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Title: VIRODHA PARIHARAM : PART 1
Dear All :
 
This will serve as an introduction for Virodha ParihAram , the 108th e-book .
That will be like a book end with Sri Sthuthi serving as the book end on the other
side . Rest of the 106 e-books will be sandwiched in betwwen.
 
Dr.Saroja Ramanujam will cover  the answers to questions ( 1-80)
and I will cover the questions fromm 81-108 .
 
Kumaara VaradAcchAr's commentary on His THiru TahappanAr and
AchAryan's Sri Sookthi in Sanskrit will be very intersting to weave in .
 
Swamy Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,
V.Sadagopan 
   

 
 VIRODHA PARIHARAM : INTRODUCTION 
 
SrimAn VenkatanAthArya: kavithArkika kEsarI
VedhanthAcharya VaryOmE SannidhatthAm sadhA Hrudhi 
 
RaamAnuja DayApAthram Jn~Ana VairAghya BhUshaNam 
Srimadh VenkatanAdhAryam VandhE VedhAnhta Desikam 
 
Dear Members of Bhagavadh RaamAnuja SiddhAntham :
 
Enormous and magnificent indeed are the granthams  that Swami Desikan blessed us with for our ujjevanam ( uplift and salvation ) .
They arose from him as  Ubhaya VedAntham , PrakaraNa granthams , SthOthrams , Rahasya granthams , Kaavyams , Naatakam , 
Tamizh Prabhandhams , VyAkyAnams , Vaadha Granthams , RakshA Granthams and  anushtAna granthams . His great upakAram 
to us flowed forth in four forms : Works in chaste Sanskrit ,  Sundara Tamizh , Sweet PrAkrutham and the MaNipravALam  "language" 
used first by Thirukkuruhaip PirAn in his 6000 Pati . Swami Desikan's power of Jn~Anam  Pravachana sakthi , anushtAna srEyas 
and debating skills are a direct result of the anugraham of Sri Hayagreeva BhagavAn .
 
In his ninth & final decade of life , after a rich life involved in grantha nirmANam , Sri Bhagavadh RaamAnuja SiddhAntha Pravachanam 
and Para matha Kantanam , Swami Desikan had a concern . He felt that he has left some thing undone .This concern related 
to the creation of an all-encompassing grantham that dealt with :
 
1. a lucid explanation of Tattva-HithaPurushArthams  at one site 
2. a detailed exposition there on the richness of the meanings of the three rahasyams dear to Sri VaishNavAs
3. a grantham that incorporated all the hithOpadesams   for the chEthanAs in MaNipravALam format .
 
With the blessings of his AchaaryAs and Sri Hayagreevan arose the magnificent and incomparable grantham of SRIMADH RAHASYA 
THRAYA SAARAM (RTS ) . In its 32 chapters , the three TattvAs , the Three RahasyAs, the Artha PanchakA and Prapatthi are discussed . 
Today , it is one of the four granthams ( Grantha chathushtayam ) that Sri VaishNavAs have to learn thru KalakshEpam under their 
AchAryAs besides Sri Bhaashyam , GitA Bhaashyam of AchArya RaamAnujA and the Bhagavad Vishayam by KurkkEsA .
 
After completing this magnum opus of RTS ,Swami went one step further out of his great compassion for aRivilis ( ignoramus ) like us 
and created his final grantham in his very last years of his life on earth .
 
This very last grantham given to us as Kula dhanam by Swami Desikan is " VIRODHA PARIHAARAM " .This is the grantham that clears 
the lingering doubts of a Mumukshu (one who desires Moksham thru an understanding and practice of the three Rahasyams) Swami Desikan 
achieved his goal through a list of 108 Questions and answers based on PramANa Vaakhyams .It is also written in MaNi pravALam , 
a  mixture of Sanskrit and TamiL .
 
VirOdha ParihAram has the following four chapters:
(1) Moola ManthAdhikAram 
(2) DhvayAdhikAram
(3) Charama slOkAdhikAram and 
(4) NigamanAdhikAram .
 
There are a total of 108 doubts that Swami Desikan anticipates from the Mumukshu and answers them one by one under the headings of 
the above four chapters . The largest number of doubts that he answers , Eighty ,pertain to Mula Manthram ; the number of doubts 
addressed in the Dhvaya , Sarama and Nigamana adhikArams are Ten , Ten and Eight respectively adding up to the grand total of  
108 doubts and corresponding answers for those doubts .
 
Swami Desikan's VirOdha ParihAra Grantham was translated and annotated by Oppiliappan Koil Navaneetham SrirAma  DesikAcchAr 
Swamy , my manaseeka AchArya . Few months  back , the prakrutham Pundareekapuram Andavan brought out a new edition of 
this grantham commented by  Navaneetham Swami , which had been out of print for a while . Number of BhaskthAs of the Bhakthi List 
contributed funds for this effort and have become blessed . We will be following this recent edition of VirOdha ParihAram for a series of  
postings in SaraNAgathi Journal as it starts on its second decade of issues . May Swami Desikan's and his UpAsanA murthy"s blessings 
be with us as we engage in  studying together the most magnificent rahasya grantham conceived as a sequel to Srimadh Rahasya Traya 
Saaram  and try to prepare it for SamarpaNam for the BahudhAnya  samvathsara Thirunakshthrams of Swami Desikan  ) and the First 
Jeeyar of AhObila Mutt , AdhivaNN SatakOpa Yatheendhra MahA Desikan,  whose 600th aaniversary of  the establishment of Ahobila Mutt 
that was celebrated in this bahudhaa anya year ( an year that is different in many ways from other years .
 
MANGALA SLOKAMS IN SANSKRIT AND TAMIL FOR VIRODHA PARIHARAM
 
SlOkam 1 
 
Sriman NaarayaNa: Swaami SaraNya: SarvadEhinAm 
bhUyAnn nijapadha prApthi VirOdhi vinivAraka: 
 
( Meaning ) : May Sriman NaarAyaNan , who is the protector of all Janthus and who is the Master of all the Jeevans chase away 
all the obstacles and enemies in your efforts to reach His aasthAnam , Sri Vaikuntam .
 
slOkam 2 
 
udhitham bhavatha: pAyAth OushadhAdhri sameepatha:
Oushadham chEthasA sEvyam apuna: sthanya paayinAm 
 
(Meaning ) : Our Lord Hayagreevan appeared near the Hill of Medicinal plants 
(Oushadha Giri ) at Thiruvahendhrapuram and He is the Oushadham (Medicine) for those , who want to  be cured of the afflictions of 
SamsAram . May that Lord , who is the nectar for dhyAnam  by the mind ,protect you all , who wish not to drink again  mother's milk 
( not to be born again in this earth ) .ApunarArvruthti is hinted here . The very last Brahma sUthram asserts : AnAvrutthi SabdhAth , 
AnAvrutthi SabdhAth { There is no return (for these released souls ) because the scriptures say so }. That is what Swami Desikan  
is requesting the Lord as a boon for us .
 
SlOkam 3 :
 
prapadhanamayE vidhyAbhEdhE prathishtitha chEthasa:
  prathipadhamiha praj~yA dhAyam disanthu dayA dhanA :
Sataripu sukha vyAsa prAchEsAdhi nibhandhana
  sramapariNatha suddhA-suddhAsayA mama DesikA : 
 
May our AchAryAs , who are profoundly conversant with the different aspects of Prapatthi Vidhyai serving as the means for Moksham , 
who have the sraddhA ( faith and deep trust ) in Prapatthi arising from their tireless study and clear understanding of the granthams of 
NammAzhwAr , Sukhar , VyAsar and VaalmIki , who have the purest of hearts brimming with compassion for us as their wealth , May those 
revered AchAryAs of ours bless every word of this grantham , VirOdhi ParihAram with the wealth of true knowledge ( Jn~Ana Sampath ) . 
 
Srimadh VenkatanAthArya nandhanAn PraNamAmyaham 
SeshasAyI padhAmbhOja sEshathva jn~Ana nirmalAn 
 
Swami Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,
DaasOham , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan            
 
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