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Swamy Deshikan Thiruvadigale Sharanam !!!

Walking along the long illustrious acharya paramparai of Sri sampradayam,
one finds at a few places, the mention of completeness or "Purnatvam". Our
study here picks two such acharyas and sees as to how this qualification of
purnatvam or completeness befits them.
Let us pick Sri Periyanambi, the acharya of Ramanuja and Sri Athreya
Ramanuja Appullar, the acharya of Swamy Deshikan.

Periyanambi was also known as Mahapurna. After the earthly sojourn of
Yamunacharya, Periyanambi upon the behest of Lord Sri Ranganatha Himself,
decides to come to Ramanuja and teach him the esoterics of Srisampradayam
and make him the apostle of Srisampradayam. 
Periyanambi successfully makes Ramanuja the apostle of the faith and
fulfills the command of Periya Perumal (Sriranganatha) and attained the
position of bhagavat acharya. It is only due to this that he is said to have
attained 'purnatvam' (completeness).

Next comes Appullar. Thirukkudanthai Deshikan in his vaadihamsambudacharya
stotram addresses Appullar as "Purtimaanya:", which means "The complete
one".
Now one might be tempted to ask, "Appullar did not have any spiritual
epiphany with Perumal to make Deshika, the protector of the sampradayam.
Then why should he be referred to as Purtimaan?"

The answer is very simple. One should remind oneself of Deshikan's statement
"Acharyaadiha daivataam samadhikaam anyaam na manyaa mahe" - "There is no
other God greater than or equal to one's acharyan".

Athreya Ramanuja Appullar's acharya was none other than Nadadur Ammal. It
was indeed Nadadur Ammal's command and wish that Appullar should teach all
the esoterics to Venkatanatha and make him the prime preceptor of
Srisampradayam. Since Appullar successfully fulfilled the command of his
master who is to be held even above Perumal, he is definitely said to have
attained purnatvam. In this way Thirukkudanthai Deshikan's addressing of
Appullar as "Purtimaanya:" is well justified.

vAzhi vyAkhyAmuddirak kai !!!
vedAnthasUri charaNau sharaNam prapadye !!!




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