Thennacharyas and Desikar - 2 - Addendum

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Dear Members

 

With reference to the message no.1 and 2 from TCA swamin, I am

including some of the thoughts that Sri TA Varadhan and myself wrote

in the year 2002, during one of the discussions.

 

The one's in the quotes are Sri Varadhan's and the other one is

adiyen's.

 

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> The fact is the svAmi dEsika was an undisputed

> leader in his own right hailing from kAnchipuram.

> Once he moved to srIrangam, it is

> clear (history, even a cursory analysis of

> his works shows that) that he followed the

> guruparampara (svAmi piLLai lOkAchAriAr) at

> that time. I do not say the above to create

> any sort of impression that PL > SD. There

> were just different roles, and they were

> followed.

 

 

Yes, this is correct. Actually the thaniyan they say that Sri piLLai

lOkAchAriyar composed on Sri dEsikan is not true.

Sri lOkAchAriyar being about 60 years older than Desikan,

the fact is that after Sri dEsikan got some doubts clarified from

Sri piLLai lOkAchAriyar,

hence he composed a thaniyan on Sri piLLai lOkAchAriyar and

about 50 slokas called "lOkAchArya panchAsath". The sad part is that

these slokas are in vogue only in ThirunArAyaNapuram now.

 

Recently these slokas with an excellent commentary on them has been published by

Sri V.V.Ramanujam swamy, a great scholar, residing in

ThiruvallikkENi. I request every one to buy and read it. The cost is

only Rs 25/-

 

 

>

> And svAmi dEsika was accepted by the

> srIvaishNavAs there as well as a great

> AcharyA. Else, there would not be a sannadhi

> for him inside the temple. He is the last

> AchAryA to have a sannadhi inside the temple.

> So, there is no question of all the

> "fights/abuses etc." that svAmi dEsika

> apparently had to undergo having happened.

> All are just concoctions. One just has to

> read something called the 3000-ppadi

> guruparampara to have a glimpse of all

> these concotions. If not for the import of

> the subject, the stories are just laughable.

> {e.g. svAmi azhagiya maNavALa perumAL

> nAyanAr is portrayed as somekind of a thug

> who picked fights/abused svAmi dEsikan! -

> it will make a good movie story. The sad

> part is most people believe the story

> nowadays)

 

3000-padi is concocted:

This account is very clearly given by Sri P.B.Annangarachariar swamy. Here Sri

Annangarachariar swamy proves that at one point,

stalwarts of the vadagalai sampradhayam, like Sri thirupputkuzhi appA

swAmy et al have confirmed that the 3000-padi is not at a

pramANA.

 

Regarding the story of azhagiya maNavALaperumAL nAyanaAr case, Sri

A.Krishnamachari of Sri Vaishnava Sri fame, has clearly disproved

this in his magazine "PAnchajanyam" in one of its edition. The point

he proves is clearly undebatable. According to this, when Sri dEsikar

reached Srirangam in his age of 40 (this is accepted by all including

Vadagalais), swAmy azhagiyamaNavALaperumAL nAyanAr had already

attained AchAryan thiruvadi. So how is it possible that he could have

picked up a quarrel with Sri dEsikan.

 

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The facts are known to most devotees interested in the truth.

Knowing all the facts if some devotees want to mis-quote and

keep spreading mis-information, it is a sad state of affairs.

 

We can only pray to emberuman for stopping such mis-information.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan

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