Padhuka Sahasram-956

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

 

956. mAtharmukundhakaruNamapi nihnuvAnAth

kim vA param kimapi kilbiShathO madhIyAth

gADam gruhIthacharaNAgamanApadhEshAth

thathprEraNapraNayinI thava chEnna lIlA

 

Oh Mother Paaduka! If You were to pronounce that my sin is so

powerful, let me tell You this:-You get hold of the Lord's Feet

firmly and take Him over to various places in the pretext of His

strolls all around. It is Your sport to help me too! If this were

absent, then it only means that my sin, that compels me to refuse

and negate the Karuna of the Lord, the Moksha-giver, is the greatest

force on earth! How else will I be denied the Lord's grace in spite

of Your effort?

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan

 

SlOkam 956

 

1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Citing the excuse of Your Lord's

external travel , You tightly cling to Your Lord's feet and make

sure thaT He comes my way . If I do not have Your intervention , my

huge sins will prevent Him from showing mercy to me. You bring Him

over to me and that serves as my atonement to banish my sins .If

you did not help, I will be unhappy and complain that Your Lord is

merciless. How can I then praise adequately Your help ?

 

 

2) SrImath Andavan anubhavam : Oh PaadhukE ! You have

unlimited affection (Vaathsalyam ) for me.Due to my limited

intellect and unlimited sufferings , I assessed that You are

indifferent to me and spoke rudely to you and complained that

You are indifferent . Please pardon me for this apachAram.

My sins are huge. The Lord is there to forgive the sinners

and is ready to confer Bhogam and Mosham due to His

limitless dayA . My Paapams however prevent the Lord's

sahaja krupA coming my way . At this juncture , You perform

a MahOpakAram . You use the external excuse of bringing PerumAL

out of His sanctum for ullAsa sanchAram and hold on to His sacred

feet tightly and pray for my upliftment . You make it possible for

me, who did not get inside the Lord's temple and bring the Lord

before me to chase away my paapams . If you had not taken this

initative , there would be no sambhandham between me and my

Lord ; He would have ignored me and that would have led to

my total destruction . My paapams would have won in that case.

Swamy Desikan expresses sorrow (nirvEdham ) over the power of

his paapams for our sake .

 

3) SWamy Desikan states that there is nothing more exalted than

the DayA of the Paadhukai that propells it to intervene on behalf of

the bhaddha Jeevans and make the recommendations to

the Lord . He queries in a rhetorical sense : Is there anything

superior than the DayA of the Paadhukais to achieve the Lord's

intervention ? ( Param kimapi kim vaa? ). The Paadhukai uses

the excuse of taking the Lord for a walk and holds tightly to His

feet during that sanchAram ( gamanApadEsAth ghADam gruhItha

charaNA ). The eager Paadhukai egg the Lord to engage in His role

as the protector of all paapis ( Tath PrEraNa praNayinee Tava

leelA ). If that intervention and appeal were not there , then there

would be no hope of gaining moksham by the samsAris ( prEraNa

praNayanee Tava leela na chEth , Mukundha: Mu Ku na dadhAthi) ...

(V.S)