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Dear Members of the MalOlan Net :

 

A devout member has sent in the following comment

from Cuddalore , India . This comment created

auspicious thoughts about Sri DevanAthan of

ThiruvahIndhrapuram. I would like to share them

with you as response to the dear BhakthA's comment .

 

V.Sadagopan

 

At 09:18 PM 12/4/99 +0530, you wrote:

>Dear Sri Satagopan Swamy,

>

>I enjoyed your posting on Nava Mani Maalai. I am from Cuddalore

>just 3 KM from ThiruvahIndhrapuram.

 

>> Paasuram 8: This is a beautiful , lilting

>> paasuram set in PathinAnku Seer Chandha Viruttham .

>> Here again Swamy Desikan prays to Achyuthan

>> ( Adiyavarkku Meyyan /Natha Satyan/Sathya Vrathan)

>

>I just spotted a typo here. Should it not read 'Dasa Sathyan'

>instead of 'Natha Sathyan'?

 

Dear BhakthA from Cuddalore/ThiruvahIndhrapuram :

 

Thanks very much for your welcome note . Coming as it does from

Swamy Desikan's aasthAnam , adiyEn takes it seriously and wish

to use this opportunity to record the auspicious thoughts

stimulated by Your Question . Prior to that , let me invite

the attention of the Bhakthi list members to the excellent

home pages created by Sri MaNi VaradarAjan for

Sri HemAbjavalli SamEtha Sri DevanAthan of ThiruvahIndhrapuram .

The URL is:

 

http:www.ramanuja.org/SV/temples/tiruvahindrapuram/index.html

 

You will enjoy those home pages immensely , if you have not

seen them already .

 

Now coming back to the question " Should it not read

as " dasa Satyan " instead of " natha Satyan " , this is

a welcome question .

 

In his magnificient Praakruth Sthuthi on Sri DevanAthan

of T'Puram , " Achyutha Sathakam " ,Swamy Desikan is

very particualr about the use of name of the Lord

as Natha Satyan and Daasa Satyan to remind us that

Lord DevanAthan will not abandon His true devotees

befitting His name as Achyuthan and that He is true to His

devotees ( Natha Sathyan , Daasa Sathyan , DaasAnAm

Sathyan , Kinkara Sathyan , SaraNAgatha Sathyan ,

Namath sathyan ). We find these names behind the Achyutha

Tatthvam interspersed liberally throughout the 100 slOkams

of Achyutha sathakam . Let me summarize the slOkams , where these

names appear in Achyutha Sathakam and include in

paranthesis , the number of times we come across

each of the specific names in Achyuth aSathakam :

 

A. Kinkara Sathya (5 times ): SlOkams 2,24,38, 69 and 72 .

B. DaasAnAm Sathya (4 Times ): SlOkams: 41,51,80, 91.

C. Daasa Sathya ( 4 Times): SlOkams 17,21 ,34 ,71.

D. SaraNAgatha sathya ( 3 Times): slOkams 8, 48, 59.

E. namath Sathya ( 2 Times ): SlOkams 46 and 97.

F. natha Sathya ( 13 Times ): SlOkams 19,20,22,43,54,55,62,

74,79 ,86,88,99,100 .

 

Each of the 13 times , Swami Desikan addresses

the Lord of Ahindhrapuram as natha Sathyan , he has

a different prayer to Him as Achyutha Svaroopan .

One has to refer to each of the 31 slOkams addressing

the Lord in six differnet ways(A to F)to celebrate

His Achyutha Tattvam of being unfailingly true to

His dear devotees .

 

The BhakthAs' question as to whether the name should be

" dasa Satyan " induced another line of thought . Dasa

means ten and Daasa Means the adiyavan or the subordinate

one , who takes refuge at the adi of the Lord ( Prapannan).

Fitting with the prefix, " dasa " , we can also venture to

recognize Him as the true (Sathyan ) in Ten different ways :

 

1. Sathya Kaaman (2) sathya vrathan (3) Sathya Sankalpan

(4) Sathya Mithran (5) Sathya PrabhAvan (6) Sathya Hrudhayan

(7) Sathya AachAran (8) Sathya ManOrathan (9)Sathya -

avathAra VihAran and (10) Sathya Suddha Tatthva mayan .

 

Many of these are anmes used by Our AchAryALs like

Sri RaamAnujA and Swamy Desikan in their Sri Sookthis.

The meanings of each of these " dasa (vidha) sathya "

svaroopan are profound and hence we will not elaborate

on them for the sake of brevity .

 

NamO AchyuthAya natha SathyinE ,

Oppiliappan Koil V.Sadagopan