Sri Alavandhaar's SthOthra Rathnam verse- 37- PiraaTTi matches You in all aspects and She is Your dearest

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

Dearest Srivaishnavas,

 

The next subsequent verses on the Goddess Mahalakshmi

who is always with the Lord eternally. In the first

sloka, Alavandhar describes that she is the dearest

and the most favourite of the Lord.

 

chakarttha yasyaa bhavanam bhujaantharam

thava priyam dhaama yadheeya janmabhoo:

jagath samastham yad apaanga samsrayam

yad arttham ambhOdhi: amanthi abandhi cha [37]

 

Your divine Chest- to the One for whom You have made

it as a permanent residence; whose place of birth is

the Milky ocean [which is Your most favourite place of

stay as well]; for whose mere side glances

(vailakshaNya kataaksham) even, the entire world takes

refuge; and in order to get Her, the ocean was churned

[by You] and as well as the bridge [cause way] was

built across [by You]. [such Greatest PiraaTTi- in

39th verse]

 

Not willing to let Her ThirumEni be away from You at

anytime, You house her in Your divine chest itself;

When she arose out of the milky ocean for the sake of

the world; You adopted the same as Your very place of

permanent residence and it became your divya Desam;

This all shows the love that You have for Your beloved

Sri Mahalakshmi. The world- which is at Your beck and

call and is Your sEsham [servant- dAsars] at all times

survives and receives Her mere side glances from Her

most divinely Beautiful eyes and is most blessed. Thus

She shares Supremacy with You as Dhivya Dhampathi. She

thus is equal to You is declared here. You can not

stand being away from Her and hence You and She play

some leelAs during avathArams to languish and then

unite with Her. We have enjoyed all Your efforts in

churning the ocean for getting Her; and built a

cause-way across the ocean during Raama avathAram.

 

AaLavandhAr in the Chatussloki, establishes the equal

status of Sri Devi with Her consort. As Isvari 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

Vaibhavam.

 

She shares in equal measure the six auspicious GuNAs

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

Iswaryam, Veeryam and Tejas. That is why She is known

as Bhagavathi or ShAtgunya SampoorNai. She is

inseparable from Her Lord at all times and

states(AnapAyini).

 

This Nitya Sri surpasses in some regards Her Lord as a

result of Her motherly qualities such as DayA, KshamA

(forgivenness), Vaatsalya (tender, endearing

affection) just as a mother has for her children.

Through Her innate UdhAra SvabhAva (magnanimity), She

showers us with Her blessings (anugrahams) and grants

us Aiswaryam, Kaivalyam and Moksham, when surrender to

Her to seek these anugrahams. She has in addition a

unique role through Her PurushakAratvam. She

intercedes with Her Lord on behalf of the sinners and

recommends that the sinners be forgiven by Her Lord to

become the object of His grace

 

Alavandhaar ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan