Sankalpa SooryOdhayam : Srimath Azhagiya Singar's KaalakshEpam on Monday & Tuesday Mornings via Telebridge : Part IV

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SrI:

 

Dear BhakthAs :

 

Today adiyEn will cover the last section of

the most recent KaalakshEpam highlights

of Srimath Azhagiya Singar ( slOkams 85) covering

the conversation between Mahaa RaaNi Sumathy and

her husband , VivEka Mahaa Raajan .

 

The power of SaraNAgathy and its unfailing nature is

explained by the Magaa Raajaa in this moving 85th slOkam ,

which is dealt extensively in Swamy Desikan's AbhayapradhAna

chillaRai rahasyam :

 

dheenO dhrupyathu vaaparAdhyathu param vyAvartathAm vaa taha-

srAthavya: SaraNAgatha: sakanatha: sadhbhisyaTA sTApyathE

ViswAmithra kapOtha Raaghava Raghu vyOmAdhvagaprEyasee

naalijanga Bruhaspathi prabrudhibhiranvEsha ghaNdApaTa:

 

(Meaning ): If we perform SaraNAgathy , the powerful one (SakthimAn)

will protect . There is no dictum that this one will be protected and

that one will be abandoned . All are eligible to perform SaraNAgathy

and recieve the Lord's abufraham of protection .The one who wishes

to gain freedom from SamsAram immediately ( AarTa Prapannan ) or

the one who wishes to receive mOksham at the end of their assigned

life here ( Dhruptha Prapannan) or the one who has accumulated

terrins or whoever he or she is can seek BhagavAn's protection and

perfrom SaraNAgathy . This is Saasthram and this is AchAram ( way of

life ) as enacted by Sage ViswAmithra , the dove , Raamachandra ,

KIng Raghu ( the ancestor of the Lord Raamachandra) , Deva pathnis ,

Naalijangan , Bruhaspathy and all other reverd ones in the history of

SaraNAgathy Saasthram .Throughbtheir aachAram and anushtAnam ,

the royal road of SaraNAgathy is illumined and maintained for us

to travel to Srivaikuntam and serve the Lord there without returning

to the SamsAric world ever again .

 

(Comments) : Swamy Desikan states here that every one is eligible

to perfrom SaraNAgathy anushtAnam to recieve the protection of

the powerful and compassionate Lord . He cites the stories of

Sages , Kings, animals that proved the power of SaraNAgathy .

First Swamy Desikan cites the Moola Purushar for His gothram :

Sage ViswAmithrar . Swamy belonged to ViswAmithra gOthram .

The Thrisangu Svargam incident is waht Swamy Desikan has in mind

here. Next , he cites the KapOtha vrutthAntham , where a female dove

offered its body as food and threw itself into fire to satisfy the hunger of

the hunter and his family ;this is followed by salutation to the magnificent

VibhIshaNa ,Naalijanga , Bruhaspathy and other SaraNAgahthys to illustrate

the varieties of Jeevans , who were beneficiaries of the Lord's mervy

through their SaraNAgathys .

 

Srimate Sri Laksminrisimha Divya Paduka Sevaka

Srivan Satakopa Sri Narayana Yatindra Mahadesikaya Nama:

 

Daasan , Oppiliappan KOil VaradAchAri Sadagopan