среда, 3 января 2018 г.

Shree JnanaLakshmi...


"Vedanta Desika strictly follows Ramanuja. He never tolerates the slightest difference between his conclusions and the writings of Ramanuja. 

Even where there are certain apparent contradictions, they are solved in a very significant manner. In addition to this, he also contributes his own conclusions which are based upon scriptures, writings of great Acharyas, logic and experience. 

Thus buddhi has received a very handsome treatment at the hands of Vedanta Desika. 

He compares buddhi to Goddess Lakshmi. This JnanaLakshmi is being served by the ShriSuktis (auspicious statements) of Ramanuja and bestows the desired objects to devotees. 

She has climbed the peak of Vedanta mountain and there She is enjoying the unbounded bliss ensued by the company of the Lord Damodara. 

Shree JnanaLakshmi, Who is Bhakti-Svarupini and NityAnanda-Svarupini, come to our heart to lead us towards Vasudeva".

Krishna within you, arrogance, asuras, tamasika Puranas and "to all except those of an asuric nature"...


SHREE YAMUNACHARYA (ALAVANDAR), "STOTRA RATNAM", VERSE 15:

त्वां शीलरुपचरितैः परमप्रकृष्त सत्त्वेन सात्विकतया प्रबलैश्च शास्त्रै: । 
प्रख्यातदैवपरमार्थविदां मतैश्च नैवासुरप्रकृतयः प्रभवन्ति बोद्धुम् । । १५ । । 

tvAM shIlarupacharitaiH paramaprakRRiShta sattvena sAtvikatayA prabalaishcha shAstrai: | 
prakhyAtadaivaparamArthavidAM mataishcha naivAsuraprakRRitayaH prabhavanti boddhum | | 15 | | 

Translation: "You are greater than the greatest. This is known to all, except those of a demoniac nature by 1) Your benevolent disposition, 2) by the loveliness of Your Form, 3) by Your divine deeds, 4) by Your exalted Sattva nature, 5) by the accounts in the scriptures which are authoritative because they are Sattva in tenor and 6) by the precepts of the famous knowers of the Supreme Truth".

Explanation: "The Lord is the greatest. How is this to be known? The sloka enumerates
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"SRI YAMUNACHARYA'S STOTRA RATNA" #rendering in English by Dr. MS Rajajee# [Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams] ~2001~

UPDATE from 30-April-2019: enhanced scan had been added [optimized size 3MB + OCR-txt-layer in English]

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English annotation by Vishnudut1926: Brilliant edition, no annotation from me is needed, because every Shri Vaishnava knows the precious and outstanding status of this Grantha!
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"SRI YAMUNACHARYA'S SIDDHI TRAYA - THE COLLECTIVE NAME OF ATMA-SIDDHI ISWARA-SIDDHI AND SAMVIT-SIDDHI" #English by prof R. Ramanujachari# [Ubhaya Vedanta Grantha Mala Book Trust] ~1972~

UPDATE from 30-April-2019: enhanced scan had been added (optimized size + OCR-txt-layer in English)

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English annotation by Vishnudut1926: Sanskrit (with Gudha-Prakasha) by Sri U. Ve. Abhinava Desika Uttamur ViraRaghavaAcharya + English translation by prof R. Ramanujachari. 

If you feel that this edition is too complicated for you, then please refer to the simplified explanations from  #"YAMUNACHARYA" by Dr. V. Varadachari#

Some technical details about scan optimization: The original scan had been found on archive.org, the size was huge as usually - 234MB (megabytes). I have optimized via PDF X-Change and made 78MB version. No quality is lost. However if you need original big 234MB scan, then you can find on archive - https://archive.org/details/SiddhiTrayaWithGudhaPrakasaByUttamurViraraghavacharyaEnglishTranslationByRamanuj

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"YAMUNACHARYA" #by Dr. V. Varadachari# [publishers Prof. M. Rangacharya Memorial Trust, Madras] ~December 1984~

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English annotation by Vishnudut1926: Brilliant simple edition, it explains the essence of Shree YamunAcharya's Granthas ("Shree Ishwara-Siddhi", "Shree Atma-Siddhi", "Shree Samvit-Siddhi", "Shree Agama-Pramanya" and Others) in a compact form. 

It also contains the very nice synopsis of "Shree Gitartha-Sangraha"!

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GoogleDocs (the mirror of Wordpress) - #GoogleDocs

"SRI KRISHNA KARNAMRITA OF LILASUKA" [English translation] #by M. K. Acharya# ~1948~

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English annotation by Vishnudut1926: Nice 1948 edition, speedread in 1 hour for me. 

I don't remember to which Vaishnava-Sampadaya Bilvamangala Thakur  (Lilasuka) belonged, but judging from some Verses of "Shree Krishna-Karnamrita" he was a Shri-Vidya (Lalita TripuraSundari upasaka). 

He mentions Panchakshari-Shiva Mantra often (for example, Verse 2.24):

Not only this - the following Verse is very exemplary and sounds like pure Shri-Vidya (by the way if you read just English variant, you don't notice Lalita Names, the reason I noticed is that I belong to Shri-Vidya and my eyes see Sanskrit Names of Goddess - especially with "ल - LA" - Lakshmi, Lalita -  even if I speedread):

Wikipedia also says about Gopala-Sundari-Vidya - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Krishna_Karnamrutam

No wonder about this as many Shree Vidya-upasakas are often initiated in various Gopala-Vidyas (Krishna-Vidyas) because Krishna (Gopala) is more famous among Shakta-Tantriks than among Vaishnava-Tantriks (see Gopala-Khanda of "Shree Sharada-Tilaka-Tantram", for example). 

Vishnudut1926, Moscow, January 2018

понедельник, 1 января 2018 г.

"ISVARASAMHITA" [Sanskrit-English] #critically edited and translated in 5 Volumes by V. Varadachari and G.C. Tripathi# ~2009~

UPDATE from 10-June-2019: new enhanced scans had been added (optimized sizes + OCR-txt-layers in English). It turned out on 10th of June, 2019, that 7z-archive with files got contaminated with a virus. I have replaced all the contaminated files with virus-free versions!
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English annotation by Vishnudut1926: I could not imagine that English translation of "Shree Ishwara-Samhita" (a part of Orthodox Shree PanchaRatra) exists, because the English translations of the Orthodox PanchaRatra are very rare. 

"Shree Lakshmi-Tantra" translated by Sanjukta Gupta and #"Shree Parama-Samhita" translated by Dr. S. KrishnaSwami Aiyangar# are just very rare examples. 

This translation is the exemplary one - a lot of wise notes and explanations for English readers, precisely edited Sanskrit and etc., the perfect example of how any Tantra/Agama translation should look like! 
Volume NO. 01 is the separate research dedicated to "Shree PanchaRatra" in toto. The Chapter NO. 16 dwelling on jiva-tattva and explaining that jiva = ChitShakti (Orthodox Siddhanta from "Shree Lakshmi-Tantram") is outstanding. Don't miss if you are collecting surveys devoted to Vaishnava-PanchaRatra-Agama! 
Some technical details regarding the scans: Originally 4 scans had been found on archive.org, but they were huge (about 230 megabytes each). As usually I have optimized via PDF X-Change, now each scan is just about 70 megabytes. If you need original huge 230 MB scans, please refer to archive.org - #Vol.01   #Vol.02   #Vol.04   #Vol.05

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Nimbus (this is just a TXT-version without pictures) - #Nimbus
Airborn (the mirror of Wordpress) - #Airborn
GoogleDocs (the mirror of Wordpress) - #GoogleDocs

VISHNUCHITTA (PERIYA ALWAR) - 2 BOOKS ["Tirumozhi Sublime Hymns" by V. Rajagopalan + "Vishnuchitta" by prof. K. V. Ramakrishnamacharya]

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English annotation by Vishnudut1926: I have decided to unite these 2 Books in 1 upload, as both dedicated to Vishnuchitta Alwar (also known as Periya Alvar). 
Periya Alvar epitomizes 2 sides of Vatsalya-Bhava (adoring BalaKrishna in parental mood), because He (Vishnuchitta) was not only the foster father of Shreemati Andal-Devi (Avatara of Bhu-Devi), but the author of Bhakti-poetry devoted to Shreemati Yashoda-Devi and BalaGopala as well. 
The upload consists of 2 Books: 

1. "Periyazhvar Tirumozhi Sublime Hymns of Mystic Consciousness" by Vankeepuram Rajagopalan - elaborate and poetic English translation of "Periyazhvar Tirumozhi". 

2. "Vishnuchitta" K. V. Ramakrishnamacharya [Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams 2015] - simple biography of Periya Alwar on about 40 pages. 

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"Sri Vishnucittiya of Sri Visnucitta [Engalazhavan] - commentary on Sri Visnu Purana - a study" #by Dr. M.A. Ranganayaki# [Sai ShriRam Printers] ~2005~

UPDATE from 10-June-2019: OCR-version of this scan had been added (optimized size + OCR-txt-layer in English). 

Unfortunately, it is rather tedious to convert this scan into pure black-and-white OCR due to original visual glitches on pages (spots, skews and etc.). So, the upload below is the 7zip-archive with 2 versions: fractional OCR in black-and-white (around 80% of pages with OCR) + non-OCR in colour. 

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English annotation by Vishnudut1926: Nice research dedicated to the famous Tika to "Shree Vishnu-Purana" by Shree VishnuChitta-Acharya.

The 1st part of the research tells about the basics of Shree Ramanuja-Siddhanta, the 2nd part dwells on Sri Visnucitta [Engalazhavan] Tikas. 

The foreword of the research says:
One of the first pages also contains VishnuChitta UtsavaMurti photo:
There is also very inspiring bio of M.A. Ranganayaki at the end of the research:


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"The Philosophy of Visistadvaita as expounded by Sri Vedanta Desika in the Nyaya-Siddhanjana" #by Dr .M.E. Rangachar# [Sri Nithyananda Printers] ~2000~

UPDATE from 07-June-2019: enhanced scan had been added (optimized size + OCR-txt-layer in English)

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English annotation by Vishnudut1926: One of the best Granthas about Shree Ramanuja-Siddhanta, it has the virtue of explaining complicated Siddhanta intricacies in a simple language. Very much recommended!
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воскресенье, 31 декабря 2017 г.

"SRIVACANA BHUSANA OF PILLAI LOKACARYA" #English translation by Dr. Robert C. Lester# [The Kuppuswamy Sastri Research Institute] ~Madras-4 1979~


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English annotation by Vishnudut1926: "Shree Vachana-Bhushanam" by OM VishnuPad Shree Pillai LokAcharya is the main Grantha of Tenkalai (The Southern Branch of Shree Ramanuja-Sampradaya). 

I was very much amazed noticing that the translation had been made not by a representative of Shree Ramanuja-Sampradaya, but by a western indologist (Dr. Robert C. Lester from Colorado).

Usually I shun and avoid the translations of western indologists, because Sampradayik translations must be made by native Hindu representatives of Shree Ramanuja-Sampradaya. 
In spite of western origin this translation is perfect and it was made with the assistance of Sri Agnihotram Ramanuja Tatacharya and prof. A. Tiruvengadathan (Dr. Robert C. Lester communicated with both of them in Madras as the foreword to the translation says).
I recommend to study this translation with the classic English translation by Sri SatyaMurthi Swami of Gwalior, the scan be found here - http://vishnudut1926.blogspot.ru/2016/02/srivachana-bhusahanam-by-sri-pillai.html

Some perfect Hindi editions of "Shree Vachana-Bhushanam" exist too, I will add them to my E-Library later. 

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"SRI VISHNU SAHASRANAMA WITH THE BHASHYA OF SRI PARASARA BHATTAR" [Sanskrit-English] #translated by prof. A. Srinivasa Raghavan# ~1983~

UPDATE from 01-May-2019: enhanced scan had been added [optimized size 25MB + OCR-txt-layer in English]
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English annotation by Vishnudut1926: This is one of the most precious acquisitions for me! 

No need in annotation from me, because all the Granthas by Shree Parashara Bhatta belong to the eternal classics of Shree Ramanuja-Sampradaya. 
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"Shree Lakshmi-Stotram" composed by AnandaTirtha (Shree MadhvAcharya)...

IF YOU LOVE RARE STOTRAS DEVOTED TO SHREEMATI MAHALAKSHMI-DEVI, THEN "SHREE LAKSHMI-STOTRAM" WRITTEN BY MADHVACHARYA (ANANDATIRTHA) WILL BE ONE OF THE MOST CHERISHED DISCOVERIES!
THE FOLLOWING EXPLANATION AND TRANSLATION IS FROM #"DVADASA STOTRAM (TWELVE HYMNS) OF SRI MADHVACHARYA" BY KOWLAGI SESHACHAR#:

"As regards the relative position of this Canto in the Dvadasastotra there seems to be some difference of opinion. The late C. M. Padmanabhacharya in his edition of the Dvadasastotra records that this Canto appears as the 12th Canto in the manuscript written by H. H. Hrishikeshatirtha, one of the direct disciples of Sri Madhva and the first pontiff of the Palimar Matha, Udupi. 

But the extant editions of the Dvadasastotra including
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Happy New Year!

Happy New 2018 Year to all the Vaishnavas (and Shaktas, of course, because Shree Ramanuja-Sampradaya is Shree MahaLakshmi-Sampradaya, that is Shakta-Sampradaya first of all!). 

I wish all the best and "joy everywhere" to all the prapannas from Shree Ramanuja-Sampradaya in the forthcoming year!
As Shreemati Andal-Devi says in "Tiruppavai", 30: "The Grace of The Mighty Four-Armed Precious Lord of Lotus Eyes and Auspiciuos Face and joy everywhere!". 
Vishnudut1926, Moscow, 31st December of 2017

суббота, 30 декабря 2017 г.

New simplified and minimal E-Library on Cryptpad (and my musings over the idea of digital backup as well)...

I am glad to inform my blog visitors, that I have created the light version [mirror] of my entire E-Library on Cryptpad. 

The new light version contains all core and crucial Vaishnava Granthas from my standard E-Library, but due to the compressed images, Cryptpad engine and "the unified catalogue with all-in-one" style it is faster and more convenient. 

Everybody is invited to visit and the big banner with the link will be attached to the right panel of my blog from nowadays (and forever):


The further text is the explanation of the "mirror E-Library" idea for tech-savvy persons, it will be useful in case you would like to create simplified online catalogue and feel wary about your backups.

I will explain the idea behind this mirror. As you remember
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Новая легкая электронная библиотека на Cryptpad...

Сегодня, сразу после Экадаши, я потратила примерно полдня на обдумывание идеи копии моей электронной библиотеки и ее последующее создание.

В результате была скомпилирована новая облегченная и минималистичная версия библиотеки на CryptPad, ссылка ниже + большой баннер-ссылка теперь всегда будет висеть на правой панели блога:


Объясню идею подобного кульбита, объяснение будет полезно тем, кто распространяет скачиваемый контент. Моя библиотека базируется на
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