Yathiraja Vimsathi - Sloka 4

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Swami Sri Manaval Mamunikal’s

YATHIRAJA VIMSATI

 

Author: Sri S.Satyamurthi Iyengar

Yatiraja vimsati

 

 

 

Sloka 4

 

nityaM yatIndra! tava divyavapussmR^itau me *

saktaM mano bhavatu vAgguNakIrtanesau |

kR^ityaM ca dAsyakaraNaM tu karadvayasya *

vR^ittyantarestu vimukhaM karaNatrayaM ca || (4)

 

Oh, Yateendra! let my mind stand transfixed forever

In your physical charm exquisite, and may my power

Of speech concentrate on recounting your qualities

auspicious

Let my pair of hands be engaged in your exclusive

service

And these triple faculties be shut against everything

else.

 

Notes:

By gunakirtan is meant the laudation of Ramanuja’s ‘Daya’ or compassion of

unlimited dimensions, standing right in the vanguard of the vast array of his

auspicious qualities.

 

Well, it was all right when the hymnographer wished to keep his mind riveted to

the

incessant contemplation of the exquisite charm of Ramanuja’s physical form and

again when he resolved to keep on singing the praise of the Master’s

auspicious qualities. But how would it be possible for him to render bodily

service unto him that had departed from his abode and gone back to the

celestium long ago? But then, even this can very well go on, in the

Arccha(iconic) state.

 

The complete and constant rapport between him and Ramanuja,

in every possible manner, having been directly emphasized,

that wish is only reinforced in the last line by the indirect method

of saying that the author’s mind, word and deed should eschew everything else

 

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Retyped from the book by Sri Kesavan Srinivasan of Chicago

(The Grandson of Sri U.Ve. Satyamurthi Iyyengar.)

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Azhvar Emberumanar Jeeyar ThiruvadigalE sharanam

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan

Mukundan Vangkipuram Pattangi

 

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