Sri VenkatEsa AshtOtthara Satha NaamAvaLI: Part 14: Thirteenth NaamA.

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ChitrabhAu , Aani 15, KrishNa Paksha Panchami , Avittam

 

SrI:

 

NamO VenkatEsAya

 

Dear BhakthAs of the Lord of Saptha Giri :

 

Let us reflect today on the Thirteenth

naamA of SrI VenkatEsa AshtOttharam today :

 

11.(PraNavam) KesavAya Nama:

12.(PraNavam) DevAya nama:

 

13.(PraNavam) MadhusoodhanAya Nama:

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14.(PraNavam) AmruthAya Nama:

15.(Pranavam) MaadhavAya Nama:

16.(PraNavam) KrishNAya Nama:

17.(PraNavam) SrIharayE Nama:

18.(PraNavam) Jn~Ana PanjarAya Nama:

19.(PraNavam) SrIvathsa VakshasE Nama:

20.(PraNavam) SarvEsAya Nama:

 

The 13th Naamam: (PraNavam) MadhusoodhanAyaNama:

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This is the 74th naamam in SrI VishNu Sahasra

nAmam(VSN).

 

Meaning:

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Madhusoodhana means the slayer of the asuran Madhu .

Madhusoodhanan conferred immeasurable prosperity to

the DevAs by slaying Madhu .

 

The other meaning of " Madhusoodhanan " relates to His

matchless Savroopam,Roopam and GuNam that attracts

and draws close to Him all the Muktha Jeevans and

Nithya Sooris effortlessly .

 

Madhu is the name of the sense organs that distract

the chEthanams from the enjoyment of the VailakshaNyams

(glories)of His DhivyAthma Svaroopam and Dhivya ManagaLa Vigraham .

Out of His great affection for us, Lord Venkatesan as

Madhusoodhanan attracts us to Him and blesses us with

the Parama PurushArTam of Mukthi and residence at His

Supreme Abode.

 

Additional Comments

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The Madhusoodana Naama is invoked , when a SrI VaishNava

adorns the Urdhva PuNDram on his right , upper arm with

the manthram: " Chathur-mulsamaBjAbham SamsrayE Madhusoodhanam " .

He is the Lord of the South Eastern Direction ;His hue is that of

a red lotus; The weapons seen in His four hands are four pestles

( Ulakkai ).The order of the 12 NaamAs are: Kesavan, NaarAyaNan ,

Maadhavan , Govindhan , VishNu ,MADHUSOODHANAN , Thrivikraman,

Vaamanan,SrIdharanHrishikEsan , PadhmanAbhan and DaamOdharan.

 

Swamy Desikan salutes Him in His SrIsookthi of Panniru ThirunAmam

this way: " Mudhumaa VinaikaL aRukkum muyalankaL IriraNDAn " .

He identifies the Lord in this paasuramas also as " Ponn Mmathu

uRai Pankaya VaNNan " or the Lord of lotus hue (Madhusoodhanan) ,

who has MahA Lakshmi residing on His Chest always. Swamy Desikan

also instructs us that this SrInivAsan is also Venkatesan ,

since He destroys all of our ancient paapams by burning them

away( mudhu maa = ancient and huge , vinaikaL = paapams ,

aRukkum = cutting asunder ). In this passage of the Paasuram ,

Swamy Desikan instructs us that Madhusoodhanan's weapons

for destruction/pulverization of our paapams are four Pestles

seen on each of His four hands. He has His seat on the upper

right hand shoulder of the SrI VaishNavan through the adornment

of Urdhva PuNDram there every day .

 

SrI MadhusoodanAya Nama:

Srimad Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam,

Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan