Sri Alavandhaar's SthOthra Rathnam verse- 30- when I will see Your most Beautiful Lotus feet with my eyes!

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

 

Dearest Srivaishnavas,

 

You have started getting apprehension of suffering the

fruits of your pApams [sins]. You have mistakenly

thought the fruits of your puNyas as that of your sins

as well. I would now arrange for you, Alavandhar to

live here happily based on all your puNyas and would

not have any suffering in this moola prakrathi (cosmic

universe- matter). Be happy here. Alavandhar responds:

I do not desire for that. Not only did I ask for

removal of suffering and hurdles. Also not the desire

for worldly and material pleasures. I want the one

that I desire for… i.e. You. I am not desirous of even

the kaivalya anubhavam (enjoyment of jeevathman

himself) – Swamy Alavandhar explains the same in next

17 subsequent slokas. Thus one can get clear

understanding that Prapatti [self-surrender] is the

alternate for Bhakti yoga [after karma/jnana yoga].

Alavandhar here thus declares his intense desire for

that fruit to see Him..

 

vilaasa vikraantha paraa varaalayam

namasyadaartthi kshapaNE kruthakshaNam |

dhanam madheeyam thava paadha pankajam

kadhaa nu saakshaaNi karavaaNi chakshushaa ||

 

when will I see with my naked eyes, Your most

beautiful Divine Lotus Feet, which is my most valuable

dearest treasure, that effortlessly measured the whole

Universe spanning everything; and which is ready to

destroy the samsaaric affliction and sufferings of

those who surrender and submit themselves at those

feet?

 

Effortlessly the feet measured the whole Universe and

touched everything in the Universe- desiring of

everything. When the feet see someone bowing down to

the same, it [the feet] removes his worries and

sorrows immediately. Such wonderful divine red lotus

beautiful feet of yours – is my treasure; my pleasure;

My kula dhanam (ancestral property); You are my kula

nAthan; Master of my ancestors. But I am not able to

see and enjoy my dhanam. Why? Everyone enjoyed seeing

the Thrivikrama avathAram.- when you took the huge

avathAram measuring the Univesre- [NammAzhwAr says:

kaanmeergaL ulagattheer.. enRu kaN mugappE nimirndha]

But having been born only now- how can I enjoy and

see? I can only enjoy the same in Paramapadham. When I

will I do that? Please bless me. There my dharma

bhootha jnAnam will expand completely in fullest

expanse form which would like my eyesight.

 

But if I am blessed by Yourself to enjoy seeing You

here itself, it would my bhAgyam. I want that alone

and am desirous of that. Are you going to take once

more Thrivikrama avathAram. But You may bless me

inside my mind perhaps. But that itself is not

adequate. I want You here in outside world as well to

be seen and enjoyed. Please bless me with Your divine

dhivya mangaLa vigraham.

 

Alavandhar ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo Narayana

Dasan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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