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From: Sampath Rengarajan (srengara_at_hotmail.com)
Date: Sat May 05 2001 - 19:45:35 PDT
Dear bAgawathAs,
adiyEn is saddened by the news that our great mAhAn Sri sEva sWami
have attained thirunAdu. Sri sEva swami and his service to swami
desika darsanam has no parallel and comparison in this century.
He has never sought for any reward or recognition for himself
and was serving Swami desikan with an eternal interest. It is very
important and great to note that though many vyAkyAnams can be
written by one or the other. But only a few can write vyAkyAnams
that even a sAmANyAL and a child can understand. This is a divine
ability Sri sEva swAmi possessed and his granthams are unique and
can never be compared with any. That shows his deep desire to
reach out everyone and spread swami desikan darshanam. "thAn
Arinthathai thAN unArntha padiyE sonnAr".
Sri Villivalam SrInidhi SwAmi and his excellent commentaries and
granthams are a great treasure to us. His wonderful grantham on
Sri BoomidEvi thAyar of Oppiliappan sannithi is remarkable and
brilliant. His love for Sri Oppiliappan boomidEvi thAyar is
something that we all may want to follow and learn from. As a
fellow Oppiliappan and BoomidEvi thAyAr bhakthA adiyEN and other
Oppiliappan bhakthAs will miss this swAmis blessings through his
divine granthams and upanyAsams. We will definitely miss this
mahan. adiyEn has family relationship with this mAhAn and heard
this news yesterday. It was very shocking. These two mahans are
like two eyes of our present sampradhayam. They were providing the
key insights of our desikan sampradAyam through their divine
abilities. We were actually cherishing our samprAdAyam through the
divine eyes they gave us through their granthams. It is as if we
all lost our sight and left in darkness.
Finally the thunder came down on our head (thalaiyil idi
vizhunthathu pOl irunthathu) when we heard of Sri Mukkur Lakshmi
nrusimhAchAriar as well. adiyEN longed to meet this mAhAn and
receive his blessings during adiyEn's planned trip to India this
summer. Now, how will I ever see him ? As said by Sri Anand, we
should not wait around to see these great mAhAns of our times. Let
us plan on serving them in whatever way without waiting for long.
For all of us in Srivaishanava sampradhAyam, the passing away
of Sri Mukkur Yagna rAja sWamy is as similar to how one of the
main pillar has fallen. It is as if the entire sampradhAyam has
been shaken hard due to this fall. His simplicity with which he
was available to everyone and the depth with which he was doing
yAgnA in such a great detail was matchless. By doing so he took
our sampradhAyam to great new heights and many came to know of
the important principles of Srivaishnavam. His long service to
Srisannithi can never be forgotten. His loss indeed is a loss that
struck deep and wounded our souls. His "kuRai onRum illai" will
live for several centuries to come.
These are all losses that can never be replaced.
Srimadh Azhagiya Singar thiruvadikaLE saraNam
adiyEn irAmAnusa dAsan
thiruk kudanthai Sampath Rengarajan
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