Padhuka Sahasram-402

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

 

402. viShNOrasmin padhasarasijE vrutthiBhEdhaIrvichithraI-

raIdhamparyam nigamavachasAmaIkakaNTayEna sidDham

itTham pumsAmanipuNaDhiyAm pAdhukE! thvam thadhEva

spruShtvA sathyam vadhasi niyatham manjunA shinjithEna

 

Oh Paaduka! The Lotus Feet of the Lord have a variegated vista of

activities, which are praised by the Vedic words, but they all have

one meaning-even when appearing varied. What You proclaim, I think,

by means of Your pleasing Nada, is a kind of swearing in the name of

the Lotus Feet, touching them too!-to tell, in an assuring way, even

to the incapable dunces, to the effect that all Vedas speak only of

these Lotus Feet of the Supreme Power!

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

Special Notes by V. Sadagopan (VS): Slokam 402

 

(1) Utthamur Swamy's anubhavam: Swami Desikan referred to

the pledge made by PaadhukAs in the previous verse to compose

PadhukA Sahasram through him. Here Swamy Desikan describes

another pledge made by the Paadhukais to establish the unquestionable

supremacy of VishNu through their beautiful patterns of Naadham.

He says: " Oh PaadhukE! You do a great service through Your pledge

to help the dim-witted understand the supremacy of VishNu through

Your own direct service to Him. You articulate that message through

the naadham arising from the jingling of the bells and the gems

decorating You. Your message is that VishNu's lotus feet are the

essence of all the four vEdAs. You explain that the different

methodologies –SaamAnyam , VisEsham , Yogam , roodi , aparyavAsanA ,

Vritti , LakshaNai and GouNai—adopted by the VedAs converge at the

feet of Your Lord . Thus vEdAs sing in unison and establish the

paramountcy of Your Lord .You interpret this truth through naadha

yogam for the unsophisticated populace." SaamAnyam et al

are vEdic techniques to establish the supremacy of VishNu

NaarAyanan.

 

(2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: When the Lord adorns You and

moves around, the naadham emanating from You appears like

the Upanishads use the methodologies of Sakthi , Lakshanai et al to

declare in unison the supremacy of Your Lord , through the act of

swearing as it were , by touching His feet .

 

(3) Swamy Desikan chooses two words here ( Iydampharyam and

Eika kaNDyam) to suggest that the naadham originating from

the Paadhukais declaring the supremacy of the Lord is like

all of the upanishads expressing their most important conclusion

(nigama-vachasAm iydamparyam) thru unison of all their wonderous

methodologies (vichithrai: vrutthibhEdai: eikakaNDyEna siddham).

The purpose of the naadhams generated by the Paadhukais remind

Swamy Desikan of the scene , where the Upanishads touch the feet of

the Lord to swear on the supremacy (ParadEvathA Svarooopam )

through many techniques available to them …V.S