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Bakti-rmaheSa-padapuShkara-mAvasantI

kAdaMbinIva kurute paritoShavarSham |

saMpUrito Bavati yasya manastaTAka-

stajjanma-sasya-makhilaM saphalaM cha nAnyat || 76 ||

 

 

 

Bhakti showers sweet rain like cluster of clouds in the sky of the lotus

feet of Parameswara. Those whose tanks of mind are filled with the sweet

water of Bhakti attain the fruit of birth. Others don't (attain it).

 

*Commentary

 

**bhakthi: *= bhakthi or seva;

*mahEsapadhapushkaram* = aakaasa which is MahEswara's holy feet;

*aavasanthi* = living as it does;

*kaadhambineeva* = as the crowding of clouds;

*parithOshavarsham* = the rain of happiness;

*kuruthE *= showers;

*yasya* = whose;

*manasthadaaka:* = the watershed of mind;

*sampooritha:* = filled with the above mentioned happiness;

*bhavathi* = as it so happens;

*thasya* = his;

*janmasasyam* = the crop called janma;

*akhilam* = complete;

*sapalam* = fruitful;

*anyath **cha* = contrariwise;

*na* = does not succeed.

 

punarapi jananam punarapi maraNam punarapi jananee jatarE sayanam

 

That is, It is not unnoticeable that in this samsaara of janana maraNa

roopam praaNis are immersed in it. The antharanga saadhanam for the

uddhaaraNam (lifting up) of the nimagna (drowning) praaNis lies in

SIVABHAKTHI. This rahasyam was revealed by BhagavathpaadhaaL when he said:

" mOkshasaadhanasaamagrayaam bhakthirEva ghareeyasee " . Just as the dark

clouds occupy the space to shower the rain Sivabhakthi should entirely

occupy the paadhaabjam of ParamEswara. When someone who could shower his

bhakthi on the paadhaabjam and fill the tank of his mind (தாமரை

பூதà¯à®¤

தடாகமடி! ) he finds himself a mahaanubhaavan with the crop of his

birth

matured and his janma attains its sapalam (fruitfulness). On the contrary,

if a person wastes his life without doing sivabhakthi his janma becomes

futile (vipalam). This was reiterated by our aadhi Guru:

 

dhurlabham maanusham dhEham praapya thathraapi pourusham |

itha: kOnvasthi moodaathmaa yasthu swaarthE pramaadhyathi ||

 

Manushya janmam is very rare in one's many incarnations. There is no

greater moodan than the one who having been born as a man but not having

surrendered to a Guru and obtained Brahmavidya and do anusandhaanam that his

own self is that of ParamEswara. This is exactly what AachaaryaaL says in

this sloka: " thajjanmasasyamakhilam sapalam cha naanyath " .

 

Whoever recites this slOka and do namskaaram to ParamEswara will surely get

their janma saapalyam.

 

SivOham, SivOham.