Dear Sri Kidambi Soundararajan Swamin, adiyEn's praNams. adiyEn will address just the Lokacharya Panchasat part of your mail because adiyEn had posted a lengthy article on it recently in this forum. >From my view point adiyEn did not try to prove anything. Since someone asked about it adiyEn simply presented a bunch of data. Nothing more. As far as my understanding goes, TK scholars give immense respect to Vedanta Desikar. If you read PBA Swami's articles, you will notice that he refers innumerable times to Desikar and his works. I have heard many of Velukkudi Varadachariar Swami's upanyasams and he invariably quotes Desikar. However, where these scholars differ from VK scholars is in the fact that they do not give Desikar exclusivity in their praises. To them, Desikar is another great acharya in our tradition, but not necessarily the greatest acharya. That is reserved for Sri Ramanuja. Going to your other point, adiyEn's post was not intended at saying/proving Desikar was inferior to anyone. In fact, adiyEn had said that no matter who wrote the sIronRu thaniyan, it's words ring true. The same holds true for Lokacharya Panchasat as well. These acharyas are so far above our level, that we can not prove anything about them. I request you to kindly not include all of our great scholars and acharyas into the same bracket as individuals such as myself (who ramble based on some limited understanding) based on our posts here. adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan --- vimalkumar ranganathan <panardasan@xxxx> wrote: > If I maybe pardoned, Swami Deiskan is worthy of the same > respect that we give to Swami ManavAla MAmunigal, or even > Pillai LOkAcharyar. Does it really matter if Swami > Desikan wrote a Sthuthi on PL or vice versa?? Even if one > wrote a Sthuthi on the other, does it make him any > inferior?? > ... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com
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