daya and its synonyms

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SrimatE lakshminrsumha parabrahmaNE namaha

Sri vedanta desika guravE namaha

 

 

Sriman Tatachari vehemently protested a few days ago in his posting against

exclusion of "Kshama" in the list of most suitable synonyms for "daya" in

the sense in which Swami Desikan employs it in his Daya Satakam. I liked the

way Sriman Tatachari put it :"it takes 57 ounces of daya,27 ounces of

karuna,11 ounces of krupa and anukampa each to make one ounce of

kshama"!Well said, indeed!

 

The eloquent and forceful defence of kshama by Sriman Tatachari made me give

the matter a lot of thought during the day. I suppose it was at the back of

the mind in the night too. For this morning as I was flipping through the

Daya Satakam again Swami Desikan himself, so to say, seemed to have the answer.

 

I refer to verse No.72 of the daya satakam :

 

vrishagiripater-hridayA viswAvatAra sahayinee

kshapitanikhilAvadyA devi! kshamAdinishEvitAs I

bhuvana janani pumsam bhogApavargavidhAyinee vitamasi padE

vyaktim nityAm bibharshi dayE! svayam II

 

In the above verse Swami Desikan seems to suggest that other attributes of

the Lord like "Kshama" verily are subordinate to Daya in Her ministrations

to the Lord in His various avataras.("kshamAdi-nishEvitAs").

 

How does Sriman Tatachari propose to handle Swami Desikan's preference ?

Would kshama still qualify in the face of the import of this shloka ?

 

SrimatE srivan sri narayana yatIndra mahadesikAya namaha

 

humbly,

 

sudarshan