GodhA Sthuthi slOkams of Swami Desikan : Part I

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Dear BhakthAs :

 

adiyEn invited your attention to the 500 page

commentary on the 30 Paasurams of ThiruppAvai

of Anna VayaR Pudhuvai ANDAL by U.Ve. PerukkaraNai

Sri ChakravarthyAcchAr Swamy of Desika Bhavanam ,

and requested your particpation to help release

this magnificent manuscript in to a printed monograph .

 

Ten BhakthAs have responded sofar with pledges that

add up to $ 984 . AdiyEn will match this amount

on a one on one basis because of adiyEn's desire

to catalyze the printing and release of this scholarly

commentary on the great Prabhandham of ThiruppAvai

by GodhA Piratti for the world wide aasthikA community .

We need a total of $2,800 . With the matching of

the currently pledged amounts , we have now come to

the level of $1968 against the target of $2,800 .

We just need $ 832 more or pledges of $ 416 for

Matching purposes .

 

As an expression of my gratitude for the BhakthAs

who are taking part in this last Kaimkaryam for

this year from my end , adiyEn thought few postings

on the anubhavam of the great sthuthi of Swamy Desikan

on ANDAL revered as GodhA Sthuthi would be appropriate.

 

This sthuthi brimming with affection and reverence

for GodhA has 29 slOkams . These slOkams also

house the tattuvams that ANDAL taught us for

our hitham and ujjevanam (upliftment). These postings

will take off from the earlier ones on the study of

the deep Tatthuvams enshrined in ThiruppAvai of ANDAL .

These earlier postings of adiyEn are archived in

the December 96 and January 97 archives of

the Bhakthi list .

 

Swamy Desikan described his sthuthi on

GodhA dEvi and its effect on those who

recite it as "Bahu GuNa RamaNIyaam ya:

Sa bhavathi BahumAnya: SrimathO Rangabharthu:"

( Those who recite this GodhA sthuthi

containing the splendid tributes to the many

KalyANa GuNams of Godhai would become very

dear Her Lord , Sri RanganAthan) .Swami Desikan

also pointed out the slOkams of GodhA Sthuthi

arose form him out of the fully blossomed

Bhakthi for Her ( Ithi vikasitha bhakthE:

utthithAm VenkatEsAth). May we through

the recitation of the GodhA Sthuthi and

contemplation on its deep meanings enshrined in

its 29 SlOkams become dear to Sri RanganAthA ,

the beloved consort of ANDAL.

 

adiyEn's sister , Kaimkrya Sri Padma

VeerarAghavan of West Mambalam has tuned

the 29 slOkams of GodhA sthuthi in Ghana

and rakthi raagams and has taught it to

hundreds of ladies of Chennai . She is

currenltly working feverishly on GodhA Sahasram

project at Desika Bhavanam at Mylapore

to train 1,000 ladies to sing GodhA

Sthuthi in unison at SrivilliputthUr in front

of Our ThAyAr , ANDAL .

 

AdiyEn will be happy to arrange for all

the particpants in this kaimkaryam to receive

a tape of the 29 slOkams of the GodhA sthuthi

tuned by my sister and sung by a small

group of ladies . RaagAs like Raama PriyA ,

Nattai, GowLai, Aarabhi ,VarALi , Sri ,

Naayaki and Surutti are some of the raagams

used in this rendering .

 

AdiyEn will commence the postings on

the individual slOkams of Swamy Desikan's

GodhA Sthuthi next.

 

Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SatakOpan