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Dear Sri Venkatakrishnan svamin,

I had the privilege of attending the exciting
'Geetacharyan' silver jubilee function held at
Narada-gaana sabha on Sunday (10th).

Please accept my congratulations for organising the
function so well. I saluted Sri Vaana-maa-malai svami,
and felt blessed, but I could not personally come to
you to convey my greetings as you were obviously busy.

I also greedily acquired a copy of the second edition
of your excellent book, 'Vaazhvum Vaakkum', and also
the 4-volume midget edition of 'aruli-c-cheyal'.  My
wife Padma (whom Nam-perumal recalled unto Himself on
March 14, and who received the 'charama samskaaram' in
the Tiru-alli-k-keni outskirts) had enjoyed many a
'sampradaayam' insight by borrowing the first edition
copy from my 'manni', Smt Rajalakshmi Kannan, but we
could not just secure a copy for ourselves then as it
had sold out.

The copy I purchased on Sunday would be my wife's
memento to me, as I survive her to discharge the
duties the Lord would deem fit to assign to me.

The Geetaachaaryan just glows in the new format.  I
would however humbly suggest that the graphics be
omitted, until you can afford an artist of the calibre
of Maniam Selvan etc.

May the precious Lord of Tiruvalli-k-keni ever attend
your excellent services with His grace.

Regards from
(Srirangam Tirumanjanam) Sundara Rajan.

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--- Geethacharyan <geethacharyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
> people during the golden period of Annangaracharyar
Swami itself and he has without 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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