Sri Ranga Sri Vol. I -003

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Sriman! Sri Ranga Sriyam anubadravam anudinam samvardhaya/

Sriman! Sri Ranga Sriyam anubadravam anudinam samvardhaya/

Kaveri VardhathAm KalE, kAlE varshathu vAsava:/

Sri RanganAthO jayathu Sri Ranga Sris cha VardhathAm//

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SRI RANGA SRI

Volume I / Issue 3 dated 21stth October 2000

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In this Issue:

Deepavali Greetings from Sri Ranga Sri and Editorial

1. " Sriranga Vijayam " Purisai Sri Krishnamachariar Swami.

2. " Sri BAshyAmrutham " - Part I : An Introduction

3. " AchArya Vamsa Vriksham " - Part 31 A - Anbil Ramaswamy.

4. " Learn our Sampradayam the easy way " -Lesson 8 " Dharma "

5. " Sri Vaishnava Sampradayam " - Sri D. Soundararajan Swami.

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Deepavali Greetings from Sri Ranga Sri :

Dear Bhagavatas:

We wish you a very Happy Deepavali.

Thava JyOthir Jwalathu!

Let your light shine.

Let the festival of lights light and delight our live

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Editorial :

Hope you have gone through the first 2 issues of " " inaugurated

on 8th October 2000 on the Tirunakshatram day of Swami Desikan, with the

Srimukhams blessings of almost all YathisrEshtas and AchAryas.

Membership :

Within a week, the number of rs to the journal has crossed the

century mark and many more requests are being received everyday.

If you are satisfied, tell your friends, who may be interested, to join by

sending a message to

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If not, please tell us!

Materials received:

We have been blessed with not only the Srimukhams but also with a plethora

of articles of quality on the various aspects of our Sampradayam - running

to several hundreds of pages besides several recordings on audio cassettes

exclusively for publishing in " " (e.g) HH. ParakAla Matam Jeeyar,

SarvaSri Purisai Krishnamachar Swami, V.S, Karunakaran Swami, Seva Swami,

M.K.Srinivasan Swami, Srivatsankachar Swami, Uruppattur Soundararajan

Swami and many others. We have to stagger the releases and the articles with

minimal editing to suit the electronic journal format.

 

In this Issue, we feature the following:

1. SRIRANGA VIJAYAM: Since the journal is named " Sri Ranga Sri " , Sri Purisai

Swami commanded that we commence with his series " Sriranga Vijayam " on the

glory of Srirangam and the Divya Dhampathis there.

2. " SRI BASHYAMRUTAM " - An introduction by HH Srimad Andavan of

Poundarikapuram Asramam and a short synopsis of the contents of Bhagavad Sri

Ramanyjacharya's " Sri Bashyam " by Late Tirupputkuzhi Narasimha Tatachariar

Swami of Sri Hayagriva Vidya Peetam.

(Due to space constraints, other topics relating to " GitAmrutam " ,

" PrabandhAmrutam " and " DesikAmrutam " will be taken up subsequently)

3. " ACHARYA VAMSA VRIKSHAM " : This series was commenced as

commanded by HH Srimad Andavan of Poundarikapuram Asramam and

was being serialized in " SaraNAgathi " journal earlier, upto Part 30. The

Parampara of Ahobila Matam has been exhaustively dealt with in

" AchArya Vaibhavam " by Sri VisishTadvaita Pracharini Sabha. As for

TennAchArya lineage, Sri A. Krishnamachari Swami of " Sri Vaishnava Sri "

informed that they have already provided information through their

Home page. As per HH's direction and the demand from many readers, we

continue the series now from Part 31. featuring the details of Munitraya

lineage of Poundarikapuram Asramam and Srirangam Srimad Andavan of

Periyasramam. For the latter, Sri R. Srinivasan of Brakes, India Ltd, and

Sri Natteri Rajagopalan Swami, Editor of Sri Ranganatha Paduka have

made available relevant materials. After this, we propose to cover the

AchArya Parampara of other Munitraya lineages as well as Sri ParakAla mutt,

for which HH Abhinava Vageesa Brahma Tantra Swatantra Swami has provided a

couple of books (1 in English and 1 in Kannada) besides 2 other articles in

Kannada. We hereby convey our heartfelt thanks to them.

4. " SAMPRADAYA LESSONS " : Sri Seva Swami had asked that his Tamil lessons be

translated into English and published in the Internet journal. 7 out of 20

lessons for Grade I were published in " SaraNAgathi " journal. While some felt

that the series was " kidstuff " , we have received encouragement from many

readers who demanded continuing the same, as being most useful for the

younger generation, especially on this side of the globe. In fact, it was

meant to be " kidstuff " and written with the specific purpose of educating

the kids (being raised here) on the basics of our tradition. Sri

M.K.Srinivasan Swami has also translated both the parts in English and has

kindly provided the same to us. We will serialize his translation for Part

II after completing the lessons of Part I.

He has observed- " I shall be writing in the form of letters to children. It

will be really " KIDSTUFF " . As long as there are kids and kids continue to

come into this world, we cannot stop kidstuff! Does anyone stop

manufacturing toys? In fact, they make newer and newer toys each time.

" Arichuvadi " continues to be published with glossier pictures. Let me be

known as a 'Kidman' rather as anything else "

5. " SRI VAISHNAVA SAMPRADAYAM- A FEW IMPORTANT POINTS " . Tiruvheendrapuram

Uruppattur Chakravarthi Soundararaja Iyengar, Chairman of Hayagriva Vidya

PeeTam and of the Board of Editors of " Sri Kanchi Perarulalan " has provided

us with his booklet entitled as above. This will be useful for those who

have outgrown their " kid stage " . The author provides in a capsule form the

salient points relating to our Sampradayam so lucidly that it will be a kind

of " refresher " for the " learned ones " also.

Dasoham.

Anbil Ramaswamy

Editor & Publisher

" Sri Ranga Sri "

 

 

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