Tributes to the 43rd Pattam Jeeyar , SrivaNN SatakOpa Sri VeerarAghava SatakOpa YathIndhara MahA Desikan

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Dear Fellow Sri Matam SishyAs :

 

It gives me great pleasure to celebrate

through this posting my own AchAryan , who performed

SamAsrayaNam for adiyEn at DhEvanAr ViLAgam village during

his visit to his purvAsramam home shortly after entering

ThurIyAsramam . As a boy , I knew him as Sri Ub.Ve.VidvAn ,

Sri Parutthippattu Sri LakshmI NrusimhAchAr Swamy

with incomparable Braham tEjas.

 

There were only two houses then and even today

in this tiny village of DhEvanAr ViLAgam .

One was called the Periya ChEtthi house and the other

the Chinna sEtthi House .The latter family had already

blessed us with two Azhagiya Singars , who were

the father and son (viz)., the 25th and the 26th Jeeyars

of Ahobila Matam .

 

Both the families came originally from the village

of Partitthippattu near KanchIpuram . The two closely

related families were rich land lords and were deeply

involved with kaimkaryam for Sri Bhumi Devi SamEtha

Sri OppilA-appan of ThiruviNNagar celebrated by

Swami NammAzhwAr , Kaliyan and the two Mudhal

AzhwArs .

 

The tiny hamlet of DhEvanAr ViLAgam , which one can call

as the suburb of Oppiliappan Koil , housed the heads

of Two great Sri ViashNavite families described by PeriyAzhwAr

as " yEzhAtkkAlam PazhippilOm " .Infact , the father of

the future 43rd Jeeyar , Sri ThiruvEnkatAcchAr Swamy was

the One , who persuaded Sri InjimEttu Azhagiya Singar

to ascend the AchArya Peetam of the Sri Matam in 1941.

Sri ThiruvEnkatAcchAr Swamy and NavanItham Sri KrishNamAcchAr

Swamy (Father of Sri SrirAma DesikAcchAr Swamy )were

great Kaimkarya ParALs of Sri Oppiliappan and great scholars

in Ubhaya vedAntham .It was a sight to see both of them lead

the Divya prabhandha GhOshti during BrahmOthsavams for

Sri Oppiliappan . Every day , the two Swamis will join

for the NithyAnusandhAna GhOshti at Sri Oppiliappan sannidhi.

After ardha Jaamam , Sri ThriuvEnkatAcchAr Swamy will

leave in the bullock cart for the short ride back to

DhEvanAr ViLagam listening to the peels of the big

Bell of the temple of Sri Oppiliappan .

 

To this great Sri VaishNavar , Sri ThiruvEnkatAcchAr

Swamy , was born my AchAryan , Sri Lakshmi NarasimhAcchAr

in the year 1901. He accepted ThuriyAsramam in 1951

and was Chinna Azhagiya Singar until the year 1953 ,

when H.H. the 42nd Jeeyar ascended to Sri Vaikuntam .

Thus , He became the revered 43rd Jeeyar of Sri Matam

and occupied that throne until 1957 prior to being

called back by MalOlan to perform nithya kaimkaryam

for Him at Parama padham .

 

The revered 43rd Jeeyar was an expert in tarka Saasthram

and had a brilliant intellect that helped him master

the SaamAnya and VisEsha Saasthrams .He led the life of

an ancient Maharshi and created the Sanskrit Schools at

MadhurAnthakam , West Maambalam and PaathUr .His archai

is seen at the AadhanUr temple in the form of a painting

even today .His last ChAthurmAsyam was at HrishiikEsam ,

where to his heart's content, he performed thrikAla AarAdhanam

for Sri Lakshmi Nrusimhan with sacred GangA Theertham

just as the revered prakrutham Jeeyar did two years back(?)

at BadrikAsramam .He performed the Raaja Gopura Kaimkaryams

for the Sri Matam temples at PuLLambhUthamkudi and

ThiruveNNai NallUr besides performing the JeerNOtthAraNam

for the temple of Sri Kanakavalli SamEtha Sri VeerarAghavan .

 

In the limited time of reign ( 5 years and 10 Months) ,

H.H. the DhEvanAr ViLAgam Jeeyar travelled all over

India and blessed the sishya Vargams as per the edict

of MalOlan to Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Jeeyar some six hundred

years ago . For quite some time , such extensive sanchArams

by a reigning Jeeyar of the Sri Matam had not taken place .

 

H.H. the 43rd Jeeyar's Virakthi is well known and

he repeatedly recited kaliyan's prayer:

 

" vEnDEn Manai Vaazhkkayai ViNNagar mEyavanE " .

 

As the revered Jeeyar reached the divya dEsam

of NaimisAraNyam , he contemplated on the great

Passura Vaakhyams of Thirumangai Mannan once again

and repeated with deep feeling ,

 

" Vanthun Thiruvadi adainthEn NaimisAraNiyathuLanthAi,

 

VaanOr Nalam Purinthu irainjum Thiruvadi adhainthEn ,

NaimisAraNiyatthuLenthAi ,

 

NaathanE Vanthu Unn Thiruvadi AdhainthEN

NaimisAraNiyatthuLenthAi ,

 

NampanE Vanthun Thiruvadi adhainthEN ,

 

Nadungi naan Vanthu Unn Thiruvadi adhainthEn ,

 

Naadi naan Vanthu Unn Thiruvadi AdahinthEn

 

DhAnavarkku yenrum NanjanE , Vanthu Unn

Thiruvadi adhainthEn ,

 

Yenn naavinAl vanthun Thiruvadi adhainthEn

 

Naanudait tavatthAl Thiruvadi adhainthEn ,

NaimisAraNiyatthuLenthAi "

 

Through His TapObhalam , Vaachika , Kaayika

and MaanasIka mahA kaimkaryams , Sri VaNN SatakOpa

Sri VeerarAghava Yahtindhra MahA Desikan repeated

at NaimisAraNyam , " ImayOr Naathan Vanthirainjum

NaimisAraNatthu Yenthayai chinthaiyuL Vaitthu ,

kaadhalE mihuntha KALIYAN Vaai oli seythu " and

ascended to Parama Padham for paripUrna BrahmAnubhavam

and Nithya kaimkaryam on the hEviLampi Kaarthikai ,

Sukla Paksha ThrithIyai dinam ( 24.11.1957).

 

AdiyEn concludes this small tribute to my

AchAryan , who blessed me with samAsrayaNam as a boy

with the recitation of His Taniyan :

 

Srimath SripruthvIsvara SataripuNA SamyamIndhrENa dhrushtam

nyasthAthmanam NrusimhE Narahari Satajith yOginEthu: prasAdhAth

Prag~nya:SrirangakAri prabhava yathipathE: PrAptha LakshmInrusimha

aasthAnam YadhIndhram SAKALA GUNA NIDHIM VeeraraghveeDh SatArim

 

Sri VaNN SatakOpa Sri VeerarAghava SatakOpa Yathindhra

mahA DesikAya Nama :

 

Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan