Padhuka Sahasram-522

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

522. maNigaNakiraNaIsthE kalpithE gulmaBhEdhE

murgayuriva kurangI thvAm puraskruthya BhavyAm

harathi charaNarakshE! BhakthipAshAvaruDdham

hrudhayahariNayUTham prANinAm ranganATha:

 

Oh Paaduka! Lord Ranganatha laying You as a lure, You being a

veritable hind, kept hushed in a bush-namely, of radiation-arrays

from Your gems-entices the hearts of devotees, as if they were stags

(male deer) tying them with the rope of Bhakti and He leads them on

to You!

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

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

 

SlOkam 522:

 

1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Allusion is made here to the act of a

hunter, who uses a trained deer to attract other deers for catching

them. The hunter is Lord RanganAthan and the trained deer is the

PaadhukA. The rays radiated by the gems form the bush, where the

trained deer stands as a decoy. The path by which the flock of deers

come to the trained deer is through bhakthi maarga. Here Swamy

Desikan suggests that the bhakthi of the evolved souls increase , when

led by the paadhukAs on the archirAdhi maarga to the Lord (the

Hunter). Swamy says: " Oh PaadhukE! RanganAthA, the hunter benefits

from Your service as a trained deer that attracts the herd of deer

roaming in the forest. When the herd is brought near the bush of rays

originating from Your gems, RanganAtha binds the deers with His rope

known as Bhakthi.

 

2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: The inner meaning is that Lord

RanganAtha makes use of the SadAchAryAs to hekp the chEthanams

struggling in samsAram with their deluding attachments to family,

money and career and through them instructs them on the vaibhavam of

Himself, Moksham and freedom from the cycles of births and deaths and

lifts them upto His supreme abode. SadAchAryAs help to generate

bhakthi in the chEthanam's minds and prepares them through upadEsams

on Tathva –Hitha –PurushArTams.

 

3) Paadhukai is compared to a female deer that the hunter (RanganAtha

uses to catch a herd of deers (Ranganatha: bhavyAm thvAm

puraskruthya hariNayUTam harathi). What are these deers ? They are

the minds of the chEthanmas. The rope that is used to catch them is

the rope of Bhakthi ( RanganAtha: bhakthi paasa avaruddham prANinAm

hrudhaya: harathi )..V.S