Restart of SaraNAgathi Journal : Volumes 4.01 and 4.02 dated Jan 15 and 19 .

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SrI:

 

Swamy Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam

 

Dear BhakthAs:

 

On Thai SravaNam day ( Jan 15, 2002) , SaraNAgathi

Journal was restarted after a hiatus of few months.

We are focusing now on Swamy Desikan's ChillaRai

RahasyangaL . These are deep granthams and adiyEn will

try my level best to add clear explanations as much as

possible as the Kaimkaryam progresses.This release

is the second in this series on ChillaRai RahasyangaL.

 

We are starting with Amrutha Ranjani RahasyangaL .

The first among them is SampradhAya Parisuddhi .

Our Blemishless SampradhAyam ( SrI SampradhAyam )

is known otherwise as SadAchArya SampradhAyam .

It commences with our Lord , Sriman NaarAyaNan and

continues onto today's AchAryAs( prakrutham AchAryAs).

It is totally free of any blemish and this ChillaRai

Rahasyam deals with the blemishles nature of this Parama

Vaidhika SampradhAyam.

 

As always at the beginning of His Rahasya Granthams,

Swamy Desikan has a prefatory verse in Tamil or

Sanskrit and concludes the granthams with a concluding

verse in Tamil or Sanskrit. They serve as "book ends"

as it were.

 

The beginning verse in Tamil for Sri SampradhAya

Parisuddhi is a beautiful one stressing the importance

of performing Prapatthi :

 

Tamm Bharam yenRu irangit-taLarA manam tanthu aruLAl

umbhar Thozhum ThirumAl uhanthu yERkum upAyam onRAl

namm piRavit-thuyar mARRiya Jn~Anap-perum tahavOr

sampiradhAyam onRi sathirkkum neRi saarnthanamE

 

(Word by Word Meaning):

 

Tamm Bharam yenRu irangi = recognizing that it is His

(our Lord's) responsibility to protect us by showing

Daya for us

 

aruLAl taLarA manam thanthu = giving us unagitated mind

(freedom from worries about our rakshaNam) through

the display of His DayA GuNam

 

Umpar Thozhum ThirumAl = our Lord , Sriman NaarAyaNan

worshipped and eulogized by the nithya Sooris(eternally free)

 

uhanthu yERkum upAyam onRAl = grants us freedom from fear

through the sole means(upAyam) of SaraNAgathi at His Thiruvadi

that He relishes to accept as a vyAjam for saving us

 

namm piRavit-thuyar maaRRiya = those AchAryAs of His , who

destroy the sorrow of SamsAraic afflictions by showing us

His (our Lord's) Thiruvadi as the one and only UpAyam (means)

and UpEyam (goal)

 

JnAnap-perum tahavOr = those great AchAryA's with unbroken links

to our Lord and with Jn~Anam and unparalleled mercy

 

sampiradhAyam onRi = we have taken refuge in these great AchAryA's

Sath SampradhAyam

 

sathirkkum neRi saarnthanamE = and have achieved the lofty

status of gaining great rewards (phalan) through a small upAyam

by belonging to this ancient tradition.

 

At the end of this Rahasyam , Swamy Desikan acknowledges

with gratitude the MahOpakAram of the Lord's AchAryAs :

 

kadal amudhatthai kadainthu sErttha

ThirumAladi kaattiya namm

Desikar tamm nilai paRRic-chArnthOmE

 

( Word by Word Meaning):

 

Kadal kadainthu amudhatthai sErttha = Churning the milky ocean

and collecting amrutham for distribution to the dEvAs

 

ThirumAl adi kaattiya namm Desikar = showing the sacred feet

of this Lord as the means for our upliftment (Moksham), our

SadAchAryAs (have performed a great upakAram)

 

tamm nilai paRRic-chErnthOmE = and we have joined the sampradhAyam

of the SadAchAryAs and accepted it as the most sacred and lofty one.

 

Swamy Desikan identifies himself as belonging to this blemishless

SampradhAyam originating from the Lord and propagated in the purest

form from generation to generation by His SadAchAryAs..

 

DaasOham , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SaThakOpan

 

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