GodhA Sthuthi: Part XIV(Slokams 25, 26, 28 and 29

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Namo NarAyaNAya !

 

On the day before our ThAyAr's Thirunakshathram,

we will study the remaining four slOkams .

 

SlOkam 25:

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GOdhE guNairapanayan praNathAparAdhAn

BhrUkshEpa yEva Tava BhOgarasAnukUla:

karmAnubhandhi phala dhAna rathaya bharthu:

SvAthanthrya dhurvyasana marmabhidhA nidhAnam

 

Here, Swamy Desikan describes how the independent

nature of the Lord was interfered with by the gesture

of the knitting of the brows of Godhai.

 

(meaning): Oh GodhE! Your Lord hands out impartially

the fruits of the good and bad karmAs for the chEthanans.

If He did not do so, He would be considered as the

One , who is partial to some and erratic in His

treatment of the chethanams. Oh GodhE !Your overflowing

compassion for the suffering jeevans is such that You

find it difficult to look at the punishments

meted out by Your Lord even , when the chEthanams

deserve such punishments. You devise a method to

interfere with the Lord's duties of punishing the jeevans ,

deserving such punishment . You charm Your Lord with various

gestures of affection towards Him and He loses His

sense of independence and becomes completely under Your

influence .The end result is that You protect the Jeevans

-that erred-from the wrath of Your Lord.

 

The bhOga gesture of Godhai that makes the Lord

lose His svathanthram is the knitting of Her

beautiful brows ( BhrUkshEpam).That gesture

intrigues the Lord with its BhOga Rasa aanukUlyam.

It enhances His affection for Her.He comes

under Godhai's spell and thus becomes Paaratantryan

to Her Charms.The aparAdhams of the Jeevans are then

overlooked by the Lord.Such indeed is the influence

of Godhai over Her Lord.

 

SlOkam 26:

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RangE TaDithguNavathO ramayaiva GodhE

KrishNAmbhudasya gaDithAm KrupayA suvrushtyA

dhourgathya Dhurvisha vinAsa sudhAnadhIm ThvAm

Santha: prapadhya smayanthyachirENa thApAn

 

Here , Swamy Desikan describes how Godhai

becomes the nectarine river that removes all

the SamsAric afflictions of the suffering jeevans.

 

(meaning): Oh GodhE! The Lord Of Srirangam is

an auspicious , intense blue rain bearing cloud

(KaaLa mEgam). MahA Lakshmi , who never leaves

His side is the lightning flash inside that

rain cloud. You (Godhai) are the river that flows

with life-saving nectar created by the rain

of dayA from that Karu muhil , KaaLa mEga VaNNan.

As that river of nectar , You destroy the deadly

poison of SamsAram. Those MahAns , who seek refuge at

Your sacred feet immerse themselves in that

flood of Your nectarine Sookthis and have all

of their samsAric afflictions destroyed.

 

PerumAL is NeelamEga ShyAmalan.On His chest,

the HiraNyavarNai, MahA Lakshmi resides.She

appears like a flash of lightning. Only

the rain cloud with lightning can yield

copious rains.That rain of KrishNAmbhudam

(karu muhil) is the KrupA(dayA) of the Lord of

Srirangam. That rain takes shape as a mighty

river that flows swiftly and washes away

all the sufferings of the SamsAris. Such is

the power of the nectarine river, GOdhai!

 

SlOkam 28:The DhyAna SlOkam for Godhai

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Sathamakha maNineelA chAru kalhAra hasthA

sthanabhara namithAngi saandhra vaathsalya sindhu:

aLakavinihithAbhi: sragbhirAkrushta NaathA

vilasathu hrudhi GodhA VishNuchitthAthmajA na:

 

(meaning): Godhai, who incarnated as the daughter

of PeriyAzhwAr has the bluish hue of sapphire

(indra neelam). In one of Her hand , She adorns

a red lotus (Senkazhuneer malar= kalhAra pushpam

or karuneithal malar)).She is slightly bent from

the weight of Her lofty breasts . She overlooks

all of our aparAdhams(trespasses) and showers us

with Her matchless dayai. She removes

the flower garlands worn on Her tresses and

presents them to Her Lord and thereby

brings Him under Her spell .May Godhai

of these auspicious attributes reside in

our hearts always!

 

SevA SwamigaL points out that Swamy Desikan

always includes a dhyAna slOkam in his sthuthis.

Examples are :KalyANAnAm avikala nidhi:(Sri Sthuthi),

VyAkhyA mudhram (Sri HayagrIva SthOthram ) ,

VyAtanvanA ( Sri VaradarAja PanchAsath),

icchA meena vihAra kacchabha (Dasaavathara

Sthothram) .The most compassinate Acharyan ,

Swami Desikan wanted us to have the fruits of

the recitation of the full sthuthi by reciting

the dhyAna slOkam alone.

 

Regarding the other groups of words used

in this dhyAna slOkam , the first paadham

recognizes the deep bluish hue of Godhai

originating from her close association with Her

Karu muhil VaNNan , KaNNan ( Sathamakha maNi

neelA ).

 

The second paadham is : "Sthana bhara namithAngi

saandhra vaathsalya sindhu:". She is saluted as

the ocean of deep vaathsalyam for us , Her children.

One of the 32 saamudhrikA LakshaNams is saluted

with the choice words: "sthana bhara namithAngi".

In Sri Sthuthi , Sawmy Desiakn described Sri Devi

standing slightly bent by the weight of Her

sthanams( tanvI thungasthana bhara nathA).

In an earlier slOkam of GodhA sthuthi itself ,

Swamy Desikan compared the loftiness of Her

sthanams (kuchams) as "KuchayOrapi TungabhadhrA".

 

The third paadham is " alavinihithAbhi:

SraghbhirAkrushta NaathA ". She wore first

the flower garlands to check whether She was

beautiful enough to be the consort of Her Lord

and then presented those flower garlands

to Him . With those flower garlands ,She

"bound" Her Lord completely (kattuNNappattAn)

and enjoyed Him .That is what ParAsara Bhattar

says in his dhyAna slOkam:

 

" svOcchishtAyAm srajinigalitham

yaa bhalAthkruthya bhunkthE

GodhA tasyainama idhamidham

bhUyayEvAsthu bhUya: "

 

(meaning): May this obesiance of ours last

forever and ever to GodhAi , who forcibly won

Her Lord's favours by binding Him with

the garland worn and discarded by Her.

 

Swamy Deikan stops short and says :

" aLaka vinihithAbhi: sragbhi: aakrushta NaathA"

Once aakarshaNam is accomplished , then

Her Lord becomes Her Paaratantryan(dependant).

He is then totally under Her spell .

 

In the final paadham of this dhyAna slOkam ,

Swamy Desikan prays for Godhai to take

permanent residence in OUR hearts. Instead

of praying for Her residence in his heart

(mama hrudhayam ), our most merciful AchAryan

prays for Her vaasam in all of OUR hearts

including his (na: hrudhi GodhA vilasathu).

The key word therefore is "na:".

 

SlOkam : Phala sruthi SlOkam

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ithi vikasitha bhakthE: utthithAm VenkatEsAth

Bahu guNa ramaNeeyAm vakthi GodhA sthuthim ya:

sa Bhavathi bahumAnya: SrimathO Rangabharthu:

CharaNa Kamala sEvAm SaasvathIm abhyupaishyan

 

Sri MuraLi Rangaswamy has described beautifully

the purport of the last paadham of this Phala

sruthi slOkam earlier today.

 

Swamy Desikan states that GodhA sthuthi

rose from him as a result of fully blossomed

Bhakthi for Her (Vikasitha BhakthE: utthitham).

All sthOthrams of Swamy Desikan blossomed

forth from his Bhakthi .For example , he

says Sri Sthuthi arose from "upachitha Guru

BhakthE:". Guru here does not mean AchAryan , but

huge . In GodhA sthuthi , Swamy says that

the flower of his Bhakthi has fully blossomed

like the Senkuzhuneer Pushpam in Godhai's hastham.

 

SevA SwamigaL points out a subtle prayOgam

of Swami Desikan , when he says in the second

paadham , " Bahu guNa ramanIyAm VAKTHI

GodhA sthuthim Ya:". With the use of

"Ya: Vakthi" in his 29th slOkam , Swami

Desikan according to the Desika Bhaktha

Rathnam reminds us of Godhais

words "ingu parisuraippAr" in Her

30th paasuram of ThiruppAvai. Swamy Desikan

hints further that One will get the Kaimkarya

Sri of nithya Sevai at the lotus feet of Sri RanganAthan,

whether one understands the meaning

of the slOkams of GodhA sthuthi or not. The mere

recitation by One (Ya: vakthi) will confer

such an exalted boon .That reciter will

also become very dear to the Lord of Srirangam,

the dearst consort of Godhai ( Ya: vakthi , Sa:

Sreematha: Rangabharthu: bhaumAnya: bhavathi,

Sa: Sreematha: Rangabharthu: SaasvathIm

SaraNa Kamala sEvAm abhyupaishyathi)besides

attaining Kaimkarya Poorthi.

 

Vikrama Varsha AadippUram season has been

a blessed one for adiyEn in that Godhai

blessed adiyEN to write about the anubhavam

of Swami Desikan going back to seven hundred

years. Hearty thanks are to Desika Bhaktha rathanm,

SevA SwamigaL and Sri Vaikunta Vaasi ,

U.Ve.Oppiliappan Koil Srirama DesikAcchAr

Swamy .

 

adiyEn's sister and her friends were blessed

to recite Swamy Desikan's sthuthi on Godhai

at Godhai's own ThirumALikai in front

of the five PerumALs seated on GARUDAN saluted by

Swamy Desikan in Sri Garuda PaanchAsath's

FIFTH slOkam as " Saptha Svara Gathi "

(NishAdha , Rishabha, GhAndhAra , Shadja ,

Madhyama , Dhaivatha ,Panchama svarams

constituting Saama Vedam ).DhanyOsmi ,

DaasOsmi , AnugrihIthosmi!

 

Adiyen will conclude this series on

GodhA sthuthi with a slOkam from

SevA SwamigaL's sthothram on GOdhA:

 

kim Saasthram , kimu kaavya rathnam

athavaa bhakthi pradhAnA sthuthi:?

kim vaa naaDakamanyadEva

rachanam PourANikI kim kaThA?

aascharyaamala sEmushI vilasitham

kim vaaa rahasya thrayam ?

GodhA gIthamidham paDanthi

Bhuvi yE tE dhanyadhanyA janaa:

 

(meaning): Why (study ) Saasthrams or

Kaavya rathnams or other sthOthrams laden

with Bhakthi or PurANams or for that matter

even the most auspicious and blemishless

Rahasya Thrayam ? For the One , who

recites GodhA sthuthi given to us as

our Kula dhanam , that blessed person

becomes the wealthiest of the wealthy

people on this earth. His Isvaryam has

no match.

 

Such indeed is the power of GodhA sthuthi!

Let us recite these 29 slOkams tomorrow

and receive our ThAyAr's paripUrna

anugrahms.

 

ANDAL ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam,

Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil SatakOpan