Sri Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Jeeyar's Thirunakshathram SamarpaNam

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PramAthi Samvathsaram

Purattaasi Sukla Paksha Panchami

JyEshtA (kEttai ) Nakshathram

Siddha Yogam .

 

October 14 , 1999

 

 

Dear Sri VaishNavAs :

 

Today is one of the greatest days in the history of

Sri VaishNavam .Today is the sacred day , when a great

Acharyan incarnated at ThirunArAyaNapuram (Melkote)

as NrusimhAnupravEsa avathAran . He is saluted with

the Taniyans :

 

KesavArya KrupA paathram dhee-samAdhi GuNArNavam

Sri SatAri yathIsAnAm dEsikEndhram aham BhajE

 

PrapadhyE niravadhyAnAm nishadhyAm guNa sampadhAm

SaraNam Bhava bheethAnAm SATAKOPA MUNEESVARAM

 

This MahA purushan is none other than Sri Lakshmi Nrusimha

PaadhukhA Sevaka , Srimath Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Yathindhra

MahA Desikan , the founder of the Ahobila Mata dEsika

paramparai .

 

He was born as the son of a great Sri Vaishnavite Scholar ,

AathrEya KiDAmbi KesavAcchAr Swamy of ThirunArAyaNapuram .

The year was SiddhArthi , the month was PurattAsi and the thithi

was Sukla Paksha panchami as it is today .The constellation of

JyEshtA(kEttai)was in ascendance . The lagnam was Dhanur Lagnam .

The new born baby wa sgiven the name of SrinivAsan .

The year and the month corresponding to the birth date in

the western calendar is September, 1379 A.D. Srinivasan

learnt saamAnya Saasthrams ( Kaavyam , Naatakam ,

Tarkam , VyAkaraNam and concluded his VedAdhyayanam

and Divya Prabhandham recitation from his father .

He was sent by his father thereafter to

Kaanchipuram to learn adhyAthma Saasthrams and Grantha

ChAthushtya KaalakshEpam ( study of Sri BhAshyam,

GeethA bhAshyam, Bhagavath vishayam and Srimadh

Rahasya Thraya Saaram ) from the greatest Sri VaishNavite

scholar of the time revered as GatikAsatham ammAL ,

the grandson of the famous AchAryan NadadUr ammAl.

By the age of twenty like Swami Desikan before ,

the son of KidAmbi KesavAchAr with the name of

SrinivAsan became a great scholar par excellence .

At the conclusion of his studies , Sri Lakshmi Nrusimhan

of AhObilam invited SrinivAsan to His divya dEsam and

personally initiated the young BrahmachAri of twenty into

SanyAsAsramam and gave him the name of Sri SatakOpa Jeeyar .

 

Sri Lakshmi Narasimhan's uthsava Moorthy also landed

on the hands of SatakOpa Jeeyar and commanded the Jeeyar

to travel with Him and initiate people of the villages and

cities into Sri ViashNavam thru SamAsrayaNa BharanyAsAdhi

rites and protect the Bhagavadh RaamAnuja Darsanam . From

the September of 1398 A.D., the time of ascending the throne of

Ahobila Mata Peetam as the first occupant to the time of

his departure for parama Padham , many miracles happened

in the life of Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Jeeyar . He ruled as

Ahobila mata SimhAsanAdhipathi for nearly 60 blessed years.

His many kaimkaryams to nourish the Bhagavadh RaamAnuja

SiddhAntham have been covered extensively by the article

in the Ahobila matam Home pages under the URL:

 

http://www.ahobilamutt.org/bio/1stjeer.html

 

AdiyEn recommends that article for details of

the life , mission and accomplishmnets of

Sri Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Yathindhra MahA Desikan .

The light that this prathamAchAryan of Ahobila Matam

lit continues to shine brightly and is dispelling

the darkness of Kali Yugam even today . The 45th Jeeyar

of this AchArya paramparai reigns supreme today

with the title of Sri VaNN SatakOpa Sri NarAyaNa

YathIndhra MahA Desikan and blesses us all .

 

All of the occupants of the throne of Ahobila Matam

are revered as Sri Lakshmi Nrusimha DIVYA PAADHUKHA

SEVAKAAS .

 

AdiyEn and three other BhakthAs pondered on what we

can do to celebrate the Thirunakshathram of this MahAn,

Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Jeeyar , during this PramAthi year .

It became clear to us that nothing will be more important

than celebrating the Lord's PaadhukhAs , which are

our AchAryAs . Swami Desikan revealed to us first

the symbolic significance and the greatness of

Sri RanganAtha PaadhukhAs ( Swami NammAzhwAr )

through his marathon effort of completion of thousand

plus slOkams under two hours at Srirangam . These

magnificient grantham , Sri RanganAtha PaadhukhA

sahasram slOkams are very powerful in their maanthric

significance and auspiciousness .We decided

that it will be the kaimkaryam of our life time

to engage in the effort to meditate on PoorvAchArya

Granthams and make them available to other BhagavathAs .

We have created as a team a special home page for

Swami Desikan's Sri RanganAtha PaadhukhA sahasram

and present it as a birthday gift to Sri Adhi VaNN SatakOpa

Jeeyar , who was very dear to both Swami NammAzhwAr

and Swami Desikan .

 

The significance of the Paadhukhais of Sri RanganAthA

has been covered in the AchArya Srimukhams . This sthOthram

with 32 chapters on the Lord's Paadhukhais is considered as

the essence of Sri Bhagavadh RaamAnuja SiddhAntham(viz).,

Bhaagavatha Seshathvam . Another view of PurvAchAryAs is

that these 32 chaptrs are the essence of 32 Brahma VidhyAs

elaborated in the Upanishads; These 32 chapters are also

considered the quintessence of the 24 lettered Gayathri

Manthram and the 8 lettered AshtAksharam .In yet another view ,

these 32 chapters of Sri RanganAtha PaadhukhA Sahasram

are considered as the distileld essence of the 18 chapters

of Bhagavad GitA , 4 chapters of Brahma Soothram and the 10

decads of Thiruvaimozhi (18+4+10=32).Such is the glory of

the Sri ranganAtha PaadhukhA sahsram bequeahed to us as

our Kula Dhanam by Swami Desikan . May all readers be

the beneficiaries of the Divya Dampathis of Srirangam

and Swami NammAzhwAr as well as Swami Desikan .

 

Sri Achutharaman of Singapore created these beautiful home pages .

He is maintaining them as well. Sri MuraLi Rangaswami has

transcribed the slOkams and their translations by U.Ve.

Oppiliappan Sannadhi Dr.VedAntha Desikan(Dr.VNV) from latter's

monograph released earlier this year by LIFCO at Chennai.

 

Sri MaadhavakkaNNan of Singapore has coordinated

the project with the competent help of Srimathi

PraveeeNA Anand from their Singapore Base . AdiyEn

has added special notes to the translated slOkams of

Dr.VNV consisting of Abhinava Desikan Sri UtthamUr

Swamy and Srimadh Andavans of periyAsramam along with

additional points from adiyEn's own anubhavam. We have

reached a level of 85 slOkams today . It will take us

another two plus years to complete this kaimkaryam

at the rate of one slOkam per day . May Sri RanganAyaki

SamEtha Sri RanganAthA , Swami NammAzhwAr , Swami Desikan

and our own AchAryAs bless us to complete this Kaimkaryam

and give us the strength and clarity of mind to accomplish

this task that they have commanded us to do .

 

THE URL FOR THIS HOME PAGE CREATED FOR THIS SPECIAL

DAY IS: http://padhuka.homepage.com

 

One of the powerful yanthrams drawn by the hand of

Swami Desikan for the 949th slOkam of the Chithra Paddhathi

is included in the home pages for its RakshaNam . An introduction

to the PaadhukhA sahasra KhAvyam , the meaning and notes

for each of the slOkams , the manthra siddhi of selected

slOkams , the Srimukhams from four AchAryAs for this occasion

are included .

 

One of the main feature of these home pages is

" the slOkam for each day " , which will be initiated

from today .You can access the first slOkam today .

Every 24 hours , the pages will take you to the next slOkam

with the meaning and the auxilary notes . If one misses

a couple of slOkams due to weekends or travel , one

can click " previous " andcatch up. It will take 5 minutes

of your time every day.Every morning at 7 AM Singapore time ,

one slOkam for that day will be released .Please do study

them beofre you start your daily worldly activities

and receive the Divya Dampathi's blesisngs .

 

It is with great humility , we place this home page

for Sri RanganAtha PaadhukhA sahasram at the lotus

feet of the Divya Dampathis and seek their blessings

on the BhakthAs all over the world .

 

VyOmapurIsam Sri VenkatEsam Sri RanganAtham Sri DevarAjam

Sri Adhi VaNN SatakOpa YathIndhrEna saakam RaamAnujam BhajE

 

(meaning): AdiyEn meditates on the sacred feet of

Sri Oppiliappan standing as ThiruvEnkatmudayAn at

ThiruviNNagar, Sri RanganAthan , Sri Varadarajan

of Kaanchi , Sri RaamAnujA along with Sri Adhi VaNN

SatakOpa YathIndhra Maha Desikan on this day .

 

NigamAntha MahA Desika padhAmbhOja Shadpadham

YathIsvaram praNamyAham AchArya VandhanArtham

 

(meaning): AdiyEn's salutations to SriAdhiVaNN SatakOpa

YathIndhra MahA Desikan , the honey bee that hums around

the lotus feet of Sri NigamAntha MahA Desikan .

 

Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan