On UttamUr SwAmi ...

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SrI:

 

Dear members,

 

Though the following was a private mail between SrI Sadagopan

and myself, aDiyEn felt that it can be made public because it

was on SrI UttamUr SwAmi. aDiyEn is sure that SrI Sadagopan will

approve this.

 

aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

anantapadmanAbhan.

 

 

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SrImad abhinava dESika vAtsya VeerarAghavArya mahAdESikAya namaH

 

namO nArAyaNa !

 

Dear SrI SaThakOpan,

 

> The above packages arrived.

> Please accept my sincere thanks

> for your help in acquiring these treasures,

> which will take many life times to go through

> and begin to understand the rich kula dhanam

> left behind by Sri Abhinava Desika

> UtthamUr Swamy. It is mind boggling to

> think about how one MahAn was able to

> accomplish all this and more in a single life time.

 

Nice to hear about the arrival of the sea-mail

packages reg UttamUr SwAmi's Books. As you have rightly pointed

out, vidvAns of that period had no other choice but to award the

title " abhinava dESika " for the mind-boggling

achievements of comparitive merit wrt the original

dESika, based upon his outstanding and deep scholarship

in many SAstras.

 

Incidently, SrI PerukkAraNai swAmi told in a private

conversation last week that in comparison to the pANDityam

of SrI UttamUr SwAmi, his scholarship is like a drop in the

former's <UttamUr SwAmi's> ocean <of PANDityam>. Swami added

a wonderful comparison based upon a verse by a kavi : The

vAnara-army of Lord RAma crossed the ocean effortlessly

because of the bridge on the surface of the water. But if

you question them on the depth of the ocean, they can't

answer. Similarly, while both himself and SrI UttamUr SwAmi

have crossed a ocean <ie. read many books ; written

commentaries etc on SAstras>, he can't tell about the depth

of the ocean of SAstras, while SrI Uttamur SwAmi did that

too. More moving was that, after telling this, PerukkAraNai

swAmi made a big anjalai for SrI UttamUr SwAmi raising his

hand above the head and said that " SwAmi pOla yArum vara

muDiyADu ...SarvatOmukha PANDityam " <None can be like UttamUr

SwAmi; Outstanding scholarship on all sides of SAstras>. When

even a mahA VidvAn of PerukkAraNai SwAmi's caliber (a leading

vidvAn with great merit) is holding SrI UttamUr SwAmi in such

high esteem, aDiyEn is not able to imagine the greatness of

" abhinava dESika " .

 

SrI KarunAkaran SwAmi makes it a point to deliever the insights

of SrI UttamUr SwAmi in the topic of his upanyAsam/kAlakshEpam.

SwAmi felt very much and told me after an upanyAsam related to

Divya Prabandham : " We are doing total injustice to SrI UttamUr

SwAmi who has blessed us with such treasures. There are so

many gems after gems of wonderful insights and nirvAhams in

Prabandha Rakshai vyAkyAnam. In so many places, swAmi has

improvised SrI PeriavAcchAn PiLLai's vyAkyAnam. Its a pity that

hardly do vidvAns take time and energy to read them properly

and propagate these amazing contributions by UttamUr SwAmi. We

should make it a point to do this propagation without fail " .

 

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By the way, aDiyEn has sent 25 ThiruppAvai books through

sea-mail for you.

 

aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

anantapadmanAbhan.