Sri Alavandhaar's SthOthra Rathnam verse- 49- I have no qualifications at all for any other means!

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

Dearest Srivaishnavas,

 

You had mentioned that you did not perform Karma,

jnana, yogas and na dharmanishtOsmi etc… Just because

you did not perform them, does not make you

automatically qualified to perform Saranagathi. If

that’s the case, all bhakt yogins can also stop doing

bhakti yoga and say, “ I am now qualified for

Saranagathi..and perform Prapatti. You say.. aparaadha

sahasra bhaajanam… thousands and thousands of paapams…

 

 

Tell me Alavandhaar.. In this samsaaram, is there

anyone who does not do aparaadha sahasra bhaajanam…

everyone does.. Hence it is not right to compel me

with those reasons. Alavandhaar responds: It is

absolutely right of course.. in this verse.

 

 

avivEka ghanaandha dhinmukhE

bahudhaa santhatha dhukka varshinee

bhagavan! bhavadhurdhinE patha:

skhalitham maam avalOkaya achyutha! [49]

 

Hey Bhagawan! Oh Lord! The One with the bhagavath

kalyANa guNAs! The One with no imperfections and

having innumerable kalyANa guNAs! Achyutha! The One

who never ever lets anyone down! Please bless by

showering and casting Your most merciful glances on me

(maam) who has fallen – swerved- strayed away from –

the path of spiritual life with absolutely no jnAnam

on Para, tattva, hitha purushaartthams- from the

injunctions of saasthrAs in the most darkest,

gloomiest world of samsaaric life (existence); where

all corners of the sky [where I live] are always

darkened with heavy clouds of non-discrimination

{avivEkam) and showers of rains of sorrows drench me

always for ever and ever uninterruptedly in different

ways and in all sorts.

 

You – with no room for any imoerfections- with no

defects or bad qualities- the Supreme Lordship- with

jnAna, bala, aishwarya, veerya, shakthi thEjas- six

opulent kalyANa guNAs- and hence named Bhagawaan.. You

are the Lord with infinite most auspicious attributes

like Sauseelya, Vaathsalya, Maardhava, Arjava,

Sowhaarda, kaaruNya, maadhurya, Gambheerya, audhaarya,

chathurya, sthairya, dhairya, sowrya, paraakrma,

sathyakaama, sathyasankalpa, kruthithva,

kruthagnathai… etc… With such Supreme Lordship

qualities, You dispel the sorrows of Your devotees and

remove their suffering and also support /Save them.

 

That- I am seeking from You is this: My state is

lowliest and pitiable. This wordly life for me is the

darkest day.. There is absolutely no chance of any

sunshine for me.. in this worldly life of mine… (if

you consider as my whole life as one day). Not a

single second sun shines with His splendour on me… The

clouds engulf the whole day with pitch darkness and

torrential downpour of greatest suffering befall on

me… the clouds are none other than the avivEkam-

non-discrimination. What is vivEkam? That the body is

not AthmA; the athmA is NOT swathanthran; the idhara

devatha is not You… You are the Paradevatha; What one

should seek is mOksham… DhEhaathma vivEkam; Athma

paramaathma vivEkam, mOkshaamOksha vivkEkam etc..

 

Thus with such avivEkam, I perform what should not be

done in accrdoance with saasthrAs; and not do what

saasthrAs prescribe us to do. akruthyAnamcha karaNam;

kruthyAnAm varjanamcha mE.. kshamasva nikhilam dEvA!

PraNathaartthihara prabhO!

 

Thus with all those avivEkam (clouds) engulf me from

all eight directions, and rain uninterruptedly (due to

my own avivEkam) on me with suffering. AdhyAthmikam,

Adhiboudhikam, Adhidaivikam…

 

With such heavy rains, great floods, I do not know

where is higher point, which is the hole and hence

keep on slippoing down and further down and am not

able to even stay afloat. I have lost all the sense of

directions as well as the lost track of where to go

and how to. As it is also dark and no sunshine there

is not even a milestone for me to know the whereabout

of myself. You have even lost sight of myself for ages

and I [have been blessed] to see the glimpse of

Yourself now.. But having blessed me so much, now that

You have seen me due to Your dayA, and since You are

also Achyuthan (one never les down), You would not

leave me- I am sure. You can not let me find out the

paths of karma, jnana, bhakti yoga… as I have lost all

tracks. I am very far from any of these paths deeply

immersed in floods. I- who am not able to even walk –

leave alone stay afloat- You should not leave me and

go away. You should embrace me and take me with You…

else I will perish. Please cast Your glance on me- as

per and in line with Kshathabandhau vaakya

(statement). Thus I have no power at all for bhakti

yoga.

 

Alavdnahaar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam

 

Regards

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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