Greatness of MadurAntakam Swamigal

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Dear Bhaghavata UttamAs

 

As most of you know, achAryAs occupy a unique place in our Sampradayam. Our

prAkrutam Azhagiyasingar in his upanyasam once quoted Swami Desika and said

“AchAryAth iha dEvatAm samadhikAm dhanyAn na manyAmahE”. It is not possible

for one to repay one’s achAryA’s upakArams. They are in fact, EmperumAn

Himself (PramAnam: sAkshAth nArAyanO deva: krutvA martya mayIm tanum,

magnAn udhdharatE lOkAn kArunyAth shastra paninA).

 

For a better part of this century, Madurantakam Veeraraghavachariar Swamigal

rode our sampradAyic scene like a colossus. He served our sampradAyam in

several capacities. He was a contemporary of uttamur Veeraraghavachariar

swamigal, Villivalam NarayanAchAr Swamigal and other great mahAtmAs of that

period and used to preside over many of the vidwat sadas.

 

Swami’s centenary celebration is being planned at Srirangam where he spent

the later part of his life. This centenary celebration will once again

bring to the forefront Swami’s contribution to our sampradAyam. It will

also bring the present day achAryAs and other great scholars in a great

congregation. 100s of vedic scholars will be honored. Many poor

bhaghavatAs will be fed. It is a great opportunity for all of us to share

in this kaimkaryam. I would request all of you to come forward with

generous donations to pay tribute to one of the greatest mahAns that blessed

the land of Bharat during this century.

 

You can make your cheque payable to SMSA Inc. and mail it to any one of us

(Shri Sadgopan, Shri Mani Varadarajan, Shri Murali Rangaswamy, or Shri

Madhakkannan or myself). We need to let the organizers know about our

collections as it would help them properly budget the expenses for the

program. Therefore, we would appreciate a quick decision from you.

 

Thanks.

 

Vijayaraghava Dasan

Buffalo, NY

 

 

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Dear Martin:

 

The source of the slokA "sAkshath....." is JayAkya samhitai.

 

Vijayaraghavan

 

>Martin Gansten <Martin.Gansten

>"Vijayaraghavan Srinivasan" <vijayaraghavan_s

>Re: Greatness of MadurAntakam Swamigal

>Wed, 24 Nov 1999 22:23:26 +0100

>

>Dear Sri Vijayaraghavan,

>

>Namaskaram. You wrote in your posting to the Bhakti list:

>

> >PramAnam: sAkshAth nArAyanO deva: krutvA martya mayIm tanum,

> >magnAn udhdharatE lOkAn kArunyAth shastra paninA

>

>Would you know the source of this sloka? If so, I would be very grateful

>for the reference. Thanks in advance.

>

>Ramanujadasan,

>Martin Gansten

>

>

 

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