SrI:
Dear Swamy Desika BhakthAs:
Earlier I had invited your attention to the plans
for conducting
the 181st (Third Shastiabdha Poorthy Mahthsavam )
of one of
the most revered AchAryAs blessed by the Dhivya
Dampathis of
Kaanchipuram . He is Thirupputkuzhi SrI KrishNa
TaatArya MahA
Desikan .
This month's Nrusimha PriyA has an excellent
artilce on His
Vaibhavam . adiyEn is sharing the highlights of that article to illustrate how indebted we are to this MahA Desikan for His
kaimakryams
for the protection and enrichment of
VisishtAdhvaitha Darsanam ,
the contributions for the enduring NithyArAdhanam
at ThUppul
NiigamAntha MahA Desikan Sannidhi ,
His untiring contributions
to the administration of Lord
VaradarAjA's historic temple at Kaanchi.
adiyEn invites you to support the forthcoming 181st
Thirunakshathram at Kaanchi .
Please send your samarpaNams for the Chathur
Veda PaarAyaNam ,
Dhivya Prabahndha PaarAyaNam , Vidvath Sathas
and TadhiyArAdhanam to:
SrIman P.V.Satakopa TatachArya Swamy
8B-Sannidhi Street
Little Kanchipuram 631 503
Tamil Nadu , India
Please attend the Uthsavam during those days at
SrI Thiruppukkuzhi Swamy's aasramam at SrI
RangarAja
Veedhi at Kaanchipuram. The next Shastiyabdha
poorthy
would be in the year 2063 . Let us
join this uthsavam and
celebrate the blessed memory of the great
ViashNavite
AchArya from an illustrious kulam and beneficiary
of
the extraordinary blessings of Kaanchi dhivya
dampathis.
Here are some excerpts from that article in
Nrusimha PriyA
about SrI KrishNa TaatArya MahA
DEsikan:
1. AvathAram: SvabhAnu Year , Iypaasi Month,
AaslEshA
nakshathram ( Year 1823
C.E).
2. Geneology:The great AchAryan , Sri Pancha
Matha Bhanjana
Taata Desikan ( 1509-1591 C.E) belongs to the Thirumalai
Nambi
vamsam (SrI Saila Vamsam) , which traces
itself to Swamy
Naathamuni
Himself . The Pancha Mathams (Five mathams)
that this AchAryan
defeated to establish the superiority of
VisishtAdhvaitham were
Kapila , KaNAtha, Sukha , Jaina and Saiva mathams .
His sishyar
was the Upanishad BhAshyakArar , SrI RangarAja Muni
, who
gave us the VisishtAdhvaithic commentary of the
Upanishads.
2.1: The SveekAra Puthrar (adopted
son) of Panmcha Matha Bhanjana
Taata Desikan was Lakshmi KumAra Taata Desikan
( 1572-1632 C.E).
He belonged to the 21st generation of Swamy
Naatha Muni.His
Bhagavath Kaimkaryam at Lord VaradarAjan's
temple are illustrious
and His descendants carry on those kaimkaryams even
today at
the famous Kaanchi Temple.
2.2: In the 6th Paramparai
of SrI Lakshmi KumAra Taata
Desikan
was born SrI Thirupputkkuzhi KrishNa TaatArya MahA
Desikan
(TPK SWamy ) in the year 1823 C.E.
3. TPK Swamy 's Jaathaka Vaibhavam: In the
astrological chart (Jaathakam)
of Swamy , Bhudhan and Guru were ascendant
and Sukran is at His
own home . That rare combination of grahams were
intrepreted to
indicate the birth of a great AchAryan with
"SarvathO Mukha
PaaNDithyam " or scholarship in every VidhyA
SthAnaam like
Sarva Tantra Svatantra NIgamAntha MahA Desikan
of ThUppul.
4. Infancy : As a young child , Swamy would listen
with intensity to
Veda ParAyaNam , SthOthra recitals and AzhwAr
prabhandham recitals
at his home and outside . As a toddler , Swamy will
join with joy
the KaalakshEpa ghOshtis and places where Bhagavath AarAdhanam
was taking place.
5. Anugraham of Lord VaradarAjan: On completion of
its first year of
birth , the father of TPK Swamy took the child to
Lord VaradarAjan's
Sannidhi . The infant looked at the Lord and with
tears of joy in
his eyes was lost in meditation of the Lord . All
devotees around
the child were overcome with emotion at the sight
of this future
AchAryan.Through His Archaka , Lord VaradarAjan
blessed
the child to gain SarvathO MUkha
PaaNDithyam.
6. PerumdEvi ThAyAr's anugraham: Next , the child
was taken to
ThAyAr Sannidhi.Thechild was lost in meditation of
ThAyAr for
more than an hour.As ThiruvArAdhana Samayam
approached ,
the father took the child home. Interrupted from its joyous
meditation on PerumdEvi ThAyAr, the child cried all
the way
home and did not stop crying.The Father took the
child back to
ThAyAr Sannidhi. There the child was given the
milk presented to
ThAyAr . On drinking that sacred milk, the child
stopped crying.
People around were
moved by that extraordinary sight and called
the child another Lakshmi KumArar ( The original
Lakshmi KumAra
Taata Desikan was blessed by MahA Lakshmi presiding
at
Thirukkudanthai temple as SrI KomaLavalli ThAyAr
).
7. VidhyA GrahaNam ( acquisition of VidhyAs):
The extraordinarily gifted child
quickly mastered Veda , Dhivya prabhandha
adhyayanam , Saasthrams ,
SangItham , yOgam , Silpam , Bharatha Saasthram ,
JyOthisham and
Dharma Saasthram.Many future AchAryAs learnt from
this talented
young AchAryan . One of them was the
scholar, who adorned the throne
Of AhObila Matam with the nAmam of PiLLaippAkkam
Azhagiya Singar.
8. Grantha NirmANam: Many brilliant and deep
granthams were composed
by TPK Swamy as an AchAryan and He won in many
important debates
and vanquished those , who contested the doctrines
of VisishtAdhvaitham
as established by AchArya RaamAnuja and Swamy
Desikan .Many Tarka
SrikOsams and Poorva MeemAmsa SrIkOsams were
blessed to us by
TPK SWamy.Two of the granthams that established
firmly the meanings
of NaarAyaNa Sabdham are Nathva Chandrika and
Paramukha sapEtikai.
These are recognized as precious treasures
.
9. Kaimkaryam at ThUppul Swamy Desikan
Sannidhi:The Sannidhi
of our ThUppul KUlamaNi was taken over by ill
wishers to our
SampradhAyam and for many years , Swamy
Desikan Sannidhi was
closed and stayed locked without nithya
AarAdhanam. It was a sad
period. TPK Swamy sued the occupiers at the
Chengalpat court
and won the rights of administration of our ThUppul Kula MaNi's
sannidhi . TPK Swamy repaired the temple that had fallen into
disuse and restarted nithya aarAdhanams and
uthsavams for
Swamy Desikan.
10 . We will always be grateful to this AchArya
Saarvabhouman
for many of His Kaimkaryams . One of the most
memorable among
them is the MangaLAsAsana Kramam on Swamy
Desikan's
Thirunakshathram days at Lord VaradrAjan's
Hasthigiri . This was
restarted after 60 years of interruption. At the
end of this MangaLAsAsanam ,
Lord VaradarAja and Swamy Desikan arrive at
abhishEka MaNTapam
every year and recieve the shower of flowers
(Pushpa Vrushti) and then
Swamy Desikan returns reluctantly to His
sannidhi in ThUppul.
adiyEn wrote earlier about the order of
slOkams from Swamy Desikan's
SrI Sookthis during the occasion of this special
MangaLAsAsanam
on PurattAsi SravaNam day at Kaanchi.
May we be blessed by the memory of SrI TPK Swamy and
support the upcoming 181st
Thirunakshathram at Kaanchi !
adiyEn appeals to you to contact SrI
P.V.SatakOpa TatAchArya
Swamy at Kaanchi in the context of support
for this important
kaimkaryam and recieve SrI TPK Swamy's and Kaanchi
Dhivya Damapthi's blessings on this occasion.
SrImath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam
,
Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri
SadagOpan
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