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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalGopal Srinivasan (born in 1944) is a graduate engineer by qualification and a post graduate in Industrial Management from Bombay University and an industrial manager by profession. He is on the Board of Directors of a large engineering company, GKW Limited, Kolkata. Being deeply spiritual by inclination, he is also the Managing Trustee of several religious and social Trusts. This book, which is the result of these dedicated studies, is meant mainly for those not familiar with classical Tamizh, and therefore interested in understanding the meaning of the verses in English. The current book isRead More...
Gopal Srinivasan (born in 1944) is a graduate engineer by qualification and a post graduate in Industrial Management from Bombay University and an industrial manager by profession. He is on the Board of Directors of a large engineering company, GKW Limited, Kolkata. Being deeply spiritual by inclination, he is also the Managing Trustee of several religious and social Trusts.
This book, which is the result of these dedicated studies, is meant mainly for those not familiar with classical Tamizh, and therefore interested in understanding the meaning of the verses in English.
The current book is titled “In Praise of Śrī Vedānta Deśika”. It is a word to word translation of 73 verses in Sanskrit composed by Śrī Prativādi Bhayaṅkaram Aṇṇangarācāryār Swāmi (Aṇṇan), a contemporary devotee and is titled ‘Saptati Ratnamālikā’.
Gopal Srinivasan is a regular writer on special topics of interest for senior citizens and reviews contemporary books in the monthly magazine ‘Dignity Dialogue’ published for senior citizens by Dignity Foundation, and edited by his wife Sheilu. He is also the author of a blog (www.chummachumma.blogspot.com) which he started in 2004. His favourite subject is philosophy and in particular the study and practice of Ubhaya Vedānta, the Viśiṣtādvaitic philosophy of Śrī Rāmānujā. This is the author’s second book.
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An Ode to Śrī Rāmānuja - YATIRᾹJA SAPTATIḤ is a word to word translation of 74 verses in Sanskrit composed by Swāmi Vedānta Deśika (1268 CE-1369 CE), a well-known Śrī Vaiṣnavite Ācārya, in praise of Śrī Rāmānuja, the founder of the philosophy of Viṣiśṭādvaita.
Referred to as a saint of the heart by Swāmi Vivekānanda, Śrī Rāmānuja’s philosophy is woven around a personal God with all auspicious qualities and attributes. Śr
An Ode to Śrī Rāmānuja - YATIRᾹJA SAPTATIḤ is a word to word translation of 74 verses in Sanskrit composed by Swāmi Vedānta Deśika (1268 CE-1369 CE), a well-known Śrī Vaiṣnavite Ācārya, in praise of Śrī Rāmānuja, the founder of the philosophy of Viṣiśṭādvaita.
Referred to as a saint of the heart by Swāmi Vivekānanda, Śrī Rāmānuja’s philosophy is woven around a personal God with all auspicious qualities and attributes. Śrī Rāmānuja composed a total of 9 works in Sanskrit, his ‘magnum opus’ being the interpretation of Sage Vyāsa’s Brahma Sūtra. Swāmi Deśika was a polyglot and an author of 166 granthas in Sanskrit, Prākrit and Maṇipravāla. He established the doctrine of Prapatti (self-surrender) as the guaranteed route to Mōkṣa (liberation).
This year is the 751th birth anniversary (1268 AD- 1369 AD) of the famous poet, philosopher and dialectical genius, Swāmi Vedānta Deśika. He lived for 101 years. By the age of 20 he became proficient in all branches of spiritual knowledge. He had mastered the Vedās, Śāstrās and Āgamās and the Divya Prabandhams of the Āzhwārs. His forte was logic, poetry and philosophy.
He wrote extensively in Sanskrit, Tamizh, Prākrit and Manipravāla and co
This year is the 751th birth anniversary (1268 AD- 1369 AD) of the famous poet, philosopher and dialectical genius, Swāmi Vedānta Deśika. He lived for 101 years. By the age of 20 he became proficient in all branches of spiritual knowledge. He had mastered the Vedās, Śāstrās and Āgamās and the Divya Prabandhams of the Āzhwārs. His forte was logic, poetry and philosophy.
He wrote extensively in Sanskrit, Tamizh, Prākrit and Manipravāla and composed numerous devotional hymns which reflected his poetic genius. He received the honorific titles of ‘Vedāntācāryar” from Lord Rańganāthā and “Sarvatantra Swatantrar” from the Divine Mother Śrī Rańganāyaki.
Swāmi Deśika was a polyglot and an author of 166 granthās.
Besides strengthening and further propagating the Viśișhtādvaitic philosophy of Śrī Rāmānuja, he established beyond any doubt the doctrine of Prapatti (self surrender) as the guaranteed route to mōkșa (liberation).
This book is a translation of 73 verses composed in Sanskrit by Prativādi Bhayańkaram Aņņangarācāryār Swāmi (Aņņan) who was the disciple of Nāyanārācāryār, son of Swāmi Deśika. This ode on Swāmi Vedānta Deśika contains what needs to been known about Swāmi Deśika’s greatness, the depth of meaning in his works, the faith in him of his devotees and efforts made by his opponents to demean him which boomeranged and put such people to shame. Some of the great Ācāryās who came after Swāmi Deśika quoted several verses from ‘Saptati Ratnamalika’ in their writings and thus gave it a pride of place among other literary works.
This year is the 1,000th birth anniversary of the famous Bhakti saint Śrī Rāmānujā. He lived for 120 years. He travelled the length and breadth of our vast country to preach his simple philosophy of loving God and surrendering to Him to attain liberation (moksha). This was not to be a preserve of the upper classes or the affluent. He touched every human being with whom he empathised and wanted all of them to be liberated.
Swami Vivekanand
This year is the 1,000th birth anniversary of the famous Bhakti saint Śrī Rāmānujā. He lived for 120 years. He travelled the length and breadth of our vast country to preach his simple philosophy of loving God and surrendering to Him to attain liberation (moksha). This was not to be a preserve of the upper classes or the affluent. He touched every human being with whom he empathised and wanted all of them to be liberated.
Swami Vivekananda referred to Śrī Rāmānujā as a saint of the heart, as his heart went out to the downtrodden. His philosophy was practical and not abstract. It recognised the existential reality of the world. Referred to as Vishishtadvaita, the philosophy was woven around a personal God with all auspicious qualities and attributes. It combined the revelations of the Vedas and the outpourings of the Vaishnavite saints from South India called Āzhwārs (those who dug deep into the love of God). God was not only the end to strive for, but the means as well.
Śrī Rāmānujā composed totally nine works in Sanskrit, his magnum opus being the interpretation of Sage Vyasa’s Brahmasūtra titled Śrī Bhāshyā. His extensive early training in Nammāzhwār’s Thiruvāimozhi was the foundation for his philosophy, Śrī Rāmānujā Darśanā.
Śrī Rāmānujā was a leader par excellence and compassion personified. Amudanār who composed the poem of 108 verses translated in this book, says that Śrī Rāmānujā succeeded where the Supreme Lord failed. The Lord was unhappy that in spite of his descending to earth in various incarnations, the people by and large lived in deep misery without any sense of purpose. He, therefore, chose to incarnate as Śrī Rāmānujā. The Lord succeeded in His mission during this incarnation.
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