Swamy Desikan -11 - Taatparya chandrikA- ThUppul maNdapam kaimkaryam appeal

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SrI:

SrImathe Ramanujaya namah:

SrImathe Nigamantha mahadesikaya namah:

SrImAn venkatanAthAryaH kavitArkika kesarI |

vedAntAcArya-varyome sannidhattAm sadA hRdi ||

 

May the glorious Sri Venkatanatha, the greatest of teachers of Vedanta, and

the lion among poets and debaters, reside forever in my heart.

 

Dearest Srivaishnavas,

 

I am continuing on my appeal and posts on Swamy Desikan and appeal for

Thuppul maNdapam kaimkaryam. URL:

http://www.geocities.com/lsriniva/thoopulappeal.html

It is my humble request to please contribute your mite towards this

kaimkaryam, as remembering Acharyan, and talking alone will not suffice.

 

Let us continue to enjoy Swamy’s GREAT works.

 

To the third group of Saasthra works belong (1) DramidOpanishad Taatparya

RathnAvaLi and DramidOpanidhad saara. The first work contaions 130 verses in

Sanskrit summarizing the contents of each century of the thousand hymns

(Tamil) of Nammalwar’s Thiruvaymozhi. The hymns in each century are

summarized in a sloka for each decad. The introductory part covers ten

slokas and the concluding portion has six slokas. The Acharya speaks in

support of the use of Tamil language by the AzhwArs to express their

devotion and expresses his admiration for the Thiruvaymozhi of NammazhwAr.

The other work contains twenty-six slokas offering the essence of the

Thiruvaymozhi in brief. Both these works are invaluable in as much as the

composition Thiruvaymozhi of NammAzhwAr is treated as Upanishad in Tamil.

The former work gives the purpose and the latter the essence of Nammalwar’s

composition.

 

Eight works are in the form of commentaries in Sanskrit. The Acharya’s

Sarvaarthasiddhi is the commentary of his own Tattvamuktakalapam. The crisp

and rather unfamiliar technical expressions in Tattvamuktakalapam should

have made the Acharya offer his own explanation and interpretations to them

and explain the contexts.

 

The second work is TattvatIka, the commentary on the Sri Bhashya. It is

incomplete and breaks off in the MahasiddhAntha section of the Sri Bhashya.

The AchArya remarks at the beginning that this commentary is neither too

brief nor too elaborate. This commentary was written, as the Acharya says,

when the Sri BHASHYA WAS TAUGHT TO HIS PUPILS WHO BELONGED TO THE 28TH SET

FOR THS STUDY OF THIS WORK OF SRI RAMANUJA.

 

The commentary has an abrupt end. Following the practice of the ancient

writers, the Acharya includes within his commentary which is written in

prose, several slokas composed by himself for the sake of clarity.

 

The third and foruth works are ChathuslOkibhAshya and SthOthrarathnabhAshya,

which are comementaries on YamunchArya’s ChathuslOki and SthOthrarathna

respectively. The first mentioned work which is called ramAsthuthi by the

AchArya at the end of his commentary. The number of slokas which is four has

suggested the title by which name it is known. SrI is shown on the strength

of evidences, to be ever associated with VishNu. Both are One Brahman having

the same status. The SthOthrarathnabhAshya is said, by the Acharya, as

containing the purpose of Dwayamanthra. Prapatti is thus created in this

work. Both are commentaries are part of Rahsyaraksha, a name indicative of

fortifying the Rahasyas of Vaishnavam.

 

GithArthasangraha Raksha is the fifth work of the Acharya. It is commentary

on Yamunacharya’s GithArthasangraham, an epitome of the Bhagavath GitA.

Yamuna is said to have offered the correct impact of the Bhagavadgita, which

he received from his AchArya Sri Ramamisra.

 

The Taatparyachandrika is the sixth work of the Acharya. It is an exhaustive

commentary on Sri Ramanuja’s GitA bhAshya. In most of the contexts, the

Acharya anticpates the possible objections which the exponents who are

opposed to the VisishtAdvaita tenets would raise and refutes them without

allowing any room for ambiguity. An attempt at maintaining the tents of the

system as recorded by Sri Ramanuja in his GitabhAshya has not been taken up

by any Acharya in a successful manner like Vedantha Desika. While commenting

on the BhAshya on the Charamasloka (BhagavdgIta 18.66), the Acharya tells

that all misunderstandings and wrong interpretations of the teachings of

Gita are to be set right by following the lines of the writings of Yamuna

and Ramanuja.

 

The seventh work is the commentary on the IsAvAsyOpanishad. This Upanishad

forms the concluding portion of the Vajasaneyasamhitha, which is another

name for Suklayajursamaveda. The Acharya says that the commentary is written

by him on this Upanishad to make clear that all the Vedic injunctions found

in this samhitha are all meant to be of helping the learning of the

Brahmavidya, though specific results are stated for those injunctions.

Ultimate reality is the Lord. The vidyas are the means through meditation

upon them. The Goal is the attainment of Brahman. These are treated as the

main purpose of the Upanishads.

 

The AchArya commented on the Vedaarthasamgraha of Ramanuja which is now

lost.

 

There are seven works, Swamy wrote in Sanskrit which form part of literature

about which we will discuss in subsequent posts

 

Please donate according to your shakthi. The money can be sent to "Thuppul

Trust" and the address is:

 

Thuppul Trust

Old No.20, New No.24, Thiruvengadam Street

West Mambalam, Chennai-600033, India

Phone No: 91-44-4741559 / 91-44-3715771

 

Please contact Sri. V.K. Sudharshan at vksudarsh or Sri Lakshmi N

Srinivasa lsriniva (He can collect and send it as single amount

in USA).

 

The address:

 

Lakshminarasimhan Srinivasa

3 Old Towne Road, #212

Ayer, MA-01432

 

For those in the South East Asia, please contact me at

srivaishnavan . Please pass on this kaimkaryam to as many people

as possible in order to complete the same.

 

kavi-tArkika-simhAya kalyANa-guNa-SAline |

Srimate venkateSAya vedAntagurave namaH ||

 

Salutations to Sri Venkatesa, in whom all perfection resides, who is the

teacher of Vedanta and the lion among poets and debaters!

 

Swamy Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Narayana Narayana

NarayaNa dAsan madhavakkannan

 

 

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