from Smt Sheela Belur - stOtra ratna - 19

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namO namO yAmunAya yAmunAya namO namah

namO namO yAmunAya yAmunAya namO namah

 

slOkam 19:

 

uparyuparyabja bhuvOpi pooruShAn

prakalpya tEyE shatamityanukramAt |

giristvadEkaika guNAvadhipsayA

sadAsthitAnOdya matOtishEratE ||

 

upari upari - over and over

abja bhuva: - born from the lotus navel of VishNu

pooruShAn - brahmAs

prakalpya - teaching us about those brahmAs

"tEyE shatam" - this is a upanishad vAkya

(taittiriya upanishad); please see

the explanation below.

iti- as

anukramAt - by the virtue of (his) study

tvth Eka EkaguNa avadhi IpsayA -

with the desire to see the extent/boundary

of each of Your auspicious attributes

gira:- the vEdAs

sadA sthitA: api - although always desiring to attempt

(the above - desire to see the extent..)

udyamata: - beyond the starting point

na athishErathE - have not gone

 

tAtparyam:

 

The vEdAs, which determine the extent of each of the

guNAs of the Lord, when attempting to estimate the

extent of the attribute "Ananda" , being unable to do

so, continue to indefinitely go on describing

the "Ananda" starting from creation to destruction, as

 

in "tEyEshatamprajApatErAnanda: sa EkO bramhaNa

Ananda:", the Ananda of Parabramha is hundred fold

that of "chaturmukha Ananda". Even those vEdAs that

attempt to cover the entire aspect of the limit of

Your

attributes have not even gone beyond the starting

point.

 

Additional notes:

 

In the taittirIya upanishad, there is a passage that

talks about the happiness ("Ananda"). It is as

follows:

 

"saishAnandasya mImAmsA bhavathi" - Of that

brahmAnanda, is the enquiry made here

 

"yuvA syAth sAdhu yuvAdhyAyaka: AshistO drtishtO

balishta:" - One who has youth, one who teaches

those who has youth similar to himself, one with

shakti, one with capability/bravery and with

strength - let him be

 

"thasyEyAm prithivI sarvA viththasya pUrNA syAth" -

Let the earth that is full of all kinds of wealth be

under his control

 

"sa EkO mAnushA AnandhA:"- That is the extent of

happiness of a man

 

"stOtriyasa cha ka mahatasya" - This happiness is

there for the brahma nishta and the one who has no

interest in samsara

 

"thE yE satham mAnushA AnandhA: sa Eko manushya

gandharvANAm Anandha:" - 100 times the happiness

of a man is the happiness of a manushya gandharva..

 

and it goes on to classify the happiness in

multiples of hundred - dEva, dEva gandharva,

prajApathi, brahma etc.. and finally it says

 

"yathO vAchO nivartantE | aprApya manasaa

saha| Anandham brahmaNO vidvAn| na bibEthi

kuthaschanEti" -

 

>From which brahma, the words coming from the

mind cannot measure/describe and come back,

one who knows the happiness of such a brahma

will fear nothing.

 

svAmi ALavandAr says - such a vEda, that attempts

to describe/measure Your attributes by teaching

several multiples of happinesses (and creating

a category of people for each multiple of 100),

has not even left the starting point in its

attempt to measure/describe Your attributes!

 

thirumangai AzhvAr's words are very appropriate

here. He says "nAnmaRaigaL thEdi enRum kANa

mAttA theivam" - the vEdAs do search, but

forever cannot find the Lord! - i.e. the

vEdAs, however great they may be, can never

describe the Lord's qualities/greatness.

 

ALavandAr tiruvadigaLe saranam

 

 

 

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