Sri Guna Rathna Kosam : Part 64: slOkam 54

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SrI:

 

Dear BhakthAs of Sri RanganAyaki ThAyAr:

 

In the 54th slOkam , Swamy Parasara Bhattar

continues to pay his tribute to SrI RanganAyaki ThAyAr

during Her avathAram as SitA PirAtti to accompany

the Lord during His RamAvathAram.He points out

that Her Lord will do anything to please Her :

 

adhi-sayithavAn abdhim NaaTO mamanTa bhaBandha tam

Hara-dhanur-asou vallIbhanjam Babanja cha MyTili

api dasamukhIm lUthvA raksha: KaBandhamanarthyan

kimiva na: Pathi:karthA ThvacchAru-chunchu manOraTa:

 

(Meaning according to Dr.V.N.VedAntha Desikan Swamy):

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Oh Mother SitA! The Lord will do anything for Your sake.

He takes His reclining residence on the milk-ocean , for

the simple reason that You were once born in it.He churned

it once; when (it became)necessary , He built on it a bridge-link

(Sethu)to secure You.Indeed He broke the mighty bow of SivA

just inorder to win Your hand, albeit ,very easily as

He would a creeper-length; He cut asunder the ten-headed

monster(RavaNA)to let his headless trunk enact a dance!

 

What would Your consort not do for You , when He imagines

that His only duty is to please every one of Your mental

fancies?

 

Additional Comments

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In the context of SitAvathAram , ParAsara Bhattar

addresses SrIranganAyaki here as MyTili (adhI MyTili ,

just like in the Upanishads , " adhIhi BhagavO BrahmEthi " ).

Then , Bhattar lists a variety of the activities of

BhagavAn to please His dear Consort: " abhdhi-sayana ,

tann-maTana , Hara dhanur-bhanjana , abdhi-bhandhana ,

raksha: kabandha nartana " kaaryams .

 

Vatsya VeerarAghavAcchAr swamy coments about

the order of the above deeds . He says that the order

does not stick to any kramam (Time sequence) and is all

over the place. First abdhi sayanam ( reclining on

the milky ocean) is mentioned and and is followed by

abdhi manTanam (churning of the milky ocean for

the PeNNamuthu , MahA Lakshmi); next comes breaking of

the Siva Dhanus in SitA Svayamavram; the next item is

sEthu bhandhanam ( building a dam across the southern

ocean to get to Lanka to retrieve His consort ); this is

followed by kabhandha narthanam (cutting of the heads of

RaavaNA and letting his severed trunk jump around in

a dance-like pattern) . The sequence of the acts of

the Lord is described in a helter-skelter way .

 

The proper order would be:(1)breaking of the bow of

Siva to marry SitA (2) Building a dam over the ocean to

get to LankA (3)destruction of RavaNA there in

the battle field (4) Churning of the Milky Ocean

to gain MahA Lakshmi , which is during the earlier Koorma

avathAram (5) reclining on the milky ocean in honor of

it being the place of birth of MahA Lakshmi . Vatsya

VeerarAghavAcchAr Swamy points out that the disorderly

sequence is consistent with a PramANa Vaakyam :

" athyantha bhakthi-yukthAnAm naiva Saasthram na

cha krama: " ( For those endowed with deep devotion ,

there is no saasthram or time-based ordering of

the items selected during recall ). The conclusion is that

Bhattar's bhakthi adhisayam leads to a random

jumbling of events across a disordered time sequence.

 

Bhattar wonders loud as to what RanganAtha will not do

to please His Consort's fanciful wishes (ChADu-chamchu-

manOraTa:). Indeed , What will he not do ? He will not

cease from doing anything , mighty or small, just to please

and amuse Her . " kim vaa na kuryAth ? " He will do

even things that are not conceivable (agaditham

sarvamapi kuryAth).He is so love-stricken over

His dear consort that He will recline in the milky

ocean, churn it, build a dam over it , break the mighty

Siva KOdhaNdam , destroy RaavaNa or for that matter

anything else to please Her.

 

Sri RanganAyaki ThAyAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,

Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SaThakOpan /Sadagopan

 

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