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Sri: Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama: Srimath Anantharya Mahagurave Nama: Srimath Varavaramunaye Nama: That Azhvar saw and spoke what was already said, is shown next. Acharya Hrudhayam 47: ‘nAl vEdham kaNDa purANa riShi manthradharshigaLaip pOlE, ivaraiyum rishi muni kavi ennum.’ nAl vEdham
Sri: Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama: Srimath Anantharya Mahagurave Nama: Srimath Varavaramunaye Nama: To be compared to the Vedas, should the Divya Prabandham not have the qualities of “always existing” and “not created by any one”? Instead they appear to be created
Sri: Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama: Srimath Anantharya Mahagurave Nama: Srimath Varavaramunaye Nama: The Vedas are considered great because of qualities such as Being Shastras Representing His command Having no flaws Coming through an oral tradition Being true, and Being without origin
Sri: Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama: Srimath Anantharya Mahagurave Nama: Srimath Varavaramunaye Nama: In this angi-anga-upanga structure, the Vedas which are the angi (the main body) have the most prominence due to their greatness. Is there something like that in the Divya
Talks in Tamil on Thirumangai Azhvar’s divya prabandham Thirukkurunthandagam, based on poorvacharya commentary, by TCA Venkatesan
Harikatha in Tamil by T S Balakrishna Sastrigal https://archive.org/details/tr-tsbs
Commentary for Ramanuja’s Vedartha Sangraha, in Tamil by Veerapuram Sadagopachariar Swami http://acharya.org/bk/pb/vs/vss.pdf
Talk in Tamil by TCA Venkatesan on the greatness of Kooraththazhvan. Now available on Bandcamp. https://srivaishnava.bandcamp.com/track/kooraththazhvan-vaibhavam-tamil
Talk in English by TCA Venkatesan on Ramanuja’s command. Now available on Bandcamp. https://srivaishnava.bandcamp.com/track/vardhatam-abhivardatam-english
Sri:Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:Srimath Anantharya Mahagurave Nama:Srimath Varavaramunaye Nama: We can say Thiruvaymozhi is Tamil Veda. But Sanskrit Vedas has Anga’s (component parts) and Upanga’s (secondary parts). The four Vedas (Rk, Yajur, Saama and Atharvana), have six angas – namely, Seeksha