Swamy Desikan-20 - ThUppul maNdapam kaimkaryam appeal-concluding part

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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.

 

Vedantha Desika was the brightest star in the firmament of VisishtAdvaita

next only to Sri Ramanujacharya. Initial exposure to Vedas, Divya

Prabandhams, and SaasthrAs provided him with an independent and

individualistic insight into the secrets of the world of knowledge. Hence,

his knowledge was encyclopedic. His knowledge offered him modesty, which is

rare commodity among scholars. In him, there was a synthesis of moral

fervour and spiritual insight. He was a saint to the core and detachment,

the like of which is hard to notice among others

 

He was a poet, philosopher, scrupulous in the performance of his duties and

upholder of the righteous cause. He was imbued with the sense of

responsibility to uphold the concepts, which SrI Ramanujacharya preached. He

adopted almost all possible ways of writing to achieve this purpose. No

writer among the followers of Ramanuja fought for the right place for

AhzwArs, as much as Swamy Desikan. His compositions in pure Tamil and in

maNipravALam and their graded classifications from the simple to the complex

bear ample testimony to this.

 

With all these achievements and attainments, which no single scholar could

ever dream of possessing, he has an embodiment of humility, he shunned pelf,

repute, gain and adoration and was ever a devout devotee of a Srivaishnava,

not slighting anyone. His son SrI Kumara Varadachrya observes: yak khyAthi

laabhapUjAsu vimukO vaishnavO janE krayaNIyadasaam praaptah:

 

His appeal to the Lord of Srirangam, that he should be allowed to live

amidst those who are mutually well-disposed. “paraspara hithashiNAm

parisarEshu mAm varthaya:”. An indefatigable crusader for Vaishnavism like

the AchArya Swamy Desikan is quite needed in the present day. Let us pray to

the Lord for fulfillment of this prayer of ours.

 

On this Greatest AchAryasaarvabhouman, isn’t it right and most appropriate

for us to pay our humble samarpaNams to Swamy Desikan by contributing our

mite towards the construction of ThUppul maNdapam for Swamy Desikan? LET US

PLEDGE NOW.

 

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

 

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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At 01:13 PM 11/9/01 +0000, you wrote:

>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.

>

Dear Sri MadhavakkaNNan :

 

For the past few weeks , you have been excelling in

AchArya Vandhanam to our SampradhAya Pravarthakar ,

Swamy Desikan in your own unique writing style.

 

We have been blessed to be part of this celebration.

 

Thank you most sincerely for your spirited

Kaimkaryam,

 

V.SaTakOpan

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