Padhuka Sahasram-375

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

375. pariNathimakaTOrAm prApthayA yathpraBhAvA

dhalaBhatha shilayA svAn goUthamO DharmadhArAn

punarupajanishankAvArakam pAdhukE! thath

prashamayathi rajasthE rAgayOgam prajAnAm

 

Oh Paaduka! The same dust from You, as brought about a gentle change

from a stone to a Dharma-patni for sage Gowtama, (in the same person

who had sunk because of desire), the same dust would remove, for all

beings, a re-birth by elimination of sensuous desires.

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

Special Notes by V.SatakOpan (V.S):SlOkam 375

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(1) Sri UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam:

Here , Swamy Desikan praises the power of the dust

arising from the PaadhukAs to destroy the debasing passions

in people and converts their minds to a dispassionate

state marked by VairAgyam. He says: " Gauthama Rishi

obtained back his wife from her stony state to the state of

righteous wife to perform his duties as a married man (GrahasthA).

That transformation from that of a sinner to that of an

evolved soul was possible for AhalyA because of the redemptive

power of Your dust that fell on her. Similarly , the dust

associated with You removes the attachment of the people

to their worldly pleasures and possessions that bind them

to this SamsAram and removes their doubts about release

from the cycles of births and deaths.

 

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

the dust specks associated with You removes the desires

of people to engage in sinful activities that cause rebirth

in this world.

 

(3) Swamy Desikan says that the power of the PaadhukA

dust(raja:)banishes any doubt about the rebirth in

this samsAric world ( Tava raja: prajAnAm puna: upajani

sankA vaarakam sath ); further , they chase away in

the first place ,the desires that land one in samsAram

(Upajani sankA vaarakam sath, raagayOgam prasamayathi)..(V.S).