SaTAri Satakam – 23 (A divinely boat)

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SrI:

SrImahtE SaThakOpAya nama:

SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:

SrImathE nigamAnta mahA dESikAya nama:

 

Dear SrI vaishNavAs,

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arumaRaigaL antAdi seidAn aDiyiNaiyE eppozhudum

sindiyAi ne~njE teLindu – EeSvara munigaL

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Details presented in this post:

 

1. Prabhandam- pAsuram 27 & 28

2. Pearls from the poems

 

SS-27

 

Aazhnda piRappennum AazhiyODam * vAnnATTil

vAzhndiDa mARanaruL vAzhvaLikkum – tAzhndiDac

cheiyum paramatac chERRinai teeittazhikkum *

veyya iravimARan veeRu.

 

TirukkuRaL mentions that those who can not swim across the ocean of

samsAram can not reach Lord's lotus feet. While it is impossible to

swim across even a calm river, what to say about a turbulent ocean.

But nammAzhvAr's vAkku is like a divinely boat, which takes us

effortlessly to our supreme goal. While bestowing all blissfulness in

ihalOkam, it confers us the life in paralOkam, where there is no end

to paramount happiness.

At the same time AzhvAr's words are like hot sun in parching out

the deep muddy pits otherwise known as paramatams.

 

SS-28

veeRuDaiya sennAvAl vEdAnta vEddiyan *

nARum tuLabamuDi nAthaninRi – vERenRum *

sollik kavipAdEn * sonnAr SaTakOpar *

ellOrum uyya eDuttu.

 

NammAzhvAr's detachment from everything, except for SrIman

nArAyaNA, is well known from his phrases such as `sonnAl virOdam

idu…' etc. Here we fondly recall the history behind our tUppul

kulamaNi's `vairAgya panchakam'.

 

Pearls from the poems:

The vairAgyam of our kulapati and kulamaNi shall always be remembered.

The mere thought of their kalyANa guNAs will take us safely to His

lotus feet.(acting as a divinely boat)

 

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

M.S.Hari.]

 

dAsan