Thula kaveri vaibhavam -1

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Thula Kaveri vaibhavam-1

 

Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:

Sri Parasara bhattar tiruvadigale sharanam

 

Sri parashara bhattarya: srirangesha purohita:

Srivatsankasuta: sriman shreyase me(a)stu bhuyase.

 

20** kAverIm avagAhiShIya bhagavad bhogAntarAyI bhavat

karma klesha phalAshaya prashamanodvelAkula srotasam;

jantOs samsarato (a)rchirAdi saraNi vyAsanga bhangAya yA

loke(a)smin virajeva vEllita jalA srIrangam Alingati *

 

 

(SriRangarajaStavam -SRRS)

 

Meaning::-- --yA-- who (kaveri). -- samsarata: janto: -- of the living

being in the cycle of births and deaths. --archirAdi saraNi vyAsanga

bhangAya-- to prevent the fatigue of travelling in archirAdi route. --

asmin loke-- in this world. --vEllita jalA-- having turbulent waters.

--virajA iva-- like virajA river. -- srirangam Alingati-- embraces

Srirangam as it were. --tAm-- her. --bhagavad bhoga antarAyI bhavat--

which are hindrances to the enjoyment of God. --karma-- actions resulting

in punya and papa. --klesha-- hardships like ignorance. --phala-- the

fruits of actions. --Ashaya-- the traces of desires or vAsanai. --

prashamana--to eliminate. --udvela-- overflowing the banks. --amala-- pure

and crystal clear. --srotasam-- having a current of water. --kaverIm--

the river kaveri. --avagAhiShIya-- I shall plunge with pleasure.

 

Vyakhyana:::-- The preceding 19 slokams are like the preface to the

SRRS. Bhattar composed this stavam while returning from Thirukkottiyur.

Hence, in the order of seeing places on the way, Bhattar describes Kaveri

in the following five slokams. In this slokam, Bhattar says that he will

plunge to his content in Kaveri. Whereever it be that srivaishnavas, have

their daily ablutions, it is a traditional rule to recite these five

slokams and do so.

 

Bhattar says in this slokam, that the VirajA river that is flowing on

the way to paramapadam herself, incarnated as Kaveri and for the benefit

of all people, is circumnavigating around Srirangam periya koil. Why

should VirajA, leave her place and come here? Well, without bathing in

VirajA there is no entry into paramapadam. After, traversing through

ArchirAdi mArgam, the people become fatigued and in that state, they have

to bathe in virajA. Bhattar says, that virajA being broadminded, decided

to avoid their fatigue and provide an effortless virajAsnAnam to all

samsAris here and so became Kaveri. Thus, it is indicated that the route

to the temple (Srirangam periyaKoil) is the ArchirAdi route, the Koil

itself is paramapadam, and Sriranganathan Himself is paravAsudevan

reflecting the slokam "kaverI virajA seyam vaikuntham ranga mandiram; sa

vAsudevo rangesha: pratyakSham paramam padam". Bhattar says that all the

qualities of virajA are present in kaveri undiminished, through the

phrases "bhagavad bhogAntarAyI bhavat" etc. Kaveri's waters can eliminate

the twin actions (punya and papa) that are hindrance to the eternal

service to God, the difficulties like ignorance, the fruits of actions,

and vAsanai (trace desire) that instigate people to involve in actions

over and over again.

 

contd....

Dasan

Ramanuja