Sri Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Jeeyar's Thirunakshathram SamarpaNam: Special Home Pages release on Sri RanganAtha PaadhukhA shasram (http://padhuka.homepage.com)
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• October 14, 1999
PramAthi Samvathsaram Purattaasi Sukla Paksha Panchami JyEshtA (kEttai ) Nakshathram Siddha Yogam . October 14 , 1999 Dear Sri VaishNavAs : Today is one of the greatest days in the history of Sri VaishNavam .Today is the sacred day , when a great Acharyan incarnated at ThirunArAyaNapuram (Melkote) as NrusimhAnupravEsa avathAran . He is saluted with the Taniyans : KesavArya KrupA paathram dhee-samAdhi GuNArNavam Sri SatAri yathIsAnAm dEsikEndhram aham BhajE PrapadhyE niravadhyAnAm nishadhyAm guNa sampadhAm SaraNam Bhava bheethAnAm SATAKOPA MUNEESVARAM This MahA purushan is none other than Sri Lakshmi Nrusimha PaadhukhA Sevaka , Srimath Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Yathindhra MahA Desikan , the founder of the Ahobila Mata dEsika paramparai . He was born as the son of a great Sri Vaishnavite Scholar , AathrEya KiDAmbi KesavAcchAr Swamy of ThirunArAyaNapuram . The year was SiddhArthi , the month was PurattAsi and the thithi was Sukla Paksha panchami as it is today .The constellation of JyEshtA(kEttai)was in ascendance . The lagnam was Dhanur Lagnam . The new born baby wa sgiven the name of SrinivAsan . The year and the month corresponding to the birth date in the western calendar is September, 1379 A.D. Srinivasan learnt saamAnya Saasthrams ( Kaavyam , Naatakam , Tarkam , VyAkaraNam and concluded his VedAdhyayanam and Divya Prabhandham recitation from his father . He was sent by his father thereafter to Kaanchipuram to learn adhyAthma Saasthrams and Grantha ChAthushtya KaalakshEpam ( study of Sri BhAshyam, GeethA bhAshyam, Bhagavath vishayam and Srimadh Rahasya Thraya Saaram ) from the greatest Sri VaishNavite scholar of the time revered as GatikAsatham ammAL , the grandson of the famous AchAryan NadadUr ammAl. By the age of twenty like Swami Desikan before , the son of KidAmbi KesavAchAr with the name of SrinivAsan became a great scholar par excellence . At the conclusion of his studies , Sri Lakshmi Nrusimhan of AhObilam invited SrinivAsan to His divya dEsam and personally initiated the young BrahmachAri of twenty into SanyAsAsramam and gave him the name of Sri SatakOpa Jeeyar . Sri Lakshmi Narasimhan's uthsava Moorthy also landed on the hands of SatakOpa Jeeyar and commanded the Jeeyar to travel with Him and initiate people of the villages and cities into Sri ViashNavam thru SamAsrayaNa BharanyAsAdhi rites and protect the Bhagavadh RaamAnuja Darsanam . From the September of 1398 A.D., the time of ascending the throne of Ahobila Mata Peetam as the first occupant to the time of his departure for parama Padham , many miracles happened in the life of Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Jeeyar . He ruled as Ahobila mata SimhAsanAdhipathi for nearly 60 blessed years. His many kaimkaryams to nourish the Bhagavadh RaamAnuja SiddhAntham have been covered extensively by the article in the Ahobila matam Home pages under the URL: http://www.ahobilamutt.org/bio/1stjeer.html AdiyEn recommends that article for details of the life , mission and accomplishmnets of Sri Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Yathindhra MahA Desikan . The light that this prathamAchAryan of Ahobila Matam lit continues to shine brightly and is dispelling the darkness of Kali Yugam even today . The 45th Jeeyar of this AchArya paramparai reigns supreme today with the title of Sri VaNN SatakOpa Sri NarAyaNa YathIndhra MahA Desikan and blesses us all . All of the occupants of the throne of Ahobila Matam are revered as Sri Lakshmi Nrusimha DIVYA PAADHUKHA SEVAKAAS . AdiyEn and three other BhakthAs pondered on what we can do to celebrate the Thirunakshathram of this MahAn, Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Jeeyar , during this PramAthi year . It became clear to us that nothing will be more important than celebrating the Lord's PaadhukhAs , which are our AchAryAs . Swami Desikan revealed to us first the symbolic significance and the greatness of Sri RanganAtha PaadhukhAs ( Swami NammAzhwAr ) through his marathon effort of completion of thousand plus slOkams under two hours at Srirangam . These magnificient grantham , Sri RanganAtha PaadhukhA sahasram slOkams are very powerful in their maanthric significance and auspiciousness .We decided that it will be the kaimkaryam of our life time to engage in the effort to meditate on PoorvAchArya Granthams and make them available to other BhagavathAs . We have created as a team a special home page for Swami Desikan's Sri RanganAtha PaadhukhA sahasram and present it as a birthday gift to Sri Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Jeeyar , who was very dear to both Swami NammAzhwAr and Swami Desikan . The significance of the Paadhukhais of Sri RanganAthA has been covered in the AchArya Srimukhams . This sthOthram with 32 chapters on the Lord's Paadhukhais is considered as the essence of Sri Bhagavadh RaamAnuja SiddhAntham(viz)., Bhaagavatha Seshathvam . Another view of PurvAchAryAs is that these 32 chapters are the essence of 32 Brahma VidhyAs elaborated in the Upanishads; These 32 chapters are also considered the quintessence of the 24 lettered Gayathri Manthram and the 8 lettered AshtAksharam .In yet another view , these 32 chapters of Sri RanganAtha PaadhukhA Sahasram are considered as the distileld essence of the 18 chapters of Bhagavad GitA , 4 chapters of Brahma Soothram and the 10 decads of Thiruvaimozhi (18+4+10=32).Such is the glory of the Sri ranganAtha PaadhukhA sahsram bequeahed to us as our Kula Dhanam by Swami Desikan . May all readers be the beneficiaries of the Divya Dampathis of Srirangam and Swami NammAzhwAr as well as Swami Desikan . Sri Achutharaman of Singapore created these beautiful home pages . He is maintaining them as well. Sri MuraLi Rangaswami has transcribed the slOkams and their translations by U.Ve. Oppiliappan Sannadhi Dr.VedAntha Desikan(Dr.VNV) from latter's monograph released earlier this year by LIFCO at Chennai. Sri MaadhavakkaNNan of Singapore has coordinated the project with the competent help of Srimathi PraveeeNA Anand from their Singapore Base . AdiyEn has added special notes to the translated slOkams of Dr.VNV consisting of Abhinava Desikan Sri UtthamUr Swamy and Srimadh Andavans of periyAsramam along with additional points from adiyEn's own anubhavam. We have reached a level of 85 slOkams today . It will take us another two plus years to complete this kaimkaryam at the rate of one slOkam per day . May Sri RanganAyaki SamEtha Sri RanganAthA , Swami NammAzhwAr , Swami Desikan and our own AchAryAs bless us to complete this Kaimkaryam and give us the strength and clarity of mind to accomplish this task that they have commanded us to do . THE URL FOR THIS HOME PAGE CREATED FOR THIS SPECIAL DAY IS: http://padhuka.homepage.com One of the powerful yanthrams drawn by the hand of Swami Desikan for the 949th slOkam of the Chithra Paddhathi is included in the home pages for its RakshaNam . An introduction to the PaadhukhA sahasra KhAvyam , the meaning and notes for each of the slOkams , the manthra siddhi of selected slOkams , the Srimukhams from four AchAryAs for this occasion are included . One of the main feature of these home pages is "the slOkam for each day ", which will be initiated from today .You can access the first slOkam today . Every 24 hours , the pages will take you to the next slOkam with the meaning and the auxilary notes . If one misses a couple of slOkams due to weekends or travel , one can click "previous " andcatch up. It will take 5 minutes of your time every day.Every morning at 7 AM Singapore time , one slOkam for that day will be released .Please do study them before you start your daily worldly activities and receive the Divya Dampathi's blesisngs . It is with great humility , we place this home page for Sri RanganAtha PaadhukhA sahasram at the lotus feet of the Divya Dampathis and seek their blessings on the BhakthAs all over the world . VyOmapurIsam Sri VenkatEsam Sri RanganAtham Sri DevarAjam Sri Adhi VaNN SatakOpa YathIndhrEna saakam RaamAnujam BhajE (meaning): AdiyEn meditates on the sacred feet of Sri Oppiliappan standing as ThiruvEnkatmudayAn at ThiruviNNagar, Sri RanganAthan , Sri Varadarajan of Kaanchi , Sri RaamAnujA along with Sri Adhi VaNN SatakOpa YathIndhra Maha Desikan on this day . NigamAntha MahA Desika padhAmbhOja Shadpadham YathIsvaram praNamyAham AchArya VandhanArtham (meaning): AdiyEn's salutations to SriAdhiVaNN SatakOpa YathIndhra MahA Desikan , the honey bee that hums around the lotus feet of Sri NigamAntha MahA Desikan . Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan
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