Swamy Desikan's ChillaRai RahasyankaL Series to appear on MalOlan net from October 1, 2001

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Dear BhakthAs:

 

After the SamarpaNam of NavamaNi Maalai and

MummaNikkOvai to the dhivya Dampathis from

Swamy Desikan's Hands on September 28 ( PurattAsi

SravaNam day ) in preparation for the Major Kaimkaryam

of construction and samarpaNam of RathnAngi for

Uthsavar DevanAthan of ThiruvahIndhrapuram , adiyEn is

ready now to start the series on Swamy Desikan's

marvellous chillaRai RahsyangaL. May Swamy Desikan's

and asmath AchAryan's anugraham be with adiyEn

to make progress on this Mamooth task.

 

adiyEn is " seelamillA siRiyOn and SiRiya Jn~atthan " .

Despite of these two glaring deficencies , adiyEn

has been inspired to perform this kaimkaryam

to the VaishNavA Community out of desire to share

the qyuintessence of Swamy Desikan's extraordinary

Sri Sookthis . Hopefully , these postings will enhance

your interest later to learn about them in the time honored

way of KaalkshEpam under the sacred feet of a SadhAchAryan .

 

These ChillaRai Rahasyams deal with esoteric

aspects of our sacred manthrams and Tattvams ; these

postings may not hence be of interest to the general reader.

Further , these granthams as indicated earlier are normally

learnt via KaalkshEpam Routes under a sacred and qualified

AchAryan's Thiruvadi .

 

MahAns like SriVaikunta Vaasi U.Ve.Oppiliappan Koil

V.N. Srirama DesikachAriyAr (VNS) Swamy recognized

that these rare Sri Sookthis of Swamy Desikan

will increasingly be out of the reach of most of us

in the modern times,when very few devotees have

the time or interest or background to acquire

this knowledge about our sampradhAyam via the traditonal

KaalkshEpam route.Hence , Sri VNS Swamy out of his compassion

for us undertook the enormous work of examining palm leaf

manuscripts of the original works and the private notes on them

and in co-operartion with giant SriVaishNavite scholars of his

time like Sri Vaikunta Vaasis , Sri GhOsthipuram Swamy ,

Sri PutthankOttam Swamy and Sri MadhurAnthakam VeerarAghavaachAr

Swamy released the first-ever commentary on ChillaRai

RahasyangaL .Prakrutham HH PouNDarIkapuram SrimadhANDavan

out of His Daya has published the ChillaRai RahasyangaL

over the past few years. His intention is for the growth of

Aathma-Jn~Anam for the Sri VaishNavAs and adaptation of life as

ParamaikAnthis and PrapannAs performing Kaimkaryams to

the Dhivya Dampathis, AchAryAs and BhAgavathAs.

 

The First Part of Swamy Desikan's ChillaRai RahasyangaL

are 17 in number and are known as Amrutha Ranjani RahasyangaL.

One of them known as Saara Dheepam is no longer available.

The title of Amrutha Ranjani denotes that these RahasyangaL

are delectable like Amrutham (Nectar).

 

The Sixteen Amrutha Ranjani Rahasyangals are:

 

1.Sri SampradhAya Parisuddhi

2.Tatthva Padhavee

3.Rahasya Padhavee

4.Tatthva Navaneetham

5.Rahasya Navaneetham

6.Tathtva Maathrukai

7.Rahasya Maathrukai

8.Tatthva SandhEsam

9.Rahasya SandhEsam

10.Rahasya sandhEsa VivaraNam

11.Tathva RathnAvaLi

12.Tatthva RathnAvaLi-PrathipAdhya Sangraham

13.Rahsya RathnAvaLi

14.Rahasya RathnAvaLi Hrudhayam

15.Tathtva Thraya SuLakam

16.Rahasya Thraya SuLakam

 

We have to remember and thank with utter gratitude

Oppiliappan Koil Sri VNS Swamy for writing these commentaries

for the FIRST TIME for the above Sixteen RahasyangaL

since Swamy Desikan blessed us with them out of His

Sishya Vaathsalyam in the 14th Century . Six Hundred

and three years had gone by since Swamy Desikan

ascended to Parama Padham in 1369 C.E., when Sri VNS

Swamy's commentaries were released .No other AchAryan

or VidvAn had commented on them during these 603 years.

 

The commentaries for the Second Part of ChillaRai RahasyangaL

were completed and released by Sri VNS Swamy of Oppilappan Sannidhi

in the year 1980 C.E. These are four Chillarai RahasyangaL

known as Amrutha SvAdini RahasyangaL:

 

1. Saara Saaram

2. Abhaya pradhAna Saaram

3. Rahasya SikhAmaNi

4. Anjali Vaibhavam

 

Two RahasyangaL known as Tatthva SikhAmaNi

and Madhura Kavi Hrudhayam have disappeared

(luptham) now due to our misfortune.

 

The third part of ChillaRai RahasyangaL were

released by HH Prakrutham PoundarIkapuram

Andavan in 1995 for the first time . Sri VNS

Swamy was in his eighties , when he completed

the hand written manuscript . HH Prakrutham

Poundarikapuram Andavan obtained this manuscript

from Sri VNS Samy's son , Sri U.Ve. V.N.Gopala

Desikan of Oppiliappan Sannidhi and facilitated

the release of the Third volume consisting of

the follwing Seven ChillaRai RahasyanGaL:

 

1. PrahdAna Sathakam

2. UpakAra Sangraham

3. Saara Sangraham

4. VirOdha ParihAram

5. Muni Vaahana BhOgam

6. Sri hasthigiri MahAthmyam

7. Parama Padha SopAnam

 

There are thus 27 ChillaRai RahasyangaL that focus

on Sri VaishNava TatthvangaL and RahasyangaL beyond

the extensive coverage of these by Swamy Desikan's

Magnum Opus , Srimath Rahasya Thraya Saaram .When includes

Para matha Bhangam to the list of the above 27 ChillaRai

Rahasyangal and factor in the 4 ChillaRai rahasyangal,

which are no longer available to us, the total number

of these rahasyangaLs becomes THIRTY TWO.

 

AdiyEn has already posted articles on PradhAna

Sathakam , Anjali Vaibhavam and Rahasya SikhAmaNi(?)

and parts of Parama Padha SopAnam in the SaraNAgathi Journal

issues (http://www.srivaishnava.org/sgati )or in the Bhakthi

List archives.

 

Adiyen will start with SampradhAya Parisuddhi first

and continue with the rest of the ChillaRai RahasyangaLs

that have not been covered sofar in THE SARANAGATHI JOURNAL.

 

Those of you , who are not on the mailing list of

Saranagathi Journal are requested to contact

the Publisher of the Saranagathi Journal

( srengara) for access to the past and

future postings of ChillaRai RahasyangaL . AdiyEn thanks

Sriman Venkatesh Elayavalli , the Web Master for the Journal

in advance for his help in archiving them at

the SaraNagathi web site that he has constructed

with high esthetics and affection.

 

adiyEn invites your indulgence for any mistakes that

I may be making as I commence this task based on

the insightful commentaries of Sri Vaikunta Vaasi

from my village of Oppilaippan Koil, Sri V.N. Srirama

DesikAcchAr Swamy .adiyEn seeks his blessings as

well a sthe dhivya dampathis of ThiruviNNagar .

 

Srimath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,

Daasan , Oppilappan Koil VaradAchAri SatakOpan