vEdAnta-dESika on rAmAnuja
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• April 18, 2002
SrImatE rAmAnuja-mahA-munayE nama: On this appearance day of SrI rAmAnujAcArya today, I would wish to share a few things SrI vEdAnta-dESika said about our beloved SrI-rAmAnujAcArya. dESam ellAm ugandiDavE perum-bhUtUril cittirayil Adirai-nAL vandu tOnRi-k, kAsinimEl vAdiyarai venRu, arangar gadiyAga vAzhum yati-raasaa ! mun pUsurar-kOn tiruvarangattu amudanAr un ponnaDi-mEl andAdiyAga-p pORRip-pEsiya nal kalith-tuRai nURu eTTup pATTum pizhai-aRavE ennakku aruL sey pEni nIyE ! -- prabandha-sAram rAmAnuja ! The best-of-the-saints who dedicated his life to Lord ranga-nAtha! Who is beloved to the entire world! Who appeared on citrA-AdrA ! Who prevailed over flawed-philosphers! [...] Kindly protect me with perfect knowledge ! Also SrI vEdAnta-dESika describes SrI rAmAnuja variously as follows: "perum-bhUtUr vanda vaLLal" The saint from SrI-bhUta-puri who generously distributed the Lord's Mercy to everyone. "mutti-tarum-yati-rAsar" The best among saints, who delivers us from material existence. jayati yati-rAja sUkti: ! [Glories to SrI rAmAnuja's Divine Teachings ! ] jayati mukundasya pAdukA-yugali! [Glories to the Lotus Feet (nam-AzhvAr) of Lord Mukunda ! ] tad-ubhaya-dhanA: tri-vEdIm avandhyayanta: jayanti bhuvi-santa: [Glories to vaidika-s who treasure them both] -- SrI-ranga-nAtha-divya-maNi-pAdukA-sahasra vAzhi aruLALar ! vAzhi aNi atti-giri ! vAzhi yati-rAsan vAsagattOr ! vAzhi SaraNAgati-ennum sArvuDan maRRu-onRai araNAgak-koLLadAr anbu ! [ Live Long ! Merciful Lord ! Live Long ! the Hasti-giri abode of the Lord ! Live Long ! Saint rAmAnuja's disciples ! Live Long ! All who are totally surrendered to the Lord ! ] - hasti-giri-mAhAtmya Please visit the following links to further remember SrI-rAmAnujAcArya on his appearance day today ! http://members.tripod.com/~sriramanujar/vandanam.html http://members.tripod.com/~sriramanujar/works_on_ramanuja.html rAmAnuja-dAsa Ramkumar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com Group Home: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bhakti-list Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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