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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?? 
> ...

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