Thiruthuraippoondi Andavan Thirunakshatram - Srinivasa Ramanuja M aha Deshikan

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Swamy Deshikan Thiruvadigale Sharanam !!!

 

Today the 29th of October, happens to be the thirunakshatram of Sri

Thiruthraippoondi Andavan, Sri Srinivasa Ramanuja Maha Deshikan.

 

This great acharya was born in the constellation of Uttara Bhadrapada in the

month of Aippasi in a village called ViLakkudi.near Rajamannar Sannidhi and

hailed from IyuNNi Bharadhvaja gothram.

 

He studied all the samanya shastras, Ubhaya Vedanta and Rahasyas at the feet

of Sri Vedanta Ramanuja Maha Deshikan or Vazhutur Swamy who was very well

known as "Srimad Andavan" at Srirangam and also performed.prapatti at the

feet of Sri Vazhuttur Andavan. Sri Vazhuttur Andavan chose him to be his

successor for sampradaya samrakshanam and initiated him into the fourth

order of Sanyasam, with the title Sri Srinivasa Ramanuja Maha Deshikan.

During his stay at Thiruthuraippoondi, Sri Vazhuttur Swamy conferred the

title "Andavan" to Sri Srinivasa Ramanuja Maha Deshikan and from that day

onwards Sri Srinivasa Ramanuja Maha Deshikan came to be known as

Thiruthuraippoondi Andavan. He was a scholar of great calibre and lived in

an Ashramam with utmost vairagyam and anushtanam on the banks of the river

Kollidam at Arangam.

 

He conducted vedantic debates and kalakshepams. He had many shishyas, prime

amongst them being Sri Srinivasa Maha Deshikan (Periyandavan) who studied

all esoterics at the feet of Sri Srinivasa Ramanuja Maha Deshikan. He

remained deeply dedicated to the sampradayam and placed Srimad Andavan

sampradayam on a firm footing and as a beacon light to thirsty aspirants.

 

His taniyan reads as follows -

 

shrImadgopAlasUrerniravadhikaruNAvApta satsampradAyam

shrImadvedAntarAmAnujayatinrupati: sarvata: sthApayitvA |

yasmin satsampradAyam sakalamupadishan amshatonupravishta:

shrImachChrIvAsa rAmAnujamunimanagham tam bhaje deshikendram ||

 

"I pray at the lotus feet of that blemishless great acharya Sri Srinivasa

Ramanuja Maha Deshikan in whom Sri Vazhuttur Swamy did anupravesham and who

recieved the wealth of satsampradayam from Srimad Vedanta Ramanuja Swamy who

(Sri Vazhuttur Swamy) propagated this wealth after obtaining it from the

boundless mercy of the great Gopalarya Maha Deshikan (Thirukkudanthai

Deshikan)"

 

vAzhi vyAkhyAmuddirak kai !!!