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ACHARYANUGRAHA -The Birth of alaoratr :

Jrd." On heariDg the startiDg of thc Rabasya

Traya sara Kalakshepa, Srimad Alagiasingarof Toi iDodu seni enough copies ofhis comme!-t e r v ; a e d " s d r a b o d h i n i

' t o t r b e u s e o f l h e

-cmb.rs of the Goshti. The KalakshepaGoshti was thus flourishitg ffoe 1954 upto

this day, on all days except of course on Ana'

dbyayaDa days. covering Dot oDly tbe Cratrha

Cbarusbraya but also lhe Upanisbads. Mrnor

Rabasyas, Stotras, Prabandads eto. and nol

only in th. morDings but also in the eveningsaod afterooons, wh€rever permitted'

which v,/a3 never hi3 habi!. Tbc Tanian lvaa

as follow3 :

'' Adbhutald YasYa VikradtaE Vedalvithi viiodhsncl

Aparam Nigamantatyam PraPadtelVitatagbEean " I

The sishyas we.every duch pleascd at thc

simplicily and the gr€at m€miog it conEined

and came rushing to Madras to give the happy

news to Our Swami. Our Swami felt that tbis

is the highest blessiDg a Sishya could get from

his Acharla and agreedato obey the coEmatrdsof his Revered Aobarya.

A few days after the starting of the Kalak-

sheoa Goshti, s.i K Bhashyam (Ex-Minister)

came to Our Swami, as Prodised bY btm

during the Tiruppavai Upanyasam, and paid

his homage to Our Swami. Then he expressed

his d€sir€ io study our Sidhanta Granthag

urder Oirr Swami bBt legr€tted that he could

notjoin the regulat KalakshePa Goshti Any

other ti6e. either in ihe mo.ning ol itr the eve'

nine woulal be convenient for him, Our Srvaml

tolJhim in private that the granthas should be

studied only in tbe Acharys-Sishya t€latioll'

$hiD and that he was not in the habit of inctud'

inipcrsons wilh a cropped h€ad and hair st te

in his Kalakshepa Goshti and so regrett€d his

inability to grant his request. But Sri K.

Bhashyam said that it would be enough if ageDeral lecture q,as given io bjm. Our Swani

told in private that he had seetr ev€Il gteat

laeryers could not gel the correct meaning il

they had not studi€d the granlha before bimword by word utrder a fully qualided Acharyawbich could be dode oDly iD a regular Sampra-daya method. He advised bin that as he wa!so keen on learliDg the intricate truths of our

Sidhanta, and as tle cropp€d head anal hair

snle was trot necessary for him as had retittdfr6m activc service as a Mloist€r snd that as a

lawlef he could oonv€triently remove the crop

without detrimetrt to his ptof6sion. Il€ fnallt

a&i$ed bim to lhint over rhc dsSa' d

Somc sisbyas from the Kalakshepa Gosbti,

whil€ visiting Sidhas.amam at P.rumal Koil,

Di id their bodage to sr i Swarbi atrd told him

;bout thewonderful prog.essof the KalakshepaGoshti, Sri Swami was pleased atrd asked

tbeid what TaDian they were usitrg. They said

tbat ihey weie recitiog tbe trameonly aDd i9hen

they requested Our Swami to teach them his

Tanias he reDlied that the Tanian which wa8

sed in Tirupati could lotbe lem€mbered and

fo. the tise beiDg it would be enough if they

us3d the larne. Sri Swami then said tbat they

shoula! not set a bad oonvertion ofabandoBiog

the Tanian in such a correct SatrpradayaKalakshepa Go$hti. He then said that he

would si te tbed a Taniao, whicb l tould cotr taiB'the ere;bess of his Kulam, Vidya and Acharya

Parimoata. anil the same should be reciled

every day. H€ also said that be would give a

sbort Tanjao, siorr lat 10 Sri Desika\ Tatr ian

shich woulal bring out cl€arly tbat he was the

Abbirava Avatara of Sri Desika bimself ln

fact tbe 6rst parr ot the sbort TaDian could be

the same as t le 6rsr par l of lh€ slota wbicb he

used in his book " Palapaksha Nirakriti " He

lnsisled that thcTatrian should be recited ith_

out fail i! the Kalaksb€pa. He said that he

was leltiDg so much only because he alonF

*Dew the 8;nius aDd lhe value of Our Swami

and thal h€ va8 not praisiig uf,B€ce8serilt

130 Idacid€, OthcrwiEe if he accspt€d him a6 it isifi thc Kaiakh€pa Goshti, people would acouschim that he had sacrific?d his principles, forthe lake of Boney. He went home aDd aftert few days agleid to abide by tbe advice ofOut Swami ald came back wittr theDloD€r hairatylc asd dr€ss acoeptable ia Our Siopradaya.Our Swami was very much pleased aDd startedS(i Bbssbya Kalrkshepa. lt is only the God'6q/i6h that Sri K. Bhashyam changed his miad.as otbeaq/ise Oul Sampradaya would halc losta Patron and well wisher of Our Swaoi. aodone wbo did a gceal kailka.ya io spreadingthe granthas of Our Sward. He wis so keeron Iearoing the granthas add as hc was an ad-vocate, it was €ady for him to grasp the Eeao-ings easily, lle us€d to regtet that he did oothave tbe good fo.tule to $tart the Kalakshepaat Ieast t€n years earlier, so that by thb tide,much could bave be€n achieved. He compleledSrimad Rahasya Traya Sara, Cila Bhasbya iaadditio! to the Sri Bhashya which he did tust,By this tioe he had gaiEed enough kBoflledgeand confidence ard with OurSwa6i's blessingsand ercouragement translated Sri Bhashya.tara's V€danta Deepa, Giiartha SaDgraha,Saratragari Gadya with the commeotary ofSrutaprakasikacharya and vishnu Sahasla-Namavali. Our Swami us€d to ad6r'te hispatiesce when hc sat with hie to corr€ct histranslatjon, in spite ofhis old age aad possess-lflg only oDe eye funotioning. Ia the ndiddle ofthe Kalakshepa of Srioad Rahasya TiayaSara, he ranted to urdergo Bbaradyasa underOur Swami; but Our Swami took hirn to hi$Revercd Acbarya, Srimed RangaramaBujaMoba D$ika and Eade hifir uadergo thoBharanyasa.

Our Swaoi was at that time siayitrg io NertMambalam atrd as he felt that West (Old)Mambalam would b. more suitable for lisAtrushtara aDd so shifted bis r6ideDce. Butaft€r stayirg ther€ for some !ioe, he found outthat N€w Mambalam wes also €qrally goodwifh addgd f.ciliti$ for sishyas io colre easilt. .

So be shifted back to N€w Mambalam (tNagar). Wherever be srayed, rbesishyas ered-ted patrdsl fcr cotrducting the Kalaksheps. Itrook rb''o yca$ to 6Di.h rbe Kalakshepa oiSrioad Rahasya TIaya Sara ard Tiruvoimozhi-Bhagavad vishata.

In the meanwhile, Manuscript Libraryauthorities requ$ted our Swami to scrutioise.and make it fit for prirtirg, the book " Naya-dyuEaDi " by Sri Megharadari. It is ao argll-dentative type of graotha and the subjectdicussed and argued are mostly fouod in SriBhqshya. Tbe authorities were veiy muchratisfied witb the scrutiny atrd requested OurSwami to w.ile a Forward for that. They gavehim full lr€€do6 oD the voiude ofthe lorwardatrd ag.eed to print all that would be writtetr,The forward writtetr by Out SwaEi weDt tomore thad 100 pages and as promised theyprhted the entire lot, All agreed that theForwaral definitely improved the vahe of thebook. T-e Forward contained, in essence, theVisistadvaita Siddhanta, the Sariratoa Bhavaold the same wa8 explaiDed by quotiDg manySbast.as. Our Swami explaioed there that howtie Sadratma Bhava was epecial to ourSidhadtaatrd how other SidhaEtas lack the esseace ofaxShsshas by Dot acceptiDg the Sariratm4 Bbava.It also explained the basic diff€rences io app-roach to the subject by the author and SriDesika, Ihe author of the grantha was apredec€sor to Sri D€sika atd b€longed to theVadsa ParaErpaaa of Somasiandan, the dephewof Sri Bba6lyakars, Sr i U. ve. D. T. Swami,while reviewing the book, had writtea tbat theForward olour Swami, by itself, was fit to bctreated as a seFarate gaantha of impoatanc€.

Coldilg back to Our Swami's publishiactivities. whicb remained as the dain sttutture .atrd core of Our SwaBi's career, Chandogyo-panishad was published with Parishtara conr.$eDtart while Oqr Svtami was inAft€r conqiDg to Madras, Brihadaranyaka, Stasc,sta and other upad$hads, tholgh

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Ir Tirl,paii the proof sras sent to Madras for-co.restion aod ras fioished ia Tirupati. Totarisfy the requesl of many Aetika.. Tiruopavai-sirh lhe Raksba commentafy was also prinredatd published and weil received by evirybody.

Wirhin a year afte. Ou. Swami came toMadras, Sri V. V. Swaloi passed awaJ. Olr.Swami lost agoodwellwishef and the Sidhantalost a good Patron. Sfi D. R. Swami. rfterraany granthas of Our Swamjgot Dublished,u s e d r o s a y t h a t i t w d s a p i l y t b a t S r i V . V . S w a m iwas noi alive to rejoice ov€r the wonderfolplrblicalions, Our S\rami v,ias giving to 0,rrSampradaya. S.i V. V. Swami's abs€rco was,ia a way, not felt very uch as Sri D. R,Swami, Sr i K. Bbaslaf l , 5n V. f . R. Swainiaod others were takiDg a lot of inier€st itr thepublications. Due to the efforts of S.i G.Rargasa4i Iyeogar Swami, the book ".Bhava-prakasika " was prinetd at Titupati D€vas-lenam Press. .Dsring this rime, Mahamahopa-dyd)a, BrahFsri . Atrarrakr isbna Sssriar,wrote, a book called "Sata Bhooshani" whichis a khatrdada graDtha for Sri Desika's "SataDhoosbrni ". To respect the wisher of S.i U.Ve. Navalpakkam Mahavidvan, NarasimhacharSwami, and to obey the commatrds of hisRevered Acfurya, Our Swami ag.eed to write arelurD khandana fo! 'Sata Bhoosahri', butcould noL stai t immcdiately due Lo oLbe. \ orkin hand.

SASHTIABDAPOORTI CELEBRATIONS :

rq.rrangemeris were goiog on to c€lebrale theSashtiabdapoorti of Our Swami in a grandscale by Sri K. Bhssbyam, Sri AchyutaGopalacha. S?ami, Sri Pulavanur Partha-rararhy lyeDgar Swami and others. In rb€m€atrwhile Our Swami had to refuse aq inviia.tion from KarDr, Tarkika Pandita, NarayanaIyeDga. for a series of Upanyasas as it ras rn"tcrferidg with tl€ c€lebrations at Madras. OurSwami was at that time Iiving io Motilal Street,T'@ga., 4nd in the.niddle ofthe Sri BhashyaKalakshepa. The celebratioos werc arranged

to ba held ar a stEcially erected pandal aiRa@eswa€m Road: Fo,l:,five dAys prior 10that, Vedaplrayana was conducted at OurSwami's residetce. Oo the Sarhiiabdapoortiday Our Swami was taken ir a piocession tothe Patrdtl headed by the ploto of his Revd.edAcharya and the cel€lirations rvefe conductedthere. whicb wa, fol loered by Tadi l i radbaoa€tc. Ii the evedrg, meelitrg was held it Myla-pore Sri Desika-Srinivasa temple, under tbePfes;dentship of Sri Bhandarke yatisw&ra,Madhva Sidhanta Stapanaclarya aqd head ofthe Udipi mutt. Edineot men like Sir S.Varadacharya Sv/aiDi, Sci D. R. Swaei, SriBhashyam, Si V. T. R. Si{ami, Sri c. RanE!-s*/rmy hetrgar Sq/ani" TirukLrdaDtai, Chrn"namu Saili Patracia. Swami, S.i Maduran.takam, Ichalobadi Viraraghavach?rya SwamtaDd others spoke in prajse of the variousgraDtl.ac of Our Se,,ami. Sri Bhandarke Sv/amialfio spoke ir Sanskri!, r€calliig his earlyassocrations with Our Swami, Then, a pursewas pr€s€dted and all wished that, quite8oon, Our Swami would owo a house rEMad.as. Some of the old students of OurSwami at Tirupati, corqpdsing of Madhva,Sallkara ard Bhashyakara Sidhaltas alsotook p:|rt and presented Sambhavanas to OurSwami.

ABHINAVA DESIKA TIILE-(and o!!e.r i r le5.)

During the celebrations at Mylapore, SriDesika-Srinilasa temple, some Astikas froETjrupati came to Madras and took part roth€ celebrations. They exprcssed rheir disap-poirtment, that they, in Tirupati, could trorget the opportunity te celebrate al Ti.upari ;but wer€ gratified to flnd thar the Mad&sAstikas were doing it in a grand mannet atrd asthey were also participating in it they f€lt thatthe celebrations wele theirs also. After praisEgOlrr Swami for his great service to the cause ofSanskrit as a Professor in the coil€ge and forlhe Saopradaya al TirLrpari , rhe Asrikas inTrropati fell that the Tile of ABHINAVA

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DBSIKA shotld be co[ferred to Our Slvadi

atrd tbeyalt felt that it was tbewill of Lord Tiru'

lengadadudaiyao also as they bad takeo th€

blessings and perflission ofthe The Lord before

coming to Madras. itr tecog!iion ofbis ser!ice

to the causc of Sri Desika Sampradaya They

dso said that the people of Tirupati bad rot

heartl. tbat a bett€t Acharya had eve' lived ia

:Ii$pati fol ihe past so manJ gelelations,

afF; Sri Desika hissetf, wbo bad served thc

causc of Sti Desika Sampradala as Our Swami

wi lbour expcct ing al l tbiog io relurn Tbey

sll kneet tb;t Our swami was baviog "vetrka'

rcsa Smalanam " all the 24 hours aod would

6till be having, even though his body was ilr

Maallas, They wote really vely sory that be

decided to seitle in Madtas as they wete expec'

t ing bim lo de\oto his etr t i re t ime lo-tbe cause

of-Sri Desika sampradaya in and around

TiruDati , especrat ly sf ler rer i remenl i but ar th€

aur" t ima *ar" also very happy-that be was

doinE rnucb bigger and lEucb !\ider lcrvrce rr

vuain. uoa tbe A: l ikas io Madras had

teco!tr ised bis greatoess wbicb he-f i t l ly deser-

u.d, ' at tn.y " . ,"

br ingiog rhe l i e srraigbl

f iom rhe feer of Lord Ti luvengadamudalYatr

- ioie CHaNfn alotre took rhe avatar of

both Sri Desika and Our Swami Lhey ate co$-

vinced thJr rbe Sadas would be bapyy to cotr'

i i r iu" r , rr" "o

l i t . Tbe sctolars presetrt 'a id

i iu i urr ,n" p"opr" io ' t " sadas and ever\vrhere

had a'ready : tat ted cal l ing bim Abbrnava

iesika and more tban al l tbal bi t osn. Revered

i i i "*" st i*"a RangaraEaouja Maha Desi '

ili.ltl,:5"J1,::::"ffJ''i'i,'lli ""1 3 ::i -ut i

"oA .utr 'a bio "APARAM NICA'

iiir.rin*v,ql't ". Nos tbat thev foutrd that

i"ra . i , t . Se\eo Hil ls had blessed rhe trt le

ii" ""re

aouurv uappy to confer rhe Lille' I!

iJ"'f"a ". if, Sri Desika himself wanted to

i""iii *. ti,r" ;' ihe PreseDct of Lord ̂ srini-vasa. aod ro the omcjal aBd publlc cootrrma-

ifo' lua o."o delaled 60 losg ri l l tbe s'daq

;;i at the reldplo of sri Desika -lt would be

Lrcr+tiog to oote tbat al matry Divya Kbetrss

whore Sri Desika was enshrined but oDly in

Mylapore teEple Sri D€sika got a pteferance

over Lord sridvasa. Only al Mylaporc tbe

teDple was called "Dsikatr Sannidhi" and not

Srioivasar Sannidhi.

We all known tba! in out Sampradaya Lord

Almighly would be more pleased if his devotecqas worshipped in a fitting matrner. He m€y

even pardon a person if he had neglecied to

worship HIM, bl]t not whetr his Bhalta wasreglected Did not Madu.akavi Aleva. gei ap)ace among<t Alwars wben he declared Lhsr

he would w^rsbip or ly bi . Acbarva. N.rm'

dalqat?

One need not lvondel al the intentio! of

Loril Tiruveigadarnudaiyan to honour his

Bhakta. Our swami. The stalapurana coi_

taios tie incidenl of the Lord, refusing to

accept the rich ofreritrg by ihe such loved

Mah;trt, with whom IIe used to talkevery day,

acceDted the offedng of flowers of a Iame pot-

ter at the foot ol the Hills, flow€rs made of

clay as od lbe Particular day uousually lhe

M;ha!r felt a little ptoud about Ibe richness of

his daj ly ofrer iBg Simitar ly, wben OurSwa6l

reLired. be !e!er bad a rupee saved aod he baJ

only his VIDYA to dependupoo' Naturally

he could not ofifl anlthing else excepl his

Vialva in the form of a graltha, VEDANTA

PUSHPANJALI, boih as a gtatificalion for

having had the oPportunity to serve The Lord

as a Professor in I{lS college but as a lequest

to srant IIIS ,blessirgs lor the succ€ssful co!d-

ple; ion of his l i fe 's nis ' io1 of craorha

i, l i rmana. We could easi ly Pue's oow bow wel l

The Lord had bl€ssed bio. oul Swami wa!

very dLrch pleased a! the great hooour done

,o fri- .oosid"r"a tUut only tbe blessiDgs of bis

Reveretl Acharya gct him all tbe6e' Then' a

ourr. *ut pt.tirt"d to bim and lbe tille of.1 eglttN.{Ve oesK.{" oEcially conferred'

Our Sflaroi feh that though the purse would be

verv useful ro hiB ro hasteo up bis Crallha

Nirmana work, the title coEfetred on bird wa6

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dsch mote valuable Tiiles slartid pouring in

cv€n before add after this, oventhough neithe|

he sought after them nor cared vefy much for

ihem, It may ilot be possible anC necessery to

ellis! hcre all of theEblrt a few litl€s would be

*orth menlioning.

During tbe Sashtiabdapootti celebratiols of

his Revered Acharya, He Himself conf€rredthe title of " Ubhaya Mimamsa Vallabha ".

sri Desika Sabha at Ti$pati gave him lhe

ritle of "Poorvortara Mimaor.a Pradeepa

Ayodhya Parishad honoured h;m lvith the

titie "TarkarMva" in appreciztion of our

Swamit efrort in wr;ting a book for thern.

Sanskrit Sahirya Parishad (North India)pve lhe trtle " Pandita Ratna ".

Sri Abhinavs Ranganatha Paraksis YatindraMaha Desikan, Head of th€ Mysorc ParakalaMutt, vho used to admire OBI Swami's Vid-

sat, honoured him eviih the tirle " PandrraMarlatrda" and gave him a gold Eedal con_

taining,the image of Lord Lakshmi Hayagrrva,the presiding Deity of Parakala Mutt, alongqith Sambahavanas.

At Kanchi Kshetta, during the festival mconnectioo {ith the birih of "Ramanuja DayaPatram" which was graced by pandtts |keUbhaya VedaDta Vidvao Navalpakad Sri U.Ve. Narasimhacha.ya Swasi, GoshtipuraBSri U. V. Souroya Narayanarharya Swami etc.etc., the scholars Prcsoot eppreciated OrlrSq,ami's efforts id spreading Sri DesiLaSa6pfsdaya by trainiLg youDg scholars aqd idrecogniiiotr of his oapaoily lo sorutinise thegranthas sith a critical and analytical mitrdutilising such knos,ledge fo. Publishing uren_dirg list of publicaiions on Out Sampradayawith ihe sole inteniion of spreading Sri Desikasampradaya, conferlod the ritle, "DesikaDa$ana Dhurondhara ",

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At Trivandrum, the lhen Meharajai ofTravancore, a patron of schoials, invited Ourl

Swami anal honoured him witb PoDnadai andsarsbavanas, He h;mself was Drcsent at ih.function, and afiel the meeting, he was talkingto Our Swariri for a long time, as he himsclflwa. a scholar.

At Triplicane, Sri Madhva Swdldiji, Hedd otthe Marhalala RaghavQrdra Mutl, invircdand honoured Our Swami in a Sadas, pteseDrcd

Ponnadai and purse and also conferred thetitle " PANDITA BHOOSHANA."

Once again, r le request from Karur weirere\ved, ar l ing Our S$3mi lo accept a ser iesof Upanyasas aBdthis time it sas accepted. Inthe middle of the Upanyasa series, ono day,Sri (Karur Pandit) NarayaDa I lengar Sf lamiarrang€d fcr a meeting of local SriYaisbnavasand said that the maitr purpose of brindingOur Swami there, wss for requesting him toaccept wdtjng a lhndana granlhafor ttre bookSata Bhoosbani. As he had gone tbrough thebooks oi OLrr Swami, especiaily when he wasreachirg Tarks Sbastra to the local populatdoctor, Sri Rama Sarma, usiD_g tbe book Kusu-sanjaii with Our SwaDli's commenlary, heca$e 10 rhe conclusion tbar oDly Our Swamiwas fully qualified to undertake the work. Heimmediately gave Rs, 800/.to be treated as thefirst instalment from him ard his frieod, Vakil,Krishnaswami ly€ngar. Ho requesred that th€book should be poblisherj early, as he was veryoid and that he was eager to see the book com.pleted before his death. After that, Sri RaDaSarma cam€, and metrtion€d about his apprcciation of O$ Swami's gerius while studyhg thacommentary of K'rlsumanjali afld his lnab,lity,due to pressure of work, t.r study al lnast aportion of the book direcdy uoder Our S,.vami,which he \yas looking forward to. He alsogave Our Swaoi a copy of the book, a coro.meDrar) oo EbaDrat i , wri ! |en by his falher,who was an Abhiorana Sishya of Sri KanchiSankaracharya Swami. Afler the ead of theUpanyasa at Karul atrd ol1 r€lurn fo Madlrsli