Sri Vedantha Desikar's: Chillarei Rahasyangal (Set of 3 Volumes)

Details : 

ASIN : B09BLBZXF9
Publisher : A & K PRAKASHANA
Author : K. R. Krishnaswami
Language: Tamil and Kannada Text With Transliteration and English Translation
Pages: 519
Cover: Paperback
Dimension : 22 x 14 x 3 cm 
Weight : 700 gm
Edition: 2012

About the Book 

Volume - I Preface

It gives me great pleasure to be able to present yet another work of Sri Vedantha Desikar. The subject matter, called 'Rahasyas' in general was meant to help the ordinary people to get interested in Vedantha and imbibe 'knowledge made easy' so that they could cross the 'cycle of rebirths from beginningless time' - the knowledge leading to Prapatthi Yoga. It was sheer kindness of the great acharya who in his ripe age poured all the wealth of his knowledge into the 32 Rahasyas in order that his fellow devotees for whom he had so much consideration could benefit and redeem themselves.
The first half of 32 rahasyas goes by the name 'Chillarei Rahasyangal' and the present book, which forms the first companion volume, has seven 'Chillarei Rahasyangal'. The balance portion will be presented as a second companion volume - the total in fact works out to 15 only as one Rahasya is lost and is unavailable. In regard to the latter half, that is, the following set of 16 rahasyas most of which are rather big in size, efforts will be made to cover in handy volumes, either singly or in combination depending on size.
The Tamil text was transliterated into Kannada and in this task, my wife's familiarity with Tamil came in handy. Mrs. Sudha has done an excellent job of DTP involving three languages. Mr. Sharada Prasad has as usual done a good job of printing and Mr. Kiran has provided an attractive art work for outside cover. I thank them all for their co-operation.

Volume-II Preface

While writing the first volume of Chillarei Rahasyangal I gave a detailed introduction to the subject of Chillarei Rahasyangal. The total number is in fact seventeen, but one rahasyam (saaradeepam) is lost - therefore we are having 16 Chillarei Rahasyangal. I have covered the first seven in the first volume and in this volume I am presenting the next seven Chillarei Rahasyangal. The last two will be presented as a third companion volume.
I had stated that it was out of sheer consideration for the common folks that Sri Vedantha Desikar wrote loftiest Vedanthic truths in a simple synoptic style, so that they could imbibe at least the minimum details one should know about the Realities, known as Tathwatraya, viz. a chethana, an achethana and Eeshwaran. It is our good fortune that we had a paramachaarya of the stature of Swami Desikan who has done such great service to Saathviks in general and Sri Vaishnavas in particular. We owe a deep sense of gratitude to one of the greatest of aachaaryas about whom some say "na bhootho, na bhavishyathi".
My wife has helped in transliteration of Tamil texts. Mrs. Sudha has done a very good DTP work and Mr. Sharadha Prasad has done the printing at short notice. Mr. Naveen of Hamsanikethan has designed the cover pages. I thank them all for their co-operation.