charya Srinivasacharya) Engineer, a sishya of Ahobila Mutt aDd a

I14 I
Engineer,
a sishyaof He was respotrsible
for the creclionof "Desila
charyaSrinivasacharya)
Ahobila Mutt aDd a regularmemberof ihe Bhavanam" in BoDbay.
Goshtifrom 1963upto this day,
Kalakshepa
Rs.5000for thisbook,in commemo- ISAVASYOPANISHAD BHASH! A
doDated
raLioDof hi, Sasblidbd,poorLi.Ou- Swdni
{r6edto call him " ASTIKA SIKHAMANI " as
be De\€rusedto misse\eoone ddy of Kdlalsbepa.
RAKSHA GRANTEAS :
with th€ commentaryof Our Swami called
" ACHARYA BHASHYA TATPARYA " was
publishedwith a donation of Rs. 2500 fcom
Sri B. T. Kuppuswamiand Sri B- T. Sampath
in memory of their fathe., Balur, Toopil,
Seshadriacharya
Swami),
(Nikshepa Raksha, Satcharitra Raksha,
NYAYA SIDHANJANA with tbe comPancharatra Raksha, Geetartha Sangraha
of UpaBjshadBhashyakara,Sri RangaRakshaandNitya Granlba ofSfi Bhaslyakara) dentary
mmanl]jaSwamiaod the oomEentaryof Maha
Sri DesikaSeventhCenteDaryTrust donai€d mahopadyayaKanchi Kiishna Tatarya called,
balf the cost and received500 copi$. This "Ratna Petika" and foot notes from Our
book did {ot include RahasyaRaksha as the Swamiwas publishednext.
6Amewa3 publish€d earlier by the Trust 10
B H A N C A A N D S R I M{ D
their book call€dChotusloti and Stolra Rafna P A R C M A T A
TRAYA
SARA :
RAHASYA
Bhashya.
The prioting is going ol1 for th€sebooks.
TATVA MUKTA KALAPA :
Polavanur, Sri U. Ve. Chakrapari Iyengat
The book waspublish€dwith a donatio! of Swami and hb brother, Sri U. Ve. Partha"
Rs. 16,000from the North Indial Patronof saraihyIyengar Swamirespectivelyhad agreed
Sri Desika Samptadaya, Sri MdDgni.am to b€ar the €nti.e cost and h8d already paid
fron1calcuLLa. the firs! irstalment, These would contain a
GoriDdaBdpujl(ol Pushkaram)
commeElaryof our swami.
ADHIKARANA SARAVALI was Publish'
ed with the anci€nt oommentarycf Achalya OTHER GRANTHAS:
Kumara Varadachatya oalled " Adhikaram
Sri Alavandar'sSIDHITRAYA waspublishChirtamaDi" and Our Swami's "SARARTHA
ed at the requestof Sri V, T. R. Swami. He
RATNA PRABHA." A doDatiof, of Rs.
paid the full oostof the book and he obtaitr€d
13,000 to cover lhe cost was r€ceivedfrom
a parlial grant from the Govt. of India. This
Boobay, Dharmika Sikhanani, Sri U. V€.
a commeotary
of Our S$/amiiD
alsocolrlarns
RamanujachatSwami.
SaDskrit.
TATVA TBBKA is a commentarYon Sri
PERIAZHWAR TIRUMOSHI was Publi'
Bhashya. Full giartha is not av6ilable. Tbe
portioas avajlablew€te scrutinisedby Srimad shed agsiD witb the lull fnaDcial aid from
in
Koliyalam Sq'ami at an earliet date Oul Sri V. T. Raogaswamylyeogat Swaori
SATABHTSIIEKAM
comm€moration of his
SwamisuppliedFoot notesfor this grantha
(lei5).
Th€ eEtire cost of tbe book, Rs. 5000was
BHAGAVAD GITA with a Tamil compaid by Sri U. Ve, Uruppattur, Nallan Chakra.
(populatly
calledGITARTI{AM and a word by
Iyengar
mentary
varti, Aviyur Sa.angapani
in TamilbyOurSwamiwaspub_
Bombay).
word
meaning
On the
ktrowtras V. S. Ratgan of
The
entire
costof Rs.5001waspaid by
oocsssionof bis SashtiabdaPoorti celebrations. lished.
145J
Vavasi Kottai Madabhusbi,Dhatmika Ratna,
R. SriEivasa!. (Partn€r,Bharat Skin Corpotation). This book coDtains the essenceof
Bhashya and Tatparya Chaqdrika ald easily
evenby a petsonwithout Sans'
understandable
krit knowledge.
DR.EAM COME TRUE I
Dur;ngOur Swarni'strip ro North lDdis io
establishtbe superiority of our Bhashyaksfa
Sidhanta(at Sholapu.),he madea Sankalpato
publish all rhe books in Our Sidhaotain
DEVANAGARI SCRIPT,to enablethe North
Indian Scholars to etudy them, the laok of
UPANISHADS (TWO VOLUMES) v/ere which was felt ard expr$sedto Our Swamiby
publishedagainwith the fiDancialaid of THE them. As usual the SankalpaflaE doEowith
'SATVIKATYAGA
SUNDARAM CIIARITIES.
". At the time of iDauguratiog Ubhaya VedantaGranthamala", RevcIn additior to the above' fnaDoial help for ved Acharya, Srimad RaDgaramaruja Maht
the publications was reoeived ftom oany Desika!, blessedOur SwaEi that tho o.gaDisa.
Astikas. To Bention a few:tios evouldgrow from strength to str€ngth otrd
he wa6 very confideat that all the iBportant
Sri V. T. R. SwaEi, was payiDg Rs. 50 per Sri suktis would be printed.
month for a loDgtime to engagea proofr€ader
Today, on the happyoccassio!ofcelebratiDg
to give a little rolief to Our Swami who wag
the SATABHISHBKAMT wo fltrd that tdost of
doing all.the correctionwork.
the gfanthasof Sri DesikaaDdoiher bookslike
of
Lloyd's
Road, Srutaprakasika,Upanishads,4000Prabandamr
Sri K. C. Varadachariar
ber€ditoryt{ustee of Lakhmipuram Temple, etc. had beencodplet€d, We all oould easily
was payiDgRs. 300everyJ€{tr fol r€placement gu€ssthat sucha mammothtask, was achieved
only to provethe eftcacyof the Satvika Tyaga
of typesfor two years.
Sankalpa atrd the greatnessof the Achalya
(eogineer)
and Sii K. Para6para and lhe blessingsof Lord Thiru.
Sri N. R. Srinivasao
who was stayiDgitr the Eiid
Soundara Rajatr was payiDg Rs. 25 eachto vengadadudaiyan
of Our Swamiall the 24 hou$ ofthe day.
m€etthe overheadcharge!,everyoonth,
sri R. Dotaitajan of " The Hindu." (now
Do more) ldade a lumP sum doMtion of
Rs. 1000for the publicalioDs.
WHAT NEXT:
There are maoy more booksof Sri Desik&
a8d the Abhinava Desika,to be publishedaod
maoy llore to be repriatedas the copiesatr
Apari from financial help, many others sold out, Fron the {bove narration. one oould
helpedthe publicationin so rEanyother ways easilyfind out that ih€ publicationssere oade
and to mentioDa few :possibleonly from out ofmunificient don4tio[s
froE s few w€ll-to-do Astikas and lhey were
Paiyambadi Srivat{algachar Slvamir Pai- coEpletelyvoluntary. Now the di6culty is to
yambadi VerkatavaradachariarSqramj, Pul!
safeguardthe printed copies as there is no
atrd Sri Chakra spaceia " Sidhasra@a
kuDnam Sd Stalasayanachar
" of Our Swadi and
vsrti of RelianceMotors, wer€helpitrginproof the probl€mof gettingmore financefor fulther
correctionand ttansliteraiionin Nagari script publicationsas the €ntire donationsar€ locked
from Grartba script etc. The two sons of up io uNold books. Astikas should come
Our Swami, Sri Srinivasa Raghavan,and Sri forward to purch4seone s€t of Sri Desika
Rajagopalhad beetrdoing the proof oorroction granthas,whioh is offe.edat Rs. 200 for wbich
after lhe ofroe hours.
they would get all lhe 'D$ika Sri Suklis'
t 46 I
alrrady priotod ald to b€ ptintedlD future.
EveryAstikain Sd DesikaSahpradaya
should
becomea mesber by payiog Rs. 200 and
pos$ssonesetof Sri Desika'sworksandkeep
theloiII his houseas tbeykr€p a Koyilalwa.in
bis house. OoeThousand"Eayagrivaldols"
aremadeby AbhinavaDesika,(in the form of
books) and waitiog to be e$hrin€din your
houseandtheyarecentpercentfit for worsbip
acoording
to Our Saopradaya.CoEefotward
anddo not missthis opportudityto possess
a
(Sri
Hayagriva
Idol."
Desika's
works).
"
scrutilyandpublicatio[at proportidre wheo
beis a little f.ee,whetherthe Seminar
is cotr.
duotedor !ot.
As for the other worksofsri Desiks,like
StotrasaodTamil Prabandams,
maby editions
hadaheadybeenpublish€d
atrdrepetitionday
beulnecessaay.However,Eany Astikas are
requestiog
Our Swamito p.ovidehisowacom"
meqtaryfor themalso. Ultimately he would
undertake
the6 at p.opertimes.
The idea of publishidga book called
Out of all the worksof Sri Desiko,all the i LAGIIU RAI{ASYATRAYA SARA'" A
UDGRANTHAS, exc€pt NYAYA PARI- oottd€nsed
version of SrimadRahasyatraya
bad
alre.dy
published
Sara,
usirg
Sti Desika'sown words and
SUDHI
beeq
by
by Our
The
Swaoi.
abovebookis waitiDgfo! a pat. s€nteDces,
avoidiDgrepetitiotrs
andaaguements,
ro4 whowouldbearthecost, Our Sw&rtuls is i! Our SwaBihmind for quit€ soae ti4e,
quit€Buretbat 6omeAstikawill d€frnitelyoodeThis cotdensedbook will beugofulto EaDy
forwardi! duecourseasit happenedto other Astikaswho could not fiad tido to do thc
gtsnlIas,
Kalakshepa
of thenai! graltha. At thgsaEe
ti6e the M0khyadhiksris
will oEly otudy the
at Sri Desita Vidya origiualversioD
I! oneofthe meetings
aspartof thoGrauthaChatuoh.
BhavaDam,Myl4po19,quite recently, Our tayaKolakshopa.Il tioe and heilth poroits,
postponing
the thoAstikaevorldwouldgetoDeEore
SwdEisaidthat h€is purposely
prirtilg of DRAMIDOPANISHAD TAT. Geur" froro Our Swami'speo,as "Granlhs
" LAGHV.
pARYA RATNAVALI,asthe samenoedsela.
AHNIKAM" oaEofrom his Rovorod
Aoharya.
thopandihaod
bonte scrutiny, He rcquested
id Sri DesikaS4mpradaya
to under. VEDANTA PUSHPANJALI,a granthoof
sobolars
taketh€ scrutiDyof the available
versionof the Poeoswaswrittetrby Our Swamiat th€ ti6o
g$!tha, asdifferentcommentators
had adop- of stariiog the coorDeotaryon Upanishad3
versions
of
tb€
Slokas
difrereot
atrdso&e (osuedPARISHKARA)andiut€ddedto beair
ted
portion! of the gronthado not r€3e!]ble
the offeriogoI prayerto Lord TiruveogadaDudaipoetio
and
style
Saili"
nrasterly
of
Sri yan for the successful
usual
fioish of bis Grantha
"
SwaDri
also
suggeskd
Our
that
Sri NirEara work utrdertbe bannerof Ubbaya
D€sika.
beinganorgaDisatronVedantaGranthaMala. Thevariow UpasanB
DesikaVidyaBbavaoam,
Sri
Desika
Sa[rpradaya
in
Vidya, MargasintheUpanishads
aretrestedasflowers
interest€d
and
orgatrise
arrango
a
Seminar
oB
the andofferedasPushpaDjali.Thebookwasflot
could
soloDg,asOur Swamiwasbusywitb
abovegranthawith th€avowedpurposeof dis- publish€d
publioatiod
Sloka
by
Sloka
and
decjde
on
of other Udgranthasand Sri
the cor- th€
cu$sing
probable
v€rdion
of
the Slokaswhich D6ika's works. This book!,eillnow berelea.
r€ctand
wouldfit into thecontextard match the Saili sed soon. The cost o[ this book is borne
of Sri Desika;andthat Our Swamiwould al- by lhe fadousLadyDoctor Dr, E. V. KalyaDi
waysbeavailablefor colsultations.I{owever, andher brothersandwill be dedicated
to the
as theabovegraothais io the lisr of Sri Desi. memoryof (Late) Dr. E. V, Srivivasan,
Eye
aDdSrinati Kadnammal,parentsof
ka'sworksto bepublhhedby Our Swandac. Surgeoo,
cordi4g td hi6 Saokalparhowill takeup the the donors.Dr. p. V. Sririvasanwasa devoul
141 |
bi8 Sidbalta,atrd at
his workof propagatirg
the saEetime regrettedthat he could not have
Sri Destkaae his directisishya. Sri Desika
that he couldnot study
also,ir seems
rcgretted
directlyuddei the fe€tof Sri Bhashyakara. To
Th6bookTATVA SARAbY Nadatu Am- remedythis mutual regr€ts,it is evideDt,tbat
alay, Sri Bhashyakaratook an AbinavaAvataraand
on the Satabhisheka
mal will be r€leased
Comaittee.
Mahotsava
sirh lhe itrtefitiotr of combining the socrod"
by theSalabhisheka
naE€ of Srirangamwith his name,took the
Thebook " UPANISHADARTHAKARI- [ame ol " Rargaromaauja
" andbornasSri
oD madRatgaraBatruja
KAS " of Our Sq,amiwill alsobe r€lea8€d
MahaDesikan,
(SriKolithesa6eday. Theoostof thisbookwasdona. yalamSwami). It is w€llknownto ev€rybody
of Oppiliappan and acoeptedev€n by the scholarEi, othor
ted by Sri R. Vetrkatachari
Sanoidhi,whowill alsobe the publisher,atrd SaEpradayas
that, Sri Koliyalanr Swa6i wa!
the book lvi1l be d€dicatedto his Rever€d only aDAvatara of Sri Bhashyakara
andso.
AchsryaD€va,AbhinavaDesikaSriViraragha- calledbim, " AbhiEava
Bhashlalara".Sri
varyaMahaD€sikaq ia ReverenliallIomage. Desik4alsotook ao AbhinavaAvataraas Stt
MahaDesikan{asweall seeDow)
Viraraghava
Our Swami's atrdfullfilled
As {,e hadalreadymetrtioDed,
lheir ruutualdesiresof T€achiui
Poemson Lord aDalSludyiog,respectively,
habitwasto go on composiDg
(Vedants
Shasrras;
and other Deities he as Aoharyaand Sishys. It is worth
Tiruvengadadudaiyan
noti[g
a little leisureis available. that lbe VedatrtaKalakshepa
wonhips,whotrevet
ofOurSwami
all theseSlokasare under wasstartedby hi$Acbaryawhilehe wasid
A book,containiDg
nu
*
orint io the lame of SRI IIARI GURU Grihastasrama.Soon aft€r the $tarting,ths
-STAVA
MALA" andifany Astikacouldcome Acharyarushedto Srirangam
to becooeaSa[.
forward to bear the cost,it will beteleaoed yasi, add camebackasa Sanyasiaddcotrtioued
sooo,asanotherTreasurefrolr Our Swami's his Kalakshepa
for his Shhya,Our Swami,a!
pen
wasa Sanyasi
ald S.i Desika
Sri Bhashyakara
the
Finally,
Abhimva
a
Griha8ia.
Bhashyawas
For thetimebeing,tbe abov€booksand
Out
Sw6lci
as
blessed
kara
"APARAM
called"Sara
of thecommeDtary
thecomplelion
Sars add NIGAMANTARYAM".
Vistara" on Srimsd Rahasyetraya
!'
catled AnapayaPrabha" otl
ihe oommontary
Bhanga,in additionto lhe regular SARVA TANTRA SWATANTRA:
Paramala
to occupy Somemayask that though everybodyhad
Goshtishouldbeenough
Kalakshepo
Our St/amiasAbbioavaDosika,how
Our Ssami'sdailyroutiDo.As i! is, wo should accepted
that th€ purPoseof tha thetitle of " SaavaTantraSwetantta,"whioh
be morethatrsatisfied
AbhimvaAvataraof Sri Derika,is goBpletely Sri Desiks got, $,ouldfit Our Sw.mi. [Srl
fulltlled atrd it is absolutely neo$8aty that D.sika got lhe liile aftcr he did th. Niloans
off SwomisbouldhaveeDoughielt in betw€cn of a bronzeidol of his ow!fr8uro,lThools*cr
to gai! healthdndstrength,3o lhst h€ oould \r,ouldbevory simplo. Sri AbhinavdDesiko
klow fiat it wouldbeverydifrcultromsirtair
oortinueto ble$ uoall.
S6dotityand SatrDidhyldin a 6etal Idol, aB
AND SRI DESIKA-- miesingeve! oneday'rpoojawouldoall for .
SRIBHASHYAKARA
(THBIRMUTUAL REGRETS).
and other dtuals !o rdtore
Samprokshanom
To
avoidall these !roubl$, Sri
fto
Sanctity.
aotually
Panditssay that Sri Bhashyskara
created
NOT ONE bqt ONE
D€8ika
Abhi!6ve
prodi4ed the birth of Sri Dotik!, tg ooDtiluo
Sishya of (Srimad Koliyalam Swaot) Sri
Maha Desikan and had
RaDgalamanuja
BharaDyasa
underhim, He wasatradEirerof
Kainkarya
Our swaroi'ssampradaya
t4rl
THOUSAND Idols, which would retaid the
Sanctity:aDdSannidhyaoever if you did not
do pooja for daysand montbstogether. They
are absolutelyflt for worehipby all people at
all tiFe3. We cao do Atchaoas and ofier
Upacharaslike Doopa, Deepa, Nsiv€dyaand
aloAradhanaas we do for Srimad Ramayana
Sdkos6. They are tle "SRI SUKTIS OF
SRI DESIKA " and other Acharyas. Our
Swamiis printing 1,000copiesin all the gran"
thas, whiohmeans,be is cr€ating 1000 idols
!,/hich contain ceDt per cent Sannidhyamof
Lord llayagriva. In addition, the knowledge,
aboul the Printing and
Our Swamiposs€sses
Publi6bing Tlade would match thal of any
l€ading PrirtiDg House Malager. Furth€r,
somepeopleflay doubt whether OuI SwaEl
knaw aoJ English. If one goes through the
Esglish Tratslation of VedantaDeepa,Vishnu
Namavalieto.whichwaslbft unfinished
Sahasra
K. Bharhyam and fioished by Ou.
Sri
by
would immediately withdraw the
they
Swamii
Bhashyamshould be alive toK.
Sri
doubt.
the
doubt and the uqdersigoed
ansflet
day to
personal
experiencethat Our
ftom
knows
equal
in
selectisgthe coff€ct
!o
has
Sw6mi
word
in
Bnglish at the rea[d approprjate
So,
the
Title of SARVAcoBtext.
quired
suils
the Abhinava
SWATANTRA
TANTRA
thaD
the
orjgiral
rnore
,{vatara
much
Avatara
of Sri Desika
CONCLUDING PRAYBR:
The variousincidentsin Our Swami's lif€ as
nanated above,give the history of a period
showingthe gro$'thof Sanskrit lit€rature and
Vedanta cranthas for mo.e than 60 yea.s
which @n be easity oalted .,ABINAVA
DESIKA SAKABDA.,, Wben my Revered
Acharya Deva gave me the commatd lo do
this narration in English, (factstaken from the
Tamil naration printed in the samebook aDd
approvedas correciby Our Swa6i) I hesitated
firstand thenimmediat€lyaccepted
to write this
ABHINAVA DESIKA VAIBHAVI^M as I did
nol waDtto missthe on€ and only oppoftunity
protjdedfor wipiogourloysiDsby DarratiDg
the life hisroryofmy ReveredAcharya Deva.
After acc€pting, however much I thought
abourir.l couldoor 60d aoy qualifrcatioD
in
me for this oFer excepr that I kreq/ a few
$ords io E[glisb. I can only consider
tbar
the extreme 'KARUNYA'
of may Revered
AcharyaDeva id giving m€ this charceto lvipe
out my siDs,the fore thought olmy illusirious
father,ir enhustingme to th€ feet of Srioad
AbhinavaBhashyakara,RangaramanujaMah!
D€sikan to undergo Pancha Samskarawhich
ultinately brought me to the feet of my
ReveredAcharyaD€va, Abhitava Desika for
Grantha ChatushiayaKalakshepaand Bharan.
yasa and (the third) th€ blessingsof Lord
TIRUVINNAGARAPPAN whom I worship
all the 24 hours,day in and day out.
ASTIKAS:
By way of gralitudeI can only pray to Lord
BachHayagrivaIdol (Sri Desika'sworks) is
re{dy at tb€ SidbasraEamof OuI Se/ami,wai- OPPILIAPPAN to give my Rever€dAcharya
ting to be installed atrd atshrined in you! D€va, Abhinava D€sika, Viraraghava.aya
hoEes, wilhout eny deed for Pratishia for Maha Dcsikan,loDg life, health and rtreogth
Salctity, thg very pr$eDceof which will bdng to ooatiauethe GaanthaNirntaoa work aDd to
contioueto bl$s all of us.
you tha blessingsof Lord Hayagriva.
SRIMATE VIRARAGHAVARYA MAI'A DESIKAYA NAMAHA
SRIMATE RANGARAMANUJA MAHA DBTSKAYA NAMAHA
SRI BHOOMI DBVI SAMBTA SRINIVASA PARABRAEMANE NAMAHA.
ABHINAVA DBSIKA DASA
R. VENKATACI{ARI
(Sohattur-ydhgipurdu-Oppiliappdn
San idht)
SUBHAM
I
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