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Dear Prapatti Group Members:

 

The past few days I have been greatly enjoying the Bhakti postings.

Through Sriman Sadagopan's biographical note on Periyazhwar we could

reflect on the great saints' work, the origin and the significance of

Pallandu and the magic that Isvara's(Sriman Narayana's) grace can do to any

mortal being (Mookham karOti vAchAlam..). It is said of Vyasa's

Mahabharata that what is not in it is nowhere. I am beginning to think

that when it comes to our sampradayam the same thing can be said of Sriman

Sadagopan. The range of subjects he covers and the quickness and

regularity with which he brings them to us is totally amazing.

Sriman Sudarshan's wonderful description of the ninth day battle of

the Bharatha war has no parallel. He indeed writes with vigor and

originality and a literary style that belongs to the class of great

writers.

The contributions of Sriman Sundararajan on noble personages and

Krishnamachary on Vishnu Sahasranamam are indeed commendable.

All I can say is: without this Bhakti-net, how much poorer I would

have been in collecting the treasures of Sri-Vaishnavism. "Digantha Vyapini

Bhooyath Sa hi Loka Hithaishini."

 

Vijayaraghavan Srinivaan

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At 09:06 AM 7/15/97 -0500, Sri.Vijay Srinivasan wrote:

>

>Dear Prapatti Group Members:

>

> The past few days I have been greatly enjoying the Bhakti postings.

> Sriman Sudarshan's wonderful description of the ninth day battle of

>the Bharatha war has no parallel. He indeed writes with vigor and

>originality and a literary style that belongs to the class of great

>writers.

>Vijayaraghavan Srinivaan

 

Sri.Vijay is being very generous and I thank him for it.

 

I must remind him, however, that the "vigour" he refers to is NOT "original" !

 

If you remember I had written in "bhishma-stuthi" Posts #15,#16 and #17 that

the "nAmAvijaya-sakhE" is a unique "bhagavan-nAmA" ! It has a strange

"power" to stir one's imagination ! I also tried to explain how the "nAmA"

was used by the "AchAryA-s" as a "triggering" device to set-off inside their

minds "video-clip" images of "avatAra-sambhavam-s and leela-s" as described

in the "itihAsA-s" and "purAnA-s". I had used the analogy of "sobriquets"

given to modern tennis-heroes to drive home the point ! Also I pointed out

the "experiment" in an American University that was conducted to study the

"power" that "names" exercise on our minds and life. I also gave a sample (a

poorly transliterated one, I fear !) from the "eedu" to illustrate how this

"nAmA" inspired "AchAryA-s" to compose 360 wonderfully euphonious

"vyAkhyAna-" statements in magnificent "mani-pravAlam" and each annotating

the word "vijaya-sakhE" with many great "scenes" and "episodes" from the

holy "itihAsA-s"!

 

Vijay, I hope you remember it all !

 

So, if you really thought my petty little narration of the 9th day

Kurukshetra battle was "wonderful", can you imagine how much more

breath-taking the inspired narrations of the "AchAryA-s" in their

"mani-pravAlaeedu" would be !!!

 

One day perhaps, if Lord wills so, I will take you to my "AchAryan",

Sri.Mukkur Swami and request him to recite for your benefit the whole text

of those 360 statements from the "eedu" which still ring in my ears! He can

do it with a "style", believe me, so wonderful that you will regret having

hastily praised my own style as "world-class" !!!

 

Thank you very much, all the same, dear Vijay !

 

By the way, I listen to the "Saptati" tapes you sent me. I cannot tell you

how grateful I am to you for them. But are you sure you have sent me all of

them ?

 

adiyEn/dAsan,

sudarshan