Sri Guna Rathna Kosam : Part 50: slOkam 39

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Srimath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigLE Saranam

 

Dear BhakthAs:

 

In today's posting , adiyEn will cover the 39th slOakm

of Sri GuNa Rathna KOsam of Swamy ParAsara Bhattar

and link it to the later anubhavam of Swamy Desikan

in the many slOkams of Sri Sthuthi :

 

Surabhitha nigamAntham vandhishI IndhirAyA:

tava kamala palAsa prakriyam paahda-yugmam

vahathi yadhupamardhai: VaijayanthI himAmbha:-

pluthibhiriva navathvam kaantha bAhAntharAlE

 

Meaning according to Dr.V.N.VedAntha Desikan

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May I bow and worship at the lotus feet of Goddess

MahA Lakshmi!Your feet are firmly placed at the top of

the VedAs--that is, all the VedAs have , as their subject ,

the praise of Your feet as Supreme Goddess (MahA Lakshmi)

only .Hence , Your feet smell with the Vedic fragrance

in full.

 

Your feet are like the lotus leaves , gentle, fresh ,

and very sensitive (tender).

 

When You are seated on the chest of the Lord , You

crush under Your feet , so to say , the vanamAlai

garland known as Vaijayanthi. But then, Oh RanganAyaki!

What a wonder ! That garland acquires a new rejuvenating

effect and is fresh and fragrant , cool and flourishing ,

as if it were fed with cool water-nutrient from Your feet!

What a heartening phenomenon!

 

Additional Comments:

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Here swamy ParAsara Bhattar visualizes Sri RanganAyaki

as Vakshasthala Lakshmi adorning the chest of Lord RanganAthan.

She rules the world from Her Lord's ThirumArbhu. She shines

there like a brilliant golden lightning flash across the blue

expanse of the chest of Sri RanganAthAn. She is offering

darsanam to Bhattar as "BhadrapeeDE NishaNNAM " (seatd on

Her auspicous seat ) . On the chest of Her Lord dangles

the Vaijayanthi Maalai made of forest flowers.

Sri RanganAyaki's paadhams touch that garland and press

the flowers constituting the garland. Those flowers attain then

a new lustre through their sambhandham with the sacred feet of

Sri RanganAyaki ; this new life and added lustre for them

seems to come as it were from the sprinkling of cool waters

from Sri RanganAyaki's sacred feet .Those lotus-soft feet

of Sri RanganAyaki have Veda Sambhandham as well . Those

feet are resting on the VedAs , which offer their prayers

to Her . As a result of that sambhandham , Her feet exude

Veda parimaLam ( fragrance of the vedAs).

 

Swamy ParAsara Bhattar expresses his wish to prostrate before

Sri RanganAyaki and worship Her sacred feet in this slOkam.

The experience of Bhattar will be recalled by Swamy Desikan

later in the very first slOkam of Sri Sthuthi:

 

" Vaksha: peeDIm MadhuvijayinO: BhUshayanthIm svakAnthyA"

( This MangaLAnAm-MangaLam Devi adorns the pedestal of

the chest of Her Lord with Her own effulgence ).

--SlOkam 1 Passage , Sri Sthuthi

 

"SthAnam yasyA: sarasija vanam VishNu Vakshasthalam vaa"

( Whose residence is a lotus-forest or the Lord's chest)

--SlOkam 2 Paasage , Sri Sthuthi

 

PoorNam tEja: sphurathi Bhavathee Paadha LaakshA rasAngam

( and He , Your Lord is characterized by the marks/adayALams

from the red dye of Your feet on His chest)

--SlOkam 4 Passage , Sri Sthuthi

 

sEshas chittham vimala manasAm moulasya SruthInAm

sampadhyanthE ViharaNa vidhou yasya sayyaa visEshA:

--SlOkam 5 Paasage , Sri Sthuthi

( As Divine couple , You both choose as the place of

sport and enjoyment, the bed of AdhisEshA , the heart

lotus of blemishless seers and THE TOP PORTION OF THE VEDAAS).

 

AalOkya thvAm amrutha sahajE VISHNU VAKSHA:STHALASTHAAM

( The devAs saw You , the sister of Nectar , seated on

the chest of Your Lord and worshipped You to receive

Your anugrahams)

--Slokam 14 Passage , Sri Sthuthi

 

nithyAmOdhaa nigama vachasAm MouLi mandAra maalA

( Thou art the fragrance incarnate , who is the MandhAra

Garland for the head (siras) of the VedAs.)

--SlOkam 23 Paasage , Sri Sthuthi

 

Swamy Desikan elaborated thus in Sri Sthuthi the many

tatthvams hinted briefly by Swamy ParAsara Bhattar

in this 39th slOkam .

 

Sri RanganAyaki"s Parama Isvarya PradhAythvam is

celebrated here. Her feet are "Surabhitha NigamAntham"

and are " Vaasitha VedAntham " ( VedA MaNam kamazhum

ThiruvadigaL). VedAs perform abhivAdhanam and salutation

to those sacred feet of Sri RanganAyaki seated on her

Lord's chest. Bhattar witnesses another wonder happening

at the paadhAravindham of Sri RanganAyaki.As the Lord

moves , the Vijayanthi Maalai moves and dashes against

the Thiruvadi of Sri RanganAyaki and gets crushed

(upamardhai: sangarshai:) . What happens next ?

Instead of fading and falling down , those flowers

of the Vaijayanthi Vana Maalai attain a new freshness ,

vigour and tEjas (Navathvam , Noothanathvam and Sobhai )

though contact with the sacrd feet (SrI Paadha Sparsam)

as though they were freshly watered with the nectarine

morning dew .

 

In the next slOkam , Swamy ParAsara Bhattar describes

the LakshmI KaDAksha Vigraha VailakshaNyam ( the specail

glory and power of Her glances).

 

Sri RanganAyaki Jayathi

Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SatakOpan