One Lakshmi Sahasra SlOkam : Courtesy / Sri NavalpAkkam KaNNan Swamy , Hyderabad

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SrI:

 

Dear Children of Sri Devi & Periya PerumAL :

 

The Ahobilavalli Team is planning to include the 1018 slOkams

of Sri Lakshmi Sahasram along with many other Sri Sookthis;

Sristhuthi, Dhvaya churukku , BhU sthuthi and GodhA Sthuthi

have already been uploaded in :

 

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Sri Sthvam of KurEsar is all set to be uploaded at the above site.

 

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Sriman KaNNan Swamy's Tamil postings in Sri RanganAtha PaadhukA ,

the team would like to get some feed back on how the content of the Sundara

Simham web site is meeting your information needs on Sri VaishNavite Sri

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Some of you have placed your inputs in the guestbook of the Sundarasimham

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account your inputs on content , the depth of coverage , Fonts used and anyother

things that we can attend to as we build up the site . We are going to do it

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and it will be good to design the content with the desirable common denominator

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,

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We are looking into printing these e-books in cooperation with an on-demand

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Please send us your feedback about the usefulness of these e-books

against your information needs , if you have not already done so .

 

Now let us focus on one of the Lakshmi Sahasram slOkams ,

where the Kavi discusses the uselessness of saluting Navagrahams

instead of worshipping Sarva MangaLa Moorthy , Sri Devi .

 

SlOkam :

 

PadhmE yEshAm ucchabhAvO na nithya:

yE sarvEapi sTAnabhEdhEna theekshNA:

yashtusthushDir-nagrahAmsthAnatasthvAm

nithyounnathyAm noumi sarvathra mrudhveem

 

Oh PadhmAsani ! adiyEn will not salute the nava grahams (na noumi) . adiyEn

will prostrate only before You.The reasons are twofold. They have two major

blemishes :

 

(1) They are in ascendance ( Uccha sTAnam ) only for a limited time ( Uccha

bhAvE na nithya: ) . Sooryan is recognized to be uccham ( ascendant) in mEsha

rAsi; Chandran in Vrushabha rAsi . Once they move from these exalted and

benovolent positions of theirs , every one of the nava grahams lose their boon

granting capabiliites and MangaLathvam .Why should adiyEn pay attention to these

unsteady vyakthis? I will not .

 

(2) Furhter, their svabhAvams change once they come down from their Uccha Raasi

to neecha rAsi . None of the nine are known for their unchanging benovolence.One

day or other , they display vikArams (Changes in svabhAvams) . Not only do they

lose their auspiciousness , but they become cruel , when they enter into neecha

Raasis ( yE sarvEapi sTAna bhEdhEna theekshNA:) . Thus , there is nothing steady

in their svabhAvams . They have mood swings ,

 

When adiyEn compares them with You , adiyEn is overwhelmed by Your unquestioned

superiortiy over the nava grahams . Your loftiness is forever and intrinsic (

svabhAvikam). It does not change with time , place or dEsam . Your permanence in

loftiness and undiminished capacity to grant the desired boons at all times is

not shared by the nava grahams . adiyEn can only worship You with

unchanging oudhAryam ( generosity) .

 

Secondly , there are those who change their guNams from place to place and from

moment to moment . They behave kindly with a few and display anger at others .

There is no steady stream

of Dayaa that can be expected from them . You on the otherhand is an undimished

pravAham of

Dayaa . You are forever lofty and superior to all of the nava grahams in Your

display of compassion

to the sufferring chEtanams .You are " NithYonnathai " and " Sarvathra Mrudhvee"

..That is why adiyEn salutes only you and do not go near the nava grahams for

anything .

 

SrImathyai MahA Devyai Nama :

Daasan , V.Sadagopan