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charya Srinivasacharya) Engineer, a sishya ofAhobila Mutt aDd a regular member of iheKalakshepa Goshti from 1963 upto this day,doDated Rs. 5000 for this book, in commemo-raLioD of hi , Sasbl idbd,poorLi . Ou- Swdni{r6ed to call him " ASTIKA SIKHAMANI " asbe De\€r used to miss e\eo one ddy of Kdlal-sbepa.

RAKSHA GRANTEAS :

(Nikshepa Raksha, Satcharitra Raksha,Pancharatra Raksha, Geetartha SangrahaRakshaand Nitya Granlba ofSfi Bhaslyakara)

Sri Desika Seventh CenteDary Trust donai€dbalf the cost and received 500 copi$. Thisbook did {ot include Rahasya Raksha as the6Ame wa3 publish€d earlier by the Trust 10their book call€d Chotusloti and Stolra RafnaBhashya.

TATVA MUKTA KALAPA :

The book was publish€d with a donatio! ofRs. 16,000 from the North Indial Patron ofSri Desika Samptadaya, Sri MdDgni.amGoriDda Bdpuj l (ol Pushkaram) fron1 calcuLLa.

ADHIKARANA SARAVALI was Publish'ed with the anci€nt oommentary cf AchalyaKumara Varadachatya oalled " AdhikaramChirtamaDi" and Our Swami's "SARARTHARATNA PRABHA." A doDatiof, of Rs.13,000 to cover lhe cost was r€ceived fromBoobay, Dharmika Sikhanani, Sri U. V€.Ramanujachat Swami.

TATVA TBBKA is a commentarY on SriBhashya. Full giartha is not av6ilable. Tbeportioas avajlable w€te scrutinised by SrimadKoliyalam Sq'ami at an earliet date OulSwami supplied Foot notes for this grantha

Th€ eEtire cost of tbe book, Rs. 5000 waspaid by Sri U. Ve, Uruppattur, Nallan Chakra.varti, Aviyur Sa.angapani Iyengar (populatly

ktrowtr as V. S. Ratgan of Bombay). On theoocsssion of bis Sashtiabda Poorti celebrations.

He was respotrsible for the creclion of "DesilaBhavanam " in BoDbay.

ISAVASYOPANISHAD BHASH! Awith th€ commentary of Our Swami called" ACHARYA BHASHYA TATPARYA " waspublished with a donation of Rs. 2500 fcomSri B. T. Kuppuswami and Sri B- T. Sampathin memory of their fathe., Balur, Toopil,Seshadriacharya Swami),

NYAYA SIDHANJANA with tbe com-dentary of UpaBjshad Bhashyakara, Sri Ranga-mmanl]ja Swami aod the oomEentary of Mahamahopadyaya Kanchi Kiishna Tatarya called,"Ratna Petika" and foot notes from OurSwami was published next.

P A R C M A T A B H A N C A A N D S R I M { DRAHASYA TRAYA SARA :

The prioting is going ol1 for th€se books.Polavanur, Sri U. Ve. Chakrapari IyengatSwami and hb brother, Sri U. Ve. Partha"saraihy Iyengar Swami respectively had agreedto b€ar the €nti.e cost and h8d already paid

the firs! irstalment, These would contain acommeElary of our swami.

OTHER GRANTHAS:

Sri Alavandar's SIDHITRAYA was publish-

ed at the request of Sri V, T. R. Swami. Hepaid the full oost of the book and he obtaitr€da parlial grant from the Govt. of India. Thisalso colr larns a commeotary of Our S$/ami iDSaDskrit.

PERIAZHWAR TIRUMOSHI was Publi'shed agsiD witb the lull fnaDcial aid fromSri V. T. Raogaswamy lyeogat Swaori incomm€moration of his SATABHTSIIEKAM( lei5).

BHAGAVAD GITA with a Tamil com-mentary called GITARTI{AM and a word byword meaning in Tamil byOur Swami was pub_lished. The entire cost of Rs. 5001 was paid by

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Vavasi Kottai Madabhusbi, Dhatmika Ratna,R. SriEivasa!. (Partn€r, Bharat Skin Corpot-ation). This book coDtains the essence ofBhashya and Tatparya Chaqdrika ald easilyunderstandable even by a petson without Sans'krit knowledge.

UPANISHADS (TWO VOLUMES) v/erepublished again with the fiDancial aid of THESUNDARAM CIIARITIES.

In additior to the above' fnaDoial help forthe publications was reoeived ftom oanyAstikas. To Bention a few:-

Sri V. T. R. SwaEi, was payiDg Rs. 50 permonth for a loDg time to engage a proofr€aderto give a little rolief to Our Swami who wagdoing all.the correction work.

Sri K. C. Varadachariar of Lloyd's Road,ber€ditory t{ustee of Lakhmipuram Temple,was payiDg Rs. 300 every J€{tr fol r€placementof types for two years.

Sri N. R. Srinivasao (eogineer) and Sii K.Soundara Rajatr was payiDg Rs. 25 each tom€et the overhead charge!, every oonth,

sri R. Dotaitajan of " The Hindu." (nowDo more) ldade a lumP sum doMtion ofRs. 1000 for the publicalioDs.

Apari from financial help, many othershelped the publication in so rEany other waysand to mentioD a few :-

Paiyambadi Srivat{algachar Slvamir Pai-yambadi Verkatavaradachariar Sqramj, Pul!kuDnam Sd Stalasayanachar atrd Sri Chakravsrti of Reliance Motors, wer€ helpitrg inproofcorrection and ttansliteraiion in Nagari scriptfrom Grartba script etc. The two sons ofOur Swami, Sri Srinivasa Raghavan, and SriRajagopal had beetr doing the proof oorroctionafter lhe ofroe hours.

DR.EAM COME TRUE I

Dur;ng Our Swarni 's t r ip ro North lDdis ioestablish tbe superiority of our BhashyaksfaSidhanta (at Sholapu.), he made a Sankalpa topubl ish al l rhe books in Our Sidhaota inDEVANAGARI SCRIPT, to enable the NorthIndian Scholars to etudy them, the laok ofwhich was felt ard expr$sed to Our Swami bythem. As usual the Sankalpa flaE doEo with'SATVIKATYAGA ". At the time of iDaugu-ratiog Ubhaya Vedanta Granthamala ", Revc-ved Acharya, Srimad RaDgaramaruja MahtDesika!, blessed Our SwaEi that tho o.gaDisa.tios evould grow from strength to str€ngth otrdhe wa6 very confideat that all the iBportantSri suktis would be printed.

Today, on the happy occassio! ofcelebratiDgthe SATABHISHBKAMT wo fltrd that tdost ofthe gfanthas of Sri Desika aDd oiher bookslikeSrutaprakasika, Upanishads, 4000 Prabandamretc. had been codplet€d, We all oould easilygu€ss that such a mammoth task, was achievedonly to prove the eftcacy of the Satvika TyagaSankalpa atrd the greatness of the AchalyaPara6para and lhe blessings of Lord Thiru.vengadadudaiyan who was stayiDg itr the Eiidof Our Swami all the 24 hou$ ofthe day.

WHAT NEXT:

There are maoy more books of Sri Desik&a8d the Abhinava Desika, to be published aodmaoy llore to be repriated as the copies atrsold out, Fron the {bove narration. one oouldeasily find out that ih€ publications sere oadepossible only from out ofmunificient don4tio[sfroE s few w€ll-to-do Astikas and lhey werecoEpletely voluntary. Now the di6culty is tosafeguard the printed copies as there is nospace ia " Sidhasra@a " of Our Swadi andthe probl€m of getting more finance for fultherpublications as the €ntire donations ar€ lockedup io uNold books. Astikas should comeforward to purch4se one s€t of Sri Desikagranthas, whioh is offe.ed at Rs. 200 for wbichthey would get all lhe 'D$ika Sri Suklis'

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alrrady priotod ald to b€ ptinted lD future.Every Astika in Sd Desika Sahpradaya shouldbecome a mesber by payiog Rs. 200 andpos$ss one set of Sri Desika's works and keepthelo iII his house as tbey kr€p a Koyilalwa. inbis house. Ooe Thousand "Eayagriva ldols"are made by Abhinava Desika, (in the form ofbooks) and waitiog to be e$hrin€d in yourhouse and they are cent per cent fit for worsbipacoording to Our Saopradaya. CoEe fotwardand do not miss this opportudity to possess a" Hayagriva Idol." (Sri Desika's works).

Out of all the works of Sri Desiko, all theUDGRANTHAS, exc€pt NYAYA PARI-SUDHI bad alre.dy beeq published by OurSwaoi. The above book is waitiDg fo! a pat.ro4 who would bear the cost, Our Sw&rtu lsquit€ Bure tbat 6ome Astika will d€frnitelyoodeforward i! due course as it happened to othergtsnlIas,

I! one ofthe meetings at Sri Desita VidyaBhavaDam, Myl4po19, quite recently, OurSwdEi said that h€ is purposely postponing theprirtilg of DRAMIDOPANISHAD TAT.pARYA RATNAVALI, as the same noeds ela.bonte scrutiny, He rcquested tho pandih aodsobolars id Sri Desika S4mpradaya to under.take th€ scrutiDy of the available version of theg$!tha, as different commentators had adop-ted difrereot versions of tb€ Slokas atrd so&eportion! of the grontha do not r€3e!]ble theusual nrasterly poetio style and " Saili" of SriD€sika. Our SwaDri also suggeskd that SriDesika Vidya Bbavaoam, beingan orgaDisatroninterest€d in Sri Desika Sa[rpradaya Vidya,could arrango and orgatrise a Seminar oB theabove grantha with th€ avowed purpose of dis-cu$sing Sloka by Sloka and decjde on the cor-r€ct and probable v€rdion of the Slokas whichwould fit into the context ard match the Sailiof Sri Desika; and that Our Swami would al-ways be available for colsultations. I{owever,as the above graotha is io the lisr of Sri Desi.ka's works to be publhhed by Our Swand ac.cordi4g td hi6 Saokalpar ho will take up the

scrutily and publicatio[ at propor tidre wheobe is a little f.ee, whether the Seminar is cotr.duoted or !ot.

As for the other works ofsri Desiks,likeStotras aod Tamil Prabandams, maby editionshad aheady been publish€d atrd repetition daybe ulnecessaay. However, Eany Astikas arerequestiog Our Swami to p.ovide his owa com"meqtary for them also. Ultimately he wouldundertake the6 at p.oper times.

The idea of publishidg a book calledi LAGIIU RAI{ASYATRAYA SARA'" Aoottd€nsed version of Srimad RahasyatrayaSara, by usirg Sti Desika's own words ands€nteDces, avoidiDg repetitiotrs and aaguements,is i! Our SwaBih mind for quit€ soae ti4e,This cotdensed book will be ugoful to EaDyAstikas who could not fiad tido to do thcKalakshepa of the nai! graltha. At thg saEeti6e the M0khyadhiksris will oEly otudy theorigiual versioD as part of tho G rautha Chatuoh.taya Kolakshopa. Il tioe and heilth poroits,tho Astika evorld would get oDe Eore "GranlhsGeur" froro Our Swami's peo, as " LAGHV.AHNIKAM" oaEo from his Rovorod Aoharya.

VEDANTA PUSHPANJALI, a grantho ofPoeos was writtetr by Our Swami at th€ ti6oof stariiog the coorDeotary on Upanishad3(osued PARISHKARA) and iut€dded to be airofferiog oI prayer to Lord TiruveogadaDudai-yan for the successful fioish of bis GranthaNirEara work utrder tbe banner of UbbayaVedanta Grantha Mala. The variow UpasanBMargasin theUpanishads are trested as flowersand offered as PushpaDjali. The book was flotpublish€d so loDg, as Our Swami was busy witbth€ publioatiod of other Udgranthas and SriD6ika's works. This book !,eill now be relea.sed soon. The cost o[ this book is borneby lhe fadous Lady Doctor Dr, E. V. KalyaDiand her brothers and will be dedicated to thememory of (Late) Dr. E. V, Srivivasan, EyeSurgeoo, aDd Srinati Kadnammal, parents ofthe donors. Dr. p. V. Sririvasan was a devoul

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Sishya of (Srimad Koliyalam Swaot) SriRaDgalamanuja Maha Desikan and hadBharaDyasa under him, He was atr adEirer ofOur swaroi's sampradaya Kainkarya

Th6 book TATVA SARA bY Nadatu Am-mal will be r€leased on the Satabhisheka alay,by the Salabhisheka Mahotsava Comaittee.

The book " UPANISHADARTHA KARI-KAS " of Our Sq,ami will also be r€lea8€d oDthe sa6e day. The oost of this book was dona.ted by Sri R. Vetrkatachari of OppiliappanSanoidhi, who will also be the publisher, atrdthe book lvi1l be d€dicated to his Rever€dAchsrya D€va, Abhinava Desika SriViraragha-varya Maha D€sikaq ia Reverenlial lIomage.

As {,e had already metrtioDed, Our Swami'shabit was to go on composiDg Poems on LordTiruvengadadudaiyan and other Deities hewonhips, whotrevet a little leisure is available.A book, containiDg all these Slokas are underorint io the lame of * SRI IIARI GURU-STAVA

MALA" and ifany Astikacould comeforward to bear the cost, it will be teleaoedsooo, as another Treasure frolr Our Swami'spen

For the time being, tbe abov€ books andthe complelion of the commeDtary called "SaraVistara " on Srimsd Rahasyetraya Sars addihe oommontary catled !' Anapaya Prabha " otlParamala Bhanga, in addition to lhe regularKalakshepo Goshti shouldbeenough to occupyOur Ssami's daily routiDo. As i! is, wo shouldbe more thatr satisfied that th€ purPose of thaAbhimva Avatara of Sri Derika, is goBpletely

fulltlled atrd it is absolutely neo$8aty thatoff Swomi sbould have eDough ielt in betw€cnto gai! health dnd strength, 3o lhst h€ oouldoortinue to ble$ uo all.

SRI BHASHYAKARA AND SRI DESIKA--(THBIRMUTUAL REGRETS).

Pandits say that Sri Bhashyskara aotually

his work of propagatirg bi8 Sidbalta, atrd atthe saEe time regretted that he could not haveSri Destka ae his direct isishya. Sri Desikaalso, ir seems rcgretted that he could not studydirectly uddei the fe€t of Sri Bhashyakara. Toremedy this mutual regr€ts, it is evideDt, tbatSri Bhashyakara took an Abinava Avatara andsirh lhe itrtefitiotr of combining the socrod"naE€ of Srirangam with his name, took the[ame ol " Rargaromaauja " and born as Srimad RatgaraBatruja MahaDesikan, (Sri Koli-yalam Swami). It is w€ll known to ev€rybodyand acoepted ev€n by the scholarE i, othorSaEpradayas that, Sri Koliyalanr Swa6i wa!only aD Avatara of Sri Bhashyakara and so.called bim, " AbhiEava Bhashlalara". SriDesik4 also took ao Abhinava Avatara as SttViraraghava Maha Desikan {as we all see Dow)atrd fullfilled lheir ruutual desires of T€achiuiaDal Sludyiog, respectively, (Vedants Shasrras;as Aoharya and Sishys. It is worth noti[gthat lbe Vedatrta Kalakshepa ofOurSwamiwas started by hi$ Acbarya while he was id nuGrihastasrama. Soon aft€r the $tarting, thsAcharya rushed to Srirangam to becooea Sa[.yasi, add came back as a Sanyasi add cotrtiouedhis Kalakshepa for his Shhya, Our Swami, a!Sri Bhashyakara was a Sanyasi ald S.i Desikawas a Griha8ia. Finally, the Abhimva Bhashya-kara blessed Out Sw6lci as "APARAMNIGAMANTARYAM ".

SARVA TANTRA SWATANTRA:

Some may ask that though everybody hadaccepted Our St/ami as Abbioava Dosika, howthe title of " Saava Tantra Swetantta," whiohSri Desiks got, $,ould fit Our Sw.mi. [SrlD.sika got lhe liile aftcr he did th. Niloansof a bronze idol of his ow!fr8uro,l Tho ols*cr\r,ould be vory simplo. Sri Abhinavd Desikoklow fiat it would be very difrcult romsirtairS6dotity and SatrDidhyld in a 6etal Idol, aBmiesing eve! one day'r pooja would oall for .Samprokshanom and other dtuals !o rdtorefto Sanctity. To avoid all these !roubl$, SriAbhi!6ve D€8ika created NOT ONE bqt ONEprodi4ed the birth of Sri Dotik!, tg ooDtiluo

t4r lTHOUSAND Idols, which would retaid theSanctity:aDd Sannidhyao ever if you did notdo pooja for days and montbs together. Theyare absolutely flt for worehip by all people atall tiFe3. We cao do Atchaoas and ofierUpacharas like Doopa, Deepa, Nsiv€dya andalo Aradhana as we do for Srimad RamayanaSdkos6. They are tle "SRI SUKTIS OFSRI DESIKA " and other Acharyas. OurSwami is printing 1,000 copies in all the gran"

thas, whioh means, be is cr€ating 1000 idols!,/hich contain ceDt per cent Sannidhyam ofLord llayagriva. In addition, the knowledge,Our Swami poss€sses aboul the Printing andPubli6bing Tlade would match thal of anyl€ading PrirtiDg House Malager. Furth€r,

some people flay doubt whether OuI SwaElknaw aoJ English. If one goes through theEsglish Tratslation of Vedanta Deepa, VishnuSahasra Namavali eto. whichwas lbft unfinished

by Sri K. Bharhyam and fioished by Ou.Swamii they would immediately withdraw thedoubt. Sri K. Bhashyam should be alive to-day to ansflet the doubt and the uqdersigoed

knows ftom personal experience that OurSw6mi has !o equal in selectisg the coff€cta[d approprjate word in Bnglish at the re-quired coBtext. So, the Title of SARVA-TANTRA SWATANTRA suils the AbhinavaAvatara much rnore thaD the orjgiral ,{vataraof Sri Desika

ASTIKAS:

Bach Hayagriva Idol (Sri Desika's works) isre{dy at tb€ SidbasraEam of OuI Se/ami, wai-ting to be installed atrd atshrined in you!

hoEes, wilhout eny deed for Pratishia forSalctity, thg very pr$eDce of which will bdngyou tha blessings of Lord Hayagriva.

CONCLUDING PRAYBR:

The various incidents in Our Swami's lif€ asnanated above, give the history of a periodshowing the gro$'th of Sanskrit lit€rature andVedanta cranthas for mo.e than 60 yea.swhich @n be easity oalted .,ABINAVADESIKA SAKABDA.,, Wben my ReveredAcharya Deva gave me the commatd lo dothis narration in English, (facts taken from theTamil naration printed in the same book aDdapproved as correci by Our Swa6i) I hesitatedfirstand then immediat€ly accepted to write thisABHINAVA DESIKA VAIBHAVI^M as I didnol waDt to miss the on€ and only oppoftunityprot jded for wipiogourloysiDs by Darrat iDgthe life hisrory ofmy Revered Acharya Deva.After acc€pting, however much I thoughtabour i r . l could oor 60d aoy qual i f rcat ioD inme for this oFer excepr that I kreq/ a few$ords io E[gl isb. I can only consider tbarthe extreme 'KARUNYA' of may ReveredAcharya Deva id giving m€ this charce to lvipeout my siDs, the fore thought olmy illusiriousfather, ir enhusting me to th€ feet of SrioadAbhinava Bhashyakara, Rangaramanuja Mah!D€sikan to undergo Pancha Samskara whichultinately brought me to the feet of myRevered Acharya D€va, Abhitava Desika forGrantha Chatushiaya Kalakshepa and Bharan.yasa and (the third) th€ blessings of LordTIRUVINNAGARAPPAN whom I worshipall the 24 hours, day in and day out.

By way of gralitude I can only pray to LordOPPILIAPPAN to give my Rever€d AcharyaD€va, Abhinava D€sika, Viraraghava.ayaMaha Dcsikan, loDg life, health and rtreogthto ooatiaue the Gaantha Nirntaoa work aDd tocontioue to bl$s all of us.

SRIMATE VIRARAGHAVARYA MAI'A DESIKAYA NAMAHASRIMATE RANGARAMANUJA MAHA DBTSKAYA NAMAHASRI BHOOMI DBVI SAMBTA SRINIVASA PARABRAEMANE NAMAHA.

ABHINAVA DBSIKA DASAR. VENKATACI{ARI

(Sohattur-ydhgipurdu-Oppiliappdn San idht)

I SUBHAM ]