panguni uththiram special - Some verses of "Nyaasa thilakam" of Swami Desikan

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Sri periya piraati samEthara amalnaathi piraan thirvadikaLE saraNam

 

approximate translation of Some Verses of "NYaasa thilakam" (offered to the

azhagiya maNavaaLan and periya piraati) of Swami Desikan which are very apt for

this panguni uththiram day.

 

1.

 

I pray my respect to the ahcaaryaaL and their achaaryaaLs. Being the prime in

acharya paramparai and being the first Lord of all the entire universe, we

describe you both the divya dampathis of Sri Rangam as our "ubayam" (one of the

meainng here is, both the direction and destiny) and "balam" (strength to

pursue towards this direction to this destiny). Hence the direction is the

prapatti and the destiny is Rangan's kamalp paatham and the strength is the

faith or trust that such prapatti will lead us to you.

 

2. If one will utter even once the words "I surrender to your feet",

then you blessed them "This will work out, you donot have to do it

again" with your abaya muthra formed by the right hand of yours. Such

right hand must protect me and provide the necessary grace.

 

3. Acrued over a long time, my sin is so huge as a sea, which is

agitated and turbulent. To cross such sea of sin, important praayach

chiththam or important mental resolve is to undertake prapatti as told

by the elders who also says that such is the thiru vuLLam or mental

resolve of the rangaveena yathu naathars. When I am begining this

slOkam of such prapatti, I think of the the eka mahishi of you the

akila lOka charanYan and think of HER paasurams in my mind and

surrender to you.

4. While one is doing a yaagam they offer their worship or offerings to the

intended (uththEsa dEvathaa) by attributing the intended devathaa such as

mahendran (who is Indran with mahaththuvam) and Agna vishnu who is (Sri Vishnu

with agni). When such will identify themselves as the intended devathaa of the

yaagam, with such attributes, such that mahaththuvam becomes an attribute and

such attributes were in a way inseparable with those who identified themselves

as dEvathaas. Same way prapatti is the yaagam of the aatmaa and you the

Emperumaan Arangan is the devathaa intended and periya piraati is the

inseparable attribute HERself and who is full of grace and mercy and love.

5. Hence she is also equally the ubaayam or the (way) for mOksham similar to

emperumaan. However when we the sinners could not reach our Lord (who is the

Father) who is in the form of an agitated whirl pool, you the piraatti (the

mother) calms down such seeRRam or centrifuge by your mesmerising service to

the Lord and paves way for us to reach this epicentre, our Lord. Thus SHE is

also the one who recommends mOkasham for us ie (purushakaaram).

6. You are living with periya piraati for a very very long time (actually

beyond the perception of us and beyond the scale of unit known as "time") with

all your infinite attributes ie anantha kalYaana guNangaL, and one day you

performed shrishtior creation of naanmugan and other such chEthana clan, and

offered your "order" for them which is the vEdaas. There are only two ways we

can reach HIM. one is the straight line which is undertaking prapatti at HIS

feet. or the other way is to dwell on for sometime saying "do this way or that

way or do this logical path and assume this that etc" and finally obtain HIS

GRACE and hence Bhakti and using such Bhakti and attaining HIM is a long route

or suRRu vazhi or spiral route. Hence I who wants to reach HIM surrender

directly to HIM.

 

32. The one who has the order of Sri Rangapathi, and such Venkata kavi's

nyaasa thilakam (keeping such kumkumam in forehead, face, and in our thoughts

and our heart), the one who reads it with devotion and resolve and for such

prapannaas, the chinthaamaNImaya giri sEshasaayi Sri Ranganaathan will offer

HIS darshan here, there and everywhere they wish to have such darshan!

 

ahcaaryaaL srivan sadkOpa yatheenthra Naaraayana mahaa dEsikan thrivadikaLE

saraNam

Swami Desikan thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sri Sri Ranganaayikaa samEthara Sri Ranaganaatha swami padukaam

charaNam charaNam, charaNam-prapatyE.

 

Sampath Rengarajan