ThiruvahIndhrapuram RathnAngi Series:Part 85: SlOkams 49-50 of Sri DevanAyaka PanchAsath

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SrI:

 

Fourty Ninth SlOkam (Prayer for the Lord's Mercy)

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ajn~Ana vaaridhim apAya-dhurandharam mAmm

ajn~A-vibhanjanam akinjana-saarvabhoumam

vindhan BhavAn ViBhudhanATa SamasthavEdhi

kim nAma pAthram aparam manuthE krupAyA:

 

General Meaning:

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Oh Dhaiva NaayakA! I am the central abode of ajn~Anam.

I stand in the front row of all sinners. I regularly

trespass Your commands enshrined in Your sAsthrams.

I do not have any capital for gaining sadhgathi.

adiyEn stands before You with all these deficiencies

and consider myself an appropriate fit to recieve Your

compassion. Why would You even think of anyone more fit

than this aparAdhi to be the object of Your anukampA?

Therefore , You should take pity on me and bless

adiyEn with Your abundant KaruNai.

 

Additional Comments:

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Swamy Desikan thinks of all of us and expresses his

nirvEdam (sorrow over his deficencies )and aakinchanyam

( being without any spiritual wealth whatsoever)

on our behalf. Swamy Desikan is sarva Saathvika GuNa

Saarvabhouman and the Lord knows that Swamy Desikan had

none of the deficiencies that he is accusing himself of having .

Yet, Swamy Desikan as a ParamAchAryan seeking our welfare

showed us the way of approaching the Lord and performing

SaraNAgathy before Him. He assumes on himself the sufferings

of the SamsAris (kaama krOdhAthi KOlAhalam ruining

their lives) and reaches nirvEdha prAchuryam ( the height

of despondency over the sufferings of us ,the Bhaddha jeevans)

and appeals to the Lord :

 

1)I am the ocean of aj~nAnam (Aj~nAna Vaaridhi)

 

2)I am in the front row of the sinners(ApAya dhurandharam )

 

3)I am the Trespasser of Your commands(Aj~nA vibhanjanam)

 

4)I the leader of those without any spiritual wealth

( akinchana Saarvabhouman).

 

As Seshi (Swamy) , who knows every thing ( Samastha Vedhi),

You have acquired me as Your Seshan , who has gained Svaroopa

Jn~Anam to perform SaraNAgathy. Swamy Desikan has performed

MokshArTa SaraNaagathy and has thvarai (a sense of urgency )

to perform nithya kaimkaryam to the Lord there. Swamy Desikan

wishes to develop ruchi for Parama PurushArTam thru

the SaraNAgathy performed at the sacred feet

of Lord DEvanAthan.

 

Swamy Desikan challenges the Lord to find one , who is

more deserving of His KaaruNyam and rakshaNam than himself

based on the combination of aj~nAnam , accumulated sins from

repeated trespasses of the Lord's commands. Swamy asks the Lord:

Why would You as a Samastha Vedhi (sarvaJ~nan) need any one else

to rescue , who is more deserving than me for being the object of

Your compassion (BhavAn krupayA aparam pAthram kim nAma

manuthE?).In the next slOkam , Swamy Desikan presses

his case further as the one to be saved by the Lord .

 

SlOkam 50: (Importance of Protection by the Lord)

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PrahlAdha Gokula GajEndhra ParikshidhAdhyA:

thrAthas-ThvayA nanu vipatthishu thAdhruseeshu

saravm tadEkam aparam mama rakshaNam tE

santhOlyathAm Thridasa Naayaka kim garIya:

 

General Meaning

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Oh Dhaiva NaayakA! Once You took NrusimhAvathAram

to come to the rescue of Your child devotee , PrahlAdhan ,

when his cruel father exposed to him to many dangers.

You protected then that dhaanava sisu. During KrishNAvathAram ,

You protected the cattle and the people of Gokulam from

the wrath of Indhran, who sent hail storms and stone rains

on the defenseless people of Gokulam for not worshipping

him as before. You rushed to the lotus pond to free

GajEndran from the the terrible teeth of the crocodile

and protected that srEshta Bhakthan.During KrishNAvathAram

once again , You responded to the saraNAgathy appeal of

Uttharai to save her embryo from being destroyed by

the angry AsvatthAman , who sent the apANDavAsthram

to eliminate even the last trace of PaaNDava vamsam.

Thus You have performed many mighty deeds of SaraNAgatha

RakshaNam. Now, Oh Lord Dhaiva NaayakA ! adiyEn

has a request to You. Please place all of the above

deeds of rescue of Your BhakthAs on one scale of

a balance;next, place the deed of rescuing this

MahA aparAdhi, who is bent on breaking Your SaastEic

commands on the other scale of the same balance.

When you examine as to which scale stays below,

You will find the act of rescuing me will stay

down . From that test , You will be convinced

that offering protection to me is of utmost priority

and importance to You.

 

Additional Comments:

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Oh Dhaiva NaayakA! Please think about Your raksaNam

of PrahlAdhan during your NrusaimhAvathAram ,

Your rescue of GopAs and Gopis from IndhrA's anger as

Govardhana Girdharan, protection of the Lord of

elephants from the cruel jaws of the crocodile as

Gajendhra Varadhan, saving of Child Parikshith

in Uttharai's womb. When they faced dire dangers ,

You came to their rescue in a trice ( PrahlAdha

aadhyA: thAdhrudheesushu vipatthishu ThvayA thrAthA:).

Oh Lord ! Please place the weight of ALL those mighty

rakshaNams on one scale of a balance and place the act

of RakshaNam of adiyEn on the other scale. Please

evaluate for Yourself, which is the bigger of the two

rakshaNams (Tath sarvam tE yEkam mama rakshaNam aparam).

Oh Lord! You will find that the scale of the balance

carrying my rakshaNam will outweigh the other scale .

Please see it Yourslf as to which act is more heavy

( Thridasa Naayaka! kim gariya: ithi santhOlyathAm).

 

NamO SrI DevanAthAya,

Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan

 

P.S: May the powerful prayers and appeals of

Swamy Desikan for becoming the beneficiary of

the compassion of Lord Dhaiva Naayakan and

to protect him thereafter inspire you all to take part

in the RathnAngi Kaimakryam for Him and recieve

His eternal blessings !