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92) Krishnaakhya vipra Vedantha Desikathva pradhaaya Sri Venkatesaaya Nama:
Salutations to Lord VenkatEsa , who elevated a scholrly BrahmaNan by the
name of KrishNa sharma to the lofty status of
a VedAnthaachAryan in his next life !
The tale of Sudharminee was
narrated under the 90th nama. Krishna Sharma was the husband of Sudharminee.
When the Lord appeared before the couple, with the Tondaman Chakravarthi
looking on, Srinivasa tells the Emperor that Krishna Sharma is unparallelled
in devotion, erudition, wisdom and in the observance of righteous conduct. The
Lord also predicts that Krishna Sharma would be born in his next janma as an
erudite Vedantin of universal acclaim, imbibing and propogating the essence of
all Vedanta and, at the end of that birth, would reach the Lord's lotus feet.
Here are Srinivasa's words of benediction, as found in the Brahmanda Purana--
"asou janmaantare Rajan!
trayyanta arttha pravartaka:
bhavishyati tadante cha mat
saayujyam avaapsyati"
Elders in the know of things tell
us that this venerated Brahmin Krishna Sharma was born later as Sri Vedanta
Desika at Tooppul, near Kanchipuram. And as ordained by the Lord, Swami
Desikan mastered the essence of Veda-VedAntham at the extremely young
age of 20 and spent the rest of his life in the protection, preservation
and propogation of the Visishtadvaita Vedanta, as laid down by Sri Ramanuja.
But for Swami Desikan, the extremely easy strategy of Sharanagati (and its
modalities) for attaining liberation, would have remained a closely-guarded
secret, unavailable to the suffering masses. If today, we can relax in the
secure belief that we can indeed reach the coveted gates of SrI Vaikuntam,
without adopting excruciatingly difficult upaayaas, it is Swami Desikan we
have to thank for .
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