Padhuka Sahasram-512

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

512. praBhavanthi dhavIyasAm svaBhAvAth

thava rathnAni mukundhapAdharakshE!

ayasAmiva hantha lOhakAnthA:

kaTinAnAm manasAm vikarShaNAya

 

Oh Paaduka! Your gemstones would act like a magnet to spontaneously

attract the iron of the hard-hearts even over a long distance.

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

Special Notes by V.SatakOpan

 

SlOkma 512:

 

1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Here, Swamy Desikan explains the

festivities that are conducted at Srirangam. He points out that that

the purpose of them are to attract those, who are far away and bring

them closer to receive the Lord's anugraham. He identifies the

services rendered by the PaadhukAs on these occasions of the temple

festivals and says: " Oh Mukundha PaadhukE! Your gems are like

magnets for the pieces of iron at considerable distances. These

pieces of iron are nothing but the hard hearts of men, who do not

think of the Lord. Your gems with long rays reach out and bring these

men closer to the Lord just as powerful magnets pull a piece of iron

close to them .

 

2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: The inner meaning is that the minds

of the devotees of Swamy NammAzhwAr ( the Lord's Paadhukais) are

pulled like an iron piece to a magnet, when they hear the paasurams

of SaThaari Soori. Their hearts melt with the experience.

 

3) Oh PaadhukE! Your gems are by nature like a magnet ( tava

rathnAni svabhAvAth lOhakAnthA: ). As magnets , they have the power

to pull the iron particles. Swamy compares the hard hearts of those ,

who are far away to the iron particles at a distance and the gems of

the Paadhukais to the magnet that attracts those iron particles (

lOhakAnthA: ayasAmiva dhavIyasAm kaDinAnAm. manasAm vikarshaNAya

prabhavanthi)..V.S.