Sri Vilakkoli Perumal, Thoopul/ThirutthaNkA dhivya Desam: Nithya AarAdhana kaimkaryam for VilakkoLi PerumAL and Swamy Desikan : Part IX: Sixth SlOkam

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SrI:

 

Dear BhakthAs:

 

Today , adiyEn will cover the Sixth slOkam

of Sri SaraNAgathi DhIpikai , where Swamy Desikan

covers the Isvara tatthvam extolled by GeethAchAryan in

the 15th Chapter of Geethai ( PirushOtthama Yogam ):

 

aavisya dhArayasi vishvamamushya yanthA

SEshi Sriya: pathirasEsha-tanur-nidhAnam

ithyAdhi LakshaNa gaNai: PURUSHOTTHAMAM THVAAM

jAnAthi yO jagathi sarvavidEsha gItha:

 

(Meaning): Oh ViLakkoLi PerumALE ! You enter into

all objects of the Universe and uphold them.You rule

all these chEthanams and achEthanams with Your

sankalpam (volition). You become the Sarva SEshi and

make the fruits of the Universe as Your own fruits.

Therefore , The sentients and the insentients become

Your body (sarIram )and You stay inside them as

the indweller (antharyAmi Brahmam ).You become

the fundamental(root) cause for this Universe.

You stay with Your Divine Consort without ever being

separated from Her even for a fraction of a second.

You are known as SriYa: pathi. The enlightened one

recognizes these signs (lakshaNams) as the attributes of

Your svaroopam as PurushOtthaman, the imperishable ,

Eternal Supreme Being (Akshara Brahmam).Oh Lord

DhIpa PrakAsan ! You Yourself have praised such

an enlightened Jn~Ani in Your GIthOpanishad as

the one, who comprehends every thing in this world .

 

Additional Comments:

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(1) Swamy Desikan addresses the Lord of ThirutthaNkA

and says: "( Thvam ) visvam aavisya dhArayasi". Swamy

Desikan echos here the GIthaa slOkam (15.13):

" ghAm-Avisya cha bhUthAni dhaarayAmi-aham-OjasA"

Here , GItAchAryan says that He enters the earth

and upholds all beings by His strength(Ojas).

The key words here are "Aavisya" and "dhArayAmi" .

The antharyAmi BhrAmaNam states that the Lord

enters all sentients and insentients and rules

them ( Ya: pruTivyAm thishtan --Ya: pruTvIm

antharO yamayathi). AchArya RaamAnujA comments

in this context: "Aham pruTivIm aavisya sarvANi

bhUthAni OjasA apraTihatha saamarthyEna dhArayAmi".

( I enter all beings and through my unstoppable

valor and capability uphold them ).

 

The word "aavisya" appears again in GIthai (15.17)

" YO lOka-thrayam aavisya Bibharthyavyaya Isvara:"

( He , who , as the immutable One and the Lord ,

entering the threefold world , supports it ).

Swamy Desikan underlines the GIthOpadesam

pertaining to " lOka thrayam aasvisya " and

"dhArayasi" in the beginning of the sixth slOkam.

AntharyAmi Brahmam is then the First Lakshanam

(adayALam in Tamil).

 

2) The next key passage in this 6th slOkam is:

" (Thvam )amushya YanthA". amushya means this universe.

He takes on the role of "YanthA" or NiyanthA

(niyAmakan) or One who rules the world. The secod

lakshaNam of the Lord is that He is the "amushya YanthA".

 

3)( Thvam sarva) "SEshi" : He is Swami(Supreme Lord )to all .

This is the third lakshaNam that Swamy Desikan poits out.

He is "SEshi"(Master) and rest are all SEshans(subservients).

The Upanishad Vaakyam , "BhOkthA-BhOgyam-prErithAram

cha mathvA " has to be remembered here. BhOkhthA is

the Jeevan; BhOgyam is the insentient prakruthi

and its varieties; PrErithA is the Lord , who acts

as the Lord of both Jeevan and prakruthi in His role

as Seshi .

 

4)(Thvam) " asEsha Tanu:". This Lord has all

the ChEthanmas and achEthanms as His body.

This is the fourth LakshaNam of DhIpa prakAsan

saluted by Swamy Desikan.

 

5)(Thvam) " Sriya: Pathi:". He is the Lord of MahA LakshmI.

That is yet another distinct lakshaNam. VishNU PurANam

passage is the pramANam here: " NithyaivaishA JaganmAthA

VishNO: SrI: anapAyini" . As the Mother of the Universe ,

She never leaves Her Lord's side and shines as "Nithyam

tath dharma DharmiNi" ( She accepts always the dharmams of

Her Lord as Her own ) . She confers on Him the distinction

of being "Sriya: Pathi".

 

6)"(Thvam ) NidhAnam" is the sixth lakshanam for

SrI ViLakkoLi PerumAL. He is recognized as the Adhi

KaaraNam ( primordial cause ).

 

Swamy concludes the second half of this slOkam

with the declaration that the enlightened person

who recognizes the above PurushOtthama lakshaNams of

the Lord is celebrated in Githai as the One , who

comprehends everything in the Lord's Universe:

 

"ithyAdhi LakshaNa gaNai: Ya: ThvAm PrushOtthamam

jaanAthi, yEsha: jagathi SARVAVIDH geetha: "

 

The GIthA slOkam 15.19 is the slOkam to which Swamy

Desikan refers to here:

 

yO maamEvamasammUDO jaanAthi PurushOtthamam

sa sarvavidh bahajathi Maam sarva-bhaavEna Bhaaratha

 

(Meaning ): " He who, without delusion thus knows Me

as the Supreme Self , KNOWS ALL (SARVAVIDH), Oh ArjunA ,

and worships Me in every way.

 

Thus in this sixth slOkam , Swamy Desikan has been

saluting GIthAchAryan through the weaving of

the words and passages from GIthOpanishad as

PramANams. He saw DhIpa PrakAsan as GIthAchAryan,

who drove away the darkness with His svayam prakAsam.

 

Sri Maragathavalli SamEtha Sri DhIpa PrakAsa ParabhramaNE Nama:

Swamy Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam,

Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SaThakOpan(Sadagopan)

 

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