Acharya vaibhavam - 20- Bhoomi PiraaTTi avathAram GodhA [AndAL]..

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama:

 

Dearest all,

 

After Periya PiraaTTi, let us enjoy the glories of our

BhUmi PiraaTTi- Sri Bhoo Devi – who is LakshmI’s priya

sakhi..

 

BhUmi Piraati took the avatar as an ordinary girl

amongst us to bless us with rich, philosophical,

easy-to-understand pAsurams of ThiruppAvai and

Naacchiyaar Thirumozhi (30+143 verses). She is so

merciful that she sang the 30 verses that are simply

the essence of all vEdAs. Let us remind ourselves of

what Our Dearest Great AchAryAs Sri RamanujA and Swami

Desikan say on GodhA Piraatti.

 

Thiruppavai (30 verses) can alleviate all our enormous

Greatest sins;

They can show us the Lotus Feet of Paraman (Sriman

Narayanan) and bless us. They are the seed of all

VedAs. Those who do NOT know these 30 (5x5+5) verses

of GodhA are simply burden to the Earth (BhUmipiraati

- Sri AndAL). (Let us pray to Her and YathirAjA for

granting us the determination so that we will recite

these 30 verses everyday morning

POSITIVELY and NOT cause further burden to our dearest

Mother GodhAPiraatti- BhUmi Piraatti.)

 

Let us meditate on the most compassionate and most

merciful Divine Godha PiraaTTi and surrender to Her

Lotus feet.

 

Swami Desikan starts off the GodhAsthuthi, which is

reported to have been sung by Swami, when he was

greatly captured by GodhA's Divine Beauty in the

streets of Sri Villiputthur during a procession

(Uthsavam) on the day of which Swami was obsevring

Mouna vratham (perhaps, PradhOsham time).

 

GoDhA looked gracefully at Swami and allured him as if

she says " Hm.... Sing .. Come

out..VedantaAchAryarE! " Swami blessed us with 29

excellent verses of GOdhAsthuthi. (one less than 30

pAsurams of ThiruppAvai)

 

SrivishNuchittha kulanandana kalpavaleem

Srirangaraaja harichandana yoga drusyaam I

SakshAth KshamAm karuNayA KamalAmivAnyAm

GodhAm ananya saraNa: SaraNam prapathyE II

 

O GodhE ! I perform Prapatthi at Your sacred feet as

one , who has no other recourse ! I have no one else

to save me . You are the Kalpaka creeper adorning the

Lord standing as the auspicious HarichandanA tree in

the flower garden of the Kulam of VishNuchitthA , your

father. The darsanam of You united with Your Lord

tightly as the divine kalpakA creeper and the

celestial HarichandanA tree is a blessed sight to see

..In Your infinite patience with the aparAdhis , You

appear verily like Bhumi dEvi and in your limitless

compassion , You resemble

Maha Lakshmi Herself . I offer my Prapatthi at your

sacred , lotus feet as the one , who has no other

means !

 

Also, Sri Manavala Maamuni says:

 

inRO Thiruvaadippooram;- emakkaaga anRO inghu ANdAL

avatharitthaaL-

kunRaadha vaazhvaana vaikuntha vaan bhOganthannai

igazhdhu

AzhwAr ThirumagaLaaraay.

 

Beautiful and simple: Maamuni says: Today is

Thiruvaadipporam. Andal appeared only for us; She

sacrificed Her eternal Vaikunta enjoyment and

living and appeared here as the human daugher of

AzhwAr. (What a compassion of Bhumi Piraatti!)

 

Swami Desikan in his GodhAsthuthi (verse 24) says:

(Free translation):

 

Oh GodhA Piraatti! Sriman NarayanA's role is to

carryout punitive actions against us (who are

trespassing sasthrAs and are committing

sins/apachaarams). But Periya Piraati Sri MahAlakshmi,

the Most Merciful Mother is there by His side to be

soft on us and always recommends us (the sinners) to

Sriman Narayanan for forgiving our apachaarams out of

Her compassion. How many times He can yield to Her

recommendations? (before even the performance of our

sins gets dried, Sri Lakshmi recommends us for His

pardon!). He gets vexed and is totally helpless and

turns His face to the other side (in disgust- THAT He

is always asked by the Mother MahAlakshmi- Periya

Piraatti- to forgive us (the sinners )- How merciful

She is!). On such occasions when the Lord turns away

from Lakshmi, on this side there sits equally Most

Merciful BhUmi Piraatti GodhAPiraatti-who is taking

her turn to recommend us again to the Lord! He, simply

smiles both of You (Periya Piraatti and GodhApiraatti)

and forgives us!

 

When You and Periya Piraatti are there, GodhA! What is

there to worry about?

 

Srimanyai VishNu chitthaaryamanOnandhanahEthavE!

nandhanandha sudharyai gOdhaayai Nithya MangaLam!!

-Sri Manavaala Maamunigal

 

asmadhAchArya paryanthAm vandhE GuruparamaparAm

Regards

Namo narayana

dasan