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17.svaamin pratheechaa hrdhayena DhanyaaH

thvadDhyaanachandhrodhayavarDhamaanam

amaanthm aanandhapayoDhim anthaH

payobhiH akshNaam parivaahayanthi

 

Oh Lord, the blessed ones see you inside them by their mind turned inward and their joy becomes boundless like the sea on the rise of moon , that is You. They let the flood of joy out in the form of tears.

 

The blessed ones see the Lord in their heart by turning their minds inward, pratheechaa hrdhayena. His form rises like the moon, and their joy increases manifold like the sea on the moonrise, thavath DhyaanachandhriodhayavarDhamaanam and it overflows and comes out through their eyes in the form of tears, payobhrakshNaam parivaahayanthi.

 

18.svairaanubhaavah thvadhaDheenabhaavaaH

samrdDhveeryaah thvadhanugrheNa

vipaSchitho naaTha tharanthi maayaam

vaihaarikeem mohanapicChikaam the

 

Men of wisdom who have boundless power, with their mind engrossed in You, acquire even more glory and through Your grace, are able to transcend the maya , which is variegated like peacock feathers.

 

Te maya of the Lord is variegated and powerful under the influence of which all beings are deluded into believing that its effect, that is the world, is real as it appears to be. The world is one of the three reals of Vishishtadvait but not as it appears to us, which is the effect of maya. The sages who possess knowledge of reality are able to see through the delusion with their discerning power increasing by the grace of the Lord. They are thus free from ignorance and have the inner sight to see the reality. To others like us, the world of diversity is like the illusion created by a magician with his peacock feathers by which one sees the colours and pictures where they are not.