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Re: Share your thoughts on Sri Ramanuja's tirunakshatram: April 18

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kvk_kannan • Thu Apr 18 2002 - 19:45:15 PDT 


Respected Ramanujadasas,

Treating Sri Mani Varadarajan's invitation to share our thoughts on 
Sri Bhagavad Ramauja on the very auspicious day of his 
Thirunakshatram as a "Niyamanam" adiyen wd like to submit a few 
lines. At a time when the authority of Vedas was questioned (by 
Buddhism and Jainism), it was given to Sri Sankara to restore the 
vedic authority, but he concentrated only on the abeda srutis. Later 
a school of thought flourished expounding the bheda srutis.It was 
perhaps a Providential design thatSri Ramanuja should convincingly & 
comprehensively offer a logical interpretation reconciling the 
seemingly contradictory & irrecocilable portions of the Srutis 
relying on a firsthand Bodhayana Vritti by a brilliant exposition in 
his magnum opus 'Sri Bhashyam'-the commentary on Sri Vyasa's 
Brahmasutras. This commentary still remains an authoritative 
interpretation of the Brahmasutras. True, the conflicting schools in 
the post Ramanuja period raised objections & these have been 
adequately met by Sri Vedanta Desika. Sri Vaishnava acharyas after 
Ramanuja have concluded that in his mighty task, Sri Ramanuja was in 
no small measure guided by Azhwars' Divya Suktis. Sri Bhashyam thus 
established the Ubhaya Vedanta Aikakantyam. In a simple sloka in 
Ethiraja Saptati(14), Sri Desika pays tribute to Sri Bhashyakarar for 
safeguarding the Srutis:

"Abahasrutasambhavam sruteenam 
jarateenamayathayatha prachaaram; 
vinivartayitum yateeswarokthihi 
vidadhey taaha sthiraneetipancarasthaha."

Srimate Ramanujaya namah.
Ramanujadasan K.Venkatakrishnan







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