Swami Desikan Purappadu, Srirangam

Arana Desikan a series of articles

about Swami Desikan collected /
published by Sravana Samithi,
Muscat during Sarvajith,
Purattasi

Darsanam
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Sarvadhari, Purattasi
30th September 2008
 Swamy Desikan was handed over such a great inheritance by his Poorvacharyas
(spiritual preceptors) and wonder of wonders, he not only exhibited in himself each and
every quality of all those great souls who had gone before him but also embellished
those traits with excellence of poetic genius, courage of conviction, unique devoti on and
rare tolerance and endurance.
He was a great visionary and saw great vistas of human knowledge and
understanding before him. He
cultivated broad outlook of life and
eschewed all narrowness in thought,
word and deed. Like the
Paramathma, with whom Our
Swamy was in daily communion, he
set no limits to his thoughts or
writing. By doing so, he set an
example to his disciples and
followers to pursue their quest for
knowledge without limits and
boundaries. His fertile imagination
and innovative thinking probed
deeper and deeper into the
mysteries of life which ultimately
held no secrets from him. Through Our Swamy, the ordinary men and women of all
times are able to understand the entire gamut not only of VisishtAdvaita philosophy but
also of other philosophies whose deficiencies he succeeded in getting exposing to their
adherents. One can even say that unobtrusively, Our Swamy had shown all embracing
personality and universality and his own special Viswa roopa darshanam through his
personal life teachings and writings.

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 Secondly he was a great humanist. Every person endowed with a modicum of
talent and skill is supposed to use them for the benefit of humanity and remove the
woes affecting his fellow beings. Several are instances in which he sprang to the ai d of
his less-fortunate and misguided people around him. His helping the poor bachelor
[read later about Sri sthuthi sthOthra] who wanted money for his marriage by singing
Sristhuthi, his generosity in helping the poor farmer with fresh and green corps by his
prayers to Lord Hayagrivan and his
compassion towards his colleagues after
winning them over in sadhas.
It is impossible to compartmentalize
him. He is like a fruit (Akkarai Kani) whose
sweetness permeates even the skin and seed;
whose every part is as sweet as the whole
form wherever one can cut a piece and taste.
Taking the analogy of fruit further, just as we
take the Lord as indivisible and pray to Him
for His total grace, we have to dwell on the
total divinity of Our Swamy Desikan and seek
his blessings in entirety to eliminate our
deficiencies.
Swami Desikan performing
[from Sri Sevaa Swamy’s malar- written by Sri
mangalasasanam in Srivilliputhur
Krishna Dutt Sharma]

Thoopul Kulatth Arase

Vaazhi Nin Vadive

Courtesy:- Sri Ranga Sri Madhavakannan Swamy

Nangainallur Venkatesan

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