Sri: Dear BhakthAs : Today , we will spend good amount of time at Swamy Desikan Sannidhi at the Pomona Temple . Location of Swamy Desikan's Sannidhi at the Pomona Temple ******************************************************************* We find Swamy Desikan Sannidhi sandwiched here between the AzhwAr Sannidhis on one side and Sri RanganAyaki Sannidhi on the other side. As at Srirangam , Swamy Desikan has positioned himself very close to Sri RanganAyaki's Sannidhi . From His Sannidhi , Swamy Desikan is also performing MangaLAsAsanam to AchArya RaamAnuja directly across the hall . It is a powerful grouping of AzhwArs , AchAryAs , our most merciful Mother and the Great Acharya RaamAnujA , whose Sri Sookthis were the nectarine , daily food of Swamy Desikan . We must recall that Swamy Desikan had conducted Sri BhAshyam KaalakshEpams thirty plus times in His life time . Why Swamy Desikan is sitting Next to the AzhwAr Sannidhis ? **************************************************************** Out of His special and undiminishing reverence for the works of AzhwArs , Swamy Desikan defended successfully twice the sacredness of Dhivya Prabandham . Swamy Desikan described the dhivya Prabhandams as " Santha mihu Tamizh MaRai " . He established that the AzhwAr's aruLiccheyalkaLs are the distillation of the essence of Sanskritic VedAs and Upanishads (VedAnthams) and that the dhivya pranhandhams were on a par with Sruthi (Sanskrit Vedas and Upanishads ) , which is one of our key pramANams . Lord VaradarAjan welcomed the soundness with which Swamy Desikan established the sanctity of the Dhivya Prabhandhams and the unquestionable sacredness of the AzhwArs, who are dear to the Lord . Atthigiri AruLAla PerumAL presented therefore Swamy Desikan with one of the pair of Thirucchinnams used during His Uthsavams . Even today , at Kaanchipuram , Only one Thriucchinnam is used at he Lord's uthsavams in commemoration of this event . At Srirangam , Swamy Desikan defeated the loud opponents , who questioned the sacredness of the Dhivya Prabhandhams and pleased Lord RanganAthan . Swamy Desikan blessed the people of His time with a wondeful Sri Sookthi Known as "Nigama ParimaLam " or the Seventy Four Thousand , an exhaustive commentary on Swamy NammAzhwAr's ThiruvAimozhi . Unfortunately , this master piece describing at great length the Vedanthic basis of the twelve AzhwAr's aruLiccheyalkaL is no longer available to us. Fortunately for us , Sri Sookthis like DramidOpanishad Taathparya RathnAvaLi (DTR) and DhramidOpanishad Saara (DS) are available to us today . They reveal the genius of Swamy Desikan in synopsis of the decads and the centums of Swamy NammAzhwAr's ThiruvAimozhi in Sanskrit . He identified the ThiruvAimozhi Paasurams as Tamil Upanishads ( DhramidOpanishad) . There are 129 slOkams in DTR that euologize ThiruvAimozhi and provide the summary of the 1102 Paasurams of ThiruvAimozhi. The DhramidOpanishad Saaram is even more brilliant effort by Swamy Desikan to summarize in 26 slOkams the purport and progression of the ten sathakams ( centads) of Swamy NammAzhwAr's ThiruvAimozhi. In the 1008 slOkams of Sri RanganAtha PaadhukA Sahasram , Swamy Desikan extolled the glories of the PaadhukAs of the Lord of Srirangam , which are nothing but Swamy NammAzhwAr . Swamy Desikan revealed His high reverence to the Four Thousand Sacred collect ( NaalAyira dhivya Prabhandham) through the creation of Sri Sookthis in Tamil or MaNipravALam or Sanskrit like " Prabhandha Saaram , MunivAhana BhOgam ( dealing with ThiruppANa AzhwAr ) and Bhagavath dhyAna sOpAnam ( dealing with AmalanAdhipirAn Prabhandham) . In His Magnum opus , Srimath Rahasya Thraya Saaram , Swamy Desikan quotes copiously from AzhwAr's Paasurams to back up the doctrinal points relating to Sri VaishNavam established by AchArya RaamAnujaa in His Sri Sookthis. It is therfore no surprise to us that Swamy Desikan's sannidhi is right next to the AzhwAr Sannidhis at Lord RanganAthA's temple at Pomona , NY . The Brahma tEjas of Swamy Desikan's archA vigraham at Pomona Sannidhi is dazzling indeed . As we stand before His sannidhi , we recall with profound gratitude Swamy Desikan protecting and preserving the commentary on AchArya RaamAnujA's Sri BhAshyam revered as Srutha PrakAsikaa . We are indebted to Swamy Desikan for this magnanimous and courageous act to save this extraordinary commentary of Sudarsana Soori and recite with gratitude , the MangaLAsAsanam of Kumaara VaradAchAr Swamy about this event : "SruthaprakAsikaa bhUmau yenaadhou PARIRAKSHITHAA pravaaritaa ca pathrEshu tasmai SrEshthAya MangaLam " The StOtrAs (Devotional Lyrics) of Swamy Desikan ***************************************************** The 28 StOtra granthams of Swamy Desikan have been composed in Sanskrit and PrAkruta languages . Swamy's distinction as Kavi Simham is clearly evident in these stOtrams and this talent as a poet is matched only by His devotion to the ArchA Moorthys at Kaanchi , Srirangam , Thiruvaheendhrapuram, ThruttaNkaa , ThuruvEnkatam and Srivilliputthur . Number of these stOtrams are also tributes to His AarAdhana Moorthys ( Lord Lakshmi HayagrIvan , Athtigiri AruKALan ) or AchArya upadEsams about esoteric VaishNavite doctrines . The commentaries on number of the StOtrams are archived in http://www.sadagopan.org or at Oppiliappan archives: http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/oppiliappan/archives Sri MadhavakkaNNan along with Sri Achutharaman has assembled a formidable site dealing entirely with the works of Swamy Desikan . You must visit this site to experience the multi-sided genius of this grat AchArya : http://swamydesikatripod.com/index_text.html#top Personal tribute of the precocious son of Swamy Desikan , Sri KumAra VaradAchArya Swamy is a most moving one and is revered as PiLLai AnthAdhi . Its URL is : http://swamydesika.tripod.com/anthaadhi.html What Swamy Desikan accomplished in the 101 years of His Life marked by Bhakthi for the Lord , anushtAnam and VairAgyam is beyond anyone's ability to describe adequately and do justice to His bestowal of Kula dhanam after Kula dhanam for posterity and Vaidhika Sri of the VaishNava Community as long as there would be the Sun and the Moon . adiyEn stops here and bow deeply before the matchless KavitArkika Simham on whose tongue Lord HayagrIvan had His throne . Swamy Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam , Daasan , Oppiliappan KOil VaradAchAri Sadagopan Srimate Sri Laksminrisimha Divya Paduka Sevaka Srivan Satakopa Sri Narayana Yatindra Mahadesikaya Nama: ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. 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