SrI: 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: Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! 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