From Sri Sampath Rengi
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• March 24, 1997
I am posting this on behalf of Sri Sampath Rengi... (His workstation is not up...) -Viji > ***************************************************** > Dear bAgawathALs, on this panguni uththiram day > I pray to thAyAr ranganAyakai and lord ranganAtha > and wish to add some observations to the current discussions. > I am not an expert to comment on this. However, based > on some fundamental strength in tamil language, i thought > i can present my observation. > I was also little surprised when I read sri varadhan's > preceeding noted. Then I said to myself that as per > thiru vaLLuvar Gunam naadi kuRRamum naadi migai naadi > mikkak kOLaL, I forgot this comment as i was immersed in > the worship of kanchi varadhar and the garuda sEvai that > he presented so very well. Without taking any side > i simply want to give one observation Sri Varadhan's > explanation and Sri PD's question. The last line of > Sri PBA says > > "enRa palavakaippatta pramaaNankaLuL aazhwaar aruLicheyaLkaLaana > divyap prabhandhankaLukkE adhisayiththa praamaaNyamuLLathenRu > koLLupavarkaLE sri vaishnavarkaLenpaar. annavarkaLayE ikkaaraNam > paRRiyE thennaachaaryarkaLenpadhu" > > ie among the several pramAnAs considering azwaar's aruLicheyal > as the one with special pramAnAs are considered Sri Vaishnavar. > The qulitative assessment comes in the mind when we undersatnd > pramAna as prominent among. for example this can be meant that > "those who consider azwaar aruLicheyaL to be the one with > most inner meanings[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D prominent and inner meanings may be considered as srivaishnavALs. > Here the pramAnam is taken as the prominent content and inner meanings > than on a comparison scale among the others. ie the pramAnA can be applied > to itself for its prominent meanings and inner meanings than saying that > this itself as whole is more prominent than others. when reading > the everything togather it applies that azwaar aruLicheyal has the > most prominent meanings and inner layers than the others sruthis, > and smruthis and ithihaasaas. Swami desikan clearly vouches this > when he said theLiyAtha maRai nialagaL theLiya OOthi"[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[C[C[C[C > and also when he said on nammazwaar that all saints (includes veda > vyasa and vishishtaas) and their messages all puttogether are no > match to nammazwaar's aruLich cheyaL. Hence as per swami desikan > what PBA had mentioned about the richness of aruLichcheyaL is a > valid statement. However the norm thenAchAryAL if referred to only > a particular sect of Srivaishnavas at the time Sri PBA was saying > this is questionable. I guess all thise who consider drAvida vedam > to be their most prominent nool or literature may be considred > as thenachAryALs themselves. In that case Swami dEsikan whose > magnum opus srimad rahasya trya saaram that we vadaklais follow > all the time is itslef totally derived from 4000 and azwaar aruLi > cheyaLs on the three rahasya granthhaas. Sri Ramanuja paved way > for our sidhdantham and even he himself would put azwaar aruLich > cheyal and 4000 first in our temple vazhi muRai than vedam. > There is also enough proof that though emperumaanra Sri RamAnujar > initiated our sidhdhantham, he himslef derived the basis for the > same from 4000 and azwaar aruLich cheyaL. Recently some one out of > enormous love for Sri Ramanuja wrote in the forum that what ever > beautiful the azwars works may be for us emperumaanar sri ramanujar > is thge most important. This is very incorrect even as per Sri Ramanujar > himself. What ever vedam we have tamil vedam is the most prominent > for all of us born in kaliyugam in sri sampradayam. Azwaar and their > aruLichcheyaL are the most prominent for all of those acharYALS > like Sri ramanujar and Swami Desikan and for those who follow > their teachings as well. > At the outset my observation once again reitreated is that > pramAnyam ULLthenRU koLLu parkaLE means those who consider > that the azwaar arULicheyaL has the most prominent and inner > layers of meanings. Here the word uLLathenRu should be > taken for what it contains ie the prominet meanings and > inner layers. > Sri ranganAyikA samEtha sir ranganAtha perumAL padhukaE charaNam > Sampath Rengarajan
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