Dear Sri RanganAtha BhakthAs : Swami Desikan is known for his choice of words and their depth of meaning (artha garbham ) .As we accept , Nothing is casual in his choice of words , since they flowed from Lord Hayagreevan , his upAsanaa murthy . As I thought more about the above three words in the 30th slOkam of NyAsa Tilakam , a whole set of ideas came to me . I would like to share them with you as an addendum to the previous note on the subject . As Sri MahA NaarAyaNOpanishad declares : " Om ithi yEkhAksharam Brahma --sAyujyam viniyOgam ".The Lord of Srirangam receiving the Prapatthi of Swami Desikan is sitting under the PraNavAkruthi VimAnam as PraNava SvarUpa Parabrahman . PraNava Naadham is emanating from there ceaselessly and is spreading as a Doppler Radar . Swami Desikan approaches (upagacchathi ) this PraNava svarUpi in the sapraNava prarthanA pUrvaka manner and makes his viNNappam ( appeal ) . He prays for the granting of Moksha sukham and nithya kaimkaryam . The choice of prefixes " Upa " and " abhi" used in conjunction with the root gam ( upagamanam and abhyupagamanam ) are so profound . Upagamanam means going to or reaching or being duly received . The coming and going is both covered here (gathAgathAni ). I will dwell below on how the Upa sabdham and abhi sabdham get intertwined to form the firm rope bridge to travel over the frightening torrent of samsAram rushing below . Abhyupagatha: means to come to the help of or to arrive at a point in time (after removal of ahankAram and mamakArams here ) or to assent to or agree to a request ( the Lord's response to the prayer ). Swami Desaikan"s prayer is " Omithi abhyupagamya ". An assent to the prayer (so be it , I have granted you Moksham is waht he wants to hear from the Lord ). That is is what he asks for , now that he has declared his ananya sEshathvam .He asks the parama upakArakan to lead him ( upanayanam ) to the seat of reverence (upasthAnam) , Sri Vaikuntam . That the Lord is the Omnipotent , Omniscient , Omnipresent One and to perform saraNAgathi with mahA visvAsam to Him thru MahA Lakshmi is the upAyam for moksha siddhi was the upadesam of Swami Desikan's AchAryA . That the Divya dampathis alone can grant one the moksha sukham and the associated nithya kaimkaryam is what is known as " Abhyupagama siddhAntham " or the admitted axiom of Sri VaishNavism . It appears to me that Swami Desikan chose therefore the word " abhyupagamya " to suggest the intertwining relationship between the PrapannA and the Lord , who accepts that Prapatthi .It is a very rich conception that Swami Desikan presents to us here and gets to the core of our SiddhAntham . Swami Desikan ThiruvadigaLE saraNam , Oppiliappan Koil varadAchAri Sadagopan
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