Thread by @veejaysai

The great Srivaishnavaite scholar Shri MA Lakshmi Thathachar swami attained Sadgati today. He was 84. He ran that brilliant Sanskrit library in Melukote till it ran into unfortunate problems. I remember meeting him in Thiruvaiyaru and later in his home in Blore.

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He was the President of the Samskriti Foundation in Mysore and a wonderful orator. You can listen to some of his lectures on YouTube. Check this :

I will never forget this scene. He stood in Thirumanjana Veedhi in Thiruvaiyaru, holding his palm to his face, sobbing and wiping his tears looking at an empty space before him. They had torn down what was the home of Sadguru Tyagaraja Swamy. He was heartbroken!

He was frequent to that old house to pay his respects to Tyagaraja, whenever he visited Srirangam. Which was often! He would make a trip to Thiruvaiyaru just for that. He kept sobbing and saying there were a thousand ways to have protected that heritage home.

Now that they had torn that house down, he said he had nothing to come back to. He was visibly heartbroken. Me and my friend Krishnamurthy took him aside and consoled him. He returned to Srirangam and called and sobbed on the phone for the next ten days! He couldn't deal with it.

Imagine a staunch Shrivaishnavite taking this incident so personally! He was a great scholar and knew the value of heritage. Wish his Sanskrit library in Melukote can be rejuvenated and brought back to normalcy. That was very close to his heart.

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That's a wonderful image of Shri Thathachar and Godha maami who passed away few years ago. May their souls attain Mukti at Perumal's feet.

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