> --- In tiruvenkatam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> sadagopaniyengar@... wrote:
> >
> > Srimate SrivanSatakopa Sri Vedanta Desika Yatindra
> Mahadesikaya nama:
> > The Sacred Seven
> . Whence, then, the mystery and sacredness of the
> number seven?"
> >> dasan, sadagopan
>
> *******************
>
> Dear SrimAn Sadagopan Iyengar,
>
> It was by sheer accident that I missed reading this
> posting of yours
> when it was originally sent by you a few weeks ago.
> I'm glad I found
> it in my mail-box rather late than never! It was a
> very enjoyable
> read, indeed, very informative like all other usual
> mails from you.
>
> Permit me to add one more example of the "Mystery of
> 7" which perhaps
> you might like to include in your own inventory of
> "sacred 7s":
>
> Our great 'prathamAchArya' Sri RamAnujAchArya earned
> 7 different and
> beautiful appelations ('tirunAmam-s') during his
> lifetime and they are
> as follows:
>
> (1) "iLayavar" : the name given by his maternal
> uncle Sri Tirumalai
> Nambi of Tiruvenkatam on the twelfth day of his
> birth.
>
> (2) "Ramanuja": the name conferred by Lord
> Varadaraja after he became
> a sanyAsin
>
> (3) "uDayavar": the name given by Lord Ranganatha
> when Ramanuja first
> took up residence at Sri Rangam
>
> (4) "kovil annan" : a title which he obtained at
> TirumAlirunjolai for
> fulfilling a desire of Sri Andal regarding Lord
> Azhagar
>
> (5) "emberumAnAr" : the name conferred by
> TirukkoshtiyUr Nambi when he
> found that Ramanuja was verily the embodiment of
> human compassion
>
> (6) "bhAshyakArar": the appelation conferred on him
> by the Sarada
> Peetam at Kashmir in recognition of his great
> service to Vedanta
> philosophy in the form of his splendid commentary on
> the Brahma Sutra
>
> (7) "yatirAjar": the title earned by him from one
> and all in SriRangam
> in recognition of his unparalleled austerity as a
> 'sanyAsin' for well
> over 90 years of his lifetime!
>
> If ever one could give the number '7' a sacred name,
> it might well
> be 'Ramanuja'!
>
> Regds,
> dAsan,
> Sudarshan
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