Acharya vaibhavam - 33- Acharyan is to be worshipped at at all times with unshakeable faith; He is verily the God Himself.

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama:

 

Dearest all,

 

The Acharya parampara anusanthAnam or dedication to

the Acharya lineage should culminate and become

fulfilled upto the Supreme Paramathman who is the

Paramachaaryan. It signifies that one should remember

lovingly and devotedly the Acharya lineage beginning

with his own acharya with great reverence and respect,

gratitude and bhakti.

 

DhyAyEtha japEth namEth bhakthyA bhajEdabhyarChayEth

mudhA |

Gurupaadhaambhujam DhyAyEth.. ||

 

Sruthi also ordains that ‘sa Cha AchArya vamSO gnEya:

- One should meditate with bhakti upon the Acharya

[Preceptor]. One should repeat his holy name,

prostrate, worship, and praise the Guru with delight.

One should worship the lotus feet of the Acharya.

 

Our AchAryAs are the ground on which we build our

lives. Without them we are nothing and our wanderings

here and there on this earth has no meaning

whatsoever. Blessed with the BhAgyam of SadAchArya

katAksham and anugraham, our lives become purposeful.

In addition to reverence for our own direct AchAryan

and His paramparai, we are instructed by SaasthrAs

that we should revere all Sri VaishNava AchAryAs, who

grow our knowledge of Tatthvams and PurushArtham,

while holding one's own AchAryan's sacred feet on our

heads since He is the One, who blessed us with Pancha

SamskArams and performed Prapatthi for us.

 

The pramANam is:

 

manthrE tath dEvathAyAm cha, TathA manthrapradhE Gurou

Thrishu Bhakthi: sadhA kaaryA, saa hi prathama

Saadhanam

 

The one and only (primary) step for our ujjIvanam is

the devotion to Manthrams such as AshtAksharam and

Dhvayam, reverence for one's AchAryan, who performed

UpadEsam of these powerful manthrAs and dhruva Bhakthi

for Sriman NaarAyaNan, who is the Para Devathai for

these ManthrAs. Sustained and unfaltering devotion to

the Three(mathrams,

AchAryan and Sriman NaarAyaNan) should always be there

to realize upliftment in our spiritual saadhanas.

 

Our core belief is MahA VisvAsam to our AchAryan in

the spirit of Supreme God. AchAryan is Para Brahmam

(Supreme Brahman). He is the highest to be attained as

Education, wealth, the means for PurushArtham and the

essence of VedAs. AchAryan is the One, who instructed

us on SadAchAram and anushtAnam. Therefore, He has to

be worshipped by us with reverence at all times out of

gratefulness (Kruthaj~nathai) for His MahOpakAram.

 

Our attitude towards our AchAryan has to be along the

lines shown by Swami Desikan and Sri NadadUr AmmAL:

 

Achaaryasya PrasAdEna mama sarvam abhIpsitham

prApnuyAmithi YasyAsthi VisvAsa: Sa SukhI BhavEth

 

The Sishyan, who has the unshakable faith in his

AchAryan's grace as THE cause for realizing all that

he wishes for, will be the most happy and contented

one.

 

Therefore, our AchArya Bhakthi is molded along the

lines drawn by Swamy Desikan:

 

archanIyasya Vandhyasccha KeerthanIyasya SARVADHAA

DhyAyEth japEth namEdh BhakthyA bhajEdh abhyarchyEn

MUDHA

upAyOpEya BhAvEna TamEva SaraNam vrajEth

 

AchArya vandhanam, Japam of His Taniyan, Keerthanam of

His auspicious attributes, dhyAnam with joy should be

peformed by us always. We should seek His feet for

succor as the upAyam for placing our AathmA,the

BhagavAn's property, at His CharaNAravindham as Aathma

NivEdhanam.

 

The noblest of instruction given to us is: SarIram,

artham, PrANAmsccha SadhgurubhyO NivadhayEth

 

Everything --our body, wealth and even prANan--has to

be placed at the sacred feet of our SadAchAryan, who

saves us from the terrors of SamsAram and helps us

most mercifully to reach Parmaam Gathi.

 

All Sri VaishNava AchAryAs in general and one's own

AchArya in particular have to be revered along the

above lines. Let us therefore celebrate our AchAryAs,

who have nothing but our KshEmam alone in their minds,

prepare us for a state of fitness for arpaNam of our

Jeevan to Sriya: Pathi.

 

Let us enjoy the Acharya parampara’s glories

hereafter.

AsmadhAchArya paryanthAm vandhE GuruparamparAm

Regards

Namo Narayana

dasan