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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

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