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Dear bhagavatas,
I happened to go through the articles about sri
Ramanujar in Tirumalai that the vigraham might be
desikan's and not Ramanuja's.It is a world known fact
that except for Ramanuja there is no vigraham for any 
other Azhwar or Acharya in Tirumalai temple (Initially
there was no other Vigraham for any other Azhwar or
Acharya in Tirumala hills itself but now some private
mutts and people are creating new vigrahams for their
favourite acharyas and keeping in their own place).
This kind of campaigns were done by mischivous peolple
during the golden period of Annangaracharyar Swami
itself and he has with out any difficulties has
dismissed those claims with supreme authentication .I
think this issue was very deeply addressed and written
by swami in almost a full Ramanusan issue. Below are
the strong and unanswerable reasons(by these
campaigners) for why the vigraham is Ramanuja's and
not Desikan's.

1.As pointed out by a friend in one of the previous
digests, Ramanujar is considered to be the acharya of
Tiruvengadamudayan himself and hence the Gnyana mudra.
Even today we can hear kattiyams in places like
sriperumbudur, tiruvallikeni saying "Appanukku
sangazhi alitha perumal".

2.Next, Tirumalai is the place where ramanuja wrote
and delivered Vedartha sangragham, a magnificeint work
in the form of Upanyasa in front of the Lord and hence
the GNyana mudra.

3.The person has also claimed that Ramanuja at
tirumalai is having manuscripts in his left hand. I
doubt very much the person who said this has ever been
to tirumalai and seen the left hand of ramnuja. It is
very clear that the left hand of ramuja contaons
nothing and it will be just like tiruvengadamudayan's
left hand pointing downwards.(Incidentally, the
picture of Sri Ramanuja of Tirumalai has been
published in the Chittirai issue of GEETHACHARYAN.)
The claims that Ramanujar's left hand has manuscripts
and is being covered are all nothing but nonsense
because anyone can on anyday go to tirumala and can
see that the left hand is not covered.

4.We have lot of scriptures(Kalvettus) in tiruamalai
saying very clearly that After the period of
Ananthalwan, his grandson had performed kainkaryams to
tiruvengadamudayan and its is also very very clearly
stated that he also performed kainkaryams every day to
the ramanujar conscecrated by ananthalwan.

After considering these points no one could for a
second think that it might be desikan's vigraga and
not ramanuja's. If still anyone wants to argue that it
is desika and not ramanuja, we can just say that "Tham
nenjil tottinathe solli ithu sutha upadesa varavartha
enbar moorkaravar" and regret their ignorance.  

Geethacharyan 


                
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