirunakshathra Uthsavam
will take place 60 years after the last round of celebrations at Kaanchi ,
when the 121st anniversary of TPK Swamy 's Thirunakshathram was
celebrated in the
year 1943 by Swamy Desika BhakthAs and
AbhimAnis at Kaanchipuram . Hope all of you who are
fortunate
will attend the Uthsavams BOTH at Kaanchi or
TaarAmaNi
and support the organizers of these Uthsavams .
WE WILL REFLECT ON THE SIGNIFICANCE
OF KAANCHIPURAM AS
THE VENUE FOR TPK SWAMY'S THIRD SHASTHIYABDHA
POORTHI
FURTHER :
The main reason is that Swamy's entire life was
spent at Kaanchi,
the dhivya dEsam which lent AchArya RaamAnujA , KooratthAzhwAn
,
Swamy Desikan and other AchAryAs to Lord
RanganAtha for the growth
of our Darsanam. Lord VaradarAjan is indeed the
most generous one
when it comes to granting boons even to Lord
RanganAthan.
Swamy Naathamuni & Kaanchi
************************************
It was at Kaanchipuram that Swamy Naathamuni
had the command
(niyamanam) to spread the Dhivya Prabhandhams of
AlwArs to spread
the doctrines of SrI VaishNavam . Swamy Naatha
Muni went on to
Thirukkudanthai and AzhwAr Thirunagari to be
initiated by Swamy
NammAzhwAr Himself to carry out the assigned
mission by Kaanchi
DevAthi Raajan .
Swamy AaLavanthAr
**************************
It was at Kaanchi that Swamy AaLavanthAr , the
grandson
of Swamy Naatha Muni fulfilled the wishes of
His grandfather,
who in Yoga Dasai knew about the birth of
RaamAnujar at
SrI PerumbhUthUr to grow the darsanam developed by
him .
His sishya Paramparais left that task to Swamy
AaLavanthAr.
From SrIrangam came Swamy AlavanthAr to Kaanchi
PeraruLALan's
Sannidhi , performed SaraNAgathy at the feet of the
Lord and
prayed for the ascendance of RaamAnujA to the
AchArya
Peetam and flfill his three wishes : (1) writing a
commentary for
Brahma Soothrams based on Sage BhOdhayanA's vrutthi
(2) VyAkhyAnam for Swamy NammAzhwAr's
ThiruvAimozhi
and (3) _expression_ of gratitude to Sage ParAsarar
and VyAsar
through naming of sons of AchAryAs with those
names.
Lord VaradarAjan granted those requested boons
form Swamy
AlavanthAr and the rest is VaishNavite
history.
Kaanchi & AchArya RaamAnujA
****************************************
It was here at Kaanchi PerumAL Koil prAkAram
RaamAnujA
as a kumAran learnt poorva paksham from Yaadhava
PrakAsar(YP)
and debated him and ultimately accepted YP's
pleadings to
accept him as His( AchArya RaamAnujA's)
sishyan.
It was here AchArya RaamAnujA was brought from
VindhyA
forests overnight by the dhivya dampathis of
Kaanchi taking
the form of a hunter and his wife . It was here the
Divine couple
accpted Theertha Kaimakryam from RaamAnujA from the
way side
well. It was here Thirukkacchi Nambi revealed the
six responses
from the Lord of Hasthi Giri to RaamAnujA's six
questions.
It was here AchArya RaamAnuja accepted
SanyAsAsramam
in front of PeraruLALan.
Kaanchi & KooratthAzhwAn
**********************************
It was near
here KooratthAzhwAn took birth to help AchArya
RaamAnujA write SrI BhAshyam ( One of
the prayers of
Swamy AaLavanthAr and KooratthAzhwAn's
children were
named Parasara Bhattar and VyAsa Bhattar at
Srirangam
in response to the second longing
of Swamy AaLavanthAr.
It was here that KooratthAzhwAn stood before Lord
VaradarAjan
and composed the 102
slOkams of SrI VaradarAja Sathakam
and was blessed to
regain his eye sight by the Lord of Hasthigiri.
NadAthUr AmmAl & Kaanchi
***********************************
It was here NadAthur AmmAl was born and served the
Lord of
Kaanchi . He conducted his KaalakshEpams and
trained
a series of great AchAryaas like
Sudarsana Suri , AathrEya
RaamAnujA ( the AchAryan of Swamy Desikan ) .
It was at
Kacchi VaaytthAn MaNTapam that NadAthUr AmmAl
blessed
the 5 year old child , the future Swamy
Desikan to become
the great defender and MahA Desikan of
the VisishtAdhvaitha
SampradhAyam in the Post-RaamAnujA Period.
Adhi VaNN SaThakOpan & Kaanchi
********************************************
It was here that Adhi VaNN SaThakOpa Jeeyar
conducted His
studies with GhadikA Satham
AmmAL and was encouraged by
latter to travel to AhObilam to recieve
SanyAsAsramam from
Lord Narasimhan to establish the SrI
Matam.
Pancha Matha Bhanjana Taata Desika &
Vamsam
***********************************************************
Many AchAryAs of the TaatAchArya AchArya Vamsam
followed
this path to Kaanchi and Kaimkaryam to PeraruLALan
. In this haloed
ground near Kaanchi ( Thiruppukkuzhi) SrI KrishNa
Tata Desikan was
born in 1823 C.E. adiyEn has covered some of his
major contributions
of this great AchAryan to Bhagvath RaamAnuja
Siddhantham and
Swamy Desikan's SrI Sookthis in the previous
mails.
Thirupukkuzhi Swamy comes from this illustrious
vamsam and
has given us great UpakAram by restoring
ThUppul Sannadhi of
Swamy Desikan to its former glory ,
performing nithya kaimakryams of
Lord VaradarAjan and helping to nurture many
branches of SrI VaishNavite
AchAryAs.
It is for these reasons the Kaanchi based
celebrations of TPK Swamy's
special Thirunakashathram Uthsavam at HIS
AASRAMAM IN SRI RANGARAJA
VEEDHI has a special significance and adiyEn
requests you to support
this uthsavam at Kaanchi with a modest budgetof 3
laks of rupees .
Please attend one or more days of the Uthsavam and
have a darsanam of'
Lord VaradarAja and PerumdEvi
ThAyAr and Swamy Desikan at His
ThUppul AasthAnam.
Swamy Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam
,
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil V.Sadagopan
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