Third branch

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At 06:14 PM 12/3/97 -0500, Parthasarati Dileepan wrote:

>I recently came across an article referring to three branches under Sri

>Ramanuja Dharsanam. Besides the two that are well known, the third is

>described as the one exponded by Sri MEgan^aadhaarya soori. The Rahasya

>grantham special to this branch is named as "mumukshupaaya sangraham". It

>seems this branch differs from Sri Desika more in terms of Prapatti and not

>much w.r.t Sri. Are there any followers and institutions of this branch

>extant? If so can someone provide more information?

>

>

>-- adiyEn

>

>

 

Interesting issue! I remembered to have listened to Dr. N.S. Anantha

Rangachar talking about this Meganadhasuri. Sri Meghanadhasuri was I think

a senior contemporary of Sri Vedanta Desika who had a different view on

prapatti. If I remember right the issue was whether prapatti should be

done once or many times!!. Sri Meghanadhasuri's view was that Prapatti

should be done every day like a nitya karma. sri Vedanta Desika believes

that it should be done only once for a particular goal : sakrt kartavyam.

 

Actually there are several different views which Sri Vedanta Desika refers

to in his Rahasyatrayasaram, which he refers to with "silar" or "anyar"

believe that it should be like this. This kind of mata bhedam was there

but I dont think that there is any extant set of mutts who belong to those

views like such as Meghanaada Suri or Even Yajna Swamy for example

 

Adiyen Krishna

 

Adiyen Krishna Kalale

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Krishna Kalale wrote:

> Interesting issue! I remembered to have listened to Dr. N.S. Anantha

> Rangachar talking about this Meganadhasuri. Sri Meghanadhasuri was I think

> a senior contemporary of Sri Vedanta Desika who had a different view on

> prapatti.

 

meghanAdAri sUri (note the name is "meghanAda + ari" = destroyer

of Indrajit [Meghanada], not "meghanAda" by itself!) was a

philosopher-acharya who lived a little before Pillai Lokacharya

and Vedanta Desika. His views on SaraNAgati differed

significantly from the other two acharyas, and are detailed

in the work "mokshopAya sangraha" (summary of the means to

liberation).

 

According to meghanAdAri sUri, SaraNAgati, being a principle

and act ordained in the Vedas, is strictly limited to males

belonging to the three varNa-s which bear the sacred thread.

In addition, in the Ramayana carama sloka, wherein Sri Rama

assures all who take refuge in him of protection, meghanAdAri

sUri understands the word "sakRd" to mean "surrender to Me

*at* once", and further clarifies that this surrender needs

to be repeated throughout life, like bhakti-yoga.

 

The other acharyas of our tradition believed that "sakRd"

meant that only a single surrender was required, and that

taking refuge was possible for all entities, whether male

or female, human or non-human, bearer of the sacred thread

or otherwise.

 

All this shows that there was a great deal of variation

in what the early acharyas of our tradition believed concerning

the details of SaraNAgati. What Swamis Lokacharya and Desika

believed and taught are virtually identical compared to thinkers

such as meghanAdAri sUri.

 

Mani