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SrI:
SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama:

Dearest all,

Our Greatest AchArya parampara as mentioned earlier
starts with Sriman Narayanan.
The lineage is:

Sriman Narayanan.
Sri Mahalakshmi
Sri VishvaksEnar (sEnai nAthan- commander in chief)
Sri SaTakOpar (nammAzhwAr)
Sri nAthamuni
Sri puNdarIkAkshar (uyyakkoNdAr)
Sri rAmamisrar (maNakkAl nambhi)
Sri yAmunAchAryar (ALavandhAr)
Sri mahApUrNar (Periya nambhi)
Sri rAmAnujar (udayavar- EmperumAnAr- yathirAjar)

This AchArya paramparA also is nicely recited by Swamy
desikan in the following Tamil prabhandham.

ennuyir thandhaLitthavaraich charaNampukku
yAnadaivE avargurukkaL niraivaNangi
pinaruLAl perumpudhUr vandha vaLLal
periyanambhi ALavandhAr maNakkAl nambhi
nanneRiyai avarkku uraittha uyyakkoNdAr
nAthamuni saTakOpan sEnainAthan 
innamudhatth thirumagaL enRu ivarai munnittu
emperumAn thiruvadigaL adaiginREnE.
   
AchArya paramparai anusanthAnam bequeathed to us by
Swami Sri Desikan in AdhikAra Sangraham ( Third
Paasuram ) :

I take refuge at the sacred  feet of the
ParamAcharyan, Sriman NaarAyaNan through my Acharyan
and their AchAryans in the order of Sri BhaashyakAra,
Periya Nambi, AaLavanthAr, MaNakkAl Nambi,
UyyakkoNdAr, Naathamuni, NammAzhwAr, VishvaksEnar, and
Periya PirAtti. 

What an excellent sweet prabahndham!
As explained earlier, the Lord helps us in very many
ways: Let us enjoy asmadhAchAryan upanyasam wherein
His Holiness beautifully refers to this. Sri Sadagopan
Swami translated the same in his own inimitable style.


[quote] Swami Desikan has brilliantly summarized all
of these upakArams in the first Tamizh Paasuram of
UpakAra Sangraham. Srimath Andavan anchored his first
focus theme on the individual subsections of this
verse that have very rich meanings:

anthamilA pErinbham arundha yERkkum 
  adiyOmai ARIVUDANE yenRum kaatthu 
munthai vinai nirai vazhiyil ozhuhAthemmai
  munnilayAm DESIKAR TAMM MUNNE SERTTHU 
MANTHIRAMUM MANTHIRATTHIN VAZHIYUMK KATTI 
  vazhippadutthi VAAN YERRI ADIMAIK KOLLA 
Tanthaiyena ninRa tanit ThirumAL ThALil
  Talai vaitthOm SatakOpan aruLinAlE 

This work of Swami Sri Desikan is understood as the
VyAkhyAnam for the Sri Sookthi of NammAzhwAr revered
as THIRUVIRUTTHAM and particularly its first paasuram
(poy ninRa Jn~Amum --ViNNaPPamE).

The revered AchAryA of Poundrikapuram Aasramam
selected this paasuram of Swami Desikan and dwelt on
the selected words in this paasuram and linked it to
other powerful words from the other paasurams of 
NammAzhwAr's ThiruvAimozhi{TVM }, (e-g).,?annAL nee
tantha AAKKAYIN vazhi uzhalvEn" ( TVM: 3.2.1).

Sri Andavan pointed out that the Divya Dampathi help
us in every way. Mainly, there are 54 incomparable
upkArams that are performed by them for us, SamsAris,
with the view to join us to Their parama Padham 
in the spirit of NammAzhwAr's TVM Vaakhyam :?
Vaikuntham puhuvathu maNNavar VidhiyE?.

He reminded us of Sage MaarkanDEyA's Vaakhyam in this
context :lOkAnAm MaathA PithA cha MADHAVA :

The reference here was to? Tanthai yena ninRa Tanit
ThirumAL ', section of the above verse to the sarva
vidha Bhandhu, SarvEswaran.

Before He joins us to Sri His Vaikuntam for nithya
kaimkaryam, ThirumAl performs many upakArAms that is
hard for us even to keep track off (NaaraNan maayayai
aRibhavar yArO --TVM: 1.3.3, AtthA nee seythana naan
aRiyEnE!).

His upakArams are giving us aakkai (sarIram) to house
the Jivan ; He  bleesed the Jivan to be eternal (
nithyan ) in svarUpam and blesses the Jivan with
Dharma BhUtha JnAnam and makes it the Jivan's nithya
guNam and protects thus the Jivan's svarUpam and
SvabhAvam.This is the connection to the paasura
pasage,? adiyOmai yenRum aRivudanE kaatthu? in the
UpakAra sangraham.

Srimath Andavan went on to explain the other key
passages in that important paasuram of Swami Desikan.
The meanings are :

anthamilAp pErinbham arundha yErkkum adiyOmai =  for
us, who are fit to enjoy the limitless bliss of the
great Moksha anubhavam

arivudanE yenRum kaatthu, munthai vinai nirai vazhiyil
ozhuhAthu emmai  munnilayAm Desikar tamm munnE sErtthu
=

blessing and protecting us with the eternal dharma
bhUtha Jn~Anam and also protecting us from drowning in
the timeless flow of the river of karmAs and getting
us to the safety of the bank by uniting us with
SadAchAryAs for-- 

manthiramum manthiratthin vazhiyum kaatti
vazhippaditthi = (by uniting us with the sadaachAryAs
)for upadesam of Your redeeming sacred manthram, the
AshtAksharam and for learning about the inner meanings
of that manthram (viz)., the middle section of the
manthram (nama: sabdham) denoting Prapatthi and the
end luptha chathurthi vibhakthi 
standing in for Bhagaavdh Kaimkaryam. The greatness of
this acquisition of knowledge through upadesam has
been celebrated many times by AzhwArs and AchAryAs:

iha sangrahatha: SrimAn GopthA sEshi samAdhika
dharidhra: SaraNam sarva sarIri prApya; sEvyasccha
saadhubhirbhAvya :

-- Srimath Rahasya Thraya Saaram, Moola
manthrAdhikAram 
(Meaning): Briefly, the Moola manthram recognizes our
Lord as Sriya: Pathi (Srimaan )through akAra sabdham
and rakshakan (protector with many upakArams ), in
luptha chathurthi as sEshi, and as one who has no
equal or superior, in namas sabdham as upAyam (
prapatthi ), in NaarAyaNa sabdham as sarvAntharyAmi
and in the final chathurthi as the One to be
worshipped by Saadhu Janams as PrApyan and Sevyan.   

Srimath Andavan referred to the paasura vAkhyam,
MaamAyA ! mikkAr  otthAr ilai! There is no one equal
to You or greater than You (samAdhika Dharidhra: in
the above Rahasya Thraya SlOkam). 

The VedAntha Jn~Anam imparted to us by SadaachAryAs
(Mantharitthin vazhiyum kaati) is another of these
MahOpakArams of the Lord since it leads to the
ultimate bliss of ascent by archirAdhi maargam (
vaanERRi adimaik koLLa) and nithya kaimkaryam. That is
the nall Vaazhvu referred to by Thirumangai in his
ThirunedumthANDakam (TNT ) paasuram passage :

anthaNar maattu anti vaittha MANTHIRATTHAI
MANTHIRATTHAAL maravaathu YENrUM VAAZHUTHIYeL VaZHALaM
--TNT pasuram :4 

(Meaning ): Oh my foolish mind ! If you enjoy the
Thirumanthiram, the saaram of the Vedantham, which is
the wealth of the Brahmins, and if you reflect upon
the meanings of that sacred manthiram, you will surely
attain sadhgathi ( nall Vaazhvu ).
Unquote

This mantra is taught and the disciple is initiated
into the Rahasya thraya mantra during Pancha samskaram
or SamasrayaNam [about which we will see now and then
subsequently enjoy Guruparampara anusanthAnam] 

AsmadhAchArya paryanthAm vandhE GuruparamparAm
Regards
Namo Narayana
dasan


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