PurattAsi SravaNam MangaLAsAsanam at Kaanchi:ThAyArSannidhi:Part IV

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SrI:

 

SrI MahA Devi SamEtha Sri VaradarAja ParabrahmaNE nama:

 

Dear BhakthAs:

 

At the conclusion of the recitation of SrI GopAla Vimsathi

at the mukha mantaPam of ThAyAr Sannidhi in front of KaNNan ,

Haaratthi for ThAyAr will be performed. Following slOkams

praising Jagan MaathA and Her divine consort will ring out:

 

1. anAdhE nissImnO dhurithajaladhEryannirUpamam

vidhu: prAyascchittham yadhuraghudhurINasayavidha:

tadhArambhE tayA giramavadhadhAnEna manasA

PrapadhyE ThAmEkAm SriyamakhilanATasya MahishIm

 

(BhakthAs: May I request You to have the joy of identifying

the source of these verses ? This will be a nice interactivity

on Your parts this way .)

 

2. mahEndRAgnA VishNu prabhruthishu mahathva-prabhruthivath

prapatthavyE tatthvE parinamitha-vaisishtya vibhavAm

adhrushyathvam dhUthvA kamithurabhigamyathva JananIm

Sriyam sIthApAngAm aham asaraNO yaami saraNam

 

Both of the above slOkams are PurushakAra Prapatthi slOkams

addressed to the Universal Mother .BhakthAs are encouraged

to link them with their sources and respond .

 

Three more slOkams from SrI Sthuthi will be recited now:

 

3. sEvE dEvi thridasa mahilA mouLimAlArchitham thE

SiddhikshEthram samithavipadhAm sampadhAm paadhapadhmam

yasminnIshan namitha sirasO yApayithvA sarIram

varhtishyanthE vithamasi padhE VaasudEvasya dhanyA:

 

---SrI Sthuthi SlOkam

 

(meaning):

 

4. MaathA dEvi Thvamasi BhagavAn VasudEva: PithA mE

JAthassOham Janani YuvayOrEkalakshyam dayAyA:

dhatthO Yushmath parijanatayA dEsikairapyathasthvam

kim thE bhUya: priyamithi kila smEravakthrA vibhAsi

 

---SrI Sthuthi: 20th SlOkam

 

(meaning): Oh MahA Devi! When the dEva shtrIs prostrate

before You , the flower garlands on their tresses fall

at Your Thiruvadi and that scene looks like their archana

of Your Thiruvadi with those flowers. Your Thiruvadi

removes all dangers for Your bhakthAs and blesses them

with great auspiciousness.Those who have performed

the easy -to-perform SaraNAgathi at Your Thiruvadi are

truly blessed(MahA BhAgyasaalis). They reach Your Suddha-

satthvamaya Parama padham (SrI Vaikuntam)at the end of

their earthly life and perform nithya kaimkaryam for You

and Your divine consort.Thus a small prostration/namaskaraNam

at Your auspicious Thiruvadi yields the greatest of boons.

adiyEn salutes those powerful Thiruvadis.

 

 

5. KalyANAnAm avikalanidhi: kaapi kaaruNyaseemA

nithyAmOdhA nigamavachasAm mouLimandhAramAlA

sampathdhivyA Madhuvijayina: sannidhatthAm sadhA mE

saishA dEvi SAKALA BHUVANA PRATANAA KAAMADHENU:

 

---SrI Sthuthi: 24th SlOkam

 

(Meaning): Periya PirAtti shines as the abode of

all mangaLams. She is the One , who confers MangaLam

on any mangaLa vasthu inthis world . She forgives all

the trespasses of Her wayward children and pleads

with Her Lord to overlook their trespasses against

His sAsthrams. At the time of Prapatthi , She stands as

UpAyam as well as UpEyam with Her Lord and shines as

the boundary of DayA.She is praised in the VedAs and

vedAntham as " the ever-fragrant garland of MandhAra

Pushpams resting on their heads " .She is recognized by

Her Lord as His chief wealth.She stays as the divine

KaamadhEnu for the whole world and grants Her devotees

al what they seek form Her.May this SrI Devi of

wonderous attributes stay inside my heart always !

 

 

This will be followed by the second slOakm of YathirAja sapthathi:

 

SahadharmacharIm SourE: sammanthritha JagathhithAm

ANUGRAHAMAYEEM VANDHE nithyaamajna~tha nigrahAm

 

(Meaning): The AchAryai next to the Lord is SrI Devi,

His sahadharmachAriNi. She joins her Lord in thinking

about the auspiciousness that She can confer on

Her Bhaktha janams(Sammanthritha Jagath hithAm).

She is the embodiment of dayA (anugrahamayi). She does not

know about punishing chEthanams (Her children) ever.

When her Lord engages in RakshaNa vyApArams ,

She stands by Him and helps Him perform those duties

effectively. adiyEn salutes this periya PirAtti of

limitless glories .

 

The next slOkam salutes the MahA Devi seated in the middle

of the Lord's chest (Muramardhanasya bhujamadhya peetikAm):

 

6) iyamathra VisvajananI samutthiTA

KamalAvikAsikamalOdharasTithA

Muramardanasya Bhukamadhya peetikAm

adhiruhya visvamavathi sva-vIkshaNai:

 

--- Source to be identified by Desika bhakthAs

 

Following kattiyam for Swamy Desikan is recited aloud

so that His PurappAdu with Yethsarikai can be announced

by the kattiyam Swamy :

 

SrIrangarAja dhivyAj~nA labdha VedAnthAchaarya Padha!

TathsahadharmachAriNee krupAtthAkhilatanthra SvAtantrya !

 

The two titles given by Lord RanganathAn and Sri RanganAyaki

( VedAnthAchAryan and Sarva Tantra Svathanthrar) are hailed here.

 

 

Swamy Desikan now moves aroud the prAkAram of ThAyAr

sannidhi and the powerful slOkam that helped the BrahmachAri

to be blessed with the shower of gold coins is remembered:

 

7) yOgArambhathvarithamanasO YushmadhaikAnthyayuktham

dharmam prApthum praTamamiha yE dharayanthE dhanAyAm

tEshAm bhUmEr-dhanapathi gruhAth amBarAthambhudhErvaa

dhArA niryAnthyadhikamadhikam vAnchithAnAm vasUnAm

 

---SrI Sthuthi: 16th SlOkam

 

(Meaning): Oh SrI Devi! Some paramaikAnthis of

this world engage in the practise of Bhakthi yOgam

for gaining Moksha siddhi. For that they have to

practise Jn~Ana yOgam first and for the realization of

success with Jn~Ana yOgam , they have to perform

karma yOgam before that. As angams for the practise of Bhakthi

yOgam as Yaagam , they have to abide by VarNAsrama dharmams.

For being successful practioners of this Yaj~nam ,

they need special anugraham . Because they are ParamaikAnthis,

they can not ask anyone except both of You for such

an anugraham. When they pray to You both for this anugraham ,

both of You confer on them much more than what they sought

(from every where).Those anugrahms are realized right here

like treasures unearthed from the BhUmi.Those showers of wealth

can pour out from the treasury of KubhEran . It can be like

the wealth that was showered by KubhEran on behalf of Raghu

MahArAjan to help Kouthsar.That wealth can come from the sky

as in the case of KusElar. That auspicousness can arise

from the ocean as it happens in the case of commerce

linked to sea journeys. One thing is for sure.That limitless

wealth blessed by You will come even from places that are

hard to imagine and will multiply. Such is Your glory!

 

Swamy Desikan would have arrived now at the MahA Navami

MaNTapam .There , He recieves SaThAri, sandal paste,

ManjaL kAppu and other maryAdhais. All the Sri Sthuthi

slOkams are recited now as He ascends the Kola Padi

of ThAyAr sannadhi to get near His waiting Mother and

thereafter the GhOshti would recieve Theertham and SaThAri.

 

ThAyAr PerumdEvi would be thinking all along about

the right kind of present for Her son on this special day.

She knows that any Isvaryam will be rejected by Her son

with the statement " asthi mE hasthisailAgrE vasthu pathAmaham

dhanam " . She knows that Her son will reject the boon of

kaivalyam or AathmAnubhavam as nasvaram .She now concludes

that blessing Her son with sErthi sEvai with Her Lord

would be the only boon that will please him ( ThvadhanjchEth

praseedhasi TavAsmi samIpadhaschEth: prayer of Swamy Desikan) .

She says : " asthu thE " and gives that boon as Her present

(PaaridhOshikam).Lord listens to this and every time He has

PuRappAdu with His dEvi(s) , He stops at Desikan sannidhi

first at His temple and blesses Swamy Desikan with SaThAri

and sEvai with His Devi(s).

 

The next stops are Garudan Sannidhi and SrI Azhagiya Singar

Sannidhi(Guhai Narasimhan Sannidhi) and the respective

MangaLAsAsanams there.

 

(To be continued)

 

Swamy Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,

SrI MahA Devi samEtha Sri HasthigirIsAya namO nama:

Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan

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SrI:

 

Dear SrImathi Raji Sridhar, Jayashree Narasimhan

of Singapore and Sri SatakOpa Tatachar Swamy of Kanchipuram:

 

Many thanks for taking part in the quiz and identifying

the three Quiz slOkAs used in Swamy Desikan MangaLasAsanam

at ThAyAr Sannidhi.

 

Yes , two are from NyAsa Tilakam ( 3rd and 4th SlOkams).

 

The other (Third) slOkam recited at ThAyAr Sannidhi:

" Iyamathra VisvajananI SamutthiTA " is from

Sankalpa SooryOdhayam .

 

We will have additional quizzes as Swamy Desikan

continues with His MangaLAsAsanam around the Sannidhis at

Kaanci Deva PerumAL Temple.

 

V.Sadagopan

 

At 11:43 PM 10/28/02 -0800, you wrote:

>Pranams

>

>> 1. anAdhE nissImnO dhurithajaladhEryannirUpamam

>> vidhu: prAyascchittham

>> yadhuraghudhurINasayavidha:

>> tadhArambhE tayA giramavadhadhAnEna manasA

>> PrapadhyE ThAmEkAm SriyamakhilanATasya MahishIm

 

>> (BhakthAs: May I request You to have the joy of

>> identifying the source of these verses ?

>> This will be a nice interactivity

>> on Your parts this way .)

>>

>> 2. mahEndRAgnA VishNu prabhruthishu

>> mahathva-prabhruthivath

>> prapatthavyE tatthvE parinamitha-vaisishtya

>> vibhavAm adhrushyathvam dhUthvA kamithurabhigamyathva

>> JananIm Sriyam sIthApAngAm aham asaraNO yaami saraNam

>>

>> Both of the above slOkams are PurushakAra Prapatthi

>> slOkams

>> addressed to the Universal Mother .BhakthAs are

>> encouraged

>> to link them with their sources and respond .

 

The above slokams are from 'Sri Nyasa Tilagam'third

and fourth slokams. Both the slokams explains how a

chetana are not able to attain moksha due to their

papams. The only source to attain moksham is through

'Prapatti'. To do prapatti one has to surrender

Piratti, without Her chetana cannot near Perumal. So,

a chetana should do prapatti to both.

 

I dont know if I have understood the meaning

correctly, I request the bhagavathas to explain more

on this.

 

I thank Sriman Sadagopan for giving us a chance to go

through some slokas, by this I was able to read

atleast some of Desikar's beautiful works.

 

Pranams once again

raji sridhar