thridandam - vajra dandam

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Jai srimannarayana

 

The thirunakshatram celebrations of HH Pedda Jeeyar Swamiji are in full swing.

Remembering our Paramacharya fondly, HH started explaining the stothram of

thridandi vimsati, composed by Gudimella Ramanujacharya swami while in

Sriku:rmam commending HH Pedda Jeeyar Swami’s in 20 slokas which is like

Yathiraja vimsathi on Ramanujaacharya swami.

 

We need to approach Lord through our Acharya. Same way when we approach acharya,

we need to go through some that are close to Him. Thelikicharla Gopalacharya

swami and Pedda Jeeyar Swami worked in unison for the enrichment of the society.

They both looked upon each other with great reverence. Gopalacharya swami taught

many great swamis and he was the guru to our Chinna Jeeyar Swami too.

 

The first sloka of this stothra is a salutation at the lotus feet of

Gopalacharya swami.

 

Yassada: vijayathe: thridandina:

Thridandam denotes the three thathvams: Jivas, prakruthi and Parama:thma

thathvam. This prakruthi is of three types. The misra saththva prakruthi that

consists of rajas, thamas and sathvam. The suddha sathva prakruthi which lies

beyond the Viraja. The third is ‘sathva su:nyam’ which is devoid of all these

gunas. This is ka:lam. But it is not Paramathma as some people project it. Even

this is prakruthi only. Paramathma is within all these and outside them. So

Yathis hold the thridandam always. One who holds thridandam is called a

thridandi.

 

In Bhagavatam there is a mention of thridandi. In krithayuga, Dattathreya an

incarnation of Vishnu born to Athri and Anasuya for their tapas, to recover the

Vedas, was a thridandi. He stayed there inside Melkota at the Dattathreya

pushkarini for some time and there are his foot prints too. We know from the

history that Ku:resa once wore his guru’s robes and took his thridandam and went

to the cruel king’s court and represented his acharya as the king wanted to harm

Ramanuja. After some time, Sri Ramanujacharya swami kept his saffron robes and

thridandam at Dattathreya’s feet to sanctify them (in Melkota) and received them

back as prescribed by the scriptures.

 

In the course of his discourse Swamiji narrated a strange instance that happened

long long ago.

 

Once a great scholar Annagara:charya swamy asked Gopalacharyaswami thus:

‘How are you both (yourself and Pedda jeeyar swami) so close to each other?

How is it possible?’

 

This is the reply that Gopalacharya swami gave:

“See I am fully involved in teaching and writing books of philosophy. I don’t

like to go into the public whereas Jeeyar swamy cannot stay away from public or

programs. All my teaching to prepare eligible teachers or all my writings are

meant to educate and enlighten the society. When I lack the ability to reach the

public directly, he has wonderful capacities to interact and influence the

society around. Our

objective is the same. Our goal is the same – to enlighten and uplift the human

race. When the goal is the same and you are strongly committed to it, then the

differences would naturally vanish.” He was awe struck at his explanation.

 

 

 

HH dealt with many more aspects very deeply. With thirtha goshti and prasada

ghoshti today’s (27th) program came to an end.

Jeeyar Thiruvadigale saranam!

Jaisrimannarayana!!