SrI: SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama: Dearest all, According to Srivaishnavam, The Supreme Paramathman is thus declared as Paramacharyan who taught the Supreme Truth out of compassion to Hiranyagarbha, by whom it was taught to others. Whenever this Supreme wisdom got lost or was less illuminated, He incarnated Himself on this earth and taught those truths that were somewhat forgotten and established the same Truth to be shined out more brilliantly. It is only by the grace of the Lord that the unbroken tradition of the Spiritual wisdom is established through great Sages like Narada, Parasara, Vyasa, Shuka, Sounaka, and others. The dismal darkness of ignorance that engulfed the Universe was thus removed by the Lord and the aDhyAthma sampradyA was promulgated without any cessation in the world. The Lord is therefore the Supreme Guru on account of the SaathrA, Pravartthana, directly and indirectly. SAkshAth NarayanO dEva: kritva martyamayeem tanoom magnAn uddharatE lOkAn kAruNyAt shAstra pANinA. The Supreme Lord who is characterized with all auspicious qualities, who is an Acharyan, Guru, Father, and everything, Sriman Narayana is verily the Guru. Oh Lord! You are the Preceptor of the Universe. You are the Very Goal. Thameem sarva sampannam aacharyam pitharam guroom | mamApyaKhilajanthoonAm guru: nArAyaNO hari: Gururasi gathisChAsi jagathAm | The Lord Sriman Narayanan engages Himself creating, sustaining and destroying things as a leelA [sport]. He is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. He is our foremost preceptor in the lineage. After the great deluge (maha pralayam), He created all the worlds and entities (tatvams). He also created the four-faced Brahma from His lotus womb and ordained him to give us the physical body along with its characteristic attributes. Brahma, who was imprudent was then initiated into the four Vedas by the Lord Himself. When Madhu and Kaitabha thinking of themselves to be the learned ones and the paramounts, plundered with the four Vedas, the Lord having killed them, restored the Vedas back to their pristine glory. He enlightened everyone by incarnating Himself as Lord Hayagriva (The Lord of all knowledge and learning). Swamy Deshikan begins to glorify this Lord, who stood as the aadhi guru or prathamaacharya (foremost spiritual preceptor). Thus Sriman Narayana is the first acharya. Srivaishnava tradition claims a long lineage of acharyas commencing from Sriman Narayanan right upto our acharya [the individual?s acharyan]. A Srivaishanava seeking jnAnam should pay homage to the long Acharya Paramparai first starting from his own right upto Paramathman. This is not a mere convention but is prescribed in saasthrAs as well. [Rahasyaamnaaya Brahmana states: sa cha aacharya vamsa jnAnEya aachaaryaanan asau asau iti Abhagawatta: Swami Desikan in his YathirAja Sapthathi says: kamapi adyam gurum vandhE kamala gruhamEdhinam | pravakta chandhasam vakta paancharaathrasya yah swayam || I pay obeisance to the First and foremost AchArya, the Consort of MahAlakshmi. He is the Head of the Family, which the whole Universe Constitutes. He is a singular AchAryA, who is Himself, the first reciter of Vedas, and also the author of Paancharaathra. The Lord remains a witness to our deeds and is the object of or contemplation and realization. ?I bow to that great Lord, that great spiritual preceptor who not only bestowed upon us the four Vedas, but also gave us the means to attain Him through spiritual practices and gave us the Aradhana kramams through the Pancharatra Agama, the karma, jnana, bhakti and prapatti yoga through the Bhagavad Geetha in His own sweet utterances?. Let me adore the unequalled and unparalleled, unexcelled Lord Sriman Narayana who has revealed all the Vedas (to Chathur mukha BrahmA and others) who has promulgated the Paancharaathra saasthrAs, who is the first Preceptor, and who has for His unexcelled Consort, the Supreme Goddess Mahalakshmi. All the scriptural lore has to be reckoned as the pristine master-piece of Lord VishNu. Swamy Desikan refers to Lord Sri MahavishNu as One whose greatness is incomprehensible. Compare Thiruvaaymozhi 8.4.6- Thanakkum than thanmai aRivariyaan; and Thirumangai AzhwAr Periya Thirumadal [65] ? thannaip piRar aRiyaat thatthuvatthai Like PeriyAzhwAr mentions: peethakavaadai Piraanaar Piramaguruvaagi vandhu [Periyazhwar Thirumozhi 5.2.8]. Adhyam Gurum vandhE- I bow down to the first and foremost Guru. Lord VishNu is KamalagruhamEdhinam. The whole cosmos [innumerable galaxies of stellar, lunar and solar regions] forms part of the single family household of Goddess Mahalakshmi and Lord MahavishNu. The Vedas have been handed down to us through the sole Progenitor of the world, Lord VishNu who took the form of Mathsya, Hayagreeva and Hamsa. annamadhanaanE acchO acchO.. arumaRai thandhaanE acchO acchO [PeriyAzhwAr Thirumozhi 1.9.10]. munnivvEzhulagum ? pannukalai naalvEdha poruLai yellaam parimukhamaay aruLiya em paraman kaaNmin? [Periya Thirumozhi 7.8.2] Though the Vedas have been bequeathed to us through the benign Grace of Lord Sriman Narayanan, (i.e. He revealed them as they were) the Paancharaathra Agama is reckoned to be the words of Sriman Narayanan Himself. All Paancharaathra Agamas [about 108] are said to be proclamations of the Supreme Being [EmperumAn] gurubhya: tat gurubhya: cha namovaakam adhiimahe | vrNiimahe cha tatraadyau dampathi jagadaampathi || All Srivaishnava acharyas? wonderful works are all the fruits of learning from the earlier Acharyas? teaching and works. All those things that are learnt from these works have come from Sriman Narayana till our current acharya through upadesha paramparai (initiation lineage) uninterruptedly. Regards Namo Narayana dasan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:SriRangaSri-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:SriRangaSri-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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