SrI:
SrImathE SrInivAsa MahAdEsikAya namah:
SrImathE Gopaladesika Mahadesikaya namah:
Dearest Srivaishnavas,
Today is Adi PoorAdam. His Holiness Srimad Poundarikapuram Andavan
Swamy ? Sri Srinivasa Desika Mahadesikan's Thirunakshathram. The
present day Sri Poundarikapuram Anvadan Asramam was established by
this Swamy at Srirangam. He appeared in 1847 and attained Acharyan
Thiruvadi in 1934. He hails from Poundarikapuram village (near
Oppiliappan Koil Divya Desam). Among the forty Divyadesa shrines of
the Chola country, Thiruvinnagar gets accorded a prime place. It has
been sung of by two (early) Mudal Azhavars, Nammazhvar and by
Thirumangai Azhvar. Nammazhvar describes his experience as Parankusa
Nayeki ? a damsel in God love ? in many decades. In VI 2, of
Thiruvoimozhi he narrates the love ? quarrel. At the end he was
given the love-experience of the Lord whom he describes as "having
seen Him at Thiruvinnagar". He names the Lord in the equivalent
of "Oppiliappan', though the Lord is fit to be referred to
as "Uppiliappan" also, on the basis of a classic legend.
The Lord is a great benefactor even to this day. But 300 years back,
He blessed a couple from Royampettai with a divine child ? in the
image of Sri Desika who was similarly blessed by Lord Venkatesa ?
this child growing in later life as a great spiritual patriarch,
called Thirukkudanthai Desikan. He is to this day regarded as a
great water-shed preceptor, head of a fairly large family of the so-
called Munitraya Sampradaya, since for one reason among many others,
three ascetics prostrated before this householder and learnt Vedanta
at his feet ? a rather unique phenomenon in Indian spiritualism.
It was H H Sri Poundarikapuram Andavan Swamy, who was invited to
lend the `holy hand' for karasparsam (by a great man). With what
results! All can see today how the small shrine of Oppiliappn has
grown as Southern Thiruppathi, with gala and festivity, fund-flow
and pomp and fame and attraction, all after 1928! The event has a
precedent in Thirukkudanthai Desikan lending his `kara-sparsam' to
Aravamuthan some 200 years back! (extract from article written by Dr
Sri U Ve VN Vedantha Desikan Swamy)
This pristine Asrmamam is now adorned by Srimath PaRavaakkOttai
Andavan Swamy.
Let us meditate on his lotus feet reciting the thaniyan:
Sri Narayana Yogindra Varadaarya Kripaasrayam /
Rangesa Paada Vinatham Srinivaasa Munim Bhaje //
(meaning)
I hail Srinivasa Muni who obtained the full grace of Sri Narayana
Yogindra Varadaarya, who always bowed at the feet of Lord Ranganatha
Acahrayn ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan
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