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srImathE rAmAnujAya namaha
srImadh varavara munayE namaha

Dear Sri Mohan.

It will be great if you can do it. I hope you can foresee, how good it will
be to this Srivaishnava sampradhAyam from the words of a person (more so
because you say that those texts are clear without any paradox), who was a
contemporary of Sri Nanjeeyar.

I request you to kindly contact Smt Vasudha Narayanan and get this somehow
for the benefit of all the Sri Vaishnavas.

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam
adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan
Thirumalai Vinjamoor Venkatesh




Mohan Sagar 
<mmsagar@earth To: ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
link.net>< > cc: 
Subject: Re: [ramanuja] Commentary on 
14-05-02 06:28 Tiruvaymozhi 
AM 
Please respond 
to ramanuja 






Dear Sri Venkatesh and others,

During her last visit to Denver, I had the opportunity to briefly chat with
Dr. Vasudha Narayanan about Thirukoneri Dasi . It seems that her
commentary
is a rather unique one, because it provides great insights into the varying
philosophical views and how these were interwined to form a more wholistic
understanding vision of SriVaishnavam during the time that she had lived.
>From what I can recall of my conversation with Dr. Vasudha, it appears that
at the time of Sri Nanjeeyar and Koneri Dasi, the dividing lines between
such
concepts as nirhEtuka/sahEtuka kripa, thAyAr's role and Her own Divinity,
prapatti as an upAyam and not being one, etc., were not so clearly defined
as
they are today. Indeed, Thirukoneri's Dasi's commentary is unique in that
it
revels in intertwining and pondering on these seeming paradoxes.

Sadly, with the increased Brahminical emphasis that has taken place in the
community over the past 200 -300 years, except among the stalwarts,
Thirukoneri Dasi's work has been virtually forgotten.

Smt. Vasudha had mentioned that she was going to send me a copy of a paper
that she had put together on Thirukoneri Dasi's life, which included
English
translations of her commentaries. She has been travelling around the world
a
lot lately, however, so she may have forgotten about it.

I will make an effort to contact her and see if I can procure a copy of
this
paper so that we can all learn more.

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan
Mohan


elayavalli wrote:

> Sri:
> SrimathE Ramanujaya Namaha:
> AzhwAr emperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE Saranam
>
> Dear group
>
> I recently got a book on thirvaymozhi commentary in English by Sri.
> BSS Iyengar (sp?) from B'lore who mentiones that there is commentary
> on TVM by one non-brahmin lady sishya of Sri Nanjeeyar (kOnEri
> DAsAyi?) which explains all pasurams using the first pasuram
> (uyarvara ..) as a basis. The author goes on to say that the orginal
> manuscript is with some Tamil Institute in Tanjavur (I forget the
> name of the institute) and was published as a book once in the 60's.
>
> Interestingly, Sri K.K.A. Venkatachari Swamin, in his book "Sri
> Vaishnava Manipravala" does not mention about this commentary.
>
> Can some one add more details on this?
>
> Thanks
>
> adiyEn
> Venkatesh Elayavilli
> http://www.srivaishnava.org
>
>
> azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
>
>
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