SwAmi's Anguish- Posting - 6 (1.18 to 1.19) (Concluded)

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SWAMI VEDANTA DESIKA'S

"NAICHYANUSANTHANAM" AND "SATVIKA THYAGAM "

(As gleaned from his StOtras)

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PART I : SWAMI EXPRESSES HIS ANGUISH -

SwAmi's Anguish- Posting - 6 (1.18 to 1.19) (Concluded)

(Anbil Ramaswamy)

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IMPORTANT NOTE

[As already mentioned in the Introduction, the NaichyAnusanthAnam is

applicable to us only and NOT to Swami Desika, we have to substitute

ourselves wherever Swami Desika extrapolates these to himself]

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1.18. "Is it an AparAdha to sing about you?"

 

Yasya anubhAvam adhiganthum asaknuvanthah

Muhyanthya abhanguradhiYo munisArvabhoumAh /

Tasyaiva thE sththishu sAhasamasnuvAnah

kshanthavya yEsha bhavathA karisaila nAtha//

(Sri VaradarAja PanchAsat SlOkam 2)

 

Meaning

"Oh! Lord of the Elephant mountain!

When great munis like VyAsa and ParAsara whose knowledge leaves nothing

beyond their comprehension find themselves unequal to the task of measuring

your supremacy, I have ventured to do this with absolutely no claim for any

knowledge. This is not only daring (sAhasa) but also constitutes a great

offence (AparAdha) to you. Pray, please pardon me for this act beyond my

capacity.

 

Comment:

This is the continuation of the sentiment expressed in DayA Sathakam

slokam103 mentioned above.

 

1.19. "I am only a lifeless lute"

 

vEdAnta dEsikapadHE vinivEsya bAlam

dEvO dayAsathakam yEtadavAdhayan mAm /

vaihArikENa vidhinA samayE gruheetham

veeNA visEshamiva vEnkaTa saila nAthah //

(DayA Sathakam SlOkam 103)

 

Meaning

"Oh! DayA Devi!

I am not competent to write this poem of Daya Sathakam on the mercy of Lord

TiruvEnkaTamudaiyAn. The entire credit goes to Lord Srinivasa. He always

takes pleasure in such sports like making me an instrument conferring on me

the great honorific of "VedAntAchAryan". Having conferred this title, it had

become his responsibility to justify this. Therefore, it is he who had

brought out the Vedic truths through this work attributing its authorship to

me. It is he who sang this DayA Sathakam making me his tool.

 

When a veena vidwan plays his veena and raises soul stirring music, pleasing

himself and the listeners all credit will go to the artist and not to the

instrument. Similarly, all credit for this work belongs to

TiruvEnkaTamudaiyAn and not to me who is just a lifeless instrument in his

hands.

 

Comment:

At last, SwAmi has found an alibi, as it were, by saying that it is the work

of Lord VEnkaTAchalapathi like what Nammazhwar said in Tiruvoimozhi PAsuram

that it was the Lord who sang Tiruvoimozhi making him an instrument.(ThAnAi

thannaip Paadi.... etc)

This stanza also brings out the event in which Lord Sri RanganAtha conferred

the title of VEdAntAchArya on VEnkaTanAtha.

 

(Part I: "SwAmi's Anguish" Concluded)

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Part II : "SwAmi Pleads" will follow.

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