Sri: Humble pranam to all devotees on This Holy day of Mamunigal's Thriunakshatram =============================================================== Particiapte in HIS Celbrations at W-DC: http://ramanuja.cc.uic.edu Q 2: Mamunigal - What did Jeeyar teach us, did he write many works like other scholars? ======================================================= No, mamunigal did not want to re-write the already existing works, as some others did. His focus was to teach us the importance of protecting and propagating works of other Acharyas. To this end, he has composed many wonderful stOtrams (in tamizh and Sanskrit) and insightful commentaries that lucidly explain the meanings of works by other Acharyas (pUrvAchAryas). He taught us to write new works only if the existing ones are inadequate or incomplete. 3. So who are these purvacharyas and what are their works? ================================================== swAmy mAmunikaL has written down for us in UpadesaRatnaMAlai (URM) about all our AzhvArs and purvAchAryas. Here, he says, "enthai thiruvAymozhippiLLai innaruLAl * vantha upathEsamArkkaththai ssin^thai seythu * pinnavarum kaRka, upathEsamAy pEsukinREn * manniya seer veNpAvil vaiththu (2) ... 1 He provides this upadEsha so what he has learnt via the Guru Parampara does not get completely lost or changed in the future. This forms the basis for any basic education we seek as devotees of the Lord. All the Acharyas and works we need to know are listed in URM. There are many more acharyas, but the ones listed here are the ones we definitely need to know about as srI vaishNavas. All these acharyas and all their works support one another. All their messages are in unison and there is no ambiguity, no contradiction, no opportunity for confusion. ======================================================= Read these and more on the Vedic magazine http://www.vedics.net/magazine/index.html Azhvar Emberumanar Jeeyar ThiruvadigalE sharanam adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan Mukundan Vangkipuram Pattangi http://www.vedics.net
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