Fwd: [SEvA SwAmi attained Paramapadam !]
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• May 3, 2001
Dear Members,
Please find the message from SrI Anand K Karalapakkam
forwarded as follows. It is difficult to digest the sad news;
but it is SaraNyan's tiru-vuLLam.
Thanks & Regards
M.S.HARI rAmAnuja dAsan (mshari@usa.net)
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SrI:
SrImatE rAmAnujAya namaH
SrImatE nigamAnta mahAdESikAya namaH
namO nArAyaNa!
Dear all,
Its a sad day for all SrI VaishNavas, for we have lost
one of the great mahAns of our sampradAyam, quite
unexpectadly. SrI SrInivAsa-RAghavAchArya SwAmi,
very popularly known as "SEvA SwAmi" has attained his
AchArya-thiruvaDi (ie.paramapadam) today. Though SwAmi will
be relishing now with Bhagavad-anubhavam and kai~nkaryams
at SrI-VaikuNTham, we have lost the association of this
great mahAn - who had much more to give for us through
his publications.
SwAmi was acclaimed as "DESika Bhakta RatNa" and
SwAmi made himself be addressed as "DESika SEva"
and not by his actual name - Such was his great devotion
to SwAmi DESikan. SwAmi was born in the lineage of the
AppuLLAr, the AchArya of SwAmi VEdAnta DESika.
Throughout his life, SwAmi spent writing and delivering
kAlakshEpams and upanyAsams related to "SwAmi DESika"
and SwAmi DESika's divine works. The topic for either writing
or speaking might be on PerumAL Or AzhwArs Or any of the
AchAryas Or any issue in SAstra - SwAmi always handled
them in connection with only SwAmi DESika. Like how
NammAzhwAr declared that anything and everything for him
is only kaNNan {perumAL} - be it food,water etc, for SwAmi,
anything and everything was only "SwAmi DESikan". SwAmi once
mentioned in an upanyAsam with great regret that while the
"Bhagavad" Sabda is used for Sage VyAsa, Sage VAlmIki, ALavandAr
and EmperumAnAr, scholars hesitate somehow to use it for
SwAmi DESikan - Ironically according to him, its SwAmi DESikan -
the avatAra of Lord SrInivAsa of Thirumala - wherein the
avatAra paripUrNatvam took place and "Bhagavad" Sabda is
most appropriate to only SwAmi DESikan. During one of the recent
conversations, SwAmi said that while it was Bhagavad RAmAnuja
who "saved" the Bramhan-SrIman NArAyana- from the philosophers of
various other systems of thought {in presenting the Ultimate Reality
SrIman NArAyaNa to the world with various fallacies and wrong
notions} - as stated by SwAmi DESikan in YatirAja Saptati -, it is
only Bhagavad VEdAnta DESika, who "saved" "Bhagavad RAmAnuja" by
completly safeguarding BhAshyakAra's divine works from extranious
attacks and mis-interpretations. SwAmi then remarked that but for
SwAmi DESikan, our sampradAyam would have reminded as a
"Daddhi-aNNam sampradAyam" (Curd-Rice sampradAyam) ie. sampradAyam
with mere celebration of festivals and eating prasAdam, without
sound knowledge of Tattva-Hita-PurushArthas.
SwAmi was a recipient of the prestigious "President's Award"
for scholarship in Sanskrit. SwAmi was an immensely gifted
poet. The numerous stotras composed by swAmi stands
as testimony.
SwAmi's stotra compositions are :
* SrI Lakshmi-Hayavadana Pan~chAsat (51 verses)
* SrI HayagrIva Pan~chAsat (52)
* Halahalana mAlika (13)
* HayagrIva GAyatri VarNamAlAstavam (32)
* HayagrIva Nakshatra MAlika (27)
* SrI Lakshmi-Nrusimha Pan~chAsat (51)
* Lakshmi-Nrusimha-AnudhyAnam (101)
* KOdaNDarAma Pan~chAsat (52)
* SrI Lakshmi Pan~chAsat (53)
* SrI Lakshmi-NArAyaNa Stotram
* SrI GhaTikAchalastavam
* Akshaya AarAdhanam (61)
* DAmOdara SuprabAdam
* Divya-DEsa-anubhUti Sahasram (1000+)
* Hanumat Pan~chAsat (53)
Three months back, Swami blessed aDiyEn with his latest
composition on ANDAL viz. "GOdA-Stotram" with 36 + 2 verses.
SwAmi has translated many Divya-Prabandhams into
Sanskrit - notably ThiruppAvai (in 60 verses), NAcchiyAr
Thirumozhi, KaNNin^uNsiRutthAmbu, ThirukuRun^dANDakam,
ThirumAlai and ThiruvAimozhi.
SwAmi's kAvyam "SrI VE~nkaTanAtheeyam" is a master-piece,
consisting of 1008 verses. Its a treasure esp. for the
devotees of Lord ThiruvE~nkaTamuDayAn of Thirumalai. The
descriptions of various vAhanams/uttsavams is one of the
outstanding features of this great kAvya. aDiyEn was spellbound
when swAmi explained one verse from this kAvya on Chandra-Prabha
vAhana sEvai, during his upanyAsam on the eve of SrI UtthamUr
SwAmi's Thirunakshatram celebrations. SwAmi's great rAsikyam and
poetic thoughts soaked with devotion has made a great impact upon
me. SwAmi's other excellent kAvyam is "SrI Varada-abhidAna
Sahasram", a 1008 verse composition on Lord VaradarAja of KAn~chi.
SwAmi has published many chapters of SwAmi DESikan's mahA-kAvya
YAdavAbhyudaya with his commentary. SwAmi's monthly magazine
"SrI DESika SEVa" which has been run for some decades is
quite popular. Under the umbrella of "SrI VEdAnta DESika Research
Centre", SwAmi has initiated lots of projects and succesfully
completed many. SwAmi published most of SwAmi DESikan's stotras
with his sweet commentary in Tamil, which were all distributed free
of cost, since SwAmi felt that fixing up of a price for the
invaluable and "priceless" divine works of SwAmi DESikan, would
be an insult to them - Priceless divine works were made "priceless".
SwAmi also made many of SwAmi DESikan's stotras be commented upon
by appropriate scholars in English,Hindi, Telugu, Oriya and other
such Indian Languages and distributed them free of cost. SwAmi's
"DESika SampradAya PATha Thittam" - graded lessons for children has
been very useful for even the parents to teach their children on
various aspects of our sampradAyam. SwAmi's "SEvA Diary" - a
sampradAyam based Diary, will almost be with every devout
SrI VaishNava's house.
SwAmi maintained MaNi ManTapam with Lord HayagrIva as the AarAdhana
mUrti,which is understandable since AppuLLAr's aarAdhana mUrti
was also Lord HayagrIva, which was passed on to SrI VEdAnta DESika.
SwAmi was deeply devoted to "Abhinava DESika" UtthamUr SwAmi too
with an additional bondage as a disciple in NyAya SAstra. SwAmi
performed kAlakshEpam under the illustrious NAvalpAkkam SrI AyyA
DEvanAtha TathAchArya SwAmi. SwAmi was like humility incarnate,
which would be evident even in his upanyAsams. Even while presenting
the "GOdA-Stotram" Swami said "SwAmi DESikan has already performed
a befitting unmatchable stuti to ANDAL. This is aDiyEn's blaberrings
within the scope of my dull-intellect. Didn't SwAmi DESikan say that
ANDAL's kalyANa guNas puts an end to his silence ?".
SwAmi had mercifully graced aDiyEn's upanayanam ceremony and
performed an upanyAsam also by releasing his commentary to
"SrI Ki~ngruhESa-Stuti" on EvvuL-KiDanthAn (Lord VIrarAghava
of thiru-evvuLUr) which was requested so by aDiyEn's father
SrI K.G.KrishNan (KGK). aDiyEn's Vaidika sraddha - whatever be
it- must be due to SwAmi's blessings during the upanayanam.
This 18+1 verse stotra (SrI Ki~ngruhESa-Stuti) is a disputed
composition by SwAmi DESikan - as made so by some in the past.
Its actually by one of the Azhagiyasi~ngars of SrI Ahobila Muth,
as clarified in the Sannidhi Guruparampara. aDiyEn is a rasika
of SwAmi's commentaries and his unique-styled upanyAsams.
SwAmi's message for all of us can be summarized as follows :
BhagavAn VEdAnta DESika is the unparalleled AchArya in whole
history of Earth. Bhagavad VEdAnta DESika's divine works are the
brightest guiding light for the entire world - be it in attainment
of either material or spiritual prospects. Spreading the divine
works of Bhagavad VEdAnta DESika to the entire world is the topmost
service for the humanity and most loved by pUrvAchAryas like
Bhagavad RAmAnuja and the Divya-Dampati.
Let us take an oath to act in fulfilment of these objectives
in whatever way possible within our limits and remind ourselves
daily about the same - which would be most pleasing to this
great mahAn.
aDiyEn requests SrI-VaishNavas to dedicate sometime in their
next immediete gathering (like NAMA events) for paying their
homage to SrI SEvA SwAmi.
VAzhi DESika Bhakta-RatNa "SrI DESika SEvA" SwAmi !
VAzhi ThUppul VEdAntAchArya and his SrI-SUktIs !
aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,
anantapadmanAbhan.
Srimate Sri Laksminrisimha Divya Paduka Sevaka
Srivan Satakopa Sri Narayana Yatindra Mahadesikaya Nama:
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