Acharya Vamsa Vruksham
Acharya means Guru or Teacher. Vamsa means Lineage Vriksham means tree. What is the relation between these 3 words.
Are we telling that Acharya is a tree? No
Imagine a tree… say Banyan tree… A huge tree… is it not? What are the parts of a tree? Let us start from the root. The tree has root, stem, branches, leaves, and fruits etc.
Our Lineage of spiritual teachers is compared with a tree. Like the root has the connection to stem, stem to branches, branch to leaves and fruits. Our Acharya parampara has connection from the first acharya to our present Acharya.
Do you know who is our Prathama (1st) Acharya? It is Sriman Narayana, and Our Parama Acharya is Sri Ramanujar
So our Acharya Vamsa Vriksham starts from Sriman narayan and ends with our present acharya.
Now let’s us learn briefly about our acharya parampara. First let us see a chart of our acharya lineage (Click to get detail view)
In this write up, let us learn about our Acharyas up to Swami Desika. In fact the acharya lineage after Ramanuja branches out in multifold and we have hundreds and hundreds of acharyas upto present day acharya.
Sriman Narayana
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Sri Lakshmi
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Sri Vishwaksenar
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Sri Nammazhvar
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Sri Nathamuni
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Sri Uyyakondar
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Sri Manakkalnambi
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Sri Yamuna Muni
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Sri Perianambi
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Sri Ramanuja
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Sri Desika
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Present Day Acharyas
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