Padhuka Sahasram-176

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

 

176. manujathvathirOhithEna shakyE

vapuShaIkEna virODhinAm nirAsE

aBhajadh BharatAdhiBhEdhamIsha:

svayamArADhayithum padhAvani! thvAm

 

Oh Paaduka! the Lord could have achieved all he wished, with His one

form, that concealed

His swaroopa; yet He took the forms of Bharata, Shatrughna etc., only

for the purpose of

paying homage to You. (paying homage to You was so much cherished by

Rama.)

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan(V.S):

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(1) Sri UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Oh PaadhukE !

You are even superior to Your Lord ! VishNu Bhagavaan

took the human forms (incarnated) as RaamA, BharathA ,

LakshmaNA and SatrugnA . Although He was quite

capable of destroying RaavaNA single handedly ,

He took the form of BharathA to offer worship

to You " . Here , Swami Desikan points out that

RaavaNA's boons prevented him from being killed

by VishNu or other Gods. RaavaNA could only be

killed by humans for whom he had no fear .Therefore ,

Lord VishNu incarnated as a human being , the son

of DasarathA . He did not need to manifest Himself

as BharathA and other brothers to complete His

mission to destroy RaavaNA . Swami Desikan wonders

whether He manifested Himself as BharathA and brethern

so that He could worship the PaadhukAs during

his incarnation as the son of King DasarathA.

(2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: Oh PaadhukE !

Lord VishNu incarnated as the four brothers,

Raama, LakshmaNa , Bharatha, Satrugnan . It

would have been enough , had Lord VishNu

incarnated as RaamA alone.He had however the desire

to celebrate the Paadhukais . Hence , He took

on the form of Bharathan. The inner meaning is

that the Lord has a desire to celebrate His

BhathAs through performance of AarAdhanam for

them . He has such a depth of affection for

His BhakthAs. Those who worship the BhaagavathAs

of the Lord are themselves equal to perumAL .

(3) Here Swamy Desikan speculates on why

Lord VishNu incarnated as the four sons of

King DasarathA instead of just as RaamA .

Swamy describes this phenemenon of Lord VishNu

taking on the form of BharathA and others

( BharathAdhibhEdham ). Lord VishNu had already

hidden His supreme status by incarnating as

mere human beings . Lord VishNu could have easily

killed His enemies in the form of RaamA alone

(yEkEna vapushA virOdhinAm nirAsE sakyEpi ) and

yet He took on the form of four brothers. Why

did Eesan (PerumAl) took more than one human

form such as BharathA ? Swamy Desikan points

out that the Lord was so fond of SatAri Soori

that He wanted to offer His worship to him in

the form of BharathA ( ThvAm svayam aaradhayithum

BharathAdhi-bhEdham abhajath)....V.S