Srimath PeriAndavan's Life History - Part IV ( Conclusion)

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Dear Bhagavathas,

 

Today ( mAsi-pushyam) is the thirunakshatram of His

Holiness Srimath periAndavan, Sri SrinivAsa mahA

dEsikan. Let us all recite this AchArya sArvabhouman's

thanian on this auspicious day

 

Sri rangEsha padhe samarpitha Bharam sruthyantha

rAmAnuja

Sri yogeendra guruththamEna yaminash sruththyantha

vidhyAthmana:

PrAptha sruthya vathamsa yughma hrudhayam SrivAsa

rAmAnujAth

Sri SrivAsa muneendra dEsika maNim srEyO nidhim

samsrayE

 

This is the Continuation of Posting on Life History of

 

Srimath PeriAndavan. This is the fourth and concluding

Volume in the series.

 

dAsan,

vEnkatanAthan SreenivAsan

Srimath Andavan Thiruvadi

 

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AnushtAnam

 

Since this mahAn was so popular among his sishyas and

admirers alike, he was fondly called as periAndavan.

For a long time he was residing in Srirangam . In a

month, He would go to devout and pious Srivaishnava

bhAgavathAs’ thiru mAligai on selected seven to eight

days for unccha Vritthi . He would take the grains to

the banks of Coleroon river, wash them in the river

water, cook them and eat the bhagavath prasadham

along with thulasi leaves. On other days, he used to

powder the dry leaves fallen from the Holy Fig tree

and consume the same. Such was his VairAghyam.

 

Sishya paramapara

 

Upon Lord Ranganatha’s command to take disciples,

and disseminate and propagate the Philosophy, several

persons became His Disciples, and became erudite

scholars and preceptors. Some of them were

 

1) Thirupputkuzhi Appa

2) Mannargudi Gopalanna

3) Vyakaranam Rangachariar

4) Meemisal Narasimhachariar

5) Chinnamu Rangachariar

6) Thirunelveli Gopalasamudram Narayanachariar

7) Shamala Chakravarthi and

8) Purisai Nadathur Rangachariar.

 

One of His disciples from the village of Anbil bought

a land on the Southern banks of Coleroon river in a

place called Melur and offerred it to Srimath

Periandavan. Swami accepted it and had a hermitage

constructed, where he stayed and rendered

Kalakshepams.The same place still exists even today

and is called periAsramam.

 

 

Rendering of KAlakshEpam

 

Swami used to render Sri Bhashyam (including srutha

prakAsikA and bhAva prakAsikA) for 4 months , Geetha

Bhashyam for one and half months, Srimath rahasya

traya sAram for two and a half months followed by Sri

bhagavath vishayam for 4 months. This way he would

complete rendering kAlakshEpams on the grantha

chatushtayam within a year. Like Swami Desikan, He did

this for THIRTY number of times.

 

SwAmi was known to be a very strict disciplinarian. He

commanded sishyAs to strictly adhere to certain norms

such as coming to the Asramam only by walk, performing

oUpAsana-vaIswadEva-bhagavath ArAdhanam daily at

their grahams to name a few. It is said that in the

morning, when he took the texts in Cadjan Leaves for

Kalakshepam, whatever may be the number of pages,

whatever may be the time span, He would not rise from

His seat, without finishing all the pages. Such was

the discipline he followed.

 

Due to becoming a sanyAsi at a very young age and

performing severe penance with very little consumption

throughout, swami became very lean and emaciated and

became to be also called as “Vathal swami”. Swami was

in dureeyAsramam for FIFTY years completing that many

chAturmAsyams.

 

Swami also covered lots of places in Tamilnadu and

Karnataka during this time and stayed in a place

called HembikAi in Mysore for a long time. During his

yathrA, He performed samAsrayanam and bharanyAsam to

devout bhAgavathAs.

 

swAmi attained ThirunAdu at the age of 85 leaving

behind grieving disciples in the year 1886.

 

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