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Dear Followers & AbhimAnis of SrI Bhagavad RaamAnuja SiddhAntham:
 
adiyEn is priveleged to recieve the first copy of  "Vedanta Deepa"
monograph in USA from the hands of U.Ve. MahA Vidwan ,
Dr.N.S.Ananatha RangachArya (NSA) , the highly respected
doyen of VisishtAdhvaitham  . He has sent the first volumes of
his monograph on VedAnta dEEPA  through his son ,
Srimaan Narasimhan of Bangalore.
 
AdiyEn is extremely fortunate to share with you the contents of this excellent &
latest monograph by Dr.NSA Swamy . You can acquire copies of this outstanding
monograph noted for its Scholarship , clarity and fine format by contacting
Dr.NSA Swamy at his Bangalore address :
 
#780 V Main Road , Vijayanagar , Bangalore 560 040
 
His Home Phone Number is 23383755 .
 
Date of Publication : Feb 24 , 2005 ; Price: 250 Rs.
 
You can also send e-mail to Sriman Ananth Narasimhan ,
son of Dr.NSA Swamy at the above e-mail address to acquire
this copy .
 
A Humble Appreciation of the latest Monograph released by Dr. NSA Swamy
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What Dr. NSA Swamy has done for bringing aasthikAs at every level of
awareness of VisishtAdhvaitha doctrines to the beauty of source granthams
of Sri SampradhAyam can only be saluted with DaNDavath PraNAmams .
 
His contributions are many and varied and have been bequeathed to us
in an easy to understand language . It is mind boggling to take note of this
Mahaa VidwAn's productivity and Scholarship spanning many decades .
 
It is adiyEn's  BhAgyam to share with you all the exquisite aanandhAnubhavam of 
reading thru the First Volume of  Dr.NSA's most recent monograph dealing with 
the introduction to  Vedanta Deepa  by AchArya RaamAnuja and the Soothram
by Soothram translation of the first two chapters of Brahma Soothrams 
as commented by AchArya Ramanuja in His VedAnta Deepa . Swamy plans
to complete the coverage of the 3rd and 4th Chapters of Brahma Soothram
in Volume II of Vedanta Deepa.
 
Vedanta deepa: Second  of the Three Commentaries on Brahma SoothrAs  
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The Sri Sookthi of VedAnta Deepa is one of the "monumental " nava ratnams
( nine gems) bequeathed to  us by AchArya Ramanuja .  It  was written by
AchArya Ramanuja after completion of his magnum opus , Sri BhAshyam . 
 
While Sri BhAshyam   is a trend setting , all encompassing and exhaustive
commentary on Sage Badarayana"s ( Sage VyAsA's) Brahma Sutrams ,
VedAnta Deepa is a noble effort by AchArya Raamanuja to explain the meanings
of Brahma SutrAs without the serious dialectics housed in Sri BhAshyam .
In the construction of the Vedanta Deepa , AchArya RaamAnuja had the objective
of helping us understand the meaning of each of the Brahma SutrAs in
a succinct way without losing sight of the main issues addressed by
the individual Brahma SutrAs .
 
The  Sequence of the commentaries on Brahma SutrAs  
 
VedArtha Sangraha was the first of the commentary  that includes
copious references to Brahma SoothrAs :
 
http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/acharyas/Ramanuja/vedarthasangraha.html
 
AchArya Ramanuja composed it in front of Lord SrinivAsa and placed it at
the Lord's lotus feet at Thirumala . This Sri Sookthi  was followed by Sri BhAshyam ,
the crowning work of AchArya Ramanuja . VedAnta Deepa came next and after that
our compassionate AchAryan blessed us with Vedanta Sara , which is a much more
brief  examination of the meanings of Brahma sutrAs than Vedanta Deepa .   
 
Sri K.Bhashyam's comments on AchArya Ramanuja on Brahma Soothrams
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" Sri BhAshya is the well known commentary by Sri Ramanuja on the VedAnta SoothrAs
of Sage BadarAyaNa , severely argumentative and controversial and also technical and
terse . Therefore , SriRamanuja , in his infinite mercy , has himself abbreviated Sri BhAshyam
in to VedAnta Deepa  in which much of the controversy and elaborateness of the arguments
are eschewed ; so that it may easily  understood even by ordinary students of philosophy .
There is yet another commentary by Sri Ramanuja , VedAnta Sara , which is very brief and
consists of just a line or two giving the  essential meaning and purport of the Sutras .
To those , who have not had the time or scholarship to study the elaborate and voluminous
Sri Bhashya (under the sacred feet of a SadAchAryan ) , Vedanta Deepa is most useful as being
a compendious treatise on the SutrAs by Acharya Ramanuja himself " .  
 
An Appreciation of Dr.NSA Swamy's Monograph
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Years of study and Teaching of Sri VaishNavite Sri Sookthis and the anugraham
of his SadAchAryan has blessed Dr.NSA Swamy with such intellectual rigor
and SampradhAyic Jn~Anam , which he has generously shared with
devotees at every level of awareness of Bhagavath RaamAnuja SiddhAntham .
 
The latest monograph folowing the earlier relaeases last year on the Prinicpal
Upanishads according to the VisishtAdhvaithic tradition is another major
achievement of Dr.NSA Swamy . He has now blessed us with a core of knowledge
both on Upanishads and the commentaries on the principal Upanishads as
housed in AchArya Ramanuja's VedAnta Deepa .
 
The first 33 pages entitled the Author's submission is a brilliant introduction to
Vedanta (Brahma) Sutras and the 8 essential doctrines covered by these sutras :
 
1. The Essential Nature of Brahman , 2. The Doctrine of Individual Self ( JivAthman) ,
3. The Doctrine of Matter , 4. The Essential nature of PurushArta or the highest
object of attainment , 5. The Doctrine of Spiritual Discipline , 6. The Doctrine of
the Creation of the World , 7.The Process of attainment of Brahman through
the ArchirAdi maargam , 8.The Infallibility of the Doctrine of VedAnta  ,
when examined with  the Doctrines of  other Schools of thought .
 
From thereon , Dr.NSA Swamy focuses on every one of the Sutras of
the First and second chapter of Brahma Sutras and gives us the majestic
commentary of AchArya Ramanuja in Sanskrit and provides clear translations
for them in English . One can follow sentence for sentence the insightful
commentary of the ParamAchAryan and study the English translation of Dr. NSA
Swamy to gain a full understanding of unique style that AchArya RaamAnuja
adopted in his Commentaries and Gadhyams . It is not an easy task for any one
to translate the meanings of the VedAntic texts in general and that of AchArya
Ramanuja in particular .Dr.NSA Swamy has succeded brilliantly in his efforts
and we are the most grateful beneficiaries of his monumental effort . 
 
THE HEART OF THE MONOGRAPH IS THE ORIGINAL SANSKRIT COMMENTARY
OF ACHARYA RAMANUJA'S VEDANTA DEEPA AND ITS ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY
Dr.NSA.SWAMY . THE TRANSLATIONS ARE FOLLOWED BY AN ERUDITE
SUMMARY OF THE    INDIVIDUAL ADHIKARANAS OF THE FIRST & SECOND
CHAPTERS OF BRAHMA SUTRAS . A VERY HELPFUL , ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF
THE INDIVIDUAL SUTRAS OF THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS OF BRAHMA SUTRAS
HAS ALOS BEEN PROVIDED FOR OUR EASY NAVIGATION AMIDST THE TEXT .
 
THIS SIDE BY SIDE ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATION OF VEDANTA DEEPA WILL HELP US
IMMENSELY TO UNDERSTAND THE GENIUS OF ACHARYA RAMANUJA AND HIS
PENETRATING INTELLECT . ACHARYA RAMANUJA'S COMMENTARY ON EACH OF
THESE SUTRAS HAVE TO BE READ AGAIN AND AGAIN WITH THE CLEAR TRANSLATIONS OF
Dr. NSA SAMY AS A PREPARATION TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT STAGE : THE STUDY OF
SRI BHASHYAM ITSLEF IN ALL ITS COMPLEXITY , TERSENESS AND DIALECTICS
AT THE SACRED FEET OF A SADAACHARYAN . THAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE FOR
EVERY SRI VAISHNAVAN ACCORDING TO OUR POORVACHARYAS AND OUR PRESENT DAY SADACHARYAS .
 
ADIYEN CONCLUDES THIS NOTE OF APPRECIATION WITH A PRAYER TO
THE SRIRANGAM DAMPATHYS TO BLESS Dr. NSA SWAMY WITH A LONG
AND HEALTHY LIFE TO BLESS US WITH MANY MORE MONOGRAPHS
TO HELP US GAIN  THE NEEDED KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SRI SOOKTHIS OF
BHAGAVATH RAMANUJA AND HIS PREDECESSORS AND SUCCESSORS .
 
WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE VOLUME II OF VEDANTA DEEPA AND OFFER
OUR HUMBLE PRANAMS TO Dr.NSA SWAMY FOR HIS MAHOPAKARAMS.
 
DAASAN , OPPILIAPPAN KOIL VARADACHARI SADAGOPAN
SRIMATH AZHAGIYA SINGAR THIRUVADI .
 
 
 
 
 
 


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