SrI Alavandhaar's ChathuslOkI- Sloka 1

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

 

Dearest srivaishnavas,

 

Sloka 1:

 

kaanThasthE purushOtthama: paNipathi: sayya(S)anam

vaahanam

vEdAthmA vihakESwarO yavanikaa maayaa jagan mOhinI

bramhESAthi suravraja sathyitha: tvaddhAsa dAseegaNa:

srIrithyEvacha naamathE bhagavthI brooma: katham thvAm

vayam..

[forgive for transliteration]

hEy BhagavthI! – The One who is blemishless, faultless

and possessed with all aucpicious attributes (kalyANa

guNAs)! PurushOtthaman is Your darling Lord – the One

who is equal to You in all aspects; Thus You both are

equal to each other in every manner… The king of

snakes- AnanthAzhwAn- is Your Seat as well as Bed

(just like he is for your Lord); The vEdAthmA- Garuda

is Your vehicle and seat as well. JaganmOhinI!- The

Cosmic matter- mUla prakruthi- [that engulfs maaya in

everyone to hide their Athma swarUpam and bind them to

their karma vasanaas- with viparItha jnAnam] – is also

at Your service as the curtain. Chathur mukha brahmA,

Rudran, DevEndran, along with their spouses are all

your servants and are pleased to be at your beck and

call. Your divine name is also the most esoteric SrI…

When such is the case, how can any of us be able to

tell Your glories clearly.. and do justice to it?

 

In the First sloka, it is thus emphasised that both

the vibhutis Nithya and Leela - that is the eternal

world paramapadha and the material world belong to

Lakshmi as well. ALavandhAr in the first verse of

Chatussloki establishes the equal status of Sri Devi

with Her consort. As Chief of Sarva BhutAs, she enjoys

an equal status and rules the physical and the

transcendental universe. She possesses like Her Lord,

Svarupam , Rupam, GuNam and Vibhavam equally in its

entirety.

 

You share in equal measure the six auspicious GuNAs of

Her consort (BhagavAn)- namely JnAnam, Bhalam, Sakthi,

Iswaryam, Veeryam and ThEjas. That is why You are

known as Bhagavathi or ShAtgunya SampoorNai. You are

inseparable from Your Lord at all times and states

(nithya anapAyini- never leave Him ever. Thus with

such equal qualities, You have chosen Him as Your

darling Lord and He has You as His divine Consort… He

is PurshOtthaman and You are BhagavathI.. With all

sentient and non –sentient with His Sareera and

attributes, are You the qualifying one for Him as His

pathnI- I pondered. I have found that all such

vivhUthis (attreibuites- of Chethana, achEthanas-

devas, humans, plants, cosmic matter, etc.. etc..) are

all Yours as well and You rule them in equal manner.

You are with Him at all times uninterruptedly. Since

You became His spouse, You are now enjoying the same-

some may argue. That argument holds good for bhUmA and

nILA dEvi and not for You.. SaasthrAs say that You

both are SEshi for the whole world.. You possess the

six guNAs that constitute Bhagavathvam. Chauthumukha

brahmA, Rudra et al along with their spouses serve You

and are Your servants. Coming to think of it, You

alone have the name SrI.. and He gets His identity as

Sriya: Pathi.. In addition to all these qualities, You

have the recommendation role as well (Purushakaram)

and also point to Him His daya and protection role.

You intercede with Your Lord on behalf of us – when we

perform our surrender to You and Him as Dhivya

Dampathi and recommend that we be forgiven by Your

Lord to become the object of His grace.

 

Alavandhar first says the Lord if her Pathi (husband)

and then says everything else is under Her ruler

ship.. It is to mention that there are no two

independent Lords here and then there will be chaos.

Here is She being His eternal consort, be with Him at

all times and together rule the world.. as Lord [eka

seshithvam) and thus as Sahadharma chaariNi. He

without her, and she without Him would never be

possible and hence there is no way that one will rule

without the Other.. As long as this is understood,

there will no confusion- says Sri UttamUr Swamy.

 

paNipathi sayaa- with enjoyment, ecstatic, joyful

Ananthaseshan, Adhiseshan, fragrant, white, tender

bodied Adhiseshan, with the length and breadth is the

bed and seat for Mhalakshmi. Thus the entire Nithya

suRis and Nithya vibHuthi is under her ruler ship and

Lordship.

 

Sri Muralidhar shares his excitement on this: Swami

Desikan goes into raptures as he elaborated upon the

salutation " vEdhAthmA vihagEshvarO " describing the

greatness of Garuda. Again it is helpful to dwell on

the salutation " srIrithyE vachanAma thE Bhagavathi

brUma katham thvAm vayam " (Oh Goddess, known by the

name of Sri one lifetime is insufficient to fully

comprehend the meanings underlying your name. This

alludes to the fact that even one cannot fully

comprehend the 6 meanings SriyathE [she is sought

after by all for refuge], ShrayathE [she grants refuge

to all who seek her], ShruNOthi [she listens to the

appeals of those who seek refuge in her] ShrAvayathi

[she conveys this appeal to Her Lord Narayana, the

master of the Universe], ShruNAthi

[she removes all obstacles and impediments in the way

of those who seek her-i.e., destroys the sins of those

who seek refuge in Her] and ShrINAthi [she grants them

lasting wealth] in one's lifetime)

 

thvaddAsa dAsIgaNa: everyone- including the Devas and

their spouses are all Your servants.

 

In the PancharAtra smahitA, SrI Maha Vishnu explains

to his senior disciple VishvaksenA, the nature and

attributes of His consort, Sri Mahalakshmi. He states

that She is the resting place of all Gurus, ruler of

all worlds, eternal and imperishable. He elaborates

further on their relationship: Just as the Universe is

pervaded by me both in essence and quality, all this

is pervaded by Her also . Therefore, She is the

disposer and ruler of all.... She is pervaded by me

and similarly, I, the Lord, am also pervaded by Her.

The difference between me and Her is that She, who is

the ruler of all is subservient to me on Her own

accord being sahadharmachaarinI.. To Her as well as

the Universe that I am the Lord, is well known in

Vedas.

 

In the same PancharAtra SamhitA, Sri Mahalakshmi

herself has explained Herself and Her consort, their

pervasion and their ruler ship. Sri Vatsya Varada Guru

[also called as Nadhadhoor ammaaL, the author of the

illustrious work on SaranAgathi known as Prapanna

ParijAtha has elaborated on the relationship between

the divine couple as follows : That supreme energy of

Brahman, which is as is lustre to the moon, is the

Goddess Lakshmi , who is coexistent with Brahman in

all His conditions, and who is in His own nature and

is indestructible.

 

Thus She is endowed with the three capacities of

UPAYATVA(being the means), UPEYATVA (being the end)

and PURUSHAKAARA (being the mediatrix) and is the

ruler of the whole world

 

ThirumaamagaL ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam

Alavandhar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan

 

 

 

 

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