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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Vara Vara munayE Namaha

Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha



One of the glowing stars in our sampradayam, is the great stalwart Sri 
karapangadu venkatacharyar swamy, who by his upanyasams lighted the lives of 
many. Periazhvar says, ?oru magal thannai udaiyEn thirumagal pOla valarthEn 
thirumAl thAn kondu pOnAn?. Similarly one sun-rise occured after many many 
years in our sampradayam, in the southern direction in a small villagecalled 
?karapangadu? in tanjore district in the year 1906 as the son of one Sri 
thiruvenkata ayyangar and was later adopted by his own grandfather Sri 
singaperumal, who was a great vidwan, in the same star as rAma bhaskaran, 
punarvasu. This sun with his brightness enlightened the hearts of many 
jeevatmas through both his upanyasams and his own actions (?jnana 
anushtAnamivai nandrAgavE udaiyanAna guru?). But then the sad time came on this 
very day August 7th 1971 when the sun had to set due to the thiruvullam of 
emperuman. Swamy left this world, ?nannAdhAr muruvalippa nalludhalAr 
karaindhEnga ennArAththuyar
vilaikkum? for the nithya kainkaryam of emperuman in his divine abode. Still 
the light of the sun is spread to this world removing the ignorance of people 
through the stars (his shisyas and their shisyas) glowing even today and 
spreading the message of swamy throughout the world.



Many of us like adiyen (wasn?t even born when swamy left this world) would have 
missed the great bhakyam of listening to the sweet and enlightening upanyasams 
of karpangadu swamy. To add more sorrow adiyen has missed listening to even his 
prime shisyas, like Sri U.Ve Velukkudi Varadachariyar swamy, Sri 
U.Ve.pillailokam bhashyakarar swamy, Sri U.Ve. sadhAbhishekam govinda 
narasimhachAryar swamy, Sri U.Ve. karapangadu rangaramanujAcharyar swamy who 
have all attained their acharyan thiruvadi now. Still emperuman hasn?t left us 
in the dark. We have some of swamy?s shisyas like Sri pillai lokam 
stalasayanathuraivAr, melkote lakshmi tatachar, araiyar Sri rAma ayyangar, Sri 
vangipuram pattangi kumAravadi rAmAnujAcharyar still glowing and spreading our 
sampradayam and enlightening the lives of even the lowest of the lowest like 
adiyen. Other shisyas of swamy were brindavanam govardhanam Sri rangAcharya 
swamy, the three sons of thirumani swamy (who has done kalashepam along with 
swamy
under Sri Singaperumal swamy) Sri ko.ka.vA.appan srinivAsAcharyar, kumara 
venkatacharyar, appan ramanujacharyar and some more like srivilliputtur vidwan 
vi.kE.srinivasacharyar. Following the footsteps of the acharyan his shisyas 
have also left great scholars to the world like Sri Velukkudi Krishnan swamy 
(shisya of his father Sri varadacharyar swamy), Dr. M.A.Venkatakrishnan swamy 
(shisya of both Sri varadacharyar and Sri sadhAbhishekam swamy) and many more.



Swamy was famous not only for his wonderful upanyasams (stuff and style) but 
also was one of the few real vaishnavites who practiced in his life the great 
vaishnava principles. Sri kumaravadi ramanujAcharyar swamy, the editor of 
Thirumal magazine has written a small book wonderfully on the life history of 
Sri U.Ve. karapangadu swamy. The book has been written in a very simple way but 
flooded with acharya bhakthi. Just scanning through the qualities of swamy 
brings tears to our eyes. Just thinking about the great mahan will remove all 
our sins and bad qualities and make us all good srivaishnavas. It is very 
essential for all of us to possess such books so as to make our minds clear 
with good thoughts. Bhagavata prasadam has the capacity to change even the 
worst of the worst person to a sAthvikan just in a second. On this day adiyen 
will just write a few points about swamy taken from Sri kumaravadi swamy?s book.



Some qualities of karpangadu swamy:



Swamy had all the qualities of a good acharya. Born in a good clan, swamy was 
filled with grace, had deep bhagavat vishaya jnanam and clarity in his words 
and speaking talent. Swamy was highly tolerant and hard working. Hewas like a 
mountain in appearance and strength. He was like a balance in clearing the 
doubts that aroused with a samadrishti (justice without partiality). While 
doing upanyasams swamy was highly punctual and never deviatedfrom the topic of 
the day. Swamy maintained his pace while speaking without hurrying or dragging 
and clearly established his points in the minds of the listeners without any 
difficulty. Swamy had the peculiar character of wetting his lips with his 
tongue inbetween sentences during upanyasams which made his shisyas wonder if 
he was none other than the divine serpant, adisesha who took avathara as 
EmperumAnAr to give the great Sribhasyam to thisworld or later as vishadavAk 
sigamani (one whose words are crystal clear leaving no room for any
doubt) Sri azhagiya Manavala mAmunigal, ettuperukkar, who spread the divine 
arthas of the thamizh vedam, thiruvaimozhi to the world. Not stopping with that 
swamy?s qualities of establishing ideas without hurting anyone, Falling to the 
feet of even a small Srivaishnava boy, his simplicity and naichyam (considering 
oneself lower than the other bhagavatas), always with a pleasant face filled 
with a blossoming smile brings to our memory the greatacharya, Yatheendra 
pravanar Sri mAmunigal. 



Swamy?s pravachanams:



Swamy concentrated on doing more of grantha kalashepams following the footsteps 
of our poorvacharyas. While talking about a grantha (book), swamy totally 
became the writer himself and deeply immersed himself and the listeners into 
the subject. Though born in karapangadu, swamy due to the bhakyam of people of 
chennai spent most of his lifetime only under the divine feet of Sri 
Parthasarathi emperuman in ?madamAmayilai thiruvallikeni?. 



Swamy did upanyasams on Srimath bhagavat geetha (10-11 times fully), bhagavat 
vishayam (Edu vurai-3 times), Sribhashyam (fully along with sruthaprakasikai 
once and 2 or 3 times as upanyasams), Sri ramayanam (2 times not evenone sloka 
and more upanyasams), Sri bhagavatham (2 times not even leaving one sloka later 
on various occasions on selective topics like dasamaskandham, ekadasam and so 
on), Sri Vishnu puranam (2 times fully with engalAzhvan?s explanations), Sri 
Vishnu sahasranamam (2 times along with bhattar?sbhasyam), Mahabharatham (once 
in thiruvallikeni Vanamamalai mutt without leaving even a sloka and on April 
18th 1966 geetha sattrumurai was done followed by dharmaraja pattabhishekam). 



Among the rahasya granthas, Swamy did Srivachanabhooshana kalashepam (5 times), 
mumukshupadi (nearly 10 times), Acharya hrudhayam (3 times), tattvatrayam (once 
fully). 



Prabhandha kalashepam: Swamy has done kalashepams on nachiyar thirumozhi, 
thiruviruththam, thirunedundhandagam. Apart from this every year during the 
marghazhi month thiruppavai kalashepams was swamy?s speciality. Swamy has done 
more the 50-thiruppavai upanyasams.



Swamy has done kalashepams on ashtasloki and chatussloki in the stotra?s side. 
Not stopping with in and around chennai swamy had done upanyasams incoimbatore, 
tanjore, mannarkudi, madurai, thentiruperai,azhvar thirunagari, srivilliputtur, 
vudumalaipettai, chittoor, salem, mumbai, Delhi and many other places. Other 
than the upanyasams and kalashepams swamy has taken part in many thiruppavai 
sadhas and vidvath sabhas and has got the appreciation of many for impartially 
establishing our sampradayam.



This is just the jist of some of swamy?s greatness. Adiyen has least capacity 
to even talk about swamy. Still out of interest to purify my heart and soul 
adiyen has tried to write a few words. All errors are due to adiyen?s 
ignorance. Adiyen requests all the bhagavatas to please go through the life 
history of swamy atleast once to learn a lot from his life. There is one 
saying; one person asked, ?WhatA did rama give to this world?? The answer is 
his life (a lesson to all). Sri Karapangadu swamy took birth in the same star 
punarvasu has chakravarthi thirumagan and has now given his life as a lesson to 
all of us. Let us learn and enlighten our lives. Let us all think about the 
great mahan today and enjoy the grace of emperumanwho time and again keeps 
blessing us with such great stalwarts.



Alwar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam



Adiyen rAmAnuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan







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