Sharanagati Deepika - 08

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Sri:Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

 

Shriman Nigamanta Mahadeshikai: anugrihitam

Sharanagati Deepika

 

Shloka 8:

GYAnam balam niyamanakshamatAtha vIryam shaktischa teja iti te guNaShaTkamAdhyam |sarvAtishAyini imopavanesha yasmin antargato jagadiva tvayi sadguNaugha: ||

 

Meaning:

ima upavana Isha - O Lord of Thiruththanka!te guNa ShaTkam - Your six divine qualities, GYAnam - knowledge, balam - strength, niyaman kshamatA - the wealth of governance, vIryam - valor, shakti - powerteja: cha - and splendor Adhyam - are primary. jagat iva - Just as all the worlds antargata: - are insidetvayi - You, sarva atishAyini - who is greater than all,sat guNa ogha: - so too the entire group of divine qualities yasmin - are included in these six qualities.

 

Vyakhyana Saram:

The term Bhagavan denotes six divine and auspicious qualities. These six qualities are complete in SrimanNarayana. The qualities are: knowledge, strength, wealth,valor, power and splendor.During the time of praLaya, He swallows all worlds andprotects them by keeping them inside Himself. Just asthe worlds dissolve in Him, so too all the countlessdivine qualities such as vAtsalyam, saushIlyam, etc are dissolved in these six qualities.Some sampradhayas say that He has no qualities otherthan being pure knowledge. However, our sampradhayamsays that He has countless divine qualities and no inauspicious qualities. It is to condemn the othersampradhayas that Swami Nammazhvar started hisThiruvaymozhi by saying "uyarvaRa uyarnalam udaiyavanyavan". It is said that Kooraththazhvan would faint on this line itself every time he started explaining Thiruvaymozhi. Nanjeeyar too would exclaim

his amazement on how Azhvar is choking the other sampradhayams in the very first line of his work.Swami Desikan is showing that Sriman Narayana is an ocean for these qualities.

Strength is the ability to run both this world and the other world without any effort. Wealth is not the ordinary wealth that men go after. It is the capcityto govern the entire universe (niyantrutvam). Power is the quality of being able to take and complete anything that He chooses to (satya sankalpa). Splendoris the ability to complete any task, no matter how complex, without the help of any one and with no effort.

 

 

Azhvar Emberumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Sharanam