abhinava dESika - SrI UttamUr Swamy Divya Charitham- 12

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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]

 

ONE MORE TRIP TO NORTH INDIA TO CONQUER:

 

At Sholapur, Scholars from other Siddhantams had started a propaganda that

Sri Vaishnava Sidhanta of Sri Ramanuja is Avaidika, that is, it does not

reflect the true meaning of Vedas and Upanishads. Lacking proper persons to

counteract the above propaganda against Sri Vaishnavism, the local

Vaishnavites came to Our Swami on a deputation and invited Our Swami to

visit Sholapur. Our Swami went there and gathered all important scholars

and spoke for three days and explained to them that the Sri Vaishnava

Sidhanta is the only one that reflects the entire meaning of the Upanishads

and the Vedas; and not even a word from the Vedas are rejected major

portions of Upanishads as unnecessary.

 

Quotations from the Upanishads were profusely supplied by Our Swami

that the audience was stunned at the wide knowledge of Our Swami and

the masterly way he engaged in driving home to the audience, his point of

view. Every query from the scholarly audience was answered

satisfactorily and the pundits present, including the opponents,

agreed that the mistake was theirs only as they did not go through all the

Pramanas in detail and acted rather in a haste in criticising the

Siddhaantha of Sri Ramanuja. They finally apologized for their mistake and

thanked Our Swami for the brilliant lecture for three days.

 

Finally Our Swami had to explain to them that Sri Ramanuja Sidhanta is the

only one which does not depend on YUKTI VADA and goes only on

Pramanas. On that memorable day, Our Swami realised that the cause for the

above misunderstanding lies only with us, in not publishing books on our

Siddhantha in Devanagari Script so that the scholars in North India and

throughout the world could not get a chance to study our Sidhanta and

compare. This mistake could be eliminated only by a wide, mammoth and

elaborate publication campaign of our Sidhanta. That realisation culminated

on Our Swami, making a Sankalpam with Satvikatyagam, to concentrate on

publishing a chain of Granthas under the banner of “Ubhaya Vedanta Grantha

Mala”. We will discuss about the staring of the organisation Ubhaya Vedanta

Granthamala at a later stage.

 

Today, on the auspicious day of the SATABHISHEKAM of Our Swami, we

Visishtadvaithins and of Sri vaishnava Sampradaya, looking back, are in a

happy position that the mammoth task has been achieved

to a great extent which no single human being would even venture. We

are thoroughly convinced that no doubt Sri Vedantha Desika had definitely

taken an Abhinava Avatara to establish the superiority of our Sidhanta and

Sampradaya, and that this Sidhanta is the Only and Only One which is fully

VAIDIKA.

 

As Sri Vyasa Maharishi put it ALODDYA SARVA SHASTRANI, VICHARYA CHA

PUNAHPUNAHA, etc. Our Abhinava Desika Swami’s books are the culmination of

his masterly study of all the granthas so far

written on this Sidhanta by all the Acharyas before him. The original Sri

Suktis, especially of Sri Desika, have been well and thoroughly scrutinised;

all the mistakes in the publications corrected and correct version of the

Originals have been published by him. Also the most important commentaries

of our ancient Acharyas have been reprinted with suitable foot notes

wherever necessary; and whenever such commentaries are not available, new

commentaries in Tamil and Sanskrit have been added and published so that the

objections raised so far, and likely to be raised at a later date have been

fully met at suitable places.

 

Today, we can find before us the EDIFICE of Sri Bhagavad Ramanuja Sidhanta

as propounded by Sri Nigamanta Guru standing on a solid foundation in the

form of “Granthas of Sri Abhinava Desika”. All we have to do is to possess

and safeguard theses books and spread them to the four corners of our

country and of the world.

 

The scholars in other languages especially English, Hindi, Kannada and

Telugu should come forward just to translate these books and spread Our

Sampradaya. If this is done, we are quite sure, Sri

Ramanujacharya and Sri Vedantha Desika will be thoroughly satisfied that the

purpose of this Abhinava Avatara has been fully achieved. There are still

quite a few books which needs Our Swami’s scrutiny and on this happy

occasion, let us pray to Lord Sriman Narayana to give Our Sri Abhinava

Desika Swami the full life span of Hundred and odd years ( as that of Sri

Desika himself) and continued good health and strength to continue the

sacred task of Grantha Nirmana.

Rest - to be continued in next post..

AchAryan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo Narayana

aDiyEn dAsan

 

 

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