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srImathE rAmAnujAya namaha
srImadh varavara munayE namaha

Dear Smt Geetha,

====Quote 1=====


Is there a copy of GPP3000 with you? I started reading GPP6000 and
then I put it on a sidetrack. Now the situation needs it badly. I'm
going to first finish reading that and I'm going to come back to all
you to clear my doubts. I don't have any proper knowledge of
ThennAchArya sampradAyam.
====Unquote 1=========

No. At the moment I am not having a copy of the same. I am trying to buy
one. But I did have a brief account of this in a book of Sri Desika
Prabhandham. The accounts given in that are not at all reliable.

======Quote 2========
This always puzzled me. Why maNavALa mAmnuigaL didn't mention swami
desikan in Upadesha RatnamAlai? We need to quote Swami Desikan's work
itself to refute their views. But we need the help of Scholars in
this area.
=====Unquote 2========

As I had explained previously, Sri maNavALa mAmunigaL, tried to glorify
only the following persons,

1. All AzhwArs and ANdAL.
2. Sri EmberumAnAr
3. All those poorvAchAryAs who had done commentaries for the ThiruvAimozhi
or tried to safe guard them.
and finally,
4. His beloved Sri Pillai lOkAchAryar.

Remember, he talks about his immediate predecessor Sri ThiruvAimozhip
piLLai only in the beginning and that is it. But this one pAsuram is just
conveying everything in the words "endhai thiruvAimozhip piLLai innaruLAl
vandha, upadEsa mArgatthai sindhai seidhu, pinnavarum kaRkka, upadEsamAip
pEsuginREn, mannia seer veNpAvil vaitthu". He has said very clearly that
the entire pAsuram is due to the grace of his AchArya Sri ThiruvAimozhip
piLLai. Now he had spoken about Sri piLLai lOkAchAryar only out of his
abhimAnam for him, which was due to the wonderful works he made to
safeguard the misinterpretation of Sri Ramanuja's works. Otherwise, he had
praised only those who commented on thiruvAimozhi and specifically "eedu".

Sri dEsikar does not appear in this list, due this reason and this itself
proves that the claims, that Sri dEsikar did a 74000p padi vyAkhyAnam for
ThiruvAimozhi which is called 'nigama parimaLam', are completely baseless.
If Sri dEsikar had done really such a work, why should it be lost when all
the other works are available? Again if he(swAmy dEsikan) had really
commented on it in a grand manner in line with our poorvAchAryAs, sure, Sri
maNavALa mAmunigaL would have included his name also. Again this goes to
prove the claim that Sri mAmunigAL advocated everyone to follow dEsika
sampradhAyam.

I read your other post in which you had said that you are disturbed that
great people like Sri Chinna jeeyar swami, Sri Velukkudi swamy and Sri MA
Venkatakrishnan swamy have not come forward to refute this. Let me tell you
one thing, the reason is that they all know that all these attempts are
futile, They have all attempted this earlier very much and are still doing
it now, if things seem to get out of our hand. But tell me one thing. Do
you really think that if they write a rebuttal, people like Sri
Parthasarathy Dileepan & Anand Karalapakkam will change. So why should they
waste their energies on this. Let small people like me do this. They have
very good followers and let them all concentrate only on educating us. Of
course they always help me when I contact them regarding any dispute and
all the I am writing are not a "vidhanDAvAdham" or "kutharkkam".

Let alone these great present day people, even their fathers and fore
fathers cannot change them. One can wake a person who is really sleeping
but not the person who is acting as if he is sleeping.

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam
adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan
Thirumala Vinjamoor Venkatesh












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