AchArya hridhayam -15

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Hurdles spring up in the way of even good souls. 'srEyAmsi bahU vignAni'.

Hence, hurdle-less study of sAsthrangaL should be achieved.

 

The mind which is not stable should be channelised into the learning of

sAsthram-s thoroughly.

 

Hence, The Lord blessed us with thriumandhiram as the aforementioned

pre-requisites

for learning sAsthram-s are indeed very difficult to master.

 

vEdha sAra upanishadh - The first part of vEdham which deals with rituals is

aimed at small temporary and material benefits. The latter part namely

upanishadh emphasises on The Lord, the means to reach Him, the features on

salvation etc. Hence, this part is termed as vEdha sAra upanishadh.

 

sAra thara anuvAgam- Overtaking the general nature of the above, anuvAgam

distinguishes between the general names like sivan and sambu and clearly

establishes the supremacy of nAryaNA in nArayaNa anuvaAgam.

 

sAra thama gAyathri- Overtaking even the above, those mandhirangaL which express

the Lord's antharyAmithvam-omnipresent nature- are superior to those which do

not so express this nature. Of these, the three mandhirangaL which express

vishNu, vAsudhEvan, nArAyaNan are termed as vishNu gAyathri .

 

Of these three mandhirangaL, the prime term 'nArAyaNA' being the essence of all

the four vEdham-s, idhihAsam-s is the crux of thirumandhiram. How did the Lord

extract this essence from the vEdham-s?

 

In the form of a. dheiva vaNdu- dheiva vAndAi; b. annamAi; c; nAlvEdhak kadalil

amudham koNdavan.

 

Similar to the vaNdu which extracts the nectar from the flowers, the Lord

extracts the ultimate from the vEdham-s.

 

Similar to annam which separates milk and water, the Lord extracts the praNavam

like the milk which can be easily consumed by one and all.

 

Similar to extracting amudham from the Ocean, the Lord, gave this deep essence

of the vEdham from the ocean of vEdha-s.

 

Hence,with the sole intention of rescuing the souls, the Lord taking the form of

AchAryan and also the form of disciple as nara-nArAyaNan bestowed this sacred

mandhiram in the great dhivya dhEsam "vadhari" -badhrinAth.

vAnamAmalai padmanAbhan