ThiruvahIndhrapuram RathnAngi Series:Part 86: SlOkams 51-53 of Sri DevanAyaka PanchAsath(Concluding Posting).

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SvabhAnu Yajur-Upaakarmaa and SravaNa Vratham day

Kadaka Maasam, Greeshma Ruthu , Aadi 26th day

 

SrI:

 

Fifty First SlOkam (Prayer for removal of SamsAric Taapams)

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VaathyA-sathair-vishaya -raagatayA vivrutthai:

vyAkoorNamAna manasam ViBhudhAthirAja

nithyOtapthamapi mAmm nijakarmagarmai:

nirvEsaya svapadha-padhma madhu pravAham

 

General Meaning:

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Oh Deva NaathA ! The ever expanding desires about

the material pleasures (Vishaya sukhams) is like

the fast moving and dangerous vortex of a tornado.

The mind of mine caught in the middle of that vortex

is being tossed about wildly from here to there and

everywhere.The trespasses against Your sAsthrAs

scorch me like the heat of an intense summer.Oh Lord!

Please banish my sufferings by immersing me in the honey

like cool flood of the anubhavam of Your lotus feet!

 

Additional Comments:

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The prayer of Swamy Desikan is: " MAmm Sva-padha-padhma

madhu pravAham nirvEsaya " . Please bless me to be immersed

in the cool and delectable flood of the honey that flows

from Your lotus like ThiruvadihaL. Swamy Desikan gives

two reasons for such a request for immediate help:

 

1) " Vishaya rAgatayA vivrutthai: vAthyA sathai:

vyAkoorNa manasa: " (sthithOsmi)

 

The Vishaya sukhams ( unquenchable thirst for the enjoyment of

transitory pleasures of the world)have taken on the form of

hundreds of dangerous tornados (vaathyA sathai: vivrutthai:)

and are tossing my mind (VyAkoorNamAna manasam mAmm)

violently in all directions through their immense power.

They never stop and adiyEn has no freedom from them.

 

2) " nija karma garmai: nithya uptapthavAn " asi

 

The heat generated by my dushkarmAs(nija karma

garmai:) meanwhile keeps me roasted always

( nithya taptham).

 

The only antidote for the above two kinds of sufferings

is immersion in the most enjoyable and cooling flood of

honey ( madhu pravAham) from Your lotus feet(Sva-pAdha padhmam).

 

Please grant me this boon of immersion in that flood of

honey( Sva-Padha Padhma madhu pravAham nirvEsaya)!

 

Swamy Desikan asks for immersion in the " thEnE peruhum

Thiruvadi " of the Lord.

 

SlOkam Fifty Two: (Prayer for Nithya Vaasam at Thiruayindhai)

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Jaya ViBhudhapathE Thvam darsithAbhIshta dhAna:

saha SarasijivAsA mEdhineebhyAM vasAbhyAm

nalavanamiva mrudhnan pAparAsim nathAnAm

GarudasaridhanUpE gandha-hastheeva dheevyan

 

General Meaning

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In this slOkam , Swamy Desikan like the Father-in-law

of SrI HemAbhjavalli ThAyAr prays to the Lord to reside

permanently ( nithya vAsam) at this Dhivya dEsam to bless

generations of His BhakthAs and BhAgavathAs.

 

Oh the Lord of DevAs( ViBhudha PathE)! You are roaming

joyously on the banks of Garuda nathi like a mighty elephant

in rut(Gandha Hasthi) with ichor flowing from its eyes.

Your kOlAhalam in that state is most enjoyable to watch.

Your sevai is also majestic in that state. Just as ichor flows

continously from the eyes of the elephant in rut, Your hands

are granting the desired boons to Your bhakthAs without stopping.

The elephant in rut will move wildly through the lotus ponds

and destroy them . Similarly , You destroy the huge

assemblies of sins accumulated by Your devotees by stomping

on them . The male elephant in rut would sport with his wives on

the banks of rivers and roam in the forests.Similarly , You sport

with SrI and BhU Devis on the banks of Garuda nathi at

this dhivya dEsam.Thus Thou should reside forever at

at ThiruvahIndhrapuram with Your unmatched Parathvam(Supermacy),

Soulabhyam (neermai) and Soundharyam (Vadivazhahu).

 

Additional Comments:

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Swamy Desikan is now at the very end of the SrI Sookthi

and is praying for the nithya Vaasam of the Lord at

ThiruvahIndhrapuram just as Brighu Maharishi did

as the father-in-law of the Lord.Brighu Maharishi

sits with folded handson the right side of the Lord

at the garbha graham . The Lord heard the prayer of

His father-in-law and responded positively . Opposite

Her foster father , SrI HemAbhjavalli ThAyAr sits with

folded hands. Moolavar stands facing both His divine consort

and His father-in-law at this dhivya desam.

 

Swamy Desikan is overcome by the majestic gait of

the Uthsavar on sanchAram with His Ubhaya NaacchiyAr

on the banks of Garuda nathi and has His sevai as a majestic

elephant in rut (Gandha Hasthi) strutting about . Swamy salutes

Him as the One , who grants all the boons that a BhakthA desires

( darsitha abhIshta dhAnan).Swamy visualizes Him destroying

the mighty piles of accumulated sins of His bhakthAs prostrating

before Him just as an elephant in rut tramples the lotuses in

the pond ( naLa vanamiva nathAnAm pApa raasim mrudhnan).

The sanchAram of the Lord with His two Devis on the banks

of Garuda nathi in the majestic Gaja gathi overwhelms

Swamy Desikan(Gaja saridhanUpE vasAbhyAm sarasija VaasA

MEdhineebhyAm saha dheevyan DEvanAtham dhrushtvA ,

Jaya vijayee bhava ithyAhu:).

 

The Fifty Third and Final SlOkam (Poet's Mudhrai)

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niravadhi guNa jAtham nithyam nirdhOshamAdhyam

naraka maTana daksham nAkinAmEkanATam

vinatha vishaya sathyam Venkatesa: kavisthvAm

sthuthipadham adhigacchan sObhathE SathyavAdhee

 

General meaning:

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Oh Dhaiva NaayakA! There is no limit to Your auspicious

attrbutes.never ever was there any room for blemishes

among Your guNams.You are the prime cause of this Universe

and its beings.You are the expert , who removes naraka

bhayam from the chEthanams.You are the uncontsted leader of

all DevAs including Brahman.The vow that You have taken to come

to the rescue of those , who seek Your protection will never

fail. Your SaraNAgatha Rakshanam vow has never failed. You have

acquired the name of Natha Satyan (adiyavarkku Meyyan)

because you have always been true to Your adiyvar .

While eulogising You as the Supreme Lord , this poet

with the name of VenkatEsa has transformed in to

a SathyavAadhi ( One who never swerves from the Truth

or one who talks about Sathyan /adiyavarkku Meyyan)

and has understood You as the One saluted with the name of

Sathyam ( sathyam Jn~Anam Anantham Brahma).

 

Additional Comments:

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Swamy Desikan focuses on the following Six lakshaNams of

the Lord at ThiruvahIndhrapuram:

 

1. Abode of limitless auspicious guNams( Niravadhi guNajAtham)

 

2. Forever Blemishless ( Nithya nirdhOsham)

 

3. Prime cause of the Worlds (Aadhyam)

 

4. Skilled Destroyer of narakAnubhavam for those who seek

His protection ( Naraka MaTana daksham)

 

5. The matchless Lord of the DevAs(NAkinAmEka Naatam)

 

6. True to His prapanna janams ( Vinatha vishaya Sathyam).

 

Then Swamy Desikan states that he as the poet blessed

to eulogize SrI DEvanATan as the subject of his sthuthi

is shining himself as Sathya Vaadhee.

 

Great Upanishidic doctrines are referred to in this concluding

salutation to Lord DevanAthan as the Para Brahmam by

Swamy Desikan and he alludes to the great transformation that came

over him as he chose Lord DevanAthan as the subject of his

SthOthram . Lord is Natha Sathyan or Adiyavarkku Meyyan.

Lord is saluted as " Sathyam " By Upanishads . Swamy Desikan

states that the kaimakryam of composing this SthOthram has

given him the title(Birudhu) of Sathya Vaadhee ( One who speaks

about the Upanishadic Sathyan).

 

As NigamAntha MahA Desikan , Swamy Desikan connects to

the fundamental question that Upanishads tackle: the definition of

" the ultimate principle or reality by knowing which every thing

else becomes known " .Upanishads identify and salute this

ultimate reality as Brahman and describe it as " Satya, Jn~Ana,

Prajn~Ana , Chith , Aanandha, BhUmA and AntharyAmi " . This ultimate

reality is limitless (anantha) in its Svaroopam and GuNams .

Every thing takes its origin form this Brahman (JanmAdhyasya yatha:

of Brahma Soothram) while identifying it as the one from which

the Universe and its beings originate (Srushti).TaittirIya

Upanishad defines this Brahman as " Sathyam Jn~Anam Anantham

BrahmA " and goes on to say: " That from which all these beings

are born, that by which they live and that unto which ,

when departing they enter, seek to know it as Brahman " .

Swamy Desikan relates these Upanishadic doctrines to

the Para Brahmam at ThiruvahIndhrapuram in ArchA form

and salutes Him as " Aadhyan " in this concluding slOkam.

 

Swamy Desikan addresses himself as Satya Vaadhee or one who

speaks about this Satyan , who is defined by BruhadhAraNyaka

Upanishad as " Sathyasya Sathyam " or the reality of the real.

ChAndhOgya Upanishad clearly spells out the name of Brahman

as Sathyam ( tasya ha vaa yetasya BrahmaNO naama Satyamith).

The same ChAndhOgya Upanishad in the section on BhUma

(Infinitely great) VidyA declares that we have to

comprehend Brahman as Satyam and meditate on it as

Satya for attaining liberation from the cycles of

births and deaths(Moksham).Swamy Desikan touches also

on the UbhayaLingAdhikaraNam of Brahma Soothrams

in his concluding slOkam of SrI DevanAyaka PanchAsath.

 

It is a great bhAgyam to share with You all

some thoughts on Swamy Desikan's great

sthOthram on the Lord of ThiruvahIndhrapuram

named " SrI Deva Naayaka PanchAsath " .

 

Jaya Jaya SrI DevanAtha, Jaya Jaya SrI DEvanAtha !

Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan

 

P.S: May the powerful prayers and appeals of

Swamy Desikan to Lord DevanAthan as the Upanishadic

Brahman for removing his samsAric afflictions and

his prayer for nithya vAsam as Archaa Moorthy at

ThiruvhaIndhrapuram inspire you all to take part

in the RathnAngi Kaimakryam for the Lord and recieve

His eternal blessings ! Our Lord is going to like

a splendorous JyOthi with His RathnAngi as He travels

with SrI Devi and BhU DEvi in the raaja Veedhis of

ThiruvahIndhrapuram.

 

From tomorrow, adiyEn will move on to SrI Achyutha

Sathakam composed in prAkrutham by Swamy Desikan

about the Vaibhavam of Lord Deva Nathan .