Padhuka Sahasram-761

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

761. prapadhyE pAdhukArUpam praNavasya kalAdhvayam

Otham mithamidham yasminnananthasyApi thathpadham

 

I pay obeisance to the twin Padhukas, which together represent the

pranava composed of the infinite Paramatma and the limited Jivatma

(represented by A and M respectively); the Lord's foot (of infinite

course in Trivikrama form) and the Lord of infinite nature are also

intertwined.

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

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

 

Introduction: In this Dhvandhva paddhathi (Twenty Fourth)

Chapter, Swamy Desikan starts to describe the PadhukAs of

the Lord as a pair and compares this pair to many other

objects and attributes seen in pair . There are twenty

slOkams in this Chapter.

 

SlOkam 761

 

1) UtthamUr Sawmy's anubhavam: Here, Swamy Desikan describes

the two letters of PraNavam associated with the Lord and His consort

as the pair of PaadhukAs. Swamy Desikan says: " I salute

the Pranavam (Om) made up of the two letters , " O " and " im "

for Odham and Mitam respectively , which have taken the form

of the two PaadhukAs.Those two letters constituting the PraNavam

represent the auspicious attributes of the Lord and His consort.

I surrender unto this pair of PaadhukAs of the Lord. It is

in those PaadhukAs , the limitless attributes of the Lord are

housed and becomes defined. The two letters of Pranavam

denote the Lord and His consort. Those are the PaadhukAs.

I salute them " .

 

2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam:The pair of PaadhukAs

remind us of the letter " O " constituted by the joining of

of letters " A " and " U " . I place my trsut in this pair.

 

PerumAl has a name called Ananthan (i.e), the One who is

not calibrated by place, kaalam and vasthu. This limitless

Thiruvadi of the Lord is calibrated by the Paadhukais.Just

as the " O " made up of letters " A " and " U " does not seperate

from the latter pair, the Tatthvam behind " A " (PerumAl) and

" U " (ThAyAr) never seaprate from each other even for a fraction

of a second.Similarly , the Paadhukais do not ever separate

themselves from each other. They never disassociate themselves

from the sacred feet of the Lord in their mission to protect

the world.Therefore , it is said that the One who has gotten

hold of the Padhukais(AchAryan) has gotten hold of the sacred

feet of the Lord Himself.The PerumAl and ThAyAr ( represented by

the Letter " O " ) is linked to the Jeevan (letter " im " ) to

form the full praNavam.

 

3)I take refuge in Pranavam , which is of the form of

PaadhukAs ( PaadhukA roopam PraNavasya Otham kalAdhvayam

( " A " + " U " ) prapadhyE).In these two Paadhukais , the feet

of the immeasurable PerumAl is measured ( Yasmin AnanathasyApi

tath idham padham mitham)