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Dear BhakthAs of Lord  PaarthasArathy   :

Today , we will commence the study of Swamy Desikan's
Tamil Prabhandham entitled GeethArTa Sangraham .

Originally  Swamy AaLavanthAr blessed us with the SrI Sookthi known as
"GeethArtha Sangraham " in Sanskrit .That contains the essence of Lord
PaarthasArathy's upadEsam to us using ArjunA as a vyAjam at KurukshEthram .

AchArya RaamAnuja wrote a commentary for that SrI Sookthi ( SrI GeehtA
BhAshyam) in Sanskrit to make sure that the meanings housed in Swamy
AaLavanthAr's SrI Sookthi are preserved without any distortions. 

Swamy Desikan followed the foot steps of AchArya RaamAnuja 
and blessed us with his detailed commentary on GeethA BhAshyam 
named "Taathparya Chandrikai " . Swamy Desikan rejected 
the vipareetha vyAkyAnams for GeethA by resting his commentary on 
AchArya RaamAnujuA's BhAshyam . Swamy Desikan went further and
created a short commentary on GeethArTa Sangraham named GeethArTa
Sangraha Rakshai in Sanskrit . Finally , out of his infinite compassion for
us , Swamy Desikan blessed us with a Tamil Prabhandham called 
GeethArTa Sangraham for us to become conversant about 
the quintessence of SrImath Bhagavath GeethA . All the Tamil Paasurams 
of GeethArTa Sangraham are set in KattaLai KalitthuRai metre.

There are two benedictory verses ( Taniyans) for Swamy Desikan's
Tamil Prabhandham .One is set in the metre of nErisai veNNpaa and
the other is set in the shorter KuRaL VeNNpaa .

Taniyan 1: nErisai VeNNpaa
***********************
katta poruL virittha kAsiniyil nAnn maRayin
ittap-poruL iyampum inn poruLaic-chittar thozhum
VedAntha Desikanai mEvuvAr tangaL Thirup-
paadhAmbhuyam adiyEn paRRu

( Meaning): The lotus feet of  Swamy VedAntha Desikan ,
who is worshipped by pious scholars with bhakthi are my refuge.
He is delectable to us through the anubhavam of His SrI
Sookthis. He  gave us the inner meanings of the difficult
passages of the four Vedams for the residents of this world
through His dhivya Sookthis .

Taniyan 2: KuRaL VeNNpaa
***********************
Geethai mozhintharuLum VedAntha DesikanAr
paadhAra vinthamalar paRRu

(Meaning) : The lotus feet of Swamy VedAntha Desikan
who blessed us with the divine prabhandham of GeethArTa
sangraham ( the essence of SrImath Bhagavath GeethA)
are the refuge for us all .

General Introduction 
****************
The parama rahasyam of Charama slOkam was covered 
in the last set of postings. Through that charama slOkam ,
Bhagavan performed upadEsam for us through use of
Arjunan as an excuse (vyAjam) . This charama slOkam 
containing the method to observe Prapatthi is easy to practise
for gaining the Moksha Phalan . The SaraNAgathy Saasthram
is housed in the charama slOkam of Bhagavath Geethai ,
which is the essence of Upanishads . Geethai was blessed to us
directly from the lips of BhagavAn Himself for our ujjevanam. 
All of our PoorvAchAryAs have therefore helped us to understand
the true meaning of GeethA with their comprehensive commentaries. 
Swamy AlavanthAr was the first among  our PoorvAchAryAs to
open our spiritual eyes with his SrI Sookthi of GeethArTa Sangraham .
With His incisive intellect , Swamy AlavanthAr captured the essence of
GeethA Saasthram in 32 SlOkams and opened the doors for other
VaishNavite AchAryAs to elaborare on the most important Bhagavath
Saasthram . .

Swamy  Desikan with his superb genius captured the essence of
the 32 Sanskrit slOkams of Swamy  AlavanthAr in 21 Tamil 
Paasurams including the Phala sruthi .

There are 18 chapters in SrImath Bhagavath Geethai.
Our PoorvAchAryAs divided these 18 chapters in to 
three subsets consisting of six chapters ( ShaDkams ) .
The first set of six deal with Karma and Jn~Ana yOgams .
The second shaDkam covers Bhakthi yOgam . The first 
half of the third Shadkam deals with the Svaroopams and
SvabhAvams of ChEthanam , achEthanam and the Prapancham 
resulting from their union as well as the true state (nija nilai)
of SarvEswaran . The second half of the third Shadkam covers
the ways to observe Karma , Jn~Ana , Bhakthi yOgams and
the dependence on SaashtrAs for a chEthanam like Arjunan 
to understand clearly that SrIman NaarAyaNan is the Para Brahmam 
celebrated in VedAnthams .

Swamy AlavanthAr's summary of the above meanings relating to
the entire GeethA Saasthram  has taken the form of the first slOkam:

svadharama-jn~Ana -VairAgya saadhya-bhakthyEka gOchara:
NaarAyaNa : Param Brahma GeethAsAsthrE Sameeritha:

Swamy Desikan's First Paasuram of GeethArTa Sangraham 
is a wonderful echo of the above summary of Swamy ALavanthAr .

326. The Essence of the Meaning (SaarArTam) of GeethA Saasthram
******************************************************
karumamum Jn~Amum koNDu yezhum kAthalukku ohr ilakku yenRu
aru maRai ucchiyuL aadharitthu othum arum biramam
ThirumahaLODu varum ThirumAl yenRu ThAnn uraitthAn
dharumam uhantha Dhananjayanukkavan SaaraTiyE (1)

(meaning): After anushtAnam of Karma yOgam to control 
one's mind , Jn~Ana yOgam has to be practised for aathma
SaakshAthkAram to pave the way for the anushtAnam of 
Bhakthi yOgam .The entire assembly of  VedAnthAs declare
that the target of this Bahkthi yOgam is the Parabrahmam 
celebrated asSrIman NaarAyaNan .For Arjunan rooted in
dharmam , KaNNan revealed that He is indeed that 
Parabrahmam .

In this paasuram , the progression of Karma , Jn~Ana , Bhakthi
yOgams referred to by Swamy AlavanthAr is  covered with 
the following references :

1."  Karumamum Jn~Anamum koNdu " = based on Karma and Jn~Ana yogams 
      which  are covered in the First ShaDkam .

2. " yezhum Kaathalukku " = Bhakthi yogam , the topic of the second
      shaDkam is dealt with here .

3." arum Brahmam " = the Brahmam , which is distinctly different 
     from chEthana and achEthana vargams is the topic of the first
     half of the third ShaDkam .This Brahmam is the One celebrated 
    in Upanishads ( " aru MaRai ucchiyuL aadaritthu Odhum arum 
    Brahmam "). This Brahmam is SrIman NaarAyaNan appearing 
    with MahA Lakshmi (" ThirumahaLODu varum ThirumAl " ).

4. "Dharumam uhantha " = to be bound by the SaasthrAs is hinted here.
     This covers the second half of the third ShaDkam .

5. To that Arjunan (Dhananjayan) rooted in Dharmam ( dharumam
    uhantha Dhananjayan) , Lord PaarTasAraty revealed that 
    SrIman NaarAyaNan is none other than Himself ( " arum Biramam
    ThirumahaLODu varum ThirumAl yenRu ThAnn uraitthAn"). 

6. Lord revealed that He is indeed the lakshyam(gOchara: ) of 
    that bhakthi yOgam (" yezhum kaathalukku ohr ilakku yenRu uraitthAn") .

For  additional literature on GeethArTa Sangraham , please refer to
the following earlier postings and recordings:

Swamy AlavanthAr's GeethArtha Sangraham has been covered by adiyEn
and has been archived in four postings of Bhakthi list ( Novemebr 7,11and 
23 , 1995.) :

http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/srchives/index.html

The text of GeethArtha Sangraham is available at :

http://ramanuja.org/desika/geetha15.txt

The recitation of GeethArtha Sangraha by SevilimEdu Swamy 
lasting 7 minutes is available at :

http://www.ahobilamutt.org/dpaudio.html
 
Swamy  Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,

NaarAyaNa , NaarAyaNa , NaarAyaNa
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradachAri Sadagopan

SrimathE SrI Lakshminrusimha Dhivya PaadhukA Sevaka
SrIvaNN SaThakOpa SrI NaarAyaNa YathIndhra MahA DesikAya Nama:



 
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