Introduction to SAra Sangraham

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srE lOka GuravEa

namahA:

sAra Sangraham

 

Sri PiLLai lOkAchAryA is the beacon

of our faith in the sense that he gave us a crystal clear guidance

and followed that in practice. True, Sri RAmAnujA bequeathed us with

matchless treasures but his role was different. He had to tide over other

faiths and establish the basic philosophy of our tenets in that light.

 

However, Sri PiLLai

LOkAchAryAr crystallised these thoughts into aphosrism-s -- like

sections in a legal acts - even as early as 800 year back, and lucidly

gave to us in a logical and organised manner. These are backed basically

by aruLich cheyal and vEdhics/upanishads.

 

For our pUrvAchAryAs the mind

is always dwelling in the important three secrets or rahashya thrayangaL

namely, thirumandhiram, dvayam and charama slokam. pUrvAcharyAs look

every works of AzhwAr-s in this persepctive. The avathArikai to the first

thiruvAi mozhi

"oru

nAyakamAi" will corroborate

this point.

 

EDu "

dhvayathin uthra

kAnDArthathai aruLich seigiRAr mudhal mUnRu pathAlum; ini mEAl mUnRu

pathAlEA pUrva kANdathai aruLich sigiRAr'

" SwAmi Nam AzhwAr has

blessed us the explanation to second part of dhvyama in The first three

hundreds of Thiru-Vai-Mozhi and goes on to explain the first part

in the next three huyndreds'

 

Thus, their analytical and devoted

mind always thinks of various permuntations and combinations to enjoy,

cherish , interpret and understand the various divine works of AzhwAr-s

from this point of view.

 

Accordinlgy, SwAmi PiLLai

lOkAchAryAr explains the fact that the whole thiru-vAi-mozhi in itself is

dhvAyam the divine couplets and each of the divine words are embedded in

each of the ten. This is systemactically established and explained in the

great work

"sAra

-Sangraham" .Since the

essence of the magnum opus of SwAmi Nam-AzhwAr is brought about briefly,

this divine treartise is titled

'sAra-Sangraham'

 

Sri Azhariga maNavALap perumAL

nAyanAr in Acharya Hrdhayam while elaborating on the contents of

ThriuvAimozhi on various angles specially mentions this in chUrnikai 210

which goes as

'dhvyArtham

dhErka charaNAgathi enRadhu sAra sangrahathilEa"

 

Sri PiLLai lOkAchAryAr has blessed

us with Eighteen works - known as astA-dhasa rahashyam. sAra-Sangraham is

the eighth divine work dedicated to the divine couplet.

 

Sri PiLLai lOkAchAryar

thiruvadigaLEa charaNam

 

 

srEaman nArAyaNa charanau charaNam

prapathyEA'

srEmathEA nArAyaNAya namahA

 

rAmAnuja DAsan

vanamamalai

padmanabhan