Srimath ChinnAndavan Life History - Part I

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SrImathE ranga rAmAnuja mahA dEsikAya namaha

SrI ranganatha Divya maNi pAdhukAbhyAm namaha

 

Dear Bhagavathas,

 

Friday Dec. 7, 2001 is the Thirunakshtram day of one

of the foremost and illustrious acharyas of Srirangam

Srimath Andavan PeriAsramam, Srimath ChinnAndavan –

Sri PAdukA sEvaka rAmAnuja mahA dEsikan.

 

Adiyen has made an attempt to bring out the life

history of Srimath ChinnAndavan in a series of posting

commencing with the first volume today. This has been

compiled from Panguni Pushyam malar(1981) during 74th

birthday celebrations of H.H. Srimath Thirukkudanthai

Andavan(Kannan swamigal) and Andavan Asramam varalaru

published in 1967 by Srirangam pEriAsramam.

 

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Let us all recite this mahan's thaniyan on His

thirunakshatram day.

 

Sriman naatha muneendra yaamuna muni Srisamya

mindraathmanaha

Sri Srivasa muneendra dEsika maNE: praapthaaga

maanthath dvayam

Sri rangEsha padhE thadharpithaBHaram Sri

paadukasevaka

Sri raamaanuja yoginam guruvaram vandhe dayaasaagaram

 

 

This mahAn was born in the year sarvadhari (1828), in

the month of Karthigai in a hamlet called

vELiyanallur. His janma nakshatram is Magam. He

belonged to satamarshana gothra.

 

His father, Sri Krishna ThAthAchAryA. named his son as

SrinivAsarAghavan. It is a great coincidence that two

other AchAryas in this illustrious lineage who

adorned the peetam were also named as

SrinivAsarAghavan in their poorvAsramam namely Srimath

PeriAndavan who was Srimath ChinnAndavan’s direct

predecessor and the other AchAryA was none other than

the famous Srimath Thirukkudanthai Andavan who was

instrumental in spreading the PeriAsrama parampara to

length and breadth of the country and made it reach

dizzy heights of glory in our sampradaya.

 

Younger days of Srimath ChinnAndavan

 

Sri Krishna ThAthAchArya performed upayanam and other

vaithika samskArams to his son at the right age.

SrinivAsarAghavan swami also underwent veda adhyayanam

and learnt kAvya alankAra grantham. After having

learnt them very well, He became very eager to learn

Nyaya sAstrAs and hence proceeded to Mysore. There He

met Sri Rama Sastri who was the AsthAna vidwAn of the

Mysore rAja samsthAnam. He learnt nyAya sAstrAs and

advaita philosophy under his tutelage and thus became

an exponent and a very well qualified pundit. He

continued to stay with Sri sAstri in Mysore and helped

him during his research on sAstras with his radiant

brilliance. Sometimes it was such that he even cleared

the doubts Sri sAstri encountered on sAstraic

research and earned his awe and accolades. In

particular, swami was extremely proficient in tharka

sAstrAs.

 

With the rich Knowledge Swami acquired in sAmAnya

sAstrAs, He wanted to learn adhyAtma sAstrAs under a

sadhAchAryan through kAlakshEpams . He went to

Srirangam in pursuit of the same and reached the holy

hermitage of Srimath pEriAndavan who was the paragon

of GnAna and vairAghyA and prayed at His holy feet

for the same. Observing SrinivAsarAghavan Swami,

Srimath PeriAndavan was very much pleased with His

modesty and His sAstrAic knowledge and accepted Him as

His sishya. He rendered Grantha chathustayam ( namely

Srimath Rahasya thraya sAram, Geetha BhAshyam, Sri

BhAshyam and bhagavath vishayam) and satha dhooshani

to SrinivAsarAghavan. Upon the completion of

kAlakshEpam. SrinivAsarAghavan swami went back to

vELianallur.

 

( To be continued ......)

 

dAsan

vEnkatanAthan SreenivAsan

Srimath Andavan Thiruvadi

 

 

 

 

 

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