Sri:
Dear BhakthAs :
Today , we will spend good amount of time at
Swamy Desikan Sannidhi at the Pomona Temple .
Location of Swamy Desikan's Sannidhi at the Pomona Temple
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We find Swamy Desikan Sannidhi sandwiched here between the AzhwAr
Sannidhis on one side and Sri RanganAyaki Sannidhi on the other side.
As at Srirangam , Swamy Desikan has positioned himself
very close to Sri RanganAyaki's Sannidhi . From His Sannidhi ,
Swamy Desikan is also performing MangaLAsAsanam to
AchArya RaamAnuja directly across the hall . It is a powerful
grouping of AzhwArs , AchAryAs , our most merciful Mother
and the Great Acharya RaamAnujA , whose Sri Sookthis were
the nectarine , daily food of Swamy Desikan . We must recall that
Swamy Desikan had conducted Sri BhAshyam KaalakshEpams
thirty plus times in His life time .
Why Swamy Desikan is sitting Next to the AzhwAr Sannidhis ?
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Out of His special and undiminishing reverence for the works of
AzhwArs , Swamy Desikan defended successfully twice
the sacredness of Dhivya Prabandham . Swamy Desikan described
the dhivya Prabhandams as " Santha mihu Tamizh MaRai " .
He established that the AzhwAr's aruLiccheyalkaLs are
the distillation of the essence of Sanskritic VedAs and Upanishads
(VedAnthams) and that the dhivya pranhandhams were on
a par with Sruthi (Sanskrit Vedas and Upanishads ) , which
is one of our key pramANams .
Lord VaradarAjan welcomed the soundness with which Swamy
Desikan established the sanctity of the Dhivya Prabhandhams and
the unquestionable sacredness of the AzhwArs, who are dear
to the Lord . Atthigiri AruLAla PerumAL presented therefore
Swamy Desikan with one of the pair of Thirucchinnams
used during His Uthsavams . Even today , at Kaanchipuram ,
Only one Thriucchinnam is used at he Lord's uthsavams
in commemoration of this event .
At Srirangam , Swamy Desikan defeated the loud opponents ,
who questioned the sacredness of the Dhivya Prabhandhams
and pleased Lord RanganAthan . Swamy Desikan blessed the people
of His time with a wondeful Sri Sookthi Known as "Nigama ParimaLam "
or the Seventy Four Thousand , an exhaustive commentary on
Swamy NammAzhwAr's ThiruvAimozhi . Unfortunately , this
master piece describing at great length the Vedanthic
basis of the twelve AzhwAr's aruLiccheyalkaL is no longer
available to us.
Fortunately for us , Sri Sookthis like DramidOpanishad
Taathparya RathnAvaLi (DTR) and DhramidOpanishad
Saara (DS) are available to us today . They reveal the genius
of Swamy Desikan in synopsis of the decads and the centums
of Swamy NammAzhwAr's ThiruvAimozhi in Sanskrit .
He identified the ThiruvAimozhi Paasurams as Tamil
Upanishads ( DhramidOpanishad) . There are 129 slOkams
in DTR that euologize ThiruvAimozhi and provide
the summary of the 1102 Paasurams of ThiruvAimozhi.
The DhramidOpanishad Saaram is even more brilliant effort
by Swamy Desikan to summarize in 26 slOkams the purport
and progression of the ten sathakams ( centads) of
Swamy NammAzhwAr's ThiruvAimozhi.
In the 1008 slOkams of Sri RanganAtha PaadhukA Sahasram ,
Swamy Desikan extolled the glories of the PaadhukAs of
the Lord of Srirangam , which are nothing but Swamy NammAzhwAr .
Swamy Desikan revealed His high reverence to the Four Thousand
Sacred collect ( NaalAyira dhivya Prabhandham) through
the creation of Sri Sookthis in Tamil or MaNipravALam
or Sanskrit like " Prabhandha Saaram , MunivAhana BhOgam
( dealing with ThiruppANa AzhwAr ) and Bhagavath dhyAna
sOpAnam ( dealing with AmalanAdhipirAn Prabhandham) .
In His Magnum opus , Srimath Rahasya Thraya Saaram ,
Swamy Desikan quotes copiously from AzhwAr's Paasurams
to back up the doctrinal points relating to Sri VaishNavam
established by AchArya RaamAnujaa in His Sri Sookthis.
It is therfore no surprise to us that Swamy Desikan's
sannidhi is right next to the AzhwAr Sannidhis at
Lord RanganAthA's temple at Pomona , NY . The Brahma
tEjas of Swamy Desikan's archA vigraham at Pomona
Sannidhi is dazzling indeed .
As we stand before His sannidhi , we recall with profound
gratitude Swamy Desikan protecting and preserving
the commentary on AchArya RaamAnujA's Sri BhAshyam
revered as Srutha PrakAsikaa . We are indebted to Swamy
Desikan for this magnanimous and courageous act to
save this extraordinary commentary of Sudarsana Soori
and recite with gratitude , the MangaLAsAsanam of
Kumaara VaradAchAr Swamy about this event :
"SruthaprakAsikaa bhUmau yenaadhou PARIRAKSHITHAA
pravaaritaa ca pathrEshu tasmai SrEshthAya MangaLam "
The StOtrAs (Devotional Lyrics) of Swamy Desikan
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The 28 StOtra granthams of Swamy Desikan have
been composed in Sanskrit and PrAkruta languages .
Swamy's distinction as Kavi Simham is clearly evident
in these stOtrams and this talent as a poet is matched only
by His devotion to the ArchA Moorthys at Kaanchi ,
Srirangam , Thiruvaheendhrapuram, ThruttaNkaa ,
ThuruvEnkatam and Srivilliputthur . Number of these stOtrams
are also tributes to His AarAdhana Moorthys ( Lord Lakshmi
HayagrIvan , Athtigiri AruKALan ) or AchArya upadEsams
about esoteric VaishNavite doctrines .
The commentaries on number of the StOtrams are archived in
http://www.sadagopan.org or at Oppiliappan archives:
http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/oppiliappan/archives
Sri MadhavakkaNNan along with Sri Achutharaman
has assembled a formidable site dealing entirely with
the works of Swamy Desikan . You must visit this site
to experience the multi-sided genius of this grat AchArya :
http://swamydesikatripod.com/index_text.html#top
Personal tribute of the precocious son of Swamy Desikan ,
Sri KumAra VaradAchArya Swamy is a most moving one
and is revered as PiLLai AnthAdhi . Its URL is :
http://swamydesika.tripod.com/anthaadhi.html
What Swamy Desikan accomplished in the 101 years of
His Life marked by Bhakthi for the Lord , anushtAnam
and VairAgyam is beyond anyone's ability to describe
adequately and do justice to His bestowal of Kula dhanam
after Kula dhanam for posterity and Vaidhika Sri of
the VaishNava Community as long as there would be
the Sun and the Moon .
adiyEn stops here and bow deeply before the matchless
KavitArkika Simham on whose tongue Lord HayagrIvan
had His throne .
Swamy Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,
Daasan , Oppiliappan KOil VaradAchAri Sadagopan
Srimate Sri Laksminrisimha Divya Paduka Sevaka
Srivan Satakopa Sri Narayana Yatindra Mahadesikaya Nama:
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