more-inRamanujacharya wrote nine works, for five of which Vedanta Desika wrote commentaries. But Vedanta Desika, even while establishing the foundation on which Visishtadvaita rests, also came up with beautiful lines of verse. Poetry has an advantage that prose doesn’t. The last paadam is the phala paadam, which talks of the fruits that accrue to one who realises the Lord’s kalyana gunas. So Desika uses the word rasa at this juncture.

Source: The Hindu May 21, 2018 16:18 UTC