abhinava dESika Sri UttamUr Swamy Divya Charitham- 10

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SrI:

Sri Padmavathi Sametha Srinivasa Parabrahmane Namaha.

Sri Perundhevi Sametha Devadhiraja Parabrahmane Namaha.

SrimathE Bhagavad Ramanujaya Namaha:

SrimathE Nigamantha Mahadesikaya namaha:

Srimate Rangaramanuja Maha Desikaya Namaha.

Srimate Abhinava Desika Vatsya Satchakravarti Uttamur SRI

VIRARAGHAVARYA MAHA DESIKAYA NAMAHA

 

SrImAn venkatanAthAryaH kavitArkika kesarI |

vedAntAcArya-varyome sannidhattAm sadA hRdi ||

 

Thanian (Invocatory verse on Sri UttamUr swamy written by

Swamy's AchAryan Sri Kozhiyalam Swamy himself)

 

adbhutam yasya vikrAntam vEda vIthI ViSOdhanE |

aparam nigamAntAryam prapadyE vIrarAghavam ||

 

Let us continue with the divya charitham of Sri UttamUr Swamy.

 

[Article in Tamil by SrI PayyampADi VEnkatavaradAchArya SwAmi; English write

up (based on Tamil) by SrI R.VenkatAchAri (SohattUr- Vankipuram -Oppiliappan

Sannidhi), a disciple of SrI UtthamUr SwAmi. Appeared in the souvenir

released during the SatAbhishEkam (80th birth anniversary) of SrI UtthamUr

swAmi on 10th Feb, 1977]

 

 

While at Purshkaram, Our Swami had the opportunity to teach Tarka

Sangraha to quite a few youngsters in addition to older pundits who

gathered in good number for Vedanta Kalakshepam. Many such

youngsters, now grownups, who wanted to pursue their studies under Our

Swami, tried their best throughout the good offices of Sri

Balamukundachariar of Pushkaram. But they found that Our Swami was

bent upon serving ONLY Tiruvengadamudaiyan as a Professor in HIS

college. So some of the youngsters from Pushkaram were sent to

Tirupathi by Sri Balamukundacharya Peetha to study at Tirupathi under

Our Swami. One such Sishya, Sri K.Sridharachariar, stayed on for a

longer time. He finished his Tarka Siromani in four years and then

studied Vedanta for four more years, which included Sri Bhashya, GEETA

Bhashya etc. and took notes in Sanskrit for Srimad Rahasyatrayasara.

 

He also got all the necessary `Upadesa’ to do Pancha Samskara and

Bharanyasa etc. and became qualified for doing `Acharyaka’ in Sri

Desika Sampradaya. He himself underwent the Bharanyasam under Sri

Koliyalam Swami and proceeded on his mission to North India. Sri

Viraraghavacharya, who is the Head for the Uttara Ahobila Jalariya

Mutt, was also a student under Our Swami, for Tarka Sangraham in his

younger days. The above mentioned Sridharachariar Swami is acting

under him as the Acharya – Representative of the Jalariya Mutt,

travels to all places where Sishyas gather to perform Pancha Samskara

and Bharanyasa and is doing good service in spreading Sri Desika

Sampradaya. Whenever opportunity arises, Sri K.Sridharachariar used to

visit Our Swami to pay his respects. He was responsible for

collecting a lot of donations from the members of Pushkaram Mangniram

Saitji and other Astikas who became his Sishyas, for many of Our

Swami’s publications, from time to time. One of Sri Pushkaram

Balamukundachar’s disciple, Sri Bhagavadachariar, ( who had earlier

studied Vyakarana and Vedanta under Sri U.Ve.Neelameghachariar, a

Sateerthya of Our Swami and who was a leading Acharya in North India)

came to Tirupathi to study Tarka Shastra and brought with him the

manuscripts of the full Sanskrit version of Srimad Rahasyatrayasaram,

written by Sri U.Ve. Neelameghachariar Swami.

 

Our Swami went through the same and after scrutiny and suggestions, the

book was later published from North India. Sri Bhaghavatachariar, is now a

leading Acharya, doing Pravachanam and propagate on Sri Vaishnava Sidhanta

under the name of Swami Anirudhachar and like K.Sridharachar Swami also

never failed to come and pay his respects to Our Swami when opportunity

arises.

 

At Tirupathi College, Our Swami more or less kept a nursery for young

talents. Youngsters passed out of the college creditably in Tarka

Shastra, and other Siromani classes. Most of them, by association

with Our Swami, developed a taste for Vedanta Adhyayana and approached Sri

Koliyalam Swami, Sri Injimedu Alagiasingar Swami, Sri Navalpakam

Narasimhachariar Swami etc. for Vedanta Kalakshepam and became ardent

Sishyas for them.

 

Our Swami’s efforts in that direction used to be very much appreciation by

those Acharyas. Even Advaita Acharyas from Karnataka, Andhra and other

states appreciated Our Swami’s effort in

turning out scholars to be well versed in basic Shastras like Tarka

and Mimamsa etc. and who ultimately approached them for Vedanta

Kalakshepa.

 

During the tenure of office as a Professor in Tirupati college, Our

swami alwasys felt that students in Tarka Siromani classes never used

to fare well in NYAYA KUSUMAJALI, an important book for Tarka Siromani

examination, in spite of intense coaching. The study of this grantha, Nyaya

Kusumanjali, is a must for the understanding of many Vedanta Granthas of Sri

Vedantha Desika. Our Swami prayed to Lord Hayagriva to bless him with the

knowledge to write a commentary for the above book.

 

The result was a CHAYA VYAKHYANAM for Nyaya Kusumanjali which is a

commentary in simple understandable sentences after the main grantha

was codified and subdivided into different chapters showing very

clearly the Anvaya Samasta Pada Vigraha Prakara and Poorva Paksha

Siddhanta Vibhaga. This book was very well received both by the

students and by the teaching staff and pundits alike. By that

time, some students in the college, brought to Our Swami, a concise

and short commentary, written by some pundit in Andhra Desa, in

manuscript stage and requested Our Swami to print the same along with

Our Swami’s book. Sri K.V.Rangaswami Iyengar Swami, who was the Director in

the Education department of the Devastanam, on

hearing the attempts of the students, met Our Swami and advised him

not to accede to the request of the students as the policy of the

Devastanam education department was not to encourage students in such

matters and if an occasion arose in which the students had to be

chastised it will indirectly affect Our Swami also as the

co-publisher.

 

He also said that while at Madras, he heard very much

about Our Swami’s talent from many pundits including Our Swami’s

Mimamsa guru, Brahmasri Chinnaswamy Sastriar, who was at that time the

Principal of the College; and that the Devastanam will have no

objection in Our Swami publishing as many books as he wants, on his

own. Our Swami could not but agree to that advice and had to refuse

the request of his disciples and finally published his own book

separately.

To be continued......

AchAryan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo narayana

aDiyEn

 

 

 

 

 

 

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