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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. 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).
Gopāl Śrinivāsan
Gopāl Śrīnivāsan (born in 1944) is a graduate engineer by qualification and a post-graduate in Industrial Management from Bombay University. As an Industrial Manager by profession, he was on the Board of Directors of Guest Keen Williams Ltd. (GKW) from 1988 till 2019. He was also a Consultant to Powmex Steels Division of Graphite India Ltd, Kolkata. He learnt the chanting of Swāmi Vedānta Deśika’s Sanskrit and Tamizh stotra at a very early age from his Father.
He also learnt the chanting of the entire Kṛiṣṇa Yajur Vedā from qualified Vedapātis as well as all the four thousand verses of Nalāyira Divya Prabandham and Deśika Prabandham from a well-known scholar of Bengaluru, Śrī Nārāyana Iyengār. He has written two books of translation from Tamizh to English and from Sanskrit to English titled ‘In Praise of Śrī Rāmānuja’ and ‘In Praise of Swāmi Vedānta Deśika’ respectively. The current book is a translation into English from Sanskrit of a stotra titled ‘Yatirāja Saptatiḥ’ composed by Swāmi Vedānta Deśika.
