Dear Swamy Desika BhakthAs : AdiyEn will commence a number of postings now on the next Desika Prabhandham , Para Matha Bhangam in the overall series of postings linked to Thiruvaheendhrapuram RathnAngi Kaimkaryam . Introductory Comments on this Tamil Prabhandham **************************************** This is a very important Prabhandham derived from a very famous debate of Swamy Desikan with leaders of other Mathams in front of Lord DevanAthan on the banks of PeNNai river . Swamy Desikan defeated all his challengers and firmly established the Supermacy of VisishtAdhvaitham over 15 other SiddhAnthams . Lord DevanAthan was very pleased at the accomplishment of His dear devotee and blessed him profusely . The avathAram of Para Matha Bhngam ****************************** After this historic debate , Swamy Desikan composed the major MaNipravALa SrI Sookthi named "PARA MATHA BHANGAM " to summarize the content of his debate with the people of Para Mathams ( other SiddhAnthams) . There are 24 chapters in that SrI Sookthi/Rahasyam . Swamy Desikan took the first and the last paasurams of these 24 chapters that were in chaste TamiL and strung them together as a garland along with 6 more special Paasurams to create the FOURTH Desika Prabhandham with the same name of "PARA MATHA BHANGAM " . There are thus 54 Tamil Paasurams in this Fourth Desika Prabhandham . The Original SrI Sookthi in MaNipravALam *********************************** The original MaNipravALa Version of "Para Matha Bhangam " is an intellectual achievement of the highest magnitude. Abhinava Desikan , Vaikunta Vaasi , SrI UttamUr Swamy has blessed us with a commentary for this MaNipravALa version entitled "AnapAya PrabhA ". It has 1168 pages of commentary . Erudition to grasp the fine points of this grantham is beyond the capabilities of many of us . Only a very few AchAryAs can help us understand atleast a small portion of this extraordinary creation of Swamy Desikan. The SrI Sookthis of Swamy Desikan such as Tatthva Muktha KalApam , Satha DhUshaNi , SarvArTa Siddhi , MeemAmsa PadhukA , The Five RakshA granthams have material related to Para Matha Bhangam. It will take many lives and SadAchArya KatAksham to get even a glimpse of the deep doctrines covered by Swamy Desikan in the original SrI Sookthi of Para Matha Bhangam . For our benefit , Swamy Desikan has assembled the 54 Tamil Paasurams of the original SrI Sookthi to realize the Fourth Desika Prabhandham named Para Matha Bhangam . That Tamil Prabhandham will be the subject of the subsequent postings for the next few days. Please bear with adiyEn's incompetence to summarize them . Swamy Desikan's Prayer to Lord DevanAthan ************************************** The original MaNipravALa Version starts with the prayer of Swamy Desikan to Lord DEvanAthan , who was waiting eagerly on the banks of PeNNai River during one of His Uthsavam to witness this debate between His intimate devotee and the challengers from the other Mathams. The prayer of Swamy Desikan to Lord DevanAthan at the beginning of this debate is : " apaayAsthu tama: pumsAm anapAya prabhAnvitha: AhIndhranagarE nithyam udhithOayam ahaskara: " Word by Word Meaning ******************** anapAya PrabhA anvitha : = the Lord with never leaving lustre (prabhA) of SrI HemAbhja Naayaki AhIndhra NagarE = at His dhivya dEsam of AhIndhrapuram nithyam = always udhitha: = rising ayam = this Lord , the origin of this SrI Sookthi Ahaskara: = is shining as the radiant Sun PumsAm Tama: nithyam apAsyathu = May He banish the darkness (tamas) of nescience and viparItha Jn~Anam of the chEthanams ! ( Integrated Meaning ): Lord DEvanAthan with the unique lakshaNam of His eternal Prabhai of SrI HemAbhja Naayaki . Her is always resplendent as the rising Sun. May this Lord of Thiruvaheendhrapuram chase away all the spirtual darkness of people with His matchless lustre! This prayer is linkable to the command of Manu in His Smruthi according to Sri UtthamUr Swamy : " yaa vEda-bAhyaa: smruthayO yaasccha kaasccha kudhrushtaya: SarvasthA: nishphalA: prEthya tamOnishtA hi taa: smruthA:" Para Mathams are born due to the influence of TamO guNam and are rooted in that guNam . The prayer to the ishta dhaivam of Swamy Desikan is to remove the Tamo GuNam of people through study of the SrI Sookthi born out of Lord DEvanAthan's grace . Paraphrasing Manu , the First Law giver , Swamy Desikan condemns the Veda BAhya and Kudhrushti Mathams as nishphalam ( fruitless) and prays to the Lord to banish the TamO GuNam that stands in the way of the ChEthanams to adopt the Vedam-prescribed UpAyam of SaraNAgathy to gain freedom from the cycles of Births and Deaths in the SamsAric world (Moksham ). The Scope of Para Matha Bhangam **************************** Swamy Desikan was a Master of all Darsanams . He was one of the greatest scholars of all times to understand the faulty assumptions and conclusions of Veda Baahya Mathams and Kudrushti Mathams . He was also a Master of the tenets of SrI VisishtAdhvaitham as developed by Rishis like VyAsa-ParAsara-Parankusa and PoorvAchAryAs like Swamy Nathamuni, EmperumAnAr and other AchAryas like NadathUr AmmAL and AathrEya RaamAnujar (His own AchAryan). Swamy Desikan used his immense scholarship to provide the logic-based critique about the deficiencies and pitfalls of 15 other Mathams(SaarvAkam , Four kinds of Bhouddha Matham , Jainam , Adhvaitham , BhAskara-Yaadhava Matham , VyAkaraNa Matham , KaNAtha Matham , Gouthama Matham , MeemAmsaka Matham , Saankhya Matham , Yoga and Paasupatha Mathams ) and established the unassailable superiority of VisishtAdhvaitha SiddhAntham . Swamy Desikan created the major MaNipravALa commentary as his critique of all the other SiddhAnthams and to establish the glories of VisishtAdhvaitha SiddhAntham over all of them . There are 24 chapters in the MaNipravALa Rahasyam known as "Para Matha Bhangam ". These 24 chapters of Paramatha Bhangam are: 1.PrasthAvanAdhikAram ( The chapter serving as an Introduction / Preface to this Sri Sookthi ) 2. Jeeva TatthvAdhikAram (Sentient Tatthvam) 3. Achith TattvAdhikAram (insentient Tatthvam) 4. Para TatthvAdhikAram (Iswara Tatthvam) Chapters 2, 3 and 4 deal with the Tatthva Thrayams of ChEthanam , achEthanam and Iswaran . 5. SamudhAya DhOshAdhikAram This chapter deals with the defects /blemishes (dhOshams) common to all (samudhAya dhOshams) of the Para Mathams 6. LokAyadhika BhangAdhikAram /SaarvAka Matham critique 7. MadhyAmika BhangAdhikAram/ criticism of MaadhyAdhmikam 8. YogAchAra BhangAdhikAram/Criticism of YogAchAram 9. SouuthrAndhika BhangAdhikAram 10. VaibhAshika BhangAhikAram 11. Prachanna BHouddha BhangAdhikAram 12. Jaina BhangAdhikAram 13. BhAskara-Yaadhava BnagAdhikAram 14. VyAkaraNa BhangAdhikAram 15. VaisEshika BhangAdhikAram 16. Goudhama(NyAya) BhangAdhikAram 17. NirIswara MemAmsA BhangAdhikAram 18. NeerIswara Saankhya NirAkaraNAdhikAram 19. Yoga SiddhAntha BhangAdhikAram/Criticism of Yoga Matham 20. Paasupatha BhashikArAdhikAram The above 15 chapters ( 6-20 ) serve as the criticism of the specific dhOshams of each of the above 15 Para Mathams . 21. Salutation to PaancharAthra Saasthram/ Bhagavath Saasthra VirOdha BhangAdhikAram. This chapter is constructed as the defense of Paancha Raathra Aagamam and to establish that it does not belong to the category of Para Mathams . 22. ParOkthOpAya BhangAdhikAram 23. ParOktha PrayOjana BhangAdhikAram These two chapters assert that the UpAyam and Phalan / PrayOjanam advocated by the 15 Para Mathams are insubstantial, inappropriate and not lasting to gain Moksha Sukham in distinct contrast with the UpAyam and Phalan realizable with the Parama Vidhika Matham of VisishtAdhvaitham. 24. Nigamana AdhikAram Based on Tarkam , Nigamanam means conclusion in a Syllogism. Nigamana AdhikAram can also be intrepreted as that which has Vedic Sanctions. This is the concluding chapter of the illustrious SrI Sookthi of Para Matha Bhngam . 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