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-daily wbich is saored and dificult to get forpeople from south. At Pushkaram, which is

{ull of Vaishlaviles from south he could lead a

life \rithout det.iment to Acbara and Anllsh'

tana and aiso worship at the temple of LordRana Vaikunta, in whioh Pooja is being done

5y Vaishnavite priests with great care andAchara mosdy from well known faoilies f.onsKancbiputam, During bis stay at Pushkaram'

Local Vaishnalile paDdits, who were ceDi pel

c€tr t qual i6ed ro u[dergo Vedanta Adbyayaoa.came io Our Ssami RDd tbe Kalksbepa Gosht i

was conducled qi lh al l entnusrasm. Drr isg

hjs stay, Our Swami agteed to a requ€sr from

one ofhis disciples to dictate a Kandanam to a

Iocal commentary on Muktavaii g.aDrha. The

local pandittook noles ard published th€ sameafierwards. After sotretime, the cold clidate

did not agree with Our Swami aBd be cameback to the South otrce for all, for good.

Afier his return, Our Swami proceeded to

Thiruvahindrapuram to pa! his homage to his

Revered Acharya, Sri Koliyatam Swaoi. There,he found, that his Aoharya was in a failiDghealth and he stayed on for sooe moreti$e anal helped his Acharya to finalise a

Crantha writt€n by bim ard dade it fit forpriniing. Side by side, Out Swaoi finalisedbis o\rn comm€Biary on Sri Desika's ISAVAS-YOPANISHAD BI{ASHYA oalled ACHAR'

YA BHASHYA TATPARYAM.

AN UNFORGETTABLE INCIDENT :

One day at MadutaDtakam, S.i U. Ve.

cosbtipuram Swami, Sri SowByanalayana

Maba Desikan, took Our Swami to lhe templeof Sri Bhashyakara (inside the Sd Ramat€mple) aBd made Our Swami stand at the feet

of Sr i Bbashlakara aod uttered lbc lol lo\ I iogrvords: " Swamin l pray to you to bless

the Joungster (Our Swaoi) sta[ding at yout

lcet, so that he may become thc future

CUIDING STAR for sp.eadiog lhe visishtad'

vaitha Sidhanta atrd Sri Desika Sampradaya."Tbe praye! from Sri Goshtipurad Swami as

so ipotrtaioeous aod ti&ete tha! t€ars aolled

dortrn his eyes. What a noble act done by oneofthe great achatya, Sri Goshtipuram Swanii !How oould Sri Bhashyakara igoore such a re_quest? We now koow, how Sri Bhashyakarablessed Our Swami, We nos, have amongst u3'with full of Sowlabhva and Sowseelva tho

necessary qualities fo. a greai Acharya' ou!

Universally Acoepreal Great Acharva, Sri Abhi-

nava Desika. od bis SATABHISHEKAM day'

as an " Achatya, Par Exoellenc€ " to ble8s us

all. Afte. that incident, Our Swami made it ahabit to visit Sri Goshtipuram Smami at Mam-batkam t i l lage. Sf l U. !e. Pirambaosa Pdriv-rajdka Sri ln jrmedu AI?gissi trgar Swami. in

his Poorvasmtrram. used to visit Sri Goshil_puram Swami ev€ry now ard tbes. DuringoDe such visit, Onr Swami was also pr€sent.

He used to meet Oru Swami at h4atrna.gudiSadas and used to admire the knowl€dge ofOur Swami. He asked Our Swami to join theVeda Patasala in Mannargudi as an ltlstruotorin Vedanta graf,thas. Our Swami could not

accept the offer. Late. on in one of his visitsio Kil-Tirupathi, he called on Sri U, Ve.I{ahamahopadhyaya Kapistalad Sqami, to pay

his respects. Oa his lequest, Out Swami stayedwiLh him for a fevr dals to correct and g ve

suggestions to the book, VYASA SIDHANTA\,IARTANDA, Oo his way back, he haliedfoc tbe nigLt at CbiLIor (Atrdbta stale) Tbere'he met Sri Viraraghavacharya, Vakil, whois tbe son of Sri Kapistalam Swami. OurSwami was persuaded bY him and bYSri Adadtasayanam iyeDgar Swami to stayitr Chittor for soEe time. There, S.i M.AoatrtasaJanam Iyenga. Swami (Ex Covernor)studied Srinad Ramayanam, Brahma Sutra-Shatrkara Bhashyars, and Midamsa PrakaranaGrarthas. Sri (Vakil) Viraraghavacharya aDdothers studied othe. Sampradaya g.aalhas. Healso gavediscourses in the€veniogs 3Dd SrimadBhagavatham was done ve.y elaborately in bisupanyasam and the Astikas of chittoor werevery much pleased. In the meatrtino, Sri D.T. Tatacbarya Swami \ anted to Publfub Our

SraBi's book MIMAMSA NYAYA PRA-

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KASA VYAKI{YANAM and wrote r letre. to

Our Swami. EveDthougb tbe 6bo!e book wasflritten during his stay in Tirulaiyaru, OutSwarni did not publish the same, as he felt,that his Miroaf,sa Guru, Brahma Sri Chirna-swami Sastrigal may feel ofl'end€d, ashis Guruhimself had published a commentaty fiomBcnares for the same book. But Sri D. T.Swami argued that Sri Shastri's coadentatywas a short and concise one, whereas OurSwami's codmentary was ao elabotate otre andthis will be a valuable guide rto studeBts {howant to study the subject in detail. Fimlly SriD. T. Swami succeeded and thc same flaspublished, in series, in Udyata Pahika. SriA. V, Gopalacharya, a leadilg Vakil fromTirucbirapalli and Matatraya Pandit aDd acriric, wbo has grear rcgard for Our Swadi.

rote to Our Swami saying that hehad sugg$-tcd to the authorities at Mysore: to sppointOur Swami as the ExaEiner for Rajakiya Vid-vat Parishad. Our Swami agreed to tbis 3!dwhcn the request cade from Mysore, he notonly set questiotr pap€rs fo. the students butalso corr€ctgd all th€ answer papers, They alsorequested hil1 to come to Mysore for codduc.ting Oral Tesh. During his stay in Mysorc,Sri Parakala Mutt Swadi saEted to heaf thecoaoentary wlitteD by Our SwaDi, calledAcharya Bhashya Tatparyad. Aft€r h€adtgthc salle Sd Parakala Mutt Swami was 60ouch Dleased that he called for a Sadas llhooour of Out Swami so tbrt local Vidwanscould hear Our Swadi. Al the Sadas, OurSwami was asked to speak orl SAMANYANIRUKTI and BEATTA DEEPIKA. Duringdiscussiors, the Principal of Tiftnarayana-puiam Vidyasala, Sri Vaidyanatba Sastrigalwsllteal to know whether OuI Swami couldreply to points raised at randoE frold anypage from the graltha, Our Swami took thechallengo aBd answercd all the questions veryconvilciDgly so thai all presetrt iDcluding SriSastri praised him. Oo the fiml day of tteSadas, Bmbma Sri Virupaksha Sastd, (ytho-la!€[ became Sringeri Madathipali) rais€d a

point, saying that certain portions is SATADHOOSHANI ilere waong and watrted OurSwami to givc his explanation. Our Swami didthat without any hesitation and conainced thepandiis present. After the Sadas, Sri ParakalaMurt Swami and Sri Yosa Na.asimha Sastr i ,Principal of the Kalasala, requesled OurS$,ani to join them as a professor, Our Swac0icould trot refuse their kindness but told theotlat he will do so in course oftime. Comingback to Chittof Lc had ao offer ftod NotthNellore College tojoin tbem as an idstructor.A local astrologer told him that accordiog toOur Swami's horoscope he is destined fo.somethingbigg€r than that oforand dissuadedhim fronl joining the North Nelloro college. Itso bappened tbat Cbittor Vakil. s-i Dorai-swamy lyengar, who is also a Sishya of SriTirupathi Swami, who had influence in Tiru-pathi College was arranging to instal OorSsami eithef as th€ Plincipel o. at l€ast as aProfessor in Vedanta al Tirupathi. Sri Swamihad tro milds whether to accept the Mysoreoffer or tbe Tirupathi offer. Finally he madeup his midd in favo!. ofthe Tirupathi off€r-At Tirupathi, Our Swandi felt, that he willhave more chances to worship Lord Thiru_v€Dgadamudayan, He also explessed his desileto be the Professor than the PriDcipal, for thesimple reason tbat, as a Principal, he may haveto $/ear shift. turban etc \thereas as Professorhe \rill have more freedom to obsewe Achataand Anusbtana and be:will bave more lide forVectanta vichara, the subject which is very dearto hiE thaa the fade attached to the ofrce ofa Principal. Itr the college also they had 4cotryention that only atr M.A. degree holderwill hold the post of a Principal. Still, SriDoraiswaoi lyenPar itrsisted lhat at lea\t forsome time he should be the Pdncipal add at alater date if he feels that his intentions arodiffel€ni he ca1l 6tay as the Professor. Fimllyhe was appointed as the Principal atrd OurSwami took it as a challenge. The post of aPridcipal is trothing new to our Swami os heha$ doBc, [tronoially, all the duties ofthe post

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at Tirdtaiyaru college its€lf. IIe broughi manycbailges aDd improvemeots in the Acadenicside aDd all were vgry much impressed atrdadmircd his capacity. Af ier some r ime. Poi i t icgcane in and the authorities had to go back tothe original convention of haviEg only anM.A. Decr€e-holder as the Principal. OurSnami considefed this development as a bles-sing in djsguise as he was spending most of histin0e in Administrative matt€rs and darcing tothe University omcials by virtue of his post asPdncipal, He also felt that he h:d alreadywasted enough time by not concentrating onGranta Nirmana and doing other things topropagate our sanpradaya. Fortunately theM.A. degree holder happ€ned to b€ no oahetthan Sri Krish.amachriar, who was thenepbew ofsri Kapistalam swami. This new€ntrant knew lhe ialue ofOur Swami and there!9as no dificully as he did everythiDg only afterconsulting Our Swami, In the meanwbile,Mahamahopadhtraya Sri KuppuswamySastrigalgave him tb€ post of an Bxaminer in the Unr.ver6ity itself. As usr1al out of jealousy fromDrany quarlets, there vras opposition to thisproposal. But Sd Sastfi knew about Our.Swami's capacity aod laletrt and stuck to hrsdecision. Normally atr Examiner in the Univ€r-si tyrsappomted o0ly for lbree lears: but inOur Swamit case ahe authorities w€re so muchconvinced about his capacity, they extendedhis tenure for a furthet pe.iod. As a Professorat the college Our Swami introduced many trewfeatures and improvements like weekly Upan"yasams and Pravacbanams. In addition to tho&gular Nyala Mimamse Vedanta granthas,Our Swami introduced lectures on ChitraMimamsa, Dhvanyalokadi grantbas etc.

GRANTHA PUBLICATIONS :

As a Prof€ssor, Our Swami bad alot ofspareljme. Giving lectures to studeots was likgtaking water fo. Our Swami aDd dalled for ro?reparations as he eas thoro gh in all thesubjects, So he devored more time oD hischerished subject, Grsntha Nirsala. Though

the book ACHARYA BHASIIYA TATPA:RYA, the commentary on Sri Desika'sIsavasyopanishad Bhashya, lvas stitten verymuch earli€r, tbe same was publish€d at sboutthis time. After publication, on going throughthis book, Sri Kapistalad Swami praised thobook verv much. Sri Injimedu AlagiasingarSwamy also vras much impressed and wantedOur Swami to send one copy to him andanother oopy to the Madurantakam College.

Almost, at about thesade time, tbe publica.lion ofthe comcentary called " MIMAMSASUDHASVADAM", on the brok, "MimamsaNyaya Prakasa," a Prakarana gfantha, wasdone and this codmentary got wide poblicilyand was very well appreciated. Brahmas(iRamachandra Dikshitar of Mylapore Sanskfjtcollege, and othe{ Mi{!smsa authoriiies praisedOrr Swami for this publ ical ion. Afrec thicOur Swami wroie and publish€d "SUKHAPRAVESINI" a detailed comEentary onTarka Sangraha, flhich fulfilled th. teed ofthe students of Tarka by supplying SAABDABHODHA for each sentence of the ofiginal, 1nthe age-old customary way of doing prava-

chana6. This also helped stud€nts to under-stand tbe Navina Tarka Grantbas easi ly inSiromani class€s.

This was thetime, Our SwaBi had to fece thecalamily of his Fife's death who left behirdonly three daughters ard no son, to pelpetuate

the Vamsa Pammpara. Ou Swami was veryEucb imme$ed, at that time, id the task ofbringi g to print tbe grantha, 'PARAPA'

KSHA NIRAKRITI" writieo by Sri Koli-yalan Swdmi. The Revered Acharya, wa. wel laware of Out Swaoi's Predicament and foundno othor way than to advise Our Swadi tomarry again. ou. swaBi had go agree to hisRevered Acharya's coGdand and agreed tomarry, if a righl alliance was available. Sri U.Ve. Ketandapatti, Bharadhvaja Gotra, Mada-pusi, Middai, Rengacharya Swami, who was an'ADtaranga Sishya' of Sr i Kol iyalam Swami,

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'r9ho uscd to travel $/ith him in his .YaJla and

who was of immenle help during such trips,

off€red his daughte. id msftiage to Our Swaidlwith great enthu(ia<m, after obtaining rhe

bl€ssings of Lord Tiruvengadamudaiyat. The

me(liage was conducted soolr asd eventhoughOur Srvami s second wife vtar lery youns, she

was vety $/ell trained in runding the house.flith strict Achara habits O Swami was

vcry lucky in h:s 6rst wife. as she co'opetaledwith her husband with full Aoharam and naiu'

rally Oul Swami was a little apprehensive in

marrying again. But to his gooC luck, he

found that his second wif€ was io ro flay

if,ferior to the first wife in Acharam. Upto this

dav OLrr Swami has beon gettiog maximumco:operation and full satisfaotioo from his

second *ife ia rsnning the house with strict

Achararo; so that eveu ir trying times, Our

Swami flerer had aoy difr:ulty to putsue his'Acharyakao- aod sas able to fuldl the needs

ofa clrsi! of Sisbyas crding to hiB both for

Panda samsta€m atrd Bharsntasad This

!..ood sife's n3Ee is Sor{' KAMALA and

ooly to indicate this the Maogala Sloka ar the

tpeinning of tbis arlicle cootaios lhe words,

" Kamala Griha Medhinald."

Coming back to bis college career, at Tim'

Dathi college, tbe florking hours were upto lo

i.M. io the morniog aod started agaid only at

2-00 P.M. So Our Swami had to do his Ijya

and Bhagavadarsdhanam after 10 A M' and

as Out Swadi was lery particula. about his

rituals, it used to take rdost of his tiBe in tbe

fo.e-noo:l; with the rcsult that he could not

sDare much t ime in helPing Sri Kap:stalamSwami to sccutinjse bis gratrthas aod to offer

his remarks and suggestioN, Sri Kapistalan

Swami, with all earnestn€ss advised Olrl swami

to finish tho Ijya rituals, in as concise a manner

as rossible, as it ras Boi good for his health if

he;ook food at such a late hour itr ihe day,

after remaini{g with edpty stornach through-

out ita doroing. I{c aaid that Shastras

definitely perdit for the reducliotr in ritual

times to the mjrjmum, especially when otre is€ngaged in such impo.taot work of GranthtPravachana and Grantba Nirmana. I{e alsosaid that eveo Saryasins used to leduce tlail

Abhigamana Aradhanam to the barest 6ini_mum when the Grantha Kalakshepam wasahead of him with S:shyas wait ing for b;o'It is alright for ordinaty Artikas and Vaidikaswho have no occupation of Grantha Paava-chadam or Clmtba Nirmanam:etc., to devotedore time for the lituals alld oot fot pemons

who are fdly qualifred and dedicated to thenoble task of Grantha Pravacha8sm and

Nirdaoam, whjch is itself consider€d as the

most importanl Bhagavada.adhana. Sri Pa.a-

mahamsetyadi Gdrrdapuram Swaoi also used

to advise our Swami exactly on th€ same lioe8.

While at gushkaram, Oua Swami hld theopportuDi(y to teach Tat la Sangmha to quir€

a few youngsters, in additiod to old€r pandits

who gather€d ;n good number for Vedanla

K3lakshepam. Many sucb youEgsters' nowgrowtruPs, wbo wanted to pnrsue th€ii studies

uader 9ur Swsmi, tried their besl through theqootl ofrces of Sri Balaoukutrdacharia! of

iushkaram, to bring Our Swami again to

Pushkaram. But tbey found thal Our Swaloi

was betrt upon serving ONLY Tiruvengada'

mualayan 3s a Plofessor in HIS college' So

some of the youngstefs frool Pdshkaram were

sentto Tirupathi by Sri Balamukundaoharya

Peetha to siudy at Tirupathi under Ooa Swaml.

One such Sishya, Sri K. Sridharachariar, stayed

oo fo. a longer tioe. He finished his Tark4

Siromani io four yea$ and then studied

vedanta for four more years, which included

Sri Bhashya, GEETA Bhashva eto. aDd took

fotes in Sanskrit for Srimad Rahasyatraydsara.

He also got all the sec€ssary I Upad$a' to do

Paocha Samskara aod Bhatanyasa etc. rnd

becaoe qualifi€d for doing 'Acharyaka' in

Sti Desika Sampradaya. IIe himself under-

weni the Bharatyasam utrder Sri Koliyalad

Sevami and ptoeeeded on his mbsion to North

Iodia. Sd Viraragbsvacha.ya' who is thc :{ea'l

114 Ifo thc Utia.a Ahoboila Jalariya Mutt, $as atsoI student rlnder Our SwaDi, for Tarka SaDg-raha6 in bis tou.ger days. The above metion€alSridbaracbariar Swami h acting under hiE astb! Acbarya-Represertal i \e of rLe Jalar iyaMutt, travels to all places where Sishyss gatheflo pcdorm Pancha Samskara aDd Bharanvasa.Dd is doing good service in spreadin; SriDcsika Sanapradaya. Whenerer opportinrryar ises Sri K. Sr idharachariar st i r is i rs OurSwami to pay bis rcspects. He was responsiblefor collecting a lot of donatlons from themem.beas of Pusbkaram Mangoiram Sairjiand otherAstikas who became his Sishyas, for maay ofOur Swami's publications, from time to time.Onc ofSri Puslkaram Balamukundachar's dis-ciple, Sri Bhagavadachariar, (who had earlierrtudied Vyakarata and VedaBta under Sri U.Ve. Ncclameghachariar, a Satee{thya of OorSwami and ! \ho was a leading Acbarya rsNorth itrdia) came !o Tirupatbi ro study TarkaSh4stra and brought with him the EatruscriDrsoftbc fuU Sanskrit versioo ofsrimad Rahasl'iar.rayasarom, writteD by Sd U. Vo. Neelamegha-ohadar SwaEi. Our SwaEi wetrt through thesame ood after scrutiny and suggestioEs, thetook was later published f.om Nofh Jaalia.Tbg a bove-Bentiotred Sri Bhaghavdlacharjar. isnow a leading Acharya, doing pravachadaBand propsganda on Sri VaishDava Sidhatrtautrda. the trame of Swsmi Adrudhachar andIike K. Sridharachar Swami also Dever failslo coEe atrd pay bis respect5 to Our SwamisheDev€a oppottunity arises.

At Tirupathi Collegc, Our Swami more orless kept a trursery for young talents. yoilng-stcrs pas$d out of tbe col lege creditably iDTarka Shasua, axd orher SiromaDi claases.Mosr of thed. by associar ioD wjth Our S$ami.developed a taste for Vedanta Adhyalaoa aoj.proacbed Sri Koliyalam Se,,ami, Srj JniimeduAlagiasirgar Swaoi, Sr i Naralpakam Nara.simhaoha.iar Swami etc. for V€danta Kala_kshepam atrd became ardetrt Sishtas for rbem.Our Syradi's efforts in thal direclioE usad to

lbe very much appreciated by those Acbaryas-Even Advaita Acbaryas from Karnataka,Andhra and orher states appreciated OurSwami's effort in turning out scholals ro.be well v€rsed in basic Sha(ras like TarKaand MimaEsa etc. and who ultimately appro-ached them for Vedanta Kalaksbepa.

Duri[g the tenure ofoffice as a Pcofe.sor jnTirupsti coll€ge, Our SwaBi always felt thatstudetrts in Taaka Siroroani classes trevet usedto faro well in NYAYA KUSUMANJALI. aniEportant book for Tarka Siromani examina-tio!, in spite of intense coacbing, The studv.of this gaantha, Nyaya KusumaDjali, is a mustfor the understanding of eany Vedanta.Grantbas of Sri Desika. Olrr Swadi prayed toLord I{ayagriva to bless him with thcknowledgo to wdte a commentary for theabovo book. The result was a CHAYAVYAKSYANAM for Nyaya Kusumanjali,which is a commentary in simple undcr-standable setrtctrc$ after the main grantha wascodifled and subdivided into diff€rent cbaptersshovring very clearly the Aavaya, Samasta padaVirgaha Prakara and Pooffa Paksha SiddhantaVibhaga, This book was vety w€l1 receivedboth by tbe shrd€rts and by the teaching stafaqd pandits alike. By about this time, somestudents in the col lege. brougbt !o Ouf Swrmi,a concise and shoat commentafy, written bysome pandit in Andhra Desa, in EaEuscriDt.stage aod requested Our Swami to prjEt thesame aloBg with Our Sq'ami's book. SdK-V. Rangaswami Iyengar Swasi, who wa8 atthat tiae the Director io the Eiircarior depsrFment of the Devastanam, or hearing theattempts of the students, set Ouf SwaBi andadlised him not to accede to th€ requ€st ofthestudents as the policy of tbe DevastatraEed cation departmgDt was not to encourag€students in such matters aBd if an occasioearcse in which the studeDts h4dto be chasthedit will indjrectiy affect Our Swami also as theco-publisher, He also said that while o!.Madras, he beard very much about Orr