Srimath Akkur Andavan Thirunakshatram

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Srimathe Rangaramanuja mahadesikaya nama:

121st Thirunakshatram of Srimad Aakkur Aandavan

 

Srimath vEdhaantha Raamaanuja yathi nrupathEr labdha vEdhaantha yugmam

Srimath dEvaadhinEthu Charana sarasijE thEna daththaathma Baaram

Srimath sreevaasa yogeeshwara mahitha mahaa sampradaayaika nishtam

VandhE sreevaasa yogeeshwara gurumanagam vathsalam Bhavyasheelam

 

Purattasi Uthirattadhi is the holy avathaaram day of our Aakkur

Aandavan.He was born in the Vikrama varsha, 1880. He became the

Andavan of Srirangam Srimad Andavan Ashramam in 1932 after

Nammandavan Srimath Vedantha Ramanuja Mahadesikan and was in Sanyasa

Ashramam until 1947. He had the same acharya thirunamam as our

Periyaandavan and was very much like Periyandavan in Gnaana,

vairagya, anushtaana and shanthi souseelya nidhi nature. His

sanchaaram during the 15 year period from 1932 was all paadha

sancharaam. This mahan covered Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Thirupathi

through His paadha sancharaam and spread Munithraya ashrama

sampradyaa. His Bridhavanam is in Srirangam.

 

Srimath Thirukkudanthai Andavan in His poorvashramam attended the

Kalakshebam of Sri Bhashyam, Gita Bashyam and various other granthams

by Srimath Aakkur Andavan. He had his Atma Raksha Bhara samarppanam

with Thirukkudanthai Aaravamudham. He was a pracharya for prakrutham

Srimushan Srimad Andavan and for many other Andavan sishyaas.

 

Srimath Akkur Andavan had the special kataksham of Nammandavan by

Completing the Padhuka sahasra vyaakyanam which was initiated by

Srimath

Nammaandavan. Every Ramanuja sampradya follower had bhakti and

reverence towards Akkur Andavan and everyone affectionately called

him "Engal Andavan" meaning "He is our Andavan".

 

A saantha swaroopi, and just by thinking about Him, people acquired

mental peace. Once Akkur Andavan had to undergo a surgery to remove a

cist from his chest. He did not take any pain killing medicine or

anesthesia for the procedure. He performed Srimath Ramayana sloka

paraayana anusanthaanam and was immersed in the Ramayana

rasaaanubhavam forgetting his physical pain during the surgical

process. Aakkur Andavan was an acharyan who could make anyone

immerse in his laden vedhanthic and philosophical lectures. He was

very modest in the way he lived.

 

These are the excerpts from a compilation from Naatteri Sri

Rajagopalan

published in Sri Ranganatha Padhuka in October 2000 issue. In the

next few digests, adiyen will try to compile similar excerpts from

the compilations of Sri U.Ve Saranathaachariyar swamin, which was

published during the Shastiabdha poorthi celebrations of our Srimath

Akkur Andavan.

 

 

Srimath Andavan Thiruvadi,

Murali Thirumalai