Padhuka Sahasram-70

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Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

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

Swamin:

 

70. BharatAshvasanEShu pAdashabdham vasuDhAshrOtrasamudhBhavO munIndhra:

paTathi thvayi pAdhukE! thathasthvam niyatham rAmapadhAdhaBhinnaBhUmA

 

Oh Paaduka! On the occassions of Bharata consoling himelf (while he

returned to Ayodhya without Rama), Valmiki uses the word " feet "

while referring to You. Evidently Your greatness is the same as that of

Rama's lotus feet, without any difference, whatsoever.

 

Namo Narayana,

Adiyen,SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

NOTES BY V.SADAGOPAN(V.S)

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1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Oh RanganAthA's PaadhukhE !

You protected BharathA for fourteen long years without

the involvement of His Lord's sacred feet . VibhishaNaa

on the other hand was saved by the holy feet of Your Lord

without Your help. Therefore , it appears that the Lotus

Feet of Your Lord and Yourself supporting those Feet

have equal potency in protecting those that seek refuge

of either of You .Sage Valmiki refers to this amazing

relationship between You and the Lord's sacred feet

that You support and protect.

 

2) Srimadh Andavan's anubhavam : Oh PaadhukhE ! When Bharathan

and the Citizens of AyOdhyA prayed to Lord RaamA at ChitrakUtam

to return to AyOdhyA and become the King ,He refused . Bharathan

received Yourself as a represetative of Sri RamachandrA

and returned . At that time, He told the sad citizens that

" You are indeed the Sacred Feet of the Lord Himself .

Please do not think otherwise " . Therefore You are not

differnet from Your Lord's sacred Feet .

 

The inner meaning is that the Lord Himself incarnates

in the form of AchAryAs .

 

3) Here Swami Desikan refers to BharathA's consoling words to

the sorrowful citizens of AyOdhyA at the time of returning back

to NandigrAm from ChithrakUtam with the Sri Raama

PaadhukhAs on his head. BharathA said according to

Sage VaalmIki : " thvam Raama PaadhAth abhinna bhUmA,

niyatham " . You are not different from the sacred Feet

of Your Lord in glory .This is certain ....V.S