Padhuka Sahasram-58

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>Sri:

>SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

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

>Swamin

>

>58. Parikalayasi chEnmAm padmavAsAniShevyE

> PadakamalayugE tvam pAdhukE! RangaBharthu:

> aviditanigamAnAm nUnamasmAdrushAnAm

> aGhatithaGhatanI tE shaktirAviShkruthA syAth

>

>Oh Paaduka! If only You agree to join me with the feet of the Lord

>served only by the consort, Mahalakshmi, You would then have published Your

>ability of uniting the unjoinables. (Where is the holy foot worthy of

>the goddess and where am I with little Vedic background? The two are poles

>apart like Meru and Madara hills.)

>

>Namo Narayana,

>Adiyen,

>SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

NOTES BY V.SADAGOPAN (V.S):

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(1) Sri UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam:Oh Sri RanganAtha

PaadhukhEs ! Your act of uniting us with no knowledge of

VedhAs with the lotus feet of the ord served by

MahA Lakshmi would help us appreciate your incomparable

skills in bringing together the irreconcilable primciples.

The holy feet of Your Lord is much beyond our dreams to reach .

It is only your unique skills and powers that can unite

us , the unsophisticated, with your Lord's sacrd paadha Kamalams.

 

(2) Srimadh Andavan's anubhavam : Oh PaadhukhE ! Sri Devi

has the rught to touch Her Lord's sacred feet. AdiyEn can

not even think of sambhandham with those hly feet due

to my unfitness in every way. Thou with your powers of

uniting the irreconcilables should unite adiyEn with

your Lord's paadha Kamalams .The inner meaning of

this slOkam is that SadAchArya KatAksham will unite one

with the Lord inspite of his or her deficencies.

 

(3) Swami Desikan , who is revered as NigamAntha

MahA Desikan and VedAntha Desikan here describes

himself with great humility and Naicchiyam as a member

of the group of those , who have no knowledge

of the VedhAs ( avidhitha nigamAnAm asmAdhrusAnAm).

Swami Desikan is overwhelmed by the power of

the agditha-gadanA sakthi of Paadhukhai derived

from the Lord's own power to reconcile the polar

opposites ( " mutualy non-coexistables " ) described in

Swami NammAzhwAr's ThiruvAimozhi paasurams (TVM:6.3)

on ThiruviNNagarappan ....V.S

 

Swami Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,

Oppilaippan Koil V.Sadagopan