Padhuka Sahasram-47

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>Sri:

>SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

>Translation of Paaduka Sahasram by U.Ve. Sri V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin

>

>47. Shrutishirasi nigUDam karamaNAm chOditAnAm

> tvadavaDhi vinivEsham nADhiganthum kshamANAm

> parihasathi murArE PAdhukE! bAlishAnAm

> pashuvaDhaparishEShAn paNdithO nAmayajnAn

>

>Oh Paaduka! That even scripture-ordained rituals ought to be performed

>as a kind of pleasure to You is the secret kept concealed in the Vedantas.

>Fools who cannot understand this might do Yajnas which would in effect, be

>mere animal-slaughter activity. Discerning persons ridicule such actions.

>

>Namo Narayana,

>Adiyen,SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

NOTES BY V.SADAGOPAN

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(1)UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam : Here , Swami Desikan

points out that those who worship Lord RanganAthan

get His blessings through wearing His SatAri on their

heads.By wearing His satAri as crown on their heads,

the devotees invite the Lord and thereafter perform

worship to His SatAri .There are however those , who do not

understand this tradition and conduct YagAs and rituals

involving sacrifice of animals for much less benfits .

This indeed is a laughable matter for the realized ones.

 

(2)Sri Andavan's anubhavam : When aasthikAs perform Nithya

Naimithika karmAs, they conclude these performances with

the utterance , " KrishNArpaNam " . They thus place all

these karmAs at the sacred feet of the Lord .The SaasthrAs

edict thru upanishads as a rahasyam that all these karmAs

should be presented as samarpaNams for the Paadhukhais

of the Lord .If any one performs Yaagams without understanding

this requirement , then the Yaagam is Yaagam in name only .

The only left over then is pasu vadham according to the learned

ones. The inner meaning of this slOkam is that we should

place all of our saasthrA-ordained karmAs and their Phalan

at the feet of our AchAryAs .

 

(3)Swami Desikan says here that pandithAs will laugh at

those , who do not know the injunction (Vidhi)

that all the karmAs should be submitted to

the Paadhukhais (NammazhwAr)are fools and whatever YaagAs

they do are YaagAs by name only(naama Yaj~nam).

The reference is perhaps to the Paasuram passage

of Madhura Kavi AzhwAr : " Takka sIr SatakOpanen-

nampikku, aatpukkAthaladimaip payananRE " ..V.S