AparyApthAmrutha DhyAna sOpAnam : SlOkam 12&13/Conclusion

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Dear BhakthAs : Through eleven slOkams , Thirukkudanthai Desikan

prayed to AarAvamudhan to bless him with His sevai and the Lord

responded by entering the heart cavity of the dear devotee and

took residence there . Tirukkudanthai Desikan enjoyed the ParipUrNa

anubhavam of the Lord reclining on AdhisEshA inside him and responded

to the command of the Lord to eulogize Him further .Thus arose

the concluding 12th and the 13th slOkams of Sri AparyApthAmrutha

DhyAna sOpAnam .

 

Swami Desikan had a total of 12 slOkams in his Sri Bhagavath

DhyAna sOpAnam and ThiruppANAzhwAr could not go beyond his

ten paasurams and concluded AmalanAdhipirAn Sri Sookthi

with the declaratory statement " yenn (AarA )Amudhinaik kaNDa

kaNNgal maRRonrRinaik kaaNAvE ". Swami Desikan had two more

slOkams (the 11th and the 12th) after enjoying the Padhathi-

kEsAntha varNanam of the Lord's beauty . Thirukkudanthai Desikan

followed his earlier path established in Sri Bhagavath

DhyAna sOpanam that he travelled on four centuries earlier

and placed at the holy feet of AarAvamudhan two more slOkams

in his AapryApthAmrutha DhyAna sOpAnam (12th and the 13th slOkams ).

 

In his 11th slOkam of Sri Bhagavath DhyAna sOpAnam ,

Swami Desikan pointed out that the Lord resting under

PraNavAkruthi VimAnam at Srirangam is residing in his

heart as well with His PirAttis ( agrE kinchith bhujaga

sayana: sva aathmanA yEva sann , madhyE Rangam MAMA CHA

HRUDHAYE VARTHATHE SAAVAROGA: ).

 

Swami Desikan revealed to us that KasthUri Rangan of

Srirangam , THE UTHSAVA MOORTHY entered his heart space

and took permanent residence there . Thirukkudanthai Desikan ,

the incarnation of Swami Desikan , let us know that

Hema Rangan of Thirukkudanthai responded to his prayers

and took residence in his heart as MOOLAVAR with His

bed of Aadhi Sesahn and His twin consorts .What a symmetry

in thought and anubhavam across centuries !

 

The twelfth slOkam of Thirukkudanthai Desikan

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agrE paryApthi heenAmrutham ithi vidhitham

sundaram svasya roopam

paarsva dhvandhvE cha LakshmI Bhuvamapi

veekshamANA sva dhrughbhyAm I

SruNvan Srinaabhi Padhma prabhava vidhi mukhAth

utthitham Veda ghOsham

SrivaidhikhAkyE hrudhi cha mama sadhA

SaarngadhanvA samAsthE II

 

Our Acharyan states here that the Lord reclining under

the Vaidhikha VimAnam at Thirukkudanthai is resting

comfortably now at his heart space as well ( Sri VaidhikhAkyE

ghEhE mama hrudhi cha samAsthe ). This great devotee of

AarAvamudhan also paints a blissful domestic scene

as he visualizes the happenings inside his heart space.

In FRONT of him is the "paryApthi heenAmrutha roopam "

( insatiable beauitful roopam )and INSIDE him is

the same divya roopam with His two dEvis . Hema Rangan

is looking at His twin PirAttis with great affection,

while listening to the auspicious Veda ghOsham originating

from the lips of His son , Chathurmukha BrahmA seated on

the divine lotus arising out of His navel .What a

conjugal , domestic scene that Thirukkudanthai Desikan

paints in his 12th SlOkam ! Swami Desikan decribed a

similar anubhavam at Srirangam earlier as :

 

agrE kinchith Bhujaga sayana: svAthmanaiva aathmana: sann ".

 

Thirukkudanthai Desikan decribed that experience at Kudanthai

as " agrE paryApthi HeenAmruthamithi vidhitham Sundaram

svasya Roopam ".In the spirit of celebration of the Ubhaya

PradhAna divya dEsam , Swami Desikan visualized the presence

of the Uthsava Moorthy inside his heart at Srirangam

and Thirukkudanthai Desikan experienced the presence

of the Moolavar at KumbhakONam .

 

Sriman NaarAyaNan instructed His son about VedAs as

indicated by the Veda manthram : " yO BrahmaaNam vidhathAthi

poorvam yOvai VedAnsccha prahiNOthi tasmai ".He also revealed

the Tamil Vedam to Naathamuni by acquainting him with

the Tamizh MaRai paasurams (Rks)of NammAzhwAr on Him . Hence,

AarAvamudhan is saluted as " aru maRayai veLippadutthiya AmmAn " .

Thirukkudanthai Desikan experiences this Veda Purushan as

listening to the Saama Veda GhOsham raised by His son

as though He is checking on the efficacy of His own

instruction to His star student .

 

The 13th slOkam of AparyApthAmrutha DhyAna sOpAnam

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Srimadh Vaidhika samjnikE dhvishadhAm maanyE vimAnE sphurath

SrimachArngadharasya samsthuthi:iyam GopAla SooryArpithA I

Bhakthim yacchathi SaarngiNi prasrumarAm kaimkarya siddhim tathA

nithyam sampatathAm arOga sukhithaa pUrvam cha sanmangaLam II

 

This is the Phala sruthi slOkam pointing out that

those who recite daily the AparyAthAmrutha DhyAna sOpAnam

about the SaarngarAjan --lauded by the dEvAs as He rests

under the shade of the Vaidhika VimAnam-- of Thirukkudanthai

would be blessed with profound bhakthi for the Lord and

magnificient Kaimkarya Sri as well as an auspicious

life free of illnesses of mind and body .

 

Swami Desikan concluded with a prayer to Lord RanganathA

in his final (twelfth) slOkam of Sri Bhagavath DhyAna

sOpAnam : "Bhakthim ghADAm disathu Bhagavadh DhyAna

sOpAnam " ( may the recitation of this Bhagavath DhyAna

sOpAnam confer the boon of firm Bhakthi to the BhagavAn of

Srirangam) . Thirukkudanthai Desikan went one step further .

He did not stop with the wishful prayer .He stated clearly

(based on his own anubhavam )that the recitation of

AparyApthAmrutha DhyAna sOpAna slOkams will result

in deep devotion to the BhagavAn of Thirukkudanthai

and mahath Kaimkarya Siddhi Isvaryam , aarOgyam and all

other auspiciousness . He reasoned that the Srimathvam and

Vaidhikham associated with the "Kudanthai Thirumaal "

has to confer all these blessings effortlessly .He arrived at

that conclusion from the assurance of the Veda Manthram ,

" Rucha: SaamAni YajUgumshi,Saahi SrI: amruthA sadhAm ".

This Veda Purushan listening to thre three Vedams (Vaidhika Sri)

and accompanied by Sri Devi (Srimathvam ) has therefore

to be the veritable , insatibale nectar of all times .

 

The most illustrious boon that the Lord of Thirukkudanthai

can confer on His bhakthAs is : "DhAsyE svE sthapayEth svAn"

( He will establish His bhakthAs in nithya niravadhya

Kaimkaryam to Him ). He will confer bodily health to

His BhakthAs to perform this type of Kaimkaryam to Him

at Thirukkudanthai and other mangaLams as stated by

the following slOkam on Bhagavath Kaimkarya phalan :

 

" SareerArOgyam Isvaryam (arthAn cha) BhOgncchai aanushankikAn

DhadhAthi DhyAyinAm Nithyam apavargha prathO Hari: "

 

He gives dhruta sarIram blessed with AarOgyam ,

wealth , bhOgams for those , who meditatae on Him

without let ( dhruva smruthi)and then crowns all

these boons with the supreme boons of Moksham

and nithya kaimkaryam at Sri Vaikuntam in the company

of NithyAs , MukthAs , AzhwArs and PurvAchAryAs

and Sri sampradhAya darsana sthApakAs .

 

Such is the glory of the sOpAnam ( ladder ) for

the DhyAnam of AparyApthAmrutha Para Brahmam

constructed lovingly for us by Sri GopAla Suri , who is

revered as the Thirukkudanthai Desikan , the aparAvathAram

Of Swami Desikan himself .

 

As the June 30 ,99 samprOkshaNam at Thirukkudanthai

approaches in a month's time , I place these vandhanams

to the lotus feet of Thirukkudanthai Desikan . I thank

Sri Sampath RengarAjan of Michigan and KumbhakONam

for inviting my attention to this rare Sthuthi by

a great AchAryan and encouraging me to write about

this apoorva grantham .

 

Sri Munithraya SiddhAntha PadhminyullAsa BhAskara:

GopAla Desika: SrimAn jEjeeyAth Santhatham Bhuvi .

 

SrimAn venkatanAthArya: kavithArkika KesarI

VedhAnthAchArya VaryOmE SannidhatthAm SadhA Hrudhi

 

Sri KomaLavalli SamEtha Sri AparyAptha SwaminE nama:

Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan