Acharya vaibhavam - 28- the Lord's upakaarams are numerous...

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama:

 

Dearest all,

 

The Lord is extremely merciful and helps us in very

many ways. His upakaarams are numerous. Even our mere

existence is His grace… He can simply say: That’s it

and close the show..”. It is His mercy that he is

giving us a chance to think and rectify ourselves

Let us enjoy Swami Desikan’s upakara sangraham. Swami

enlists further upakaarams of the Lord in his upakaara

sangraham.

 

1. propagation of Vedas through four headed BrahmA

before the Creation of the Universe.

 

2. Propagation of Epics like Srimad Ramayana,

Mahabharatha and PuraaNaas through Sages which explain

clearly the meaning of Vedas.

 

3. Creation of Guru- Paramapara to preach the Veda

through Saasthras to the proper disciples

 

4. When the people in the world get illusioned with

the spread of several religions and philosophies

opposed to the Vedas the Lord took incarnation of

Dattatreya and took sanyaasa and saved Vedas.

 

5. Propagation of the meanings of Vedas to the people

through AzhwArs and Acharyas.

 

6. wherever there is a decline in the performance of

Dharma, to get rid of the wicked people and to

protect good people, taking the incarnations

[avathArams] in this world in theform of Sri Rama and

Sri Krishna et al, and attracting people by the beauty

of His divine Body and correcting the people by

preachings like Srimad Bhagavad Gita and divine

actions also.

 

7. When we have committed endless sins, making us to

take birth as stationery objects like trees creatures

and animals which cannot perform religious rites as

stipulated in scriptures

 

8. Making us to be born in the families observing Sri

Ramanuja sampradaya which is the unparalleled and

unambiguous one.

 

9. Making our minds not getting influenced by other

religions like Buddism, Jainism, VaishEshika,

Charvaaka and Saankhya etc. which are opposed to Vedic

religion and philosophy.

 

10. To approach a good SadAchAryan there are six

requirements, affection [sankalpa] of the Lord,

inadvertently [atleast] doing a good deed, Lord’s

grace, meeting sath people [good people], and talking

with them on sath vishayams.; making an individual to

approach a sadAchArya by fulfilling the above six

requirements.

 

11. Making the individual the target of the grace of

the SadhAchArya.

 

12. Removing from our minds the evil thoughts like I

myself am the God [swathanthra bhramam]; and I will

not bow down to others.

 

13. Just like Arjuna listened to the teachings of

Bhagavd Gita by Lord Sri Krishna with rapt attention,

the preachings if SadAcharyan.

 

14. Making an individual get the upadesa of the three

divine mantras from SadhAchAryan.

 

15. Showing the Supreme Being as the Lord Sriman

Narayanan [Para tattva], Saranagati as the Supreme

Means [Parama hitham]. mOksha or eternal Bliss and

eternal service at SrivaikuNtam is the Supreme Goal

[Parama Purushartham]

 

16. Seeing that the atheistic [naasthika] thought does

not enter into the mind of ours nor influenced by

anybody.

 

17. Making us to develop an unshakeable desire to

attain moksham and making us to get detached from the

worldly desires and from the desire to attain heaven,

which are also short-lived and transitory attainments

 

18. Making us not becoming devoted towards other Gods

[devathAnthara Bhramam] other than the Only One

Supreme Lordship Sriman Narayanan.

 

19. Granting the will to an individual and giving me a

thought towards performance of Saranagati at His

Lotus Feet to attract His Grace.

[The upakarams - as extracted from the wrote up by Sri

U Ve Anantha Narasimhachariar Swami, Srirangam.]

 

With all these upakaarams done by the Lord, the

Jeevathma [we] decide to approach the SadhAchAryan who

comes in this most wonderful Acharya Lineage of

Srivaishnava acharyas. Let us begin to enjoy the

Guruparampara / Acharya and AzhwArs’ glories in

subsequent posts..

 

AsmadhAchArya paryanthAm vandhE GuruparamparAm

Regards

Namo Narayana

dasan