Lokacharya Panchasat - 16

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Sri:Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama: shrIman nigamAnta mahAdeshikai: anugrihItam || kumAra lokAchArya pa~nchAshat || Shloka 16: phaNitikiraNajAlairmAnayan mAnasAbjam charanamuShita doShArUDagADAndhakAra: |apara iva vapuShmAnamshumAlI janAnAm padamiva bhuvanAryo bhAsayan bhAti viShNo: || Meaning: amshumAlI iva - Like the SuncharanamuShita doShA ArUDa gADa andhakAra: - who drives the darkness of the night with his rays of lightviShNo: padam - from spacebhAsayan - and makes it (bright),bhuvanArya: - Pillai LokacharyarbhAti - isapara: vapuShmAn amshumAlI - like another SuncharanamuShita doShA ArUDa gADa andhakAra: - who drives the ahankAra mamkAra doshas, by association with his divine feet,phaNiti kiraNa jAlai: - with the rays of light that are his Sri Suktis,janAnAm -

from the people'smAnasa abjam - lotus like minds mAnayan - and makes them respected (by blossoming with knowledge). Acharyas and Azhvars are compared to the Sun that drives out darkness.The normal Sun drives out the outside darkness. With their Sri Suktis, Azhvars and Acharyas drive out the darkness in our minds. Our minds are like lotuses and are closed due to the darkness of the ahankAra and mamakAra. Azhvars and Acharyas are like the Sun and drive out this darkness and make the mind blossom. (They are also like water that sustains the lotus in the presence of the sun like Lord.) Nammazhvar is called Vakula Bhushana Bhaskara. Here Swami Desikan isdescribing Pillai Lokacharyar as the Sun (amshumAlI). And when this mind blossoms, then one finds the Lord seated in that lotus. Vedanta Desikan Thiruvadigale SharanamPillai Lokacharyar Thiruvadigale

SharanamAzhvar Emberumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Sharanam adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan http://www.acharya.org/vyakyanam/LokacharyaPanchasat/index.html

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