SaTAri Satakam – 21 (A divya vruksham)

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SrI:

SrImahtE SaThakOpAya nama:

SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:

SrImathE nigamAnta mahA dESikAya nama:

 

Dear SrI vaishNavAs,

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sahasra SakOpanishad samAkamam namAmi

aham drAviDa vEda sAgaram – SrImath nAthamunigaL

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Details presented in this post:

 

1. Prabhandam - pAsuram 23 & 24

2. Pearls from the poems

 

SS-23

 

kanigaL tirumAl guNangaL * kavigaL

iniyatEn pUkkaL ezhilAi – muninUlgaL *

nAngum pasunkiLaigaL nallaruLvEr vittumaRai *

sAnROn SaTAri taru.

 

The paramOpakAra SrImath nammAzhvAr is metaphorised as a divine tree.

This tree has vEdAs as its seed and divine benevolence as the root.

With a firm root, this tree branched out into 4 prabhandams such as

tiruviruttam etc. The pAsurams are like sweet-smelling flowers. The

fruits are nothing but kalyANa gunAs of tirumAl. (tirukkuraL mentions

a `marundAgi tappA maram' whose all parts are used to cure bodily

diseases. The divine tree, nammAzhvAr, cures the disease of samsAram,

with all its parts)

 

 

 

SS-24

taruvAi nizhaltarum dAgam taNikka *

peruvAikkAl pOlviLOangum pENi – guruvAkkAm *

mARanaruL vAimozhigaL mANbAi anaivarkkum *

tERa maRaigaL tiraTTu.

 

This divine tree's shadow destroys the heat of samsAram. It quenches

the thirst for SrI KrishNA. It is the essence of vEdAs. So it is

considered the distinguished authority.

 

Pearls from the poems:

The divine tree(AzhvAr) always stands here majestically to give us

shadow and fruits, which while driving away our sorrows(samsAram),

brings lots of happiness(bhagavat anubhavam) also.

 

[saTAri Satakam is one of the many classic works of srI. U.vE.

M.S.Hari.]

 

dAsan