Padhuka Sahasram-116

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>Sri:

>SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

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

>Swamin:

>

>116. niyatham aaDhirurOha thvAm anADhEya shakthim

> nija charaNasarOjE shakthim ADhAthukAma:

> sa kaTham itharaThA thvAm nyasya rAmO vijahvE

> druShadh upachitha BhUmoU dhandakAraNya BhAgE

>

>Rama set His feet on You to acquire, for His tender feet, the intrinsic

>powers You possess; this is certain; if it were not so, how could Rama

>have walked through the rough rocky Dandaka forest, without wearing You?

>

>Namo Narayana,

>Adiyen,SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

NOTES BY V.SADAGOPAN (V.S):

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(1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: The Rishis of ChithrakUtam

obtained new paadhukhAs from RaamA. BharathA took RaamA's

original PaadhukhAs in procession to AyOdhyA with all

maryAdhais. RaamA did not wear any padhukhAs thereafter

during his sanchArams in the forests of DhaNdakaa since

He had given the original PaadhukhAs as a pledge to

BharathA to solemnize Hisreturn to AyOdhyA at the end of

his fourteen year's of exile in the forest . RaamA did not

therefore want to deemphasize that pledge through wearing of

another set of PaadhukhAs . Lord RaamachandrA's feet were

however protected from the thorns and sharp stones of

the DhaNdakaa forest by another power. That protection

came from the PaadhukhAs embraced His feet , when he

stepped on to them at the request of BharathA prior to

giving them as His mark of pledge . Part of the inherent

and natural power of Paadhukais enveloped the Lord's feet

at that time to protect them during His wanderings

in the harsh forests of DhaNdakaa.

 

(2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam : In the 113rd slOkam ,

Swamy Desikan suggsted that RaamA imparted power to

His paadhukhais to protect BharathA. Here , Swamy Desikan

reminds us that the Paadhukhais have their own inherent

sakthi and that RaamA stepped on them to receive a part

of their unlimited power for protection against the harsh

environment of DhaNDakA forest .The inner meaning is that

the AchAryAs have even greater DayA and patience than

the Lord Himself for correcting the the Jeevans with

innumerable sins and to prepare them for presentation

to the Lord , their owner .

 

(3)Swamy Desikan uses the word " anAdhEyam " here , which is

the opposite of " AadhEyam " , which means to be placed ,

to be contained . " AnAdhEyam " means svAbhAvikma or

naturally powerful without the sambhandham of anything else

to empower it . Swamy Desikan had wondered earlier (113th slOkam )

whether RaamA stepped into the PaadhukhAs to empower them

through AadhEyam (placement)of His sacred feet . In this slOkam ,

Swamy Desikan states that the Paadhukhais (AchAryAs) have their

own inherent sakthi (anAdhEyam )and therefore were able to

share some of that sakthi to protect the Lord's feet ,

when He roamed the forests of DhaNdakaa without them ...V.S

 

(4) Swamy Desikan uses the owrd " Sakthim " twice in this slOkam :

" thvAm anAdhEya sakthim " in the first Paadham of this slOkam

and " nija charaNa sarOjE Sakthim aadhAthukaama: " . First

sakthi is the anAdhEya Sakthi of the PaadhukhAs ; the second

sakthi is the derived sakthi from the Paadukais by

the lotus-soft feet of the Lord .Swamy hints that

the Lord wanted to absorb part of the natural sakthi

of the Paadhukhais ....V.S