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C O N T E N T S C O N T 1 Introductiom 2 Commentaries Ashtottharams & 1 3 NAmA 2 4 NAmA 3 5 NAmA 6 NAmA 4 9 5 7 NAmA 1 6 8 NAmA 7 9 NAmA 8 10 NAma 11 9 23 11 NAmA 10 29 12 NamA 11 13 NAmA 12 39 14 NAmA 34 13 41 15 NAmA 14 46 16 NAmA 51 56 58 60 64 68 71
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AAMAM AAMAM N N SA SA E E ri (Hill) has been Sword, Mace and Disc in Your hands) Sword, Mace and Disc in Your MangaLam, PurANam and dhivya or VenkatAdhri of Lord the is Esan ts and delight me like the nectar). ts and delight me like the nectar). n of this VenkatEsa Naamam in His e oushadham/medicine for the cruel e oushadham/medicine for amudhE ImayOr adhipathiyE" amudhE ImayOr 21 es as the Tilakam for the world). for the Tilakam es as ENKAT ENKAT V V (PraNavam) VenkatEsAya Nama: oulders and my life itself). oulders and my (PraNavam) namO VenkatEsAya OF OF "ThirumAmahaL kELvA" "ThirumAmahaL "Naal ThOLamudhE YenathAruyirE" YenathAruyirE" "Naal ThOLamudhE of MahA Lakshmi) of MahA Lakshmi) “ThirunEmi ValavA DeivakkOmAnE" “ThirunEmi “Sanku Vill VaaL TaNDu ChakkarakkaiyA“ VaaL TaNDu “Sanku Vill CELEBRATION CELEBRATION A A "YeNNam Puhunthu titthikkum "YeNNam Puhunthu SUCH SUCH “SediyAr VinaikaL theer marunnthE ThiruvEnakatatthemperumAnE” VinaikaL theer marunnthE ThiruvEnakatatthemperumAnE” “SediyAr HY HY W W (Oh Lord of DevAs who enters my though (Oh Lord of DevAs who enters VinaikaL) (Oh Lord of ThiruvEnkatam, who is th (Oh Lord of ThiruvEnkatam, (Oh Lord with the weapons of Conch, Bow, (Oh Lord with the weapons of on Your upper right hand) (Oh Divine Lord with the Chakram The First AshtOttharam is " (Oh SrInivAsa, Lord(Oh SrInivAsa, such a celebratio wonder why there is powerful most the SuprabhAtham, SthOthram, Prapatthi, is nAmam first this because is reason The Prabhandhams. manthram: " SrI VenkatEsa AshtOttharam is thus the most appropriate and auspicious start and confers MangaLams on all the reciters. Venkat Venkata Giri. The significance of that Gi DayASwami Desikan in the very first slOkam of his famous SrI Sathakam: (Oh Lord with four beautiful sh (Oh Lord with (The Lord of ThiruvEnkatam, who of ThiruvEnkatam, (The Lord shin sadagopan.org Dayasatakam.pdf) commentary) isavailableath (Note: SwAmyDesikan'sSrISookth Such istheMahAthmyamofFirst BhakthAs. trespasses ofthechEthanamsandgrants BhakthAs. Thatrockcandytakesthe intotheswee ultimately has transformed most enjoyable. That compassion is like Hisdevo flows swiftlyasafloodtoreach a river of cane juice. That cane juice SrinivAsan.Thelimi ofLord Dayaa guNam oftheflood crystalized version AdiyEn performsPrapatthiatthesacred Meaning Meaning PrapadhyE thammGIRIM IkshusArasravanthyEva yannmUrthyAIkshusArasravanthyEva sarkarAyitham 22 AshtOtthara nAmamofSrIVenkatEsa! prAya:SrInivAsaanukampayA prAya:SrInivAsaanukampayA form ofVenkatAdhri,whichbears the i DayASathakam(withannotated cane sugarjuicerepresenting the ttp://sundarasimham.org/ebooks/ test rockcandytobeenjoyedbyHis tees. That compassion of the Lord is allthedesiredboonssoughtby tless compassion of Lord SrInivAsan tless compassionofLordSrInivAsan hillsof VenkatAdhri,which isthe sadagopan.org Her (Sri Devi). Gunaseelam Gunaseelam Gunaseelam tesa) is forever with ------AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM according to Her pleasure. She loves according to Her pleasure. She loves ed the Sri VenkatEsa manthram. The ed the Sri e will never be found outside that be found e will never Swami PushkariNi. He is the ground/ Swami PushkariNi. He is the nu Sahasra Naamam. Swamy ParAsara N N (the chest region) her sporting ground. (the chest region) her sporting N 23 ndavanam (UdhyAnam/Garden) of Kalpaka ïIvasay nm> ïIvasay nm> ) ND ND ND 2 2 2 HE HE HE à[vm! SrInivAsa PerumAL T SrInivAsa PerumAL ( T SrInivAsa PerumAL T (praNavam) srivAsAya nama: OMMENTS OMMENTS C C SALUTATIONS TO THE LORD, WHO IS THE ABODE OF SRI DEVI OF SRI THE ABODE TO THE LORD, WHO IS SALUTATIONS DDITIONAL DDITIONAL OMMENTS OMMENTS A C A C The First AshtOtthara Naamam celebrat trees, where SrI Devi is forever sporting to sport with the Lord on the banks of abode for those sports for her. Sh This is the same as the 609th Sri Vish Bhattar comments that Lord Vishnu (Venka Na "Nithya SrI". He is the She is His abode, the Vakshasthalam of the Lord sadagopan.org Her Lordtoforgive ourtrespassesandthenagain, sheisthere to thedivinecouple. Sheintercedes UpEya Dasai(prayer for MokshamasPu of Her(SrI Devi)bothduringtheUp (intercession) of SrI Devi on our behalf with Her Lord as well as the presence paasuram withthemostSacredDh Earlier AchAryAshavecommentedextens and thereIremainedprotectedbyyou". who have no othercome allthewaytothispl prop to cling Greatsages, whohave circumstance. to, humbly surrenderedunequalled Mastersincethisrelati myselfhave enslaved at your me. I have adopted feetme. Yourreputation ofQualitiesismatc you as my Master for all times. Devi).Thatsheisal (MahA Lakshmi/SrI You are the “Not even for amomentwill Ileaveth p nikail nikail `klkil Paasuram famous ThiruvAimozhi SwamyNammAzhwAr's second NaamamcelebratestheSrInivAsaTatthvam. Meaning accordingtoDr.V.N.Vedantha Desikan Swamy Meaning accordingtoDr.V.N.Vedantha Desikan Swamy Izma no match and devAs and nithyasooris no matchanddevAs onship isnotconditionedbyany hless. The three worlds are yours. You hless. Thethreeworldsareyours.You f tiREvg rushArtham) at the time of surrender at thetimeofsurrender rushArtham) is seatofmine"saysAlarmelMangai vaya ManthramandPurushakAram f^[ ~q on our behalfandpleads with onour ways onyourchest isreassuringto fAky fn ively onthedeeplinksofthis fT p fpa ! of themeans) and sadagopan.org along with her along ). The Lord of Venkatam ence on the Lord's chest always as the Lord's chest always ence on anapAyini". anapAyini". They stay inseparable and grant the , her inseparable presence with Her with Her , her inseparable presence haparAdhInO vidhatthE akhilam". haparAdhInO vidhatthE akhilam". Asan/SrIvAsan. and Lord SrinivAsan n iRayum yenRu AlarmEl MangayuRain iRayum yenRu brows and performs His protective brows and performs His esent with Him even during the timeesent with Him even during rd SrinivAsan follows the hints arising rd SrinivAsan ties by taking the hints from the ties by taking the hints at she is the object of His (Lord's) of His object at she is the ormed and accepts it and accepts ormed e joy of the conductance of the Jagath- the conductance of e joy of the 25 h is another name for Sri Devi: h is another name for Sri Devi: Ingitha ParAdhInan "VishNO: yEsha "VishNO: "Sriyam lOkE DevajushtAm UdhArAm" “aanIdhavAdhag SvadhayA TadhEkam". “aanIdhavAdhag SvadhayA “YasyA Veekshya Mukham tadhinghit “YasyA Veekshya Mukham with Her Lord when Prapatthi is perf Prapatthi is Lord when with Her Nithya SrI : husband as His SahadharmachAriNi. as His SahadharmachAriNi. husband recognizes Her pres SrI VishNu PurANam inseparable (ahalahillE AnapAyini means or SrinivAsan). Lo Maarbhan is SrIvAsan Sri Devi's from the movements of His duties accordingly. So says KurEsar in Sri Sthavam: duties accordingly. So says KurEsar He is completely under her sway ( He is completely under her For our SaraNAgathi to become fruitful For our SaraNAgathi to become Devan here is the ParamAthmA, SrIniv goes about His duties Creation, Protection, of Destruction of the universe His on granting of Svarga vaasam or naraka(Jagath VyApAra leelais), Vaasam or always there be to has she why is otherVaikunta Vaasam and all activi That brows. Devi's SrI of movement in th chest to help Him and participate She is pr VyApArams. Vedam says that whic of PraLyam as "SvadhA Devi”, Lord is essential. Vedam again says th Him: from as such she is inseparable Preethi and AlarmEl Mangai are Saha-dharmachAris. PurushArTam (ultimate goal of life), Moksham for SaraNAgathAs: sadagopan.org Swamy Desikanexplains thistatthvamto yAj~nam ofSaraNAgathi. throughparticip SaraNAgatha rakshanam From thatseat andtogether Asindicatedearlier,sh as anapAyini. She definedHerLord Her through the DevAswerewatching VishNu PurANamthatShetookperman Chest aftercomingoutof The keywordsare"Vanthu-irukkumMaarbhan".SheelectedtostayonHis Dhivya prabhandhams: toth correlations There aremanycross (They havetakenthissankalpa (their children)withMokshAnugraham: usaboutthisinse NammAzhwAr instructs reveals HimastheultimateOne( the ParamaPurushan.JustasHislotus dharmam conclusively identifiesHerLord She is a DEFINING MARK for Her Lord. In fact, it is Her presence that oNDodiyAL ThirumahaLumThaanumAhior "panthirukkum melviralALPaavaiPa LakshmyA sahaHrusheeDevyAKaaruNyaroopyA!Rakshaka: ", withoutwhomwewo PasyathAm Sarva-dEvAnAmyaTouvakshasthalam HarE: --Periya Thrumozhi:2.2.9 theMilky Ocean. ParAsa m toredeemustogether). sarvasiddhAnthE sarvasiddhAnthE to us; as such She is the " uld begropingintheda tiru illAdhevaraitErElmindEvu e isHisLakshaNam,thedefiningmark. 26 nimalarAL vanthuirukkumMaaravan" with Her Lord,She does ent residenceattheLord'sChestas presence andstaysonHischest us inthefifthslOkam ofParamArTa e SecondNaamamof"SrIvAsan"in parable Dhivya dampathis blessingus parable Dhivyadampathis ation as saha-dharmachAriNi in the ation assaha-dharmachAriNi eyes, itisSriya:Pathithvamthat u ninaivAleenRauyirellAmuyya ra Maharishi states in ra Maharishistatesin rk inoursearchfor Svaroopa nirUpaka ). Swamy Swamy ). sadagopan.org Phalan (fruits ofPhalan (fruits desires quickly and during the UpAya dasai is from ya nama:", we are reminded of the ya nama:", we are reminded of the um nilA nirpa, kaNda sadir um nilA nirpa, kaNda ent one. As per the Yoga Soothram per the ent one. As on the protection of those, who seek on the protection brate Her Lord as the of the abode the grantor of all SamyOgE), your consort, Sri Devi Sri consort, SamyOgE), your aagam and gives the aagam and gives ), AchArya RaamAnujA is reported to of widespread and specific mention by widespread and specific by of mention ean of SamsAram and She is the Sarva- Dharma Pathni, Dharma ever leaves who never 27 hmIm SaraNyAm anuchinthayEth hmIm SaraNyAm anuchinthayEth dhivya Prabhandham: KaNdu ozhindEn adaindEn unn ThiruvadiyE". KaNdu ozhindEn adaindEn unn “vEri mArAda poo Mel iruppAL vinai theerkkumE". poo Mel iruppAL vinai theerkkumE". “vEri mArAda "SA BhrAthu: charaNou gaadam nipeedya Raghunandana:“ charaNou gaadam nipeedya Raghunandana:“ "SA BhrAthu: “on toddiyAL ThirumagaLum neey “on toddiyAL ThirumagaLum Sarva-kAma-pradhAm RamyAm samsArArNava-taaRiNIm Kshipra-prasAdhinIm Laks Kshipra-prasAdhinIm Meaning Meaning We should reflect upon SrI Devi, who is We should Lakshmi Tatthvamcele and our duty to Sarva MangaLa dhAyaka SrI Devi: us across the oc is beautiful. She gets lOka -SaraNyai). Replying to the doubts as to the lack (Vedam in the Sruthi the name of Sri have said: takes equal part in that SaraNAgathi Y SaraNAgathi in that takes equal part naamam of "SrIvAsA Through the second (Rthviks) the helping adhikAris dayA are GuNams like Oh Lord! Your your side. YAj~nam focusing This in that yAj~nam. is a very long and anci Your RakshaNam yAj~nya (pathyunou defining pathni Sthuthi: "The Periya PirAtti is Your "The Periya Sthuthi: The other PramANam is from that yAj~nyam)." The pramANam for PirAtti's PurushakAra function is : PurushakAra function The pramANam for PirAtti's that yAj~nyam)." presence The PramANam for the Piratti's SrImad RaamAyaNam: sadagopan.org presence on Hischest. She confersthusthenameof "SrIvAsa Rathna Kosam: Swamy ParAsaraBhattarechoesthis (Wherever Lordismentioned,PirA “PerumALai sonnaidamyellAmPirAttiyaiyumsonnadhAyittru" ”tat antarbhAvAt na tvaam prithak abhidattESruthirapi". ”tat antarbhAvAtnatvaamprithak tti is also includedthere). tti isalso 28 sentiment in a Passage in his GuNa sentiment inaPassagehisGuNa n" onHerLordthrougheternal sadagopan.org AhObilam AhObilam AhObilam ------SahAyan, Sriya: Prabhu. All of these AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM us as the husband of Lakshmi and Her N N N Lakshmi Kaanthan, KamalA Pathi, Sriya: 29 lúmIptye nm> lúmIptye nm> RD RD RD ) 3 3 3 HE HE HE PrahalAda Varadhan PrahalAda Varadhan PrahalAda Varadhan à[vm! T T T ( (praNavam) lakshmI patayE nama: (praNavam) lakshmI as VishNu pathni). SALUTATIONS TO THE CONSORT OF MAHAA LAKSHMI LAKSHMI TO THE CONSORT OF MAHAA SALUTATIONS “AsyEsAnA JagathO Vishnu Pathni"--TaittirIya Samhithai OMMENTS OMMENTS C C (She rules the world Our Lord is saluted as Sriya: Pathi, SrI:, IndhirA Naayakan, SrIsan, LakshmI the blessed nAmAs refer to the auspiciousness of Him becoming/being husband of MahA Lakshmi. Vedam itself celebrates the Lord's stat status as His divine consort: sadagopan.org b b Swamyandhisco NavalpAkkam Twopassagesfr Lord Venkatesan). is thename,"LakshmiPathi"forHer manthrams. Thecorollaryofheridentifica Vedic referencesto MahALakshmias NavalpAkkam VidvAnSriRamAnujaTatAchArSwamy haspointedoutother The VishNu PurANamtextfortheaboveVedicpassageis: She is like the Minister inworld): counseling. andJagathHith in allJagath-vyApAram Anothernot be invoked. As Lakshmi Pathi, He co pramANamhence implicit.WithoutHisdearestLaks consortaswell. It invokesHisdivine in favor of the Sriman NaarAyananas: JaathavEdhan andSheisHisDivineco MedhA, Adhithi,whicharesynonymousin connected withHer.IfShehas VishNu This isanotherVedamanthram,which isVishNuPathni. Lakshmi, who DhruvA andAdhithiinvokedinthese " " VishtambhO divOdharuna:priTiv DhruvA disAm "Saha-dharmacharI SourE: sammanthritha JagathHithAm" "nityA yEvayEshAJaganmAt “ and "Adhithyai: VishNuPathnyai:charum" "JaathavEdhOmaaavaha” mmentaries onthemare: Lord (the third AshtOtthara naamam for Lord (thethirdAshtOttharanaamamfor 30 yA asyEsAnAagatOVishNu Pathni nsults withherand om theabovemanthramcitedby as husband,HehasLakshmi(SraddhA, A VishNO:SrI:anapAyini" manthrAs areidentified with MahA refers to VishNuPathniandYaagam LakshmiAvaahanam(invocation)is nsort. WhenSrISooktkam invokes VishNu Pathni in AsvamEdha-anga Vedam toLakshmi) am (activitiesandwellbeingof the hmi, thenameofLakshmi Pathican tion andsalutationasVishNuPathni is counseledbyher as Hiswife.Heis ". sadagopan.org " Ka SrI: Sriya? thya SrI (eternal ". DevadEvO Hari: PithA". ya Samhithai recognizes our Lord's ya Samhithai recognizes our Lord's ip between the Divine couple is that is ip between the Divine couple (UkAra Vaachyai) as VishNu Pathni.(UkAra Vaachyai) so been described as "antha: pura as "antha: so been described ory to her, by His Pathithvam. ory to her, by His Pathithvam. itvam at ThErazhundhUr with the itvam at ThErazhundhUr ryA (consort) and Ni of the Lord and imparts to "atisayam" lity from Her with two examples : 31 rd by asking the question: " ent MiTunam of the Universe: ent MiTunam of the Universe: SrI tEstathA OrmayasyachAmbhudhEriva Sooryasya rasmayO yathvAth Sarvaiswarya prabhAvEna KamalA “Lakshmi-NaaTa SamArambhAm --". “Lakshmi-NaaTa ”aadhyou DampathI JagathAm Pathi". ”aadhyou DampathI JagathAm "Hreesccha tE LakshmIsccha Pathnyou". Pathnyou". tE LakshmIsccha "Hreesccha Thiruvukkum ThiruvAhiya selvA "Thvam MaathA SarvalOkAnAm MangaLam). of the relationsh Another special feature mark as much as PirAtti is the defining Him. He too adds immeasurable gl Swamy AlavanthAr salutes the Lo Lord's Lakshmi Pathithvam is the Purusha sooktha Vakyam: sooktha Vakyam: LakshmiLord's is the Purusha Pathithvam SrI VaishNavAs (AkAra First AchAryan for is the Pathi He as Lakshmi AchAryan second is the Vaachyan). She sampradhAyam" or SrI SampradhAyam. This couple (Dampathi) is celebrated as the anci therefore That is why our sampradhAyam has al That is why That is why we call our sampradhAyam as call our sampradhAyam as That is why we Father and Mother of this Universe: They are the is His BhA He is Lakshmi Pathi and She Thirumangai adores the Lakshmi Path salutation: " Paancha Raathra samhithai named JayAkh Lakshmi Pathithvam and His inseparabi sadagopan.org MahA Lakshmiis" recognized readilyasLakshmiPathi. withHerPathiinan Devi isunited just asthewavesofOceancan Just astheraysandlustre(rasmi) cannotbeseparated fromtheSunand HrushIkEsa: DevyA KaaruNyaRoopayA,Rakshaka:Sarva siddhAnthE astheprotec all siddhAnthams The mostmercifulLakshmi unitedwith is behindthis ThirdNaamam: wherever PerumALismentioned, PirAtti (offeringofSelf)asHi samarpaNam Muktha Jeevan to enjoy theLord During theUpEyadasai,Sheenhances thesufferingjeevans. to comeforwardprotect the chEthanam performingPrapatthiand HisSankalpaJn~Anamtoprotect Shestimulates During UpAyaanushtAnam, kindles HerLord'saffection(vaathsalya committed manytrespassesandpleadswithHim toforgive oursins. She her Pathi as His Mangai(P During PurushakAram,AlarmEl wife and pleads on behalf of us, the chEthanams that have resource: Pathi inthree waystoexecuteHisvows. AakArammeansarichsourceand Meaning Meaning 3.UpEyaaakAram 2.UpAyaaakAram 1.PurushakAraaakAram (PraNavam) LAKSHMIPATHAYENAMA: AakAra ThrayaSampannai tor oftheerring Jeevans. 32 inseparable mannersothatHecanbe not beseparatedfromtheOcean, SrI andacceptsthehavisofaathma Her LordHrushIkEsanisrecognizedin the soundharyamof HerLordforthe m) forus,thepitiableJeevans. s Saha-dharmchariNi.Whenever and is there.ThattheTatthvamwhich adhmAvathi) usesHe enhances HerLord's " andinthatro le, ShehelpsHer LakshmyA saha r influencewith Jn~Anasakthi sadagopan.org mmented: “When the “When the mmented: merable demerits accumulatedmerable demerits in its icted actions, the Lord along with icted actions, 33 ishNan Swamy has co ishNan Kr Dr.M.A.Venkata context, In this individual interd soul refrains from Goddess Lakshmi the soul's innu overlooks Moksham". bliss through infinite lives and helps it attain numerous previous behind this Third Naamam. Such is the glory VedAnthEapi cha geeyathE. VedAnthEapi sadagopan.org medicine. HeisaVaidhyan orDoctor.Th One whobestowshealth isaDoctor, SamsAram andtheexpertindiagnosi also declaresthatHeis 585th andthe586thSrIVishNu Sahasra Naamams,” This Naamamisthesameas A C A C asAdhya Bhava-rOgasyaBhEshajam; OMMENTS OMMENTS DDITIONAL DDITIONAL SALUTATIONS TOTHELORD,WHO FROM THEDEGENERATIVEDISEASEOFSAMSAARAM! COMMENTS COMMENTS (praNavam) anAmayAya nama:(praNavam) anAmayAya Sri VijayAsanar Sri VijayAsanar Sri VijayAsanar the effective medicinefor theincurable diseaseof ( T T T à[vm! HE HE HE 4 4 4 ) TH TH TH Bhishak ------Anamyay nm> 694th SriVishnu SahasraNaamam.The Thiru VaraguNaMangai Thiru VaraguNaMangai Thiru VaraguNaMangai 34 N N N samyak-vidhitha nidhAnachikithsO e diseaseisSamsAric illness,whichis s of that disease and its treatment: s ofthatdiseaseanditstreatment: AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM IS THE BESTOWEROFHEALTH who prescribes therightkindof BhEshajAam Bhishak " sadagopan.org f! ftay f^l* f- f- fBm Eca^l 'n f f* mb fT `bivaRmil ftir{m punarapi jananI jaDarE sayanam, punarapi jananI jaDarE for this disease known as repeated for this disease known as this terrible disease, is Vaidhya disease, is terrible this e Physician to cure the disease of e Physician to cure the disease erefore a very special Doctor to cure special Doctor a very erefore pable of curing the same. Others too pable of curing f* tiRmaliRw ll or Brahma dEvan or Indhran or other ll or Brahma dEvan or Indhran ads to repeated births and deaths can fK* mRn ;n f this degenerative disease and place me ThirumAlirum ChOlai! with the hue of a ThirumAlirum ChOlai! with the common garden variety of diseases, but 35 fk * mB pibvi tvirt ! this chronic disease of SamsAraa: this chronic disease epy f e seven hills, the SapthagirIsan. SapthagirIsan. e seven hills, the f]a f ekaFy iha samsArE bahu dusthArE krupayA paalaya paahi MurArE" krupayA paalaya iha samsArE bahu dusthArE tirutthi unn kOil kadai pugappEi ThirumAlirumchOlai YenthAi!" pugappEi ThirumAlirumchOlai tirutthi unn kOil kadai ti* u[ fti* fTk fTv[ay ftRm ”Punarapi Jananam punarapi MaraNam, ”Punarapi Meaning Meaning Neither Siva PirAn with the flag of a bu of Neither Siva PirAn with the flag medicine effective gods can prescribe an Lord of births in SamsAric world. Oh giant gem and standing as the effectiv repeated births! Please cure me from SankarA says: only be treated by a Super-Specialist. In this context Adhi at the proximity of Your Sannidhi! ordinary doctors.The diseases of the body and mind are curable by The disease of SamsAric afflictions that le treats Doctor, who That this disease. the treatment for they do not have 'Rt oRt very cruel and debilitating. One needs th One needs and debilitating. very cruel NaarAyaNan standing on top of th is notLord VenkatEsa malady of specialist for the crippling only a super He is also the only One ca SamsAra but shops and tried to cure have opened mRt tiRt sadagopan.org (This body over time willbecome feeble (This bodyovertime cure thediseaseofSamsAram(BhavaRhOgam): to SamsAram andpointsoutthatLordKrishNaisthealchemy (rasAyanam) KulasEkhara AzhwArinHisMukundhaM samsAram). of birthsanddeathsbl OhMurArE,pleasesaveme mothers again. (We arebornagain,wedieagainandthen SeshasAyee andJagannivAsan tobecured ofthe disease ofSamsAram. AzhwAr begsthisSuper-specialist to is THEDOCTOR, WHOCURESTHE DISEASEOFSAMSAARAM. He isdevotedtoHisbh whocannotbearthesufferingsof HisadiyArs; Pathi, theDaya-SvarUpi, KulasEkharar identifiestheUbhayaVi Sarva Swamy,SriMukundhanas"Bhakt ofSrIMukundh In theveryfirstslOkam disease ofsamsAram). disease? Pleasedrinkthespecial medici Why areYouchasing allkindsofmedi aalApinamprathipadhamkurumaamMukundha Bhaktha-priyEthiBhava-luNDanagOvithEthi kimaoushadhai:klisyasi MooDa-dhurmathE! NaaTEthiNaaga-sayanEthiJagannivAsEthi SrIVallabhEthi VaradhEthi DayAparEthi padhathyavasyamslathasanthijarjaram nirAmayamKrishNarasAyanampibha idham sarIram pariNAma pEsalam idhamsarIrampariNAma akthAs andistheMaster ess mewith"napunarAvru 36 makehimrepeatoften thenames of ha PriyanandBhava-lundanagOvithan": bhUthi NaaTan, Mukndhan as Sriya: bhUthi NaaTan,MukndhanasSriya: ne known as KrishNa to overcomethis ne knownasKrishNato and isgoingtodie. fromthismiseryofrepeated cycles come back to rest in the wombs of a Maalai, KulasEkharar identifies a Maalai,KulasEkhararidentifies aalai refers to the disease of aalai referstothediseaseof cine forcureofthissamsAric resting on AdhIsEshan; He resting onAdhIsEshan; tthi", non-returntothis Oh MooDa mathi! OhMooDamathi! sadagopan.org to samsAram as a oon of the destruction of SamsAricthe destruction oon of (medicine) that will free me from (medicine) that lasEkharar refers d states that he gets relief from d states that he gets relief e). The treatment (chikithsai) for it e). The treatment (chikithsai) identifies this Master-Doctor, who identifies this Master-Doctor, shadham) of the indwelling Krishnan, shadham) of the indwelling Krishnan, of samsAram as ”Prasoothi MaraNa of samsAram as ”Prasoothi ishNAkhyam aapeeyathaam (wombs) and to remember always to to remember always (wombs) and 37 rama Oushadham and the Super-specialist u at Your Parama Padham). NIRVAANAM-AADHYANTHIKAM parikinna: khEdham adhya thyajAmi. parikinna: khEdham adhya "vyasana apanOdhanakara:na:SwamySridhara:“ "vyasana apanOdhanakara:na:SwamySridhara:“ piRappinmai peRRu adik-keezh kuRRavElanRu, peRRu adik-keezh kuRRavElanRu, piRappinmai Tath peetham PARAMOUSHADHAM vithanuthE AntharjyOthi: amEyam Kr maRappinmai yaan vENDum maadu"--Periya maRappinmai ThiruvandhAthi sramamushiVIGAHYA --Bhava maru agAtha maargE HARI SARASI hE lOkA: sruNutha PRASUTHI-MARANA VYAATHE: CHIKITHSAAM hE lOkA: sruNutha PRASUTHI-MARANA VYAATHE: perform nithya kainkaryam for Yo perform nithya In another slOkam of Maalai, Ku Mukundha repeated births in different yOnis in different repeated births an suffering parched desert land full of that sorrow by dipping deep into the cool and rejuvenating pond of of pond rejuvenating and cool the into deep (Oh Sriman NaarAyaNA! I seek the boon dipping by sorrow that EmperumAn: KulasEkhararIn a subsequent slOkam, KulasEkharar goes on to extol this Pa disease: cures all sorrows as: disease KulasEkhara identifies this is the magnificent medicine (marunthu/ou who produces the permanent cure: Swamy NammazhwAr prays for the same b prays for the NammazhwAr Swamy VyAdhi" (repeated birth and death diseas VyAdhi" (repeated birth and sadagopan.org Mukundha MaalaisLOkams: withonemoreof the Let usofferoursalutationstothisgreatDoctor prostrate beforeHimandseekasour"Bhishak". sure topofThirumalaithat standing on VenkatEsa AshtOttharamthusrefers yEkaOushadha bhaya pradhvamsana thismedicineas"Sri that administers smarAmiNaarAyaNaTatthvamavyayam VadhAmiNaarAyaNaNaamanirmalam NamAmi NaarAyaNaPaadha Pankajam KarOmiNaarAyaNaPoojanamsadhaa 38 KrishNaDhivyaOushadham"and"Bhava ly cures the disease of SamsAram as we aswe ly curesthediseaseofSamsAram m". The FOURTH Naamam of Sri m". TheFOURTHNaamam to thisVenkataKrishnaoushadham sadagopan.org ChandramA amruthAsAya Nama:" amruthAsAya Nama:" SrI Rangam SrI Rangam SrI Rangam ------rejuvenation from the life without feeds us with the enjoyment of the IS THE NECTAR-RAYED MOON IN IS THE NECTAR-RAYED AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM ING HEAT OF SAMSAARAM AND ING HEAT OF The Moon is recognized as taking its its taking as recognized is Moon The from His dayA guNam is recognized by 39 N N N aapa samanam and mrutha sanjeevanam Am&taMzay nm> Am&taMzay Purushan in Purusha Sooktham ( Purushan in Purusha Sooktham TH TH ) TH 5 5 5 HE HE HE à[vm! T T T ( (praNavam) amrutAmsAya nama: SrI RanganAthar (Muthangi Sevai) (Muthangi SrI RanganAthar SrI RanganAthar (Muthangi Sevai) (Muthangi SrI RanganAthar SrI RanganAthar (Muthangi Sevai) (Muthangi SrI RanganAthar ). Therefore, Moon has acquired the most benovolent has acquired Moon ). Therefore, COMMENTS COMMENTS SAVING US FROM THE DEATH OF KAIVALYAM . THE DEATH OF KAIVALYAM SAVING US FROM COOLING US FROM THE SCORCH COOLING US DDITIONAL DDITIONAL OMMENTS OMMENTS SALUTATIONS TO THE LORD, WHO SALUTATIONS amrutha-amsu-udhbhavAya nama:). A C A C Our Lord is the Amrutha-maya amsu. He This is also an echo of the 284th naamam of Sri Vishnu Sahasra nAmam ( the mind of the MahA birth from ManasO Jaatha: attributes of BhagavAn such as T (banishing the heat of samsAram and Bhagavathanubhavam through the KaivalyAnubhavam). This caring and most nourishing nectar of His guNAnubhavam. nourishing quality of the Lord arising Sahasra Naamam: " the 819th nAmam of Sri Vishnu sadagopan.org the helpofthosenectar nectar rays,thejeevan risesfromits When the Nectar-rayedMoonofourLo Aanandhavalli Vaakyams: BrahmAnubhavam as"amruthAsan" feedsuswith This amrutha-amsan Satham. that iscelebratedthroughthisFift He isthepowerofamruthakiraNam Upanishad passage(8.12.2): becomes manifestinhisowntruenatu ParamjyOthirupamsampadhyasv Sa yEkOBrahmaNaaanandha:ra "yEvam yeva yEsha samprasAdhA asmAth sarIrAth samutthAya samutthAya sarIrAth asmAth "yEvamyevayEshasamprasAdhA rays oftheLordattain bhavathi h nAmamofSrIVenkatEsaAshtOtthara 40 sarIram, entersthe101stnaadiandwith sarIram, sam hyEvAyamlaBdhvAaanandhI rd (amruthAmsu) feeds us with those rd (amruthAmsu)feedsuswith Ena roopEnaabhinishpadhyathE" celebrated inTaitthiriyaUpanishad re asrevealedbytheChAndhOgya theamruthamofParipoorNa of the Moon on top of Venkata Giri of theMoonontopVenkataGiri s theSupreme Brahmanand sadagopan.org s of SrI VenkatEsa IS WORSHIPPED BY THE ENTIRE IS WORSHIPPED AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM ThiruPuLiyangudi ThiruPuLiyangudi ThiruPuLiyangudi ------N N N 41 e 5th and 6th slOkam and 6th e 5th TH TH TH WORLD! jgd! vN*ay nm> jgd! vN*ay ) 6 6 6 HE HE HE T T T à[vm! Sri KAisiniVendan Sri KAisiniVendan Sri KAisiniVendan bject of worship of Brahma, Rudra, other DevAs and bject of worship of Brahma, ( Aaday padyugmcRiytu< àpÚa> praNavam) jagad vandyAya nama: praNavam) jagad AÈyaidsÝ\;ySsmupaSy sNXya< ( AakazisNxukmlain mnaehrai[, mnaehrai[, AakazisNxukmlain ze;aiÔzeorivÉae tv suàÉatm!. 5. SALUTATIONS TO OUR LORD, WHO SALUTATIONS OMMENTS OMMENTS C C Lord SrInivAsan is the o celebrated Sages as visualized by th SuprabhAtham : sadagopan.org SeshAchalam! Mayitbeanauspicious dawntoThee!. theday).OhMasterout thePanchAngam (theplanetarypositionsfor of Nearby,Brah like Thrivikramaavatharam. Indra arerecallingwithreverenceyour The Five-faced Isvaran,theLotus-bo you! Thy sacred feet. Oh Lordbring beautiful lotusesfromthedivineGangestoperformworshipat of SeshAlacham! MayHaving completedtheprAtha:sandhya-va this be an auspicious day for Meaning Meaning Meaning Meaning sEshAdri sEkharavibhO!tavasuprabhAtam||5 sEshadri sEkharavibhO!tavasuprabhAtam ||6 pancanana abjabhavashaNmukhavAsavAdhyA: atryAdi saptarishayas samupAsya sandhyAm atryAdi saptarishayassamupAsya bhAshApati: paThati vAsarasuddhim aarAt aarAt bhAshApati: paThativAsarasuddhim traivikramAdi caritamvibudhA:stuvanti| AadAya pAdayugamarcayitumprapannA: ze;aiÔzeorivÉaetvsuàÉatm!.6. AakAsa sindhukamalAnimanoharANi| ÇEiv³maidcirt darsanam will assure Moksham for darsanam will eyes to see your glorious and to see your eyes naamAs and thus have assured myself all as the Supreme among all Gods and all Gods among all as the Supreme Achalam and in the heart lotuses ofheart lotuses and in the Achalam rd VenkatEsan becomes the Bhuvana- rd becomes VenkatEsan ds to our prayer for protection: ds to our prayer for protection: 45 of the Sixth Naamam of the SrI VenkatEsa ïImn! k«pajlinxe k«tsvRlaek ïImn! k«pajlinxe k«tsvRlaek ïIve»qez cr[aE zr[< àp*e. ïIve»qez Svaimn! suzIl sulÉaiïtpairjat Svaimn! suzIl sulÉaiïtpairjat svR} z´ ntvTsl svRzei;n!, svR} z´ ntvTsl svRzei;n!, swAmin suseela sulabhAsrita pArijAta Srimann krupAjalanidhE kruta sarvalOka Srimann krupAjalanidhE kruta sarvaj~na saktha natavatsala sarvasEshin | srI vEnkaTEsa caraNau saraNam prapadyE || Meaning Meaning AshtOttharam. This is the essence thousands of have Yogis! One should Your mere VANDHYAN. you are JAGATH result of Poorva Janma sukrutham devotion to you. As a those with pious I am standing from previous janmAs), (PuNyam acquired You before and tasting of Thy sweet the amrutham Oh Venkatesa standing on top of Sesh on top of standing Oh Venkatesa of a stepping stone to come close to You, whose holy feet shines with with shines feet holy whose You, to You are recognized by beautiful roopam. close come to stone stepping a of matchless, radiant lustre. Lo His BhakthAs, Worshipped by all of Vandhyan (Jagadh-Vandhyan) and respon Vandhyan (Jagadh-Vandhyan) sadagopan.org b b b The combinationof"gO"and"V Patti SriKrishnaIyengar).TheDhAthu "Viddh”. The "gO" sabdhamhasbeen gi ismadeupof The Naamam"Govindhan" C C OMMENTS OMMENTS ten avathArams (DasAvathAran). ten avathArams(DasAvathAran). One whogiftedVajrAyudham toIndh vEdhyan), throughVe the Onewhoisunderstood theOne who grantsMoks SALUTATIONS TOTHEREVERED ( praNavam) govindAya nama: praNavam) govindAya ( T T T à[vm! HE HE ham (Mokshapradhan), HE TherazhundUr PerumAL TherazhundUr PerumAL TherazhundUr PerumAL GOVINDHAN! iddh" revealsthattheLordIs: 7 7 7 ) TH TH TH gaeivNday nm> 46 N N N LORD KNOWN BYTHENAMEOF ven tenmeaningsbyscholars(SummA twosabdhams:"gO"andthedhAthu, "Viddh" hasbeengivenfourmeanings. AAMAM AAMAM dAs andsalutedby AAMAM ran andtheOnewho tookonthe the VedAs (Veda- VedAs the sadagopan.org Padham, if they if they Padham, m" after the episode of the lifting of the lifting m" after the episode the Lord's Parama of eternally liberated (nithya sooris) rd, this nAmam places the Lord in our rd, this nAmam places the Lord han. Those, who are in SamsAra world Vaachya PrabhAvam) according to Sri Vaachya PrabhAvam) and will be venerated by one and all. KrishNa maam doora Vaasinam KrishNa maam doora Vaasinam cred name blessed Dhroupathi with the Dhroupathi cred name blessed 47 the ancient Rg Vedam already: Rg Vedam the ancient --Rg Vedam: IX.96.19 apAm Urmim sachamAna: samudhram chamUshchyEna: sakunO vibhuthvaam sakunO vibhuthvaam chamUshchyEna: GOVINDUR-DRAPSA aayudhAni Bibrath GOVINDUR-DRAPSA aayudhAni thurIyam dhAma nahishO vivakthi OMMENTS OMMENTS C C riNam pravriddham iva mEhrudayAth nApasarpati" “Droupathikku aapatthil pudavai surandhadu ThirunAmam irE" aapatthil pudavai surandhadu “Droupathikku "GovindhEthi yath Aakrandaat DDITIONAL DDITIONAL A A Meaning Meaning also wore those aayudhams of the Lord One eagle (GarudA?) joined the assembly due to prakruthi sambhandham will reach of the Govardhana Giri by the Lord to protect His devotees. of the Govardhana in Govindha Naamam is celebrated of Lord Govind by adorning the weapons IndhrA performs "Govindha PattAbhishEka IndhrA performs "Govindha PiLlailOkAchaar: utter distress, this sa (In the time of her Maana samrakshaNam).vasthrams for of the Lo More than other sacred names debt forever: This sacred name of the Lord is more powerful than the Lord Himself Himself Lord the than powerful more is Lord the of name sacred This is greater than (Vaachaka prabhAvam sadagopan.org Paasurams (NTM 1.3,10.7and12.4). Paasurams specifically asVenkatAchalapath Lord. Sheperforms MangaLAsAsanamfor"Govindhan"and identifiesHim In the28thThiruppAvai, the singing ofthe nAmam ofGovindhanandkeepHerlifein tact: thatShewillwaitforHi declares ANDAL name, "KuRaiOnRum illAGovindhan"inhismulti-tomed,brilliant monographs. celebrated thedoctrines behindth Him. VaikuntaVaasiU.Ve.MukkUr the jeevans withHer Lordandshowed Her sacredThiruppAvai.Shedeclared Sakala KalyANaGuNaSampoorNan)ador Lord VenkatEsanis“ sannidhi andallaround. reaches a crescendo fromdawntodusk ofPurattAsiSravaNam,th "Birthday" GovindhA! echoes sankeerthanam naama Govindha of thesweetsound Saturdays, PerumAL's nameisVenkataKrishNan Govindha NaamasankIrthanamisvery the sacredfeetof KaNNan (Govindhan). GOpAlan andSwamyNammAzhwArinstruct " emphasis ontheGovindhanAmam That iswhyANDAL,PeriyAzhwAran recognized as: Govindhan, thecowherd ofGokulamth This "Govindha"naamamhasbeenpoin KaNNan yennum KarumDhaivam "gavAdhishu vindhEssamj~nAyAm". "gavAdhishu vindhEssamj~nAyAm". "Govindhan guNampaadiAavikAtthiruppEn" the KuRaionRumillaGovindhan She salutes"KuRaionRum ilaa Govindhan”, Herdear fromthesacredhillsofThirumalai.OnHis ". PeriyAzhwAr enjoyedHimasBaala 48 i inHer NaacchiyArThirmozhi Lakshmi NarasimhAcchArSwamy has d SwamyNammAzhwArplacedspecial e sanctifying Govindha naama gOsham e sanctifyingGovindhanaamagOsham the inalienablerelationship betweenus, e blemishless Tattvams behindthe e blemishlessTattvams us thewayto performkaimkaryamto ted outasbeingunique toourLord special to Thiruppathi Venkatesan. specialtoThiruppathiVenkatesan. (KaNNan). ANdalsalutedHimas (KaNNan). as atThiruvallikkENi.OnPurattAsi in theinnerchambe ed byHisdivineconsortANDALin ru PaaNini Soothramrulesandis ru PaaNini s grace as long as it takes, through ed ustoperformSaraNAgathiat " (Blemishless Lord: rs of the Lord's rs oftheLord's sadagopan.org ) ) WAMY WAMY S S is celebrated by is celebrated by PATTI PATTI A A bliss of listening to the listening to bliss of UMM UMM S S BY BY s. This essay will get longer if we s. This essay 4.5.8, 4.6.4, 2.3.4, 2.5.6, 2.9.11 4.5.8, 4.6.4, ( ( to come near Her (YasOdhai's) son, to come near ch is recognized by Upanishads and by recognized ch is e Veda Moorthy, who is and being celebrated by Upanishads of the AzhwAr's PiLLai Tamizh of the AzhwAr's Her son by the name of Govindhan to Her son by the als of Droupathi, when she was was she als of Droupathi, when asudEvan,but him in great she called avAs. She did not call Krishna by the Krishna not call avAs. She did does Govinda Naama sankIrthanam in does Govinda 49 responded immediately. Govindhan is the SaraNAgatha rakshakan and responded atEsa AshtOtthara satha Naamam. SABDHAM SABDHAM chitthar is lost in the is lost in the chitthar O" O" G G " " OF OF "gObhi: Veda-vaakdhya vEdhyathE ithi Govindha:" vEdhyathE Veda-vaakdhya "gObhi: EANINGS EANINGS M M EN EN T T 1. (NaarAyaNOPanishad) "BrahmaNyO DevakI Puthraaya:" 2. Upanishad) "KrishNAya DevakI PuthrAya" (ChAndhOgya 3. "Tadhasmyaham VaasudEva:" (Brahma Bindhu Upanishda) and 4. GopAla TaapanIyOpanishad passages. HE HE T T His pious feet are enjoyed as bliss by devathAs as bliss by devathAs His pious feet are enjoyed Veda prasiddham is the Govindha Naamam: describe these exquisite anubhavams exquisite describe these 4.3.4, 4.4.9, Thirumozhi: (PeriyAzhwAr This is the same "Govindha" nAmam that 3.6.3, 3.6.8 and 3.6.2, (Periya Thirumozhi: of Govindhan playing divine flute invites the Young Moon 3.6.11). AzhwAr as YasOdhai invites Govindhan. AzhwAr pierced. PeriyAzhwAr have His ears Thirumozhi TWELVE time His PeriyAzhwAr and 3.4.1). Govindhan is As indicated earlier, immediately to the desparate appe at the court of Kaur being humiliated Va Maadhavan or names of Achyuthan, Govindhan, He pain with the name of GopAla Sahasra Naamams: Vedam. Thiruppathi GOvindhan is thus th Her dear father, Sri Vishnu father, Sri Her dear name of KrishNa-VaasudEvan su and as the Seventh Naamam of Sri Venk sadagopan.org That NivAsan isSrInivAsanofThirumalai. That NivAsan ancient eulogy: Govind will concludethissalutationto The manyderivativemeanin sabdham ofGovindhan,which refers to: He SrIman NaarAyaNaPara-tatthvam. ofThirumazhisa is themangaLAsAsanam is anothersruthipramANam. Govindan isSarvasabdha-vaachyan. 10. Jayam or Victory. or 10. Jayam BhUmiand 9. JwaalaiorParamJyOthi 8. Divinesight 7. VajrAweapon 6. divinespeech 5. 4. Cow 3. arrow 2. Moksham 1. Veda Vaak "MaathA PithABhrAthA nivAsa:SaraNamsuhruthgathiGovindha:" "SollinAl thodarcchiNee, "SarvE VedA-yathrai:kambhavanthi" sarvE VedAyathPadhamaamananthi gs oftheteninterpretati 50 ha Naamamwiththe sollappadum poruLumNee" i AzhwAr,theexpertresearcheron i bases hisconclusiononthe"gO" ons are limitless. AdiyEn ons arelimitless.AdiyEn adaptation ofan sadagopan.org thi:" (Eternal Tranquility). "Sasvath AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM HO IS ETERNAL, EVERLASTING, HO IS ETERNAL, N N N 51 zañtay nm> zañtay nm> aasvatha:" SrImath RamAyaNam refers to ) TH TH TH 8 8 8 HE vath" meaning eternal, everlasting and perpetual. eternal, everlasting and perpetual. vath" meaning HE HE à[vm! ( T T T Thiru ArimEya Vinnagara PerumAL Thiru ArimEya Thiru ArimEya Vinnagara PerumAL Thiru ArimEya Thiru ArimEya Vinnagara PerumAL Thiru ArimEya (praNavam) sAsvatAya nama: (praNavam) sAsvatAya (eternal years). UNDECAYING AND IMPERISHABLE! UNDECAYING SALUTATIONS TO THE LORD W SALUTATIONS ”Pathim visvasya AthmEswaram Achyutham". SAASVATHAM Sivam OMMENTS OMMENTS C C The name derives from "Sas Saasavthan is one, who is undecaying, eternal, Para Brahmam, SrIman NarAyaNa-Venkatesan. He is "SasvacchAn SrI NaarAyana as Saasvathan: anuvAkam recognizes Him bhava: Ann“ is the derivation for "S the "Saasvathi Sama:" sadagopan.org This Upanishad salutes Himastheeterna This Upanishadsalutes eternal. is referredtohereandHerecogniz Our Lord'sbecoming themanifolduniverse UltimateAksharaBrahman. supporting manthram recognizestheLordasSaas He istheeternalandImperishableOn Nama:“. Akshara Brahmam,theTatthvambe onMahA willfocusbriefly Naar We manthrams. andother fromthese isinferred destruction Nama:".Hiseternalpresence in"SaasvathAya creation,sustenanceand "Sasvath" andHAVECONNECTIONTOTHESALUTATION decay (Rg.I.113.13).AllofthesemanthramsstartwiththePowerfulword in Life(Rg.X.69.11,X.70.3),theeternal in threeRgVedamanthramsastheanth The RgVedicreference tothe eternale In thetenthchapter ofBhagavathGitA Lord and transcendental He istheremoverofobstaclesforhi eternal friend, parent andcommander oftheJeevans. Meaning Meaning "yadEkam avyaktham anantha Roopam Visvam PurANamTamasa: "yadEkam avyakthamananthaRoopamVisvam "YadhaksharEParamEprajA:"--Manthram 3 ..Mantram 5,uttharaPaadham who isforeverpresent. ParasthAth". AyaNOpanishad forPramANamsonthe 52 gher knowledge about Him, an immanent gher knowledgeaboutHim,animmanent dawn going on forever without death or dawn goingonforeverwithoutdeathor hind the 8th nAmam, "SaasvathAya hind the8thnAmam,"SaasvathAya , ArjunA acknowledges and salutes the , ArjunAacknowledges andsalutes xistence oftheLord(Sasvath)isseen aryAmi of Agni burning up adversities aryAmi ofAgniburningupadversities ed as the older than the oldest and ed astheolderthanoldestand vathan being SarvaSeshi,theSelf- e inwhomallcreaturesabide.This l webandwoofofcr oflimitlessvarietyandmultiplicity eation. Heisthe sadagopan.org ison about you as the eternal, divineison about you as the eternal, Light and the Supreme Sanctifier. All Sanctifier. Light and the Supreme erent sections of Sri Vishnu Sahasra erent sections ttar's comments on this all powerful m are two passages in Bhagavath GitA ting to the 8th AshtOtthara Satha ting to the 8th AshtOtthara 53 Sri Vishnu Sahasra Naama SthOthram ara Tatthva YATAmya vidha:" Rishis are You yourself also proclaim this". You yourself also proclaim this". ERNAL DIVINE PERSON, THE PRIMAL DIVINE PERSON, THE PRIMAL ERNAL ChEthanams, Achethanams and Prakruthi. and Prakruthi. Achethanams ChEthanams, ality of the highest truth (Yourself) and the lower ality of the highest truth (Yourself) --Bhagavath GitA: 10.12& 13 --Bhagavath OMMENTS OMMENTS C C AsithO DevalO VyAsa: Svayam chaiva BravIshi mE VyAsa: Svayam chaiva BravIshi AsithO DevalO aahusthvAm Rushaya: sarvE Devarshi: NaaradhastaTA sarvE Devarshi: NaaradhastaTA aahusthvAm Rushaya: Param Brahma Param DhAma Pavithram Parmam BhavAn Parmam DhAma Pavithram Brahma Param Param Purusham SAASVATHAM dhivyAn AadhidEvam ajam dhivyAn AadhidEvam Purusham SAASVATHAM Vibhum DDITIONAL DDITIONAL A Meaning A Meaning We focused so far on the Rg Vedic, Upanishadic and Smruthi (Bhagavath GitA) connotations of the 8th naamam so far. This 8th name appears THRICE in the Sages proclaim you as THE ET the Sages proclaim you as proclaim the ALL-PERVADING. So also LORD, THE UNBORN AND divine sages, Asita, and VyAsa. Devala The last reference to Bhagavath Vaakya "parAv (7.4 and 10.8). The Rishis are the true knowers of the re truth (Individual souls). They speak in un Lord of Purushan and as the principal rela These are some of the meanings NaamA of Sri VenkatEsan. (57th, 121st and 633rd Naamams). We will now study Swamy PrAsara Bha You are Supreme Brahman, the Supreme You are Supreme Brahman, Naamam as it appears at the three diff ETERNAL (SAASVATHAN) PARABRAHMAM this way: this PARABRAHMAM (SAASVATHAN) ETERNAL sadagopan.org (Sustenance) andantha:(end) to theLord'sceaselessactivitiespert theVi This interpretationisbasedon the worldsuchasitsCreation (He is Eternal/Saasvatha:becauseofthe ParAsara Bhattarcomments: Nama:"occurs.Swamy is thecontext,wheresalutation,"SaasvathAya having just a little oftheabove- having justalittle "The nectar, whichistheessence ofthe IS DIFFERENTfromthisnectar churne and makesthemlive"forever".Bhatta Amrutham" (OurLord)totheotheror of one, who iseternalandsteady The 121stand122ndnaamAsarejoined Naamam. from theOcean)isnotonlytransi of returningtotheworldmortalsfo enjoying Him.Heistheobject of By HimselfHeisEternal andcannot different fromit,because T T T T T T HE HE HE HE HE HE "yEvam Saasvatha:anavarata-Jaga 633 121 57 633 121 57 "AgrAhya: SAASVATHA:KrishNO TH TH ST RD ST RD V V V V V V ISH ISH ISH ISH ISH ISH N N N N N N U U U U S U S U S S S S AHASRA AHASRA AHASRA AHASRA AHASRA AHASRA He isSaasvathanandSTAN "Saasvatha: STira:" , SustenanceandDissolution). of theworldanditsbeings. N N N N N N tory, but canbetakenonlyonce." tory, but AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM 54 enjoyment tothose, who neverthink shNu PurANaSlOkam(1.2.26)referring . Bhattarcomparesour"AparyAptha r points outourLordasSAASVATHAN r points r rebirths.Thatothernectar(obtained dh-vyApaara pravathvEnaNithya:" mentioned power. d outoftheMilkyOceanthisway: dinary nectar, whichrejuvenates one above by Bhattar to give the meaning givethemeaning above byBhattarto Ocean isknown assuchbecauseof its be takenawayfromthose,whoare aining toSrushti(Creation), STithi uninterrupted activitiespertainingto LOhithAksha: Pratardhana:" : : : : "S "S AASVATHA AASVATHA u (eternal and steady). u (eternalandsteady). But BhagavAnis : STAN : STAN U U ” ” sadagopan.org ce of the Vedic ce of the Vedic STirathvam are individually and STirathvam are individually STitha: syAth Saasvatha: STira: STitha: syAth to the 8th SrI VenkatEsa Sahasra to the 8th in Sri Vishnu Sahasra Naamam and Naamam and Vishnu Sahasra in Sri ra Bhattar in his commentary for the ra Bhattar in his commentary e assumes the various forms of thee assumes the and the significan rs into it and remains there". ArchA ArchA rs into it and remains there". and which are directly perceptible to and which are 55 aasvatha-STiran" assumes a form similar nAmam, "STira:" (SAASVATHA: STIRA:). STIRA:). "STira:" (SAASVATHA: nAmam, celebrated here. BhimBha-AakruthyA AathmanA BhimBhE AathmanA BhimBhE BhimBha-AakruthyA to that of the consecrated image, ente to that of the consecrated ParAsa by Swamy collectively celebrated Naamam of "SaasvathAya Nama:". the eyes at all times. Our Lord as "S the eyes at form of the Lord is and The Saasvathathvam, STANuthvam three VishNU Sahasra Naamams relating with the next it is coupled this time explains the meanings Niruktha, which in this context: words observes of from Saathva SamhithA the above passage Niruktha follows Text, which means: “H PaancharAthram images, which to exist for ever continue "Saasvatha:" the third time appears for sadagopan.org The Sruthisalutes: ontop of standing VaradarAjan and otherDevaas.HeisSarVabhIshta As Prabhu,Heiscapable One definition of”Prabhu" isalong thisway: BhagavAn istheSupreme MasterofAll-Prabhu! C A C A OMMENTS OMMENTS DDITIONAL DDITIONAL "BrahmAdhInAm chasarvEshAmBhOgaMokshasamarpaNESamarTa: SALUTATIONS TOTHELORDWHO "VisvamNaarAyaNam DevamaksharamParamamPRABHUM" C C Prabhu: ithyuktha: sarvEshtaphaladhOmanu:" OMMENTS OMMENTS AndAL with RangaMannAr AndAL with RangaMannAr AndAL with RangaMannAr (praNavam) prabhavenama: of conferring BhOgam and T T T HE HE HE ( à[vm! 9 9 9 Saptha GiriasSrIVenkatEsan. TH TH TH ) N N N 56 àÉve nm> Daayakan. He is the Varam Kodukkum Daayakan.HeistheVaramKodukkum AAM AAM AAM ------IS THELORDANDMASTER SrivilliputhUr SrivilliputhUr SrivilliputhUr A A A M M M Moksham eventoBrahmA sadagopan.org a Naamam and Isvaraa Naamam and is the Supreme Ruler. When this Lord When this Ruler. the Supreme are the two ways of juxtaposing the are the two ways Prabhava PRABHU: Isvara:" PRABHU: Isvara:" Prabhava ed between Prabhava: and Isvara:ed between Prabhava: for sublime birth. "Prabhu:" means one who means one who "Prabhu:" sublime birth. Moksham, which no other God can grant. Moksham, which no other 57 ng as Isvaran "Prabhu: and Isvaran". ng as : is the 34th VishNu Sahasr : is the 34th VishNu "sambhavO bhAvanO barthA bhAvanO "sambhavO of capable is world "Prabhu: Isvara:" and "Prabhava Prabhu:" the of nAmam, "Prabhu:". Prabhava Lord the as sandwich "Prabhu:" is the 36th Naamam. He powerful. all and Omnipotent is all purushArTams including conferring Lord (Prabhu:). all powerful Thus He is who is Lord, "PrabhurIsvara:" means the of ruli the power incarnates, He keeps "Prabhu:" is the 35th Sri Vishnu Sahsra Naamam. Sahsra Naamam. 35th Sri Vishnu the is "Prabhu:" a special reason. a special reason. one of exalted and "Prabhava:" refers sadagopan.org These seven hills aresaluted inSri aalayam inKaliyugamwillstayontopofAdhisEshan's sevenheads. SrIman NaarAyaNacomfortedAdhisEsh binding himselftightlytoitandthat and AdhisEshan,apieceofMerumounta abode. TheSthalaPurANamstatesthat This nAmamreferstoLordVenkatEsan C C OMMENTS OMMENTS SALUTATIONS TOTHELO (praNavam) sEshAdrinilayAyanama: ( Utsavar Malayappa swamy Utsavar Malayappa swamy Utsavar Malayappa swamy à[vm! T T T HE HE HE SESHADHRI HILLS! 10 10 10 ) ze;aiÔinlyay nm> RD, WHOSE CHOSENRES VenkatEsa SubrabhAtham (SlOkam15): TH TH TH 58 N N N piecelanded intoday'sThirumalai. in was blown away as AdhisEshan was wasblownawayasAdhisEshan in in a mighty contest between Vaayu inamightycontestbetweenVaayu having Seshaadhri as His favorite havingSeshaadhriasHisfavorite AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM an withtheassurancethat His ------Thirupathi Thirupathi Thirupathi I DIENCE IS sadagopan.org ri). The peak of these seven hills is ri). The peak of these seven DwarakA-NilayAchyutha" minds one of the famous prayer of chalam, VenkatAdhri, NaarAyaNAdhri, otect Her, as she was being humiliated otect Her, as she was , who has as His aasthAnam/nilayam/ 59 ïIze;zEl géfaclve»qaiÔ- géfaclve»qaiÔ- ïIze;zEl AaOya< TvdIyvsterinz< vdiNt AaOya< TvdIyvsterinz< ïIve»qaclpte tv suàÉatm!. ïIve»qaclpte naray[aiÔ v&;ÉaiÔ v&;aiÔ muOyam!, v&;ÉaiÔ v&;aiÔ muOyam!, naray[aiÔ aakhyAm tvadIya vasatEranisam vadanti aakhyAm tvadIya vasatEranisam SrIsEshasaila garuDaachala vEnkaTaadri- garuDaachala vEnkaTaadri- SrIsEshasaila SrI vEnkaTaacalapatE tava suprabhAtamSrI vEnkaTaacalapatE tava || nArAyaNaadri vrushabhAdri vrushAdri mukhyAm | "Sankha Chakra GadhApANE Meaning Meaning VrushabhAdhri, VrushAdhri (and AnjanAdh VrushabhAdhri, VrushAdhri reside. Seshadhri, which is where you Lord SeshAdhrinilayan is the Supreme abode, the Sesha Hills. nAmam re part of this This "nilayam" Droupadhi, when BhagavAn rushed to pr at the court of KouravAs: DwarakA-Nilyan is Lord KrishNan on the west coast and SeshAdhri-Nilayan is SeshAdhri hills. in His SrI VenkatEsan Oh Lord of Venkatam hills! The abode of Thine is always called by several several by called always is Thine of abode The hills! Venkatam of Lord Oh GaruDA names such as Sri Seshasailam, sadagopan.org b b C SALUTATIONS TOTHATKESAVA!W C THE WORLD, THE ONE WHO HAS SOFT, CURLY, SHININGBLUELOCKS THE WORLD,ONEWHOHASSOFT,CURLY, OMMENTS OMMENTS "ThrilOkAthmA ThrilOkEsa:KESAVA:KesihAHari" blue locks ofhair,He iswellknown asKesavan). neela-kEsathvAth Kesava:Parikeerthitha: black color. Nirukthadefines theKesava Naamamthisway: hair (Kesa:)isknownforitsnaturalcu correctnessgrammatical accordingtoSwamyParAsaraBhattar.OurLord's "Kesa" ismadeupof "Kesava" naamam Vishnu Sahasra Naamam.Itisth "Naarasimha Vapu:SrImAnKESAVA:PurushOtthama:" OF HAIRANDTHEONEWHODES : : (praNavam) kesavAyanama: T T T Adi Keshava PerumAL Adi Keshava PerumAL Adi Keshava PerumAL HE HE HE ( à[vm! 11 11 11 NAME OFKESI. TH TH TH ) kezvay nm> 60 N N N e 23rd SrI VishNu Sahasra Naamam. e 23rdSrIVishNu Sahasra Naamam. HO ISTHEDISPELLEROFSTRESSIN rliness, softnessandexquisitebluish- TROYED THEASURANBY AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM ------with a suffix "Va" added to it for withasuffix"Va"addedtoit ThiruvattAru ThiruvattAru ThiruvattAru (becauseofHiscelebrated is anotherSriVishnu thunders Sri thunders Sri "Prasastha sadagopan.org AsVaishNavan that a SrI of our body with five right hand va Naamam appears again as the again as the appears va Naamam ) is the touching of the right cheek by Swamy ParAsara Bhattar in this Bhattar in this by Swamy ParAsara Kesava: Parikeerthitha:" Kesava: Parikeerthitha:" time with reference to BrahmA and and BrahmA to reference with time and He presides over the Eastern and He presides AraNams on our foreheads. Kesava Isa, who rules over all the embodied Isa, who rules over all the +Isa gives the the name, "Kesa". With ms as VaishNava LakshaNam every day and therefore Thou art known by the by the and therefore Thou art known aNa the origin Kesava Naamam of the feet. The PunDra SthAnam for Kesavan The PunDra feet. 61 is the first of the 12 Naam Ka ithi BrahmaNO nAma IsOham Sarva dEhinAm Ka ithi BrahmaNO nAma IsOham "BrahmEsayO: svAngajathvAth "BrahmEsayO: aavAm TavAngE sambhoothou tasmAth Kesava nAmavAn "Chathus-cchakram namasyAmi Kesavam Kanaka-prabham" After Aachmanam, we touch twelve parts fingers. The first of them (anga nyAsam fingers. The Kesavaaya Nama: utters, when adorning the 12 PuNDra to remind him of the Lord's sacred golden is the Forehead. His color is direction. His weapon is Sudarsanam/Chakram: 654th Naamam. 654th Naamam. Sahasra Naamam passage,Sahasra Kesa where Meaning Meaning b Moorthy adorns four chakrAyudham in His Four hands. this way: "Ka is BrahmA's name; I am this way: "Ka is BrahmA's of Ka name of Kesavan". The combination addition of "va" it becomes "kesava". b We invoke Him during our PuNDra Dh Lord Siva describes to Sriman NaarAy (BrahmA us of Both SaraNyan. sarvalOka the body You, of Thy command the of with beings out born been have I) and Nirukthi defines the Kesava NaamamNirukthi defines this quoted Hari Vamsa SlOkam A well known context is : Sivan arising : of Sriman NaarAyaNan's body out sadagopan.org nayk[ :ce[[ mactiaiT epb b eachcorrespondingtoonename of theLord)".nAmams, withthissimplepractice associated designation oftheLord'smen/BhAgavat every SrI VaishNava.Theyare theinsi by beadorned to arethenamesof UrdhvaPuNDrAs DaamOdhara trueVaishNavAs been transformedinto seven generationsprevious,includ achievementfor servants. Whatafine Lord withred(lotus)eyes,NaarAyaNa, "My Lord,Coollikethebluegemstone Ekcv[ b b Meaning accordingtoDr.V.N.VedAntha Desikan Swamy Meaning accordingtoDr.V.N.VedAntha Desikan Swamy In the7th ThiruppAvaiPaasuram, Paattu : bySwamyNammAzhwArin pointed out The importance of Kesava Naamam among the Twelve TarpayAmi". Kesavam is“(PraNavam) salutation names of the Lord is during In theKesavAdhiTarpaNam the 12salutationstoLord. “(PraNavam) KesavAyaNama:" (Kannam) withtherightthumband f 'm f tma fkRma]ik Isanenkaru-mANikkam yennsEnkOlakkaNNan viNNOr KESAVANtamarkeezhmElyemarEzhuezhupiRappum maasatirithu peRRu nammudai vaazhvuvaaykkinRavA peRRunammudai maasatirithu fpirae[m f k NaayakanYempirAnammAnNaarAyaNanAlE f B nm I z fEml fkm fma[ MAd vaz fMAd f '[ 'mErezZ pibp f 'mErezZ f naray][aEl --ThiruvAimozhi: 2.7.1 f ecg fv fEkalk < vay Kesava Naamam takes precedenceamongKesava Naamamtakes 62 , beautiful doyen of Nitya-Sooris, the the , beautifuldoyenofNitya-Sooris, of adorningtheuppertorsowith12 fp fk me, that I had never dreamt of, that of, had neverdreamt me, thatI ing meandsevensucceeding,haveall fk] . (ThetwelvenamesfromKesavato ThiruvAimozhi's Panniru Naamap ThiruvAimozhi'sPanniruNaamap the salutationatthattimeis f][ fbva f vi] fE]aa f sadagopan.org ictions) of all and who killed the ictions) of all and who killed boon of pressing the sacred feet of boon of pressing the sacred am (NTM), Andal prays to Manmathan prays to Manmathan am (NTM), Andal Our Andal reveals the identity ofOur Andal reveals (with annotated commentaries) can be door although she is wide awake: she is door although 63 /ebooks/NachiyaarThirumozhi.pdf --NTM: 1.8 Saptha Giri as the One with the dark blue tresses, the dark blue tresses, Saptha Giri as the One with tEsamudayAi! ThiRavElOrempAvAi" ThiRavElOrempAvAi" tEsamudayAi! "Naayaka PeNN PiLLAi NaarAyaNan Moorthy PiLLAi "Naayaka PeNN KESAVANAIP-Paadavum nee kEttO kidatthiyO nee kEttO kidatthiyO KESAVANAIP-Paadavum "Kesava Nambiyai kaal pidippAL yennum ippERenakku aruL kaNDAi" "Kesava Nambiyai kaal pidippAL In Her NaacchiyAr Thirumozhi paasur In Her NaacchiyAr to assign Her to the Lord of ThiruvEnkatam: to the Lord of ThiruvEnkatam: to assign Her friends, who is a leader of Her ghOshti (Naayaka of Her ghOshti who is a leader friends, for not PILLai) PeNN open the front out of bed to getting b (Oh ManmathA! Please bless me with the Please bless me (Oh ManmathA! top of the Seven Hills!) Kesava Moorthy standing on NTM, First decad of Thus in this VenkatanAthan, the Lord of (SamsAricwho removes the distress affl asuran named Kesi during KrishNAvathAram. Thirumozhi NOTE: The entire NAchiAr found at http://sundarasimham.org sadagopan.org are: DevabruthayaE nama: (494thname other VSNs which areclosetothe This isthe377thnaamam inSriVishnu C C SALUTATIONS TOTHEMASTEROF OMMENTS OMMENTS T T T (praNavam) devAya nama: (praNavam) devAya Thiru ThevanArThogaidivya desam Thiru ThevanArThogaidivya desam Thiru ThevanArThogaidivya desam HE HE HE ( à[vm! 12 12 12 TH TH TH ) 64 377th nAmam of DevAya Nama: Those 377th nAmamofDevAya Nama: N N N devay nm> THESENTIENTSANDINSENTIENTS Sahasra nAmam (VSN). There SahasranAmam(VSN). aretwo ) andDevEsAyanama: (493rdname). AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM sadagopan.org e Devan, the Lord and due to e Devan, the Lord and due and are stuck in the samsAric life and are stuck in the ft himself. He is coated with the the with coated is He himself. ft in the forest with the wild animals in the forest r explains this 377th nAmam along r explains this us of the jeevans bound by the Lord by the us of the jeevans bound e MaayAvi, who amuses Himself by Himself who amuses e MaayAvi, e karmas accumulated from previous n author on SrI VishNu Sahasra Naama n author on SrI sty roads of SamsAram through many are Bhaddha Jeevans who have not yet have not yet are Bhaddha Jeevans who 65 remains without Jn~Anam about tatthva about remains without Jn~Anam e enjoyment of Moola prakruthi. kinkarathva adhirAjyam avindhan, kalusha mathi --SrI VishNu PurANam: 6.7.19 OMMENTS OMMENTS ). These are the children of th ). These are the children C C anEka janma saahasrIm samsAra padhavIm vrajan mOha-srama-prayAthOsou vAsanA rENu kuNDitha: VyAgrAdhvath jeevavatatE: mAyA-pAsEna Bhandhanam mAyA-pAsEna VyAgrAdhvath jeevavatatE: kruthvA nithyam kirIDathi ya: Sa: Deva: parikeerthitha: parikeerthitha: ya: Sa: Deva: kruthvA nithyam kirIDathi DDITIONAL DDITIONAL Meaning A Meaning A births is deluded and exhausted and Thrayam and is without any energy to upli dirt of Karma vaasanAs. He enjoys th The Jeevan having traveled in the du traveled in The Jeevan having their aj~nAnam are involved in th their aj~nAnam are involved due to karma vaasanA: Here the focus is on the jeevans that Here the commentary of Swamy ParAsara Bhatta commentary of these lines: for the Lord been blessed with kaimkaryam due to Karma Bhandhams ( saktha Jeevans VishNu PurANa slOkam explains the stat (Moola of His own MaayA prakruthi) with the strings binding the jeevans and just like the hunters do plays with them subdued. that they have elaborations of an unknow Nirukthi, the The meanings are however quite different from the 377th nAmam. nAmam. the 377th from different quite are however The meanings nama:" salutes"DevAya Devan, th the sadagopan.org covering the disgustingwoundlikebody about theSwamy NammazhwArcomplainsinoneof Lord bindinganuvruttha samsAris(bound himThe endlessflowofKarmAs( up with strongbirths andishopelessly entangledinthenetofPrakruthi. ropes of previous karmAs and and tokeephimawayfromtheplace,whereLord is: The other meaning for Devan is tointerp The othermeaningfor Devanis asura svAbhAvaminBhagavathGeetha(16.19) : papams takebirth again andagaininthe yOnisof otherchEthanams having Our Lordvouchesfor hisdispositiontomakeachEthanam, whichaccumulated ithivakthArammAmmthAraya". TavAsmi Daasa: saraNAgathOsmi chaavasTithAm Dhaiveem GuNamayeem MAAYAAM daasabhUtha: buddher-jananIm dEhEndhriyathvEna thirOdhAnakarIm, viparIthaJn~AnaJananIm, sva-vishayAscchabhOgya svaroopa Bhagavath "madIya anAdhikarmapravAhapravrutthA that prakruthiitselfis jeevan to mistakeoneobject forth prakruthi hidesthesvaroop AchArya RaamAnujAexplainsinhisSara puNNaimaRayavarinthuyennaip-pOravaitthAipuRamE kshipAmyajasramasubhAn aasu thAnaham dhvishata:krUrAnsamsAreshu narAdhamAn tiNNam-azhunthak-kattip-pala seyvinaivankayiRRAl tiNNam-azhunthak-kattip-pala KaNNapirAnai ViNNOrkarumANikkatthiamudhai naNNiyum naNNahillEnnaduvEyOrudampilittu the mostenjoyable one: to samsAricafflictions). am ofPerumALfromthe anAdhi karmapravAham 66 e otherand makethejeevan believe NAgathi gadhyam as to howtheMoola NAgathi gadhyamasto withtheskin to bhOgyathvEna sookshma roopENa ret itastheabbreviation for"Deva his ThiruvAimozhi Paasurams (5.1.5) (5.1.5) his ThiruvAimozhiPaasurams reeshvEva yOnishu jeevan anddeludesthe hide the dhOshams hide thedhOshams ) makes them ) makes sadagopan.org vai). The 35th Sri VenkatEsa Sri VenkatEsa vai). The 35th aborates further on this line of aborates further NammAzhwAr addresses as this Devan 67 Muppatthu mukkOdi amararkku munn senRu kappam amararkku munn senRu Muppatthu mukkOdi as Andal saluted in ThiruppA as Andal saluted of ahead goes who One, the is He DevAs. the of Lord the or Talaiva" "ImayOr dEvAs ( 33 crores of tavikkukum Kali AshtOttara Nama:" nAmam "SurapthayE el interpretation. NaaTan" theNaaTan" Swamy Lord of DevAs. sadagopan.org organs thatdistract thechEtha Jeevans andNithya Sooris effortlessly. and drawsclosetoHimalltheMuktha Roopam andGuNamthatattracts The othermeaningof"Madhusoodhanan" as MadhusoodhananandtheLord ofSakalavidhyAs. SrI HayagrIvaSthOthramofSwamy conferred immeasurableprosperitytoth means theslayerMadhusoodhana of This is the74thnaamaminSri Vishnu SahasranAmam(VSN). C C SALUTATIONS TOTHELORD,W OMMENTS OMMENTS AND RESTOREDTHEVEDASTO (praNavam) MadhusoodanAya nama: (praNavam) MadhusoodanAya Sri Soundara Raaja PerumAL Sri Soundara Raaja PerumAL Sri Soundara Raaja PerumAL T ( T T à[vm! HE HE HE 13 13 13 ) HO DESTROYEDTHEASURAN MADHU TH TH TH mxusUdnay nm> 68 nams fromtheenjoyment ofthe N N N the asuranMadhu.Madhusoodhanan e DevAsbyslayingMadhu.Theentire relatestoHismatchlessSvaroopam, Madhu is the name of the sense HIS SON,BRAHMADEVAN ! AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM Desikan isaboutHisvaibhavam ------Thiru Naagai Thiru Naagai Thiru Naagai sadagopan.org ructs us that this SrInivAsan is also ructs us that this SrInivAsan is also rd Venkatesan as Madhusoodhananrd Venkatesan sookthi of Panniru ThirunAmam thissookthi of Panniru ThirunAmam n), who has MahA Lakshmi residing on n), who has ancient paapams by burning them away e four pestles (Ulakkai). The order of e four pestles (Ulakkai). The aNan, Maadhavan, Govindhan, VishNu, aNan, Maadhavan, Govindhan, SamsrayE Madhusoodhanam" SamsrayE Madhusoodhanam" the Parama PurushArTam of Mukthi and of Mukthi and the Parama PurushArTam 69 invoked, when a SrI VaishNava adorns the Urdhva "Ponn Maathu uRai Pankaya VaNNan" OMMENTS OMMENTS C C “Mudhumaa VinaikaL aRukkum muyalankaL IriraNDAn “. “Mudhumaa VinaikaL aRukkum "Chathur-musalAmBajAbham "Chathur-musalAmBajAbham vinaikaL = paapams, mudhu maa = ancient and huge, DDITIONAL DDITIONAL A A b b He is the Lord of the South Eastern Direction; His hue is that of a red lotus; lotus; red a of that is hue His Direction; Eastern South the of Lord the is He hands ar The weapons seen in His four the 12 NaamAs are: Kesavan, NaarAy MADHUSOODHANAN, Thrivikraman HrishikEsan, Vaamanan, SrIdharan, PadhmanAbhan and DaamOdharan. Swamy Desikan salutes His SrI Him in way: in this paasuramas also as: the Lord He identifies or the Lord of lotus hue (Madhusoodhana Venkatesan, since He destroys all of our His Chest always. Swamy Desikan also inst The Madhusoodana Naama is The Madhusoodana Him and blesses us with attracts us to Supreme Abode. residence at His arm with the manthram: PuNDram on his right, upper VailakshaNyams (glories)VailakshaNyams Svaroopam His DhivyAthma of Dhivya and Vigraham.ManagaLa for us, Lo affection Out of His great sadagopan.org every day. there Urdhva PuNDram upper righthandshoulderoftheSri four PestlesseenoneachofHisfo weapons fordestruct Madhusoodhanan's thePaasuram, In thispassageof b aRukkum =cuttingasunder 70 VaishNavan through the adornment of throughtheadornmentof VaishNavan ur hands.HehasHisseatonthe Swamy Desikaninstructsusthat ion/pulverization ofourpaapamsare sadagopan.org AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM and is the most worthy object of our companied by affectionate reverence. HO IS THE AMBROSIA, THE LIFE HO IS THE AMBROSIA, N mAmsi darsatham ghiruthAhavanam N N mmortal (amrutham) and all-knowing. He 71 shnu Sahasra nAmam (VSN). Rg Vedam Vedam Sahasra nAmam (VSN). Rg shnu Am&tay nm> TH TH TH ) 14 14 14 SrI Vaikuntha thirukOlam SrI Vaikuntha SrI Vaikuntha thirukOlam SrI Vaikuntha SrI Vaikuntha thirukOlam SrI Vaikuntha à[vm! HE HE HE ( T T T (praNavam) amrutAya nama: (praNavam) amrutAya GIVING NECTAR FOR HIS DEVOTEES. GIVING NECTAR (Rg Vedam 8.74.5) SALUTATIONS TO THE LORD, W SALUTATIONS OMMENTS OMMENTS Meaning C Meaning C Our Lord (the antharyAmi of Agni) is i invocations and offerings ac worship with This is the 120th naamam in Sri Vi salutes Amrutha Svaroopam of the Lord: "amrutham jaatavEdasam tiras ta Eedyam" is visible through the gloom of nescience sadagopan.org Padham). MangaLa Vigraham,whiletheydonithya KaimkaryamforHimatParama because theBhakthAs ne limitless manneror because Hechasesaway oldageanddeath fromthem or (He is recognized as AMRUTHA, since He is delectable to His BhakthAs inParAsara BhattarComments: a He istheinsatiablenectar(aparyA He istheMruthaSanjeevanamorresu "tEshAmniravdhikamAdhuryENa,jarA-maraNa vaaraNEna,Sadha sEvayAmapi atrupthi-karathvEnavaaAMRUTHA:" ver getsatiatedbyenjoyingHisDhivya ptha Amrutham), AarAvamudhan. Swamy Swamy ptha Amrutham),AarAvamudhan. 72 scitator from the death of ajn~Anam. thedeathofajn~Anam. from scitator sadagopan.org Dhava: is Husband. AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM u (Delectable bhOgyam as Honey). bhOgyam u (Delectable i Vishnu SahasranAmam (Naamams 73, i Vishnu SahasranAmam (Naamams N N ing Silence (Maa/Mounam), Meditation N 73 maxvay nm> TH TH TH ) Jn~Anam about Srushti Thiru MaNiKKoodam Thiru MaNiKKoodam Thiru MaNiKKoodam 15 15 15 à[vm! HE HE HE ( T T T praNavam) mAdhavAya nama: praNavam) mAdhavAya of Maadhavan are: . Maa means Lakshmi and ( (dha) and YogA (VA) SALUTATIONS TO THE DIVINE CONSORT OF MAHA LAKSHMI! CONSORT TO THE DIVINE SALUTATIONS 1. He is the scion of the Kulam of Madhu (Madhu KulOthbhavan) 2. is realized by observ One who 3. One who has the sankalpa 4. (upEyam) of prapatthi the target One who is 5. One who has the quality of Madh OMMENTS OMMENTS C C The importance of this nAmam can be inferred from the fact that the Lord is is Lord the that fact the from Sriya: inferred is be He can nAmam this of Lakshmi. importance MahA The of consort divine the is in Sr addressed thrice by this nAmam Maadhvan 741). and 169, Pathi, Lakshmi Kaanthan The other five meanings sadagopan.org 4. Swamy NammazhwAr invokes theMaad SwamyNammazhwAr 4. MaadhavaNaamamislinkedwith 3. SrIDhvAdasaNaamaPanjaraSthOth 2. Amongthetwelvenamesusedby 1. A A DDITIONAL DDITIONAL ThiruvAimozhi (TVM)Prabhandham: onThiruvAimozhi. wrotecommentary who to PoorvAchAryAs, is thusdeeply Dhvaya Manthramand this way: direction isUrdhavamorupperregion. maces asweaponsforourprotectionan the Pundram atChinthayAmi Chathurgadham". the center andNaarAyaNan: one afterKesavan of the chest.Vandhanam andadorningofUrdhva He is visualized as holding four DEATHS ". Here the link of Maadha it,FREEFR any one,whomasters LAKSHMI, withoutanytainttoaffect that SaThakOpanhasSUNGOF 4.a) HereSwamyNammazhwArsays: know thedepthof meaningbehind confides to the Lord:“adiyenjust 4.b) pointed out. Maadhavan yenRathE --TVM2.7.3: IndhIvara-daLa shyAmOMaadhavOrdhvamGadhAdhara: IndhIvara-daLa MaadhavanpAlSaThakOpanthIthaminRiuraittha yEdhamilA aayirappatthu OdhavallAr PIRAVAARE yEdhamilAaayirappatthuOdhavallArPIRAVAARE C C OMMENTS OMMENTS --TVM1.6.11 This is the prayer used by us as we adorn the Lord,whoisbo 74 MAADHAVAN, THELORDOFMAHAA SrI VaishNavAsduringtheSandhyA embedded inthisNaamamaccording ram pays its obesiance to Maadhavan ram paysitsobesiancetoMaadhavan OM THE CYCLES OFBIRTHSAND PuNDrams, Maadhavan isthethird Maadhavan PuNDrams, d havingthesapphire blue color. His uttered Maadhavaa; adiyEn did not did not uttered Maadhavaa; adiyEn va NaamamwithMo va hava Naamam FIVE TIMES in His FIVETIMES inHis hava Naamam "Of thethousandflawlessverses Him, this decad is sure to make "Maadhavam MaNibhangAbham this nameofYours. adiyEn's Here Swamy NammAzhwar HereSwamyNammAzhwar th SrITatthvamand ksham isclearly sadagopan.org me, the Lord, Myme, the Lord, er prapatthi). He is My Swamy, er prapatthi). a twice. In the first of these a twice. In the first of these san) residing at ThiruvEnkadam. of blue KaayAmbhu flower; He is of blue KaayAmbhu flower; He is giving the bliss of My Company to of My Company to giving the bliss ated all kinds of sins that I had that I had of sins ated all kinds hava Naamam directly to Lord Lord to directly Naamam hava and no sin or stigma will attach ain and again and at all times. He you (now) that I would not let you I would not you (now) that mozhi, is in a Swamy NammAzhwAr tting fixed inside tting fixed inside en: “Oh AzhwAr! Let bygones be be Let bygones AzhwAr! en: “Oh 75 Maadhavan yeRu yenRu OthavalIrEl Maadhavan yeRu yenRu OthavalIrEl mEyAn Venkatam KaayA Malar VaNNan mEyAn Venkatam KaayA Malar pEyAr mulai uNDa vaayAn MAADHAVANE pEyAr mulai uNDa vaayAn Meaning Meaning Madhvan is the Lord, who has the hue themselves in the future": the beloved of MahA Lakshmi (SrinivA says: "Past sins will get destroyed He sucked the life out of Poothanai, who came to kill Him during His His during Him kill to came who Poothanai, of out us asks life the NammAzhwAr sucked Swamy He 10.5.7), (TVM KrishNAvathAram. Paasuram next the In 4.d) to recite the name of Maadhavan ag Mother and Your divine consort, MahA Lakshmi (Maa) must have a a have must (Maa) Lakshmi MahA consort, divine Your and Mother adiyEn to She recommended therefore and name this for ruchi special You said th You (purushakAram). have enjoyed I could bygones! Though you long ago however I would assure you long ago for gaining or similar effort to any kind of penance subject yourself entering me and si me! Saying this, nectar (amrutham) has totally termin nectar (amrutham) committed knowingly or unknowingly (aft committed knowingly Maadhavan". of the ThiruvAi 4.c) Towards the end which at SriVaikuntam. He composes Paasurams, hurry to join His Lord these paasurams of 10.5, he invokes the are almost like KuRaL. In NaarAyaNan Moksham granting SrIman two paasurams, He connects Maad VenkatEsan (TVM10.5.6): sadagopan.org archirAdhi mArgam (path of light) to SrI Vaikuntam: archirAdhi mArgam(pathoflight)toSrIVaikuntam: and pointsoutthehonorsreceived (SriVaishN Maadhavan servants of celebratesthe 4.e) IntheTVM10.9.5paasuram,SwamyNammAzhwAr Maadhava Naamamandreflecti after SaraNAgathi.Botharedestro Prapatthi; yEtham isconnecte Theethu hererefers tothesinsa The aadhivAhikAswelcomethemat for thedivinecoupleexplicitly,wouldattractgreatrespectfromall! areDaasAs That theVaishNavAs Dhvaya Manthram! of theNaamamMAADHAVAN,which play melodiousmusictohonorthese andGandharvAs) musicians(KinnarAs,GarudAs Soon after,thedivine Lord's bhakthAs). their vowtorecognizeBhAgavathaSe The Vedic expertsreadily offerthefruits oftheir Yaj~namstofulfil DAASAAS. paytheir DevAs, Maharishis MaadhavantamaryenRuVaasalilVaanavar geethangaL paadinarKinnarar GerudarkaL pOthuminyemathidamputhuhayenRalum theethu onRum adayA yEtham saarAve theethu onRum adayAyEthamsaarAve Veda-nal-vaayavar vELviuL madutthE vELviuLmadutthE Veda-nal-vaayavar ng onitsdeepmeanings. 76 ccumulated beforetheperformance of due regards to these MAADAVA theseMAADAVA due regardsto of MAADHAVAN, the name standing standing thename of MAADHAVAN, avaas, who performed SaraNAgathi) avaas, whoperformed SaraNAgathi) Maadhava DaasAs.Suchistheglory d with the sins committed committed sins the d with yed bytherepeatedutteranceof their gateways and honor them. andhonor their gateways by themduringtheirtravelvia shathvam (Being servants ofthe shathvam (Being has intimateconnectiontothe sadagopan.org DOCTRINE DOCTRINE AA AA Skandham) of Srimad N N Upanishadic concept). The Upanishadic concept). The RISH RISH K K sccha nirvruthi vaachaka:" ceedingly delighted. He is saluted as AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM ted with the joy of His LeelAs. The MannArgudi MannArgudi MannArgudi receptacle or aadhAram. "Na" signifies a Naamam. Swamy ParAsara Bhattar N N N ------NCIENT NCIENT 77 k«:[ay nm> ) A A TH TH TH 16 16 THE 16 THE etymological perspective: RajagOpAlan RajagOpAlan RajagOpAlan à[vm! HE HE HE ( ON ON T T T The Tenth Canto (dasama The Tenth Canto Joy (Aanandham in the (praNavam) KrushNaaya nama: (praNavam) KrushNaaya OMMENTS OMMENTS C C "Krushi: BhUvAchaka: sabdha Na SALUTATIONS TO THE LORD, WHO IS AANANDHAMAYAN. AANANDHAMAYAN. TO THE LORD, WHO IS SALUTATIONS DDITIONAL DDITIONAL OMMENTS OMMENTS A C A C SrImath BhAgavatham: This is the 58th Sri Vishnu Sahasr This is the 58th Sri Vishnu word "krishi" stands for the ground or in the Krishi sabdham. the Joy housed interprets the Naamam with, oneinterprets the Naamam with, who is ex KrishNa since He is exceedingly deligh of receptacle the is He other meaning is derived from sadagopan.org again withthestatement thatthereisno atHissacred feet all ofourpossessions In ThiruvAimozhi 9.1.10,SwamyNamm forother sureGodofsurrender us,tobe 2. ALL THINGSANDBEINGS". was unquenchable.Ishallno comprehend. Iattemptedtoundersta universe withapurpose,isadmitte wake whom evenHisconsortscannot AnanthA (AdhisEshan),whoiswellseated Achyutha, who is AnanthA, lying on the couch of another another, whochurnedtheMilk-Ocean Lord possesses,thewhoalwaysac "To describeandthereby,cover thewh explain thisextraordinaryTatthvam: SwamyNammAzhwArisanauthorit of thePaasuramsThiruvAimozhi(3 1. Celebration ofKrishNaTatthvaminThiruvAimozhi: KrishNa NaamamandHisglories: hasmanyeulogies(Sthuthis) BhAgavatham . TheGloryofKrishNa(Chapter90). 7. HymnofAkrUra (Chapter48) 6. Uddhavaonthegreatness ofKrishNa(Chapter46) 5. Gopi'sYugalaGeetham (Chapter35) 4. Indhra’sHymntoKrishNa(Chapter27) 3. TheHymnofBrahmA(Chapter14) 2. andDevaki'sHymnsat VasudevA's 1. prison (Chapter3). w merely content myself by concluding that HE IS 78 dly an impossible Tatthvam to fully fully to Tatthvam impossible an dly up), who once swallowed and spat the the up), whoonceswallowedandspat complishes one magical phenomenon or onemagicalphenomenonor complishes toensureourMoksham. Heconcludes .4.9), Swamy NammAzhwar tries to .4.9), SwamyNammAzhwartriesto thing inthisworld,which isnotHis. nd Him,sincethedesiretodoso ole gamutofthesplendorthat sure. He instructs us to surrender sure.Heinstructsus tosurrender tosecurethenectar,whois y on SrI KrishNa Tatthvam. In one Inone y onSrIKrishNaTatthvam. the timeofbirthKrishNain thatelaborateon on thiscouch(asifindeepsleep, azhwAr declares that there is no azhwAr declaresthatthereisno themeaningsof sadagopan.org benefits arising from arising from benefits efix, "anu" gives us the asks us to reflect on His pair of of pair His on reflect to us asks and archanai should be done with and archanai should be done ld be placed at KrishNa's sacred sacred KrishNa's at placed be ld rvasEshi) reflections always. Such r sins and repeated reflections with r sins and repeated reflections future sins from attaching to us and future sins from attaching of VishNu purANam, Sage ParAsarA VishNu purANam, of the understanding that we arethe understanding that we His 79 amy NammAzhwAr links the NaamA amy NammAzhwAr flection. Addition of pr ishNa Naamam and the unique yeNNum ThirunAmam --tiNNam NaaraNamE --tiNNam NaaraNamE yeNNum ThirunAmam KaNNan kazhaliNai --NaNNUm Manamudayeer Manamudayeer --NaNNUm KaNNan kazhaliNai prAyascchitthAn asEshANi Tapa: karmAthmakAniprAyascchitthAn asEshANi vai yaani tEshAm asEshANAm KRISHNA-ANUSMARANAM PARAM feet as belonging to Him alone. to Him alone. feet as belonging Such is the power and glory of KrishNa Naamam! VishNu PurANam & theVishNu PurANam Glories of KrishNa Naamam: amsam,In the second sixth chapter reveals the greatness of Kr Japam, homamgrant us Moksham. All the KrishNanusmaraNam and the fruits shou sacred feet to secure without fail, Moksham: secure without fail, Moksham: sacred feet to (KrishNAnusmaranam) ou will remove all of will prevent a sense of being His servant SmaraNam means recall and re SmaraNam means recall and and NaarAyaNan with SrIman of KrishNa the as meditation on that Naamam with ourselves of lieges (bonded servants): recall have will we that indicating "anusmaraNam" word seshabhUthars to Lord Krishna (the Sa 3. 10.5.1, Sw In ThiruvAimozhi sadagopan.org scorches us, whether weto not. Theutteranceofthe"SrIHari"naam His namesincerelyornotandwithknow SrI Hariisthespecialist,whodestroys Hari Himself states thatthecolor dearto BhAgam(Sacrificial of theHavis/Hari Hillwith KrishNa livingattheGovardhana Lordwi interprets thisNaamamasthe This isthe656thSriVishnuSahasr C A C A OMMENTS OMMENTS DDITIONAL DDITIONAL SALUTATIONSTOTHELORD, varNasccha mEHARI:SRESHTA:tasmAth Hariithi smrutha: C C "Hari: haratipApAni dushtachitthairapismrita: OMMENTS OMMENTS (praNavam) srIharayEnama: T T T uch it knowinglyornot: HE HE HE ON ON ( à[vm! Thiru KovilAdi PerumAL Thiru KovilAdi PerumAL Thiru KovilAdi PerumAL 17 17 17 THE THE TH TH TH H H ) ïIhrye nm> 80 N N N ARI ARI Him isgreen andthereforeHe is called WHO HASADARKGREENHUE! a Naamam.SwamyParAsara Bhattar th GreenHue. HeissalutedasYoung our sins completely whether we utter sinscompletely whetherweutter our ledge aboutthegloryofthatnameor offerings inYaj~nams). TheLord AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM thenameofHari. T T am burnsawayoursinsjustasAgni ATTHVAM ATTHVAM He isthereceiver sadagopan.org ections on the sacred ections on the sacred the Lord, while telling us that all us that all while telling the Lord, enealogy of VishNu) house abundant enealogy of VishNu) house abundant E. It is thus an anubhandham to the the to anubhandham an thus is It E. of SrI is added to the Naamam of of SrI is added to the Naamam BharathAs), the tenth canto of BharathAs), the tenth ve narrative vigor deals with the life of this MangaLa-manjuLa-gIthamas atEsa AshtOtthara Satha nAmam ofatEsa AshtOtthara Satha e. It is about KrishNA and hence this hence this e. It is about KrishNA and 81 "Harim harantam anuyanti dEvA:“ anuyanti "Harim harantam " (The essence of refl ukmiNi SamEtha DwArakA NaaTan). ukmiNi SamEtha DwArakA NaaTan). Thus the connection betweeen SrInivAsan and Sri Thus the connection betweeen "Geetha Govindham" is yet another moving source e two askharAs comprising the name of Hari confers of Hari confers the name askharAs comprising e two acquired through munificent offerings to Brahmins at munificent offerings to acquired through anicchayApi samsprishtO dahatyEva hi pAvaka:" pAvaka:" hi dahatyEva samsprishtO anicchayApi "VAraNAsyam KurukshEtrE NaimisAraNya yEva cha KurukshEtrE NaimisAraNya "VAraNAsyam dattam syAt tena yEnOktam HARI: ithi akshara dhvayam" dattam syAt tena yEnOktam SrI HarayE Nama:). Hari-CharaNa-Smruthi Saaram main text of MahA BhAratham; it has 317 chapters with 16 thousand plus plus thousand 16 with War of MahA BhAratham (The great chapters 317 has it BhAratham; MahA of text main slOkams. Hari Vamsam, with its impressi Hari is established. 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The 12th century text of book containing vibrant salutations to Marakatha MaNI VaNNan, KaNNan and (JayadEva) is hailed by the composer The AraNyakam confirmsThe AraNyakam of this attribute the Lord: beings follow the celestial the previous SrI Venk name follows "KrishNAya Nama:” the prefix nAmam, In this Seventeenth " The doctrine of Hari is an ancient on The doctrine of The mere utterance of th The mere utterance be can that merits us on of VaraNAsi,the sacred sites KurukshEtram and NaimisAraNyam: sadagopan.org Such isthepowerandgloryofSrIHari's Name. intervention ofSrIDevi. thentheroadtoMokshamispavedthrough KrishNAnusmaraNam, Naama sankIrthanamofSrIHari(SrIni Such is the Vaibhavam of Hari unitedyugam). with SrI Devi as song ("May Hari'sdelightinJayadEvA's "SrI Hari!” When the NaarAyaNan): remove thedhOshamsofKaliYugam VasanthA atthePooriJagannAthTemple In theFourteenthsongof7thchap World!")...Song 1.15 thetenfoldcosmicform,Kr ("You take Geetha Govindham: bytheKrishNa-bhakthi lade DasAvathAran as andissaluted avathArams toqualifyas"SrIHariNaarAyaNan" isalwaysaccomp This HariNaarAyaNan feet ofLordKrishNA,adhi-a "Kesava-dhrutha dasa-vitha roopa, JayaJagadhIsaHARE" "Kesava-dhrutha dasa-vitharoopa, "SrI JayadEva BhaNitha HARI-ramitham Kali-kalusham janayathuparisamitham" dhbhutha KrishNAnusmaRaNam). dhbhutha KrishNAnusmaRaNam). 82 ishNA. TriumphHARI,theLordof ter ofGeetha GovindhamsunginRaaga anied bySrI Deviineveryoneof His that driveusawayfromHim(Hari bring an end to this dark time", Kali bring anendtothisdarktime", , Jaya Deva Kavi prays to HARI to vAsan asGovindhan)isdonewith n mind of Jaya Deva Kavi in his sadagopan.org ! NAM ~A NTHAM N A J ED -V ATTHVAM ATTHVAM EDA TTHAMA T T V U OF THE IS ANJARA ANJARA CAGE P P WHO THE , NA NA AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM ~A N ~A N N 83 N N INSIDE J }anpÃray nm> }anpÃray nm> J TH TH TH ) ) APTHAGIRI (455th Naamam)/Jn~Amam-uttham. (455th Naamam)/Jn~Amam-uttham. 18 18 THE 18 THE S OF HE HE HE ON ON à[vm! 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HeisHis dharmAs,477thNaamam). the Emeraldgeminside thebeautiful ousand rays of Knowledge (Jn~Anam). ofKnowledge(Jn~Anam). ousand rays e aboutyourglories.Youthusbecome aram" (Onewhoiseternalwithout wAlai/lightning) inside the hearts of wAlai/lightning) insidetheheartsof with Your hue of dark rain cloud are Tapas. TheymeditateupontheAgni indicated by the VishNu sahasra bytheVishNusahasra indicated is so because, all Upanishads nAmam meansthatHe sadagopan.org A A AH AS M MOLE ATTHVAM ATTHVAM CONSORT T T DEAR VATHSAM I IS R S H AKSHAS AKSHAS . V V - - HAS WELL HAVING WHO AS a symbol of the Lord being Sriya: Sriya: being Lord the of symbol a , AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM Lakshmi residing there. His chest is at abode and gives Him thus the title re as the unmistakable One with VATHSA VATHSA sahasra nAma slOkam housing the AND I I N N N 85 R R THERE S S TH TH TH ïIvTsv]se nm> ïIvTsv]se ) CHEST APTHAGIRI 19 19 THE 19 THE IS S H AKSHMI HE HE HE OF ON ON L à[vm! T T T ON ( ORD L (praNavam) srIvatsa-vakshasE nama: THE OMMENTS OMMENTS TO C C AUSPICIOUSNESS "SrIvathsavakshA: SrImathAm vara:" SrIvAsa: SrIpathi: OF ALUTATION S DDITIONAL DDITIONAL OMMENTS OMMENTS MARK A C A C SrIman NaarAyaNan is identified he SrIvathsam on His chest as well as MahA abode and she never leaves th her eternal The second half of the SrI VishNu the SrI The second half of This naamam is the same as the 608th VishNu Sahasra nAmam.This naamam is the same as SrIvathsam on the chest of the Lord as Pathi takes this form : sadagopan.org salutes the Lord's auspicious chest and the SrIvathsam (MaRu) found there as SrIvathsam(MaRu) foundthere salutes theLord'sauspicious chestandthe TheseventhslOkam sundarasimham.org/ebooks/aparyApthAmrutha.pdf). sOpanam ofhisown namedAparyApt AchAryancomposed a DhyAnasOpAnam,this of SwamyDesikan'sBhagavath great devoteeofLordAarAvamudhan Thirukkudanthai Desikan,thefounderof SrIvathsam. withitswellknownsymbolof theLord'schest to beautifyandsanctify pearl necklace andthefreshgreen TuLasi contact withHerThiruvadi.There of auspiciousness throughtheresidence of MahALakshmithere and the vaibhavam oftheLord'schest.That The SrIvathsammoleshineson thech AmalanAdhipirAn: followingth bhagavadhyanasopanam.pdf) Bhagavath DhyAnasOpAnam (http theauspiciousch Swamy Desikansalutes PerumAL's othername isSrIVallabhan. underlining theVallabhyaandSoubhA SrIvathsam of SRINIVAASAN. is recognized as the unique symbol (Chinnam) of SrInivAsan Meaning Meaning SRIVATSENApraTitha-vibhavamSrIpadha-nyAsadhanyam madhyam BaahOr-maNivararuchA ranjithamRangadhAmna: madhyamBaahOr-maNivararuchA samthApam mE samayathi dh mEsamayathi samthApam sAndhracchAyamtaruNa-tuLasi-chithrayAVaijayanthyA --The Sixth SlOkam ofSrI splendent Kousthubhamgem,thewhite 86 hAmrutha DhyAana sOpAnam(http:// hAmrutha of Thirukkudanthai.Followingthelead Bhagavath DhyAnaSopanam iya: chandrikOdhAra-hAram iya: chandrikOdhAra-hAram theMunithrayaSampradhAyamwasa est of the Lord to reveal the grand thegrand est oftheLordtoreveal e wayshownbyThiruppANarinHis chest has attained thegreatest chesthasattained gya tatthvamsofMahALakshmI. garland on theLord'schestcombine garlandon est regionoftheLordinHisSrI ://sundarasimham.org/ebooks/ sadagopan.org ld flowers and the of pure gold. May the sight of this of pure gold. May sight of this the elds a bow reputed as Saarngam - iselds a bow reputed as Saarngam and made up of wi hmi, the Kousthuba gem, the SrIvathsA hmi, the Kousthuba gem, the t in general and the SrIvathsam mole t in general and the SrIvathsam dence of the auspicious Periya PirAttidence of the auspicious Periya 87 e representative of Moola Prakruthi, the of Moola e representative t for me to enjoy its loveliness!" t for me to enjoy its loveliness!" mahAhArOllAsam nikhila jagadhAdhi prakruthibhU: nikhila jagadhAdhi mahAhArOllAsam RamA-Vaasa-sTAnam bhAsvad-anagam MaNivararuchA Sunaddham sUthrENa svavapushA dhrutha-kanaka-bhAsvath sadhA VakshascchitthE mama lasathu SaarngAkhya-dhanusha: mama lasathu SaarngAkhya-dhanusha: sadhA VakshascchitthE Meaning Meaning Yaj~na Soothram, which is a veritable flow the Lord's ches Such is the glory of the resi there in particular to signal (Chest)! Maarbhu on Lord SrInivAsan's Thiru basic element of the world), a large garl of basic element remain in my hear Lord chest of our "The lovely CHEST of the Lord - who wi who - Lord the of CHEST lovely "The th as MahA Laks flawless and harbours on it: regarded is (Which hair of curl a SrInivAsa-chihnam: a SrInivAsa-chihnam: sadagopan.org Human beings), His power of rulingas SarvEsan.Evenwhen HetakesavathA over all beings is not affectedcontrol anddirect.Sincethatpower at all. He is Isan is Iswaran. He is saluted before"Isa:"toa Sarva sabdham Th andIsvara:). Naamams (IsAna: as IsanThis naamamistheechoof the36th, because of His Supreme Power to A C A C S OMMENTS OMMENTS DDITIONAL DDITIONAL ALUTATION OF A LL (B TO C C HADDHA OMMENTS OMMENTS THE L ORD (praNavam) sarvEsAyaNama: J EEVANS Senkanmaal T Senkanmaal T Senkanmaal T OF ( HE HE HE à[vm! S APTHAGIRI ACHETHANAMS 20 20 20 , M rrive at theNaamamofSarvEsan. rrive at ------TH ) TH TH UKTHA ThiruTherriyambalam ThiruTherriyambalam ThiruTherriyambalam sveRzay nm> 88 e 20th Naamam adds a prefix of e 20thNaamamaddsaprefix 65th and the 75th Sri Vishnu sahasra 65thandthe75thSriVishnusahasra N N N rams suchasRaamanandKrishNan (as rams , AAMAM WHO AAMAM extends over ALL, He is saluted AAMAM J EEVANS ). IS THE , N C ITHYA ONTROLLER S OORIS AND AND R ULER sadagopan.org e; He is the Lord deluded------This deluded------This is not limited by Desam, araNa yEshAm araNa yEshAm is eulogized by all VedAs. He is is eulogized by all VedAs. He is all, the ruler of all; He does not not all, the ruler of all; He does all beings of the universe; He is the He of the universe; beings all smaller by a bad on and achEthanams as His body. He is and achEthanams as His body. He is otector of all beings. He is the Bridge of all beings. He is otector they may not get otector and destroyer of all. He is the o manthrams from BrahadhAraNyakam from BrahadhAraNyakam o manthrams ParamAthmA. He is the support of all a sEthu: vidh with True desires) and Satya Sankalpan He is the AathmA of chEthanams and and chEthanams of AathmA the is He 89 ParamAthmA cha SarvEshAm Aadhaara: is JnAnandha Svaroopan. He ). "Sarvasya VasI Sarvasya IsAna: Sarvasya adhipathi:, Sarvasya IsAna: Sarvasya "Sarvasya VasI yEsha BhUtha Paala:, yEsh yEsha BhUtha Sa na saadhunA karmaNA bhUyAn, nO yEva asaadhunA karmaNA bhUyAn, Sa na saadhunA bhUthAnAm adhipathi:; sarvEshAm bhUthAnAm RaajA". bhUthAnAm kanIyAN; YESHA SARVESWARA:, yEsha BhUthAdhipathi:, yEsha BhUthAdhipathi:, SARVESWARA:, kanIyAN; YESHA lOkAnAm asambhEdhAya ---Sa vaa ayamAthmA sarvEshAm lOkAnAm asambhEdhAya ---Sa Meaning Meaning king of all beings (SarvEsan)". king of all beings (SarvEsan)". VishNu PurANam salutes this Lord as As Iswaran, He is Satya Kaaman (One of ALL, the King of all beings, and the pr beings, of ALL, the King of all so that and Support for all the worlds of soul and the ruler Supreme (then) is the ( ruler the Supreme and He is ParamEswara : (One with True Will). As SarvEsan, achEthanams. He has both ChEthanams He nature. of unchanging Kaalam and Vasthu. He is the creator, pr UpAyam and Phalan for every one. He the is He blemishes. no has He boons. the grants and karmAs all by worshipped become greater by means of a goodbecome greater by means of act or “He is the Lord of all, the controller of “He is the Lord of all, the SarvEsa Tatthvam:to illustrate the the NiyanthA (Director) always. (Director) the NiyanthA ParAsaraSwamy Bhattar quotes the tw sadagopan.org topof standingon SrIman NaarAyaNan He abode ofallauspiciousattributes. 90 pervades everybeingand vasthu.Heis thesevenhills asSriVenkatesan. sadagopan.org OWS C THE OF PROTECTOR . THE IS AAK V WHO AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM , Thiru Kavalampadi Thiru Kavalampadi Thiru Kavalampadi EDA hivya Vaak (5) The VajrA weapon (6) ------N N also close to the 497th and 599th N V 91 gaepalay nm> gaepalay nm> d the 543rd nAmam of Sri Vishnu Sahasra ST ST ST AS ) 21 21 21 APTHAGIRI WELL S HE HE HE à[vm! AS the "gO" sabdham has many meanings: (1) Moksham the "gO" sabdham has many ( T T OF T (praNavam) gOpAlAya nama: (praNavam) gOpAlAya SrI Gopala Krishnan SrI Gopala Krishnan SrI Gopala Krishnan ORD L THE OMMENTS OMMENTS C C TO ALUTATION DDITIONAL DDITIONAL OMMENTS OMMENTS S A C A C Sight (7) Eyes (8) JwAlai (9) BhUmi and (10) Victory/Jayam. In the context of Naamam (GovindhAya Nama:). It is We commented earlier that (2) Arrow (3) Cow (4) Divine Speech/d This naamam is close to the 189th an Nama (GopathayE Nama:). sadagopan.org Vallava ChakravarthI = Vallava ChakravarthI VallavI janavallabham= flowers knownasVaijayanthiduringthose travelsasacowherd. VaijayanthI vibhUshaNam BrundhAvanam BrundhAvana charam=Onewhoroamed anubhavams ofGopAlanbySwamy Desikan: as BaalaGopAlan,VeNuGopAalanan Desikan. Eachone of these21 slOkam The entireGopAlaVimsathiisasaluta fragrance ofstolenbutterinHismouth: andexperiencingthelingering anyone oranythingafterseeingHimasGopAlan ThiruppAnAzhwAr visualizedLordRangan flute musicofVeNugOpAlanandforgot (infantGopAlan).PeriyAzhwAr celebratedthedivine pranks ofBaalaGopAlan therole AchAryAs. PeriyAzhwArassumed (DasamaSkandham)andbyvariousAzhwArs SrImath BhAgavatham by GopAlanandRaaja VeNu He iscelebratedasBaalaGopAlan, the protectorofCowsat this GopAlanAmam,themeaningnumber3, --AmalanAdhiPirAn:Last(10th)Paasuram aNDarkOnaNiyaranganan yenn amudhinaik- kaNDakaNkaLmaRRonRinaik-kaaNAvE" uNDavaayanyennuLLamkavarnthAnai "koNDal VaNNanaik-kOvalanAi veNNai the king ofCowherds One who istheobject of the loveofGopis. = Onewho wearsthegarl GokulamandBrundhAvanam. 92 s ismarvelousenjoymentofSriGopAlan tion to GopAla Parabrahmam by Swamy by Swamy Parabrahmam tion toGopAla himself in that dhivya naadham. naadham. himselfinthatdhivya d RaajaGopAlan.Hereareselected Athan as GopAlan and refused to see Athan asGopAlanandrefusedtosee of YasOdhA to enjoy the plays and ofYasOdhAtoenjoytheplaysand asacowherdintheforestsof the Cow, is more appropriate. He is and madeupofwild sadagopan.org ar). He is present as archai in ar). He is present as archai thy in its entirety along with le of a Cowherd boy in a stealthy Cowherd boy in a stealthy le of a target of the love of Gopis and the target of the love of Gopis the ArchA Moorthys at these five the ArchA Moorthys at these A Sukhar is a delectable nectar ofA Sukhar is a delectable nectar http://sundarasimham.org/ebooks/ sa Thiruppathis (dhivya dEsams) and sa Thiruppathis (dhivya dEsams) ou prefer herding cows to reigning in to reigning ou prefer herding cows same GopAlan is lying down as same GopAlan is lying e samsAric illness of His devotees). ng VeNugOpAla roopam in the 12th 12th the in roopam VeNugOpAla ng who has taken the form of a cowherd of a cowherd taken the form who has aja GopAlan and salutes the Lord as th slOkams, Swamy Desikanth slOkams, Swamy enjoys the 93 Pancha Krishna KshEthrams of ChOLa dE Pancha Krishna KshEthrams ThErazhundUr. Paasurams on All the Thirumangai AzhwAr Tathtvam.temples elaborate on this GopAala occupation for our Lord: pleasurable is an extremely Being a cowherd ”daivattilum pasu nirai meyppu uvatthi" (Y Parama Padham as the Purushan)--Swamy NammAzhwAr. Parama NOTE: SwAmy Desikan's GOpAla Vimasa annotated comments can be found at GopalaVimsati.pdf DaamOdhara GopAalan at Srirangam (Moolav desam). dhivya at ThErazhundhUr child (Aayan ro the The one who assumed MiTyA Gopa: = way. his during form divine that remember to wishes visualizesSwamy Desikan the bewitchi and Vimsathi GopAla of verse last moments. In the 16th to the 18 Raasa krIDai, the divine and the flute of VeNu GOpAlan music emanating from Raaja GopAlan.the bewitching beauty of In the 19th slOkam, Swamy of Ra Desikan enjoys the Jala krIDai vallavI vallabha:" (that "Bhaktha JeevAthu: resuscitating oushadham/medicine for th GopAla Tatthvam. of enjoyment This GopAla Dhimbha Vapusham = KrishNan, = KrishNan, Dhimbha Vapusham GopAla The entire SrI KrishNAmrutham of Leel SrI KrishNAmrutham The entire sadagopan.org and Superior (uthkrushtan) toNithya, and Superior(uthkrushtan) PurushAs (i.e)individual Souls.He amongstthe isthemostsupreme who to theLordofSapthagiri, Salutation sequence inwhichthePurushOtth This naamamisthe24thnAmamofSr Meaning ofPurushOtthamaNamaAm C Meaning ofPurushOtthamaNamaAm C OMMENTS OMMENTS S ALUTATION Naarasimha Vapu:SrImAnKesava:PURUSHOTTHAMA: yOgO yOgavidhAm nEthAPradhana:PurushEswara: TO (praNavam) purushOtthamAyanama: THE SrI Purushottaman SrI Purushottaman SrI Purushottaman L T T T ( ORD à[vm! 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In allthesedhivya dEsams,Sri Vaik their names: have BhUlOkam, manydhivyadesams toSrIVa Lord atVaikuntamapply sadhrusa saraNaYugaLam- Suchismitham, kOmalaGaNDam--tath-kshaNOnmeelitha puNDarIka- mugdhAmbhuja-chAru lOchanam-savib Nithya YouanasvabhAvaLaavaN arethemostmoving:" of AchAryaRaamAnujA oftheBeauty ofSrI descriptions RaamAnujA inHisSrIVaikuntaGadh The glories oftheLordatSrI Vaikuntam iscelebrated by AchArya abode. Muktha Jeevansandtoperformnithya ChEthanams withHimatVa tounite Lord SrinivAsanasSriVaiknutaNaaT . NalamathamillathOrNaadu, 2. TeLiVisumpuThiruNaadu, 1. SrIrangamisrecognizedasBhUlOkaVaikuntam. 6. 5. Thiru ViNNagaram. (VaikuntaPerumALKoil) and ThiruParamEswaraViNNagaram 4. ThiruNandhipuraViNNagaram, 3. SriVaikuntam, 2. ArimEyaViNNagaram, 1. ". Allofthesemostbeautifuldescriptionsthe 106 desam cannotbeseenwithourhuman Vaikuntapathy seenthroughDhyAnam ikuntam and blessesthemtobecome and ikuntam suffix of ViNNagaram (Vaikuntam) to (Vaikuntam)to suffix ofViNNagaram an removesallthe an kaimkaryam for Him at His Supreme kaimkaryamforHim atHisSupreme yAmrutha saagaram--prabhuddha- unta Naathan is present as ArchA ispresentasArchA unta Naathan rama-bhrUlatham, ujjvalAdharam, yam inraptourouspassages.The ikunta PathyatThirumalai.In an situated beyondthisearthis an situated Achinthya-dhivyAdhbhutha obstacles forthe sadagopan.org First is Sri Vaikuntam Parama or is VirajA nadhi; the pushkaraNi is darsanam (prathyaksham) to Nithyadarsanam (prathyaksham) to Parama Padha NaaTan. He is seated Parama Padha NaaTan. He is kunta Naathan Padham at His Parama SrIman NaarAyaNan (Param, VyUham, 107 Muktha Jeevans (liberated Souls). Among Muktha Jeevans (liberated Souls). nam is AnanthAnga VimAnam. 3627, 3740, 3747, 3755-3765. 3. ChOthi OLiyAi ninRa Tannudai Sudar PeriyAzhwAr(4) PeriyAzhwAr(4) AndaaL (1) : Thirumazhisai(2) Divya prabhandham (D.P) 190, 277, 399, 472. ThiruppANar(1) : : Thirumangai(1) D.P 796, 2476 D.P 482 : Poygai(2) D.P 927 PEy(1) : D.P 2042 NammAzhwAr(24) 2543, 2545, 2552, 2652, D.P : : D.P 2149, 2158 : D.P 2342 Sooris (eternally liberated souls) and Sooris (eternally liberated souls) aiyiramatha Pushkarani; the VimA At SrI Vaikuntam, the Lord gives His At SrI Vaikuntam, the Lord of manifestations of the five states ArchA), theVibhavam, AntharyAmi and sEvai as Padham. Here, He gives us His there Adhi SEshan. The river there on Vai to SrI relating Paaasurams The 36 : are the following (Supreme Abode) sadagopan.org This Nama is based on thepramANam isbasedon This Nama turned awayeverfrom there. veeyatE", whichmeans thattheliberatedsoularrivingatSrIVaikuntam isnot the Swamy ParAsaraBhattarderives Naamam. 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("He does not return; He does to the sc (“There is no return according to Scriptures") and pure of body a bears MukthA "The context: this in says also Smruthi Yama subtle satthvA and attains the Supreme Then Superior and glorious Vaikuntam. nivarthatE vai puna: kalpathE na (4.15.6 and 8.15.1), Brahma Soothram,and 8.15.1), Brahma (4.15.6 GitA: and Bhagavad Yama smruthi (“They who go by this path (i-e. arch (“They who go to this mortal world"). not come back immortality and does not come ba "Having attained Me, the great souls are transient and is the abode of sorrow. Th sadagopan.org Nama:" births anddeathsleadstothesalutation"AvyayAya sankalpamfreesthe Parama Purushan's andrebirth),OhArjunA.But (destruction fromtherealm All theworlds,down 110 of Brahma, are subject to return of Brahma,aresubjecttoreturn on reachingme,thereisnorebirth". muktha jeevanfrom thecyclesof sadagopan.org WHICH , BODY AUSPICIOUS AN . HAS auty of the Lord of Saptha Giri is is Giri Saptha of Lord the of auty shE nama:" This namaa is also an AAMAM AAMAM His perfectly proportioned body is perfectly proportioned body His AAMAM NECTAR drinking the immortal nectar WHO to the 820th nAmA of Sri VishNu , N N N 111 LIKE suxatnve nm> suxatnve nm> TH TH TH ) Thirukkadithanam Thirukkadithanam Thirukkadithanam 27 27 27 SWEET of SVSN: "AmruthAya Nama:” APTHAGIRI IS S HE HE HE à[vm! ( T T T OF praNavam) sudhAtanavE nama: praNavam) sudhAtanavE ( ORD L OMMENTS OMMENTS THE C C TO DDITIONAL DDITIONAL OMMENTS OMMENTS ALUTATION S A C A C The darsana soubhAgyam of the limbs of This SrI VenkatEsa Naamam is close such a delectable experience to the Sages, AzhwArs, Nithya Sooris and and Sooris Nithya AzhwArs, Sages, the to Sahasra Naamam (SVSN): "Amrutha Vapu extension of the 120th Naama experience delectable a such is equivalent to MukthAs that it (SudhA=Amrutham). 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AARAAVAMUDHE adiyERkku aruLAyE SeerAr ThiruvEngaDa maamalaimEya ar thatisinsatiable( ed essenceofdelectable VengatatthuL ninRaAazhgappirAnAr ssomed red lotus flower); "Taamarai adi redlotusflower);"Taamaraiadi ssomed on for the DevAs and the Humans: on fortheDevAsand Engadam providesThirumazhisaistates: 112 niradhisaya maadhuryam niradhisaya for His intense anubhavam are: ”Taamaraik-KaNNinan" (Softand are: ”Taamaraik-KaNNinan" hwAr swoonsoverthebeautyofHis -like beauty of ThiruvEngaDamudayAn -like beautyofThiruvEngaDamudayAn ality forthosewhodrinkit.Speaking theLord'ssacredfeetarebeing es to stay at His golden hills as any es tostayatHisgoldenhillsasany aparyAptha amrutham beautyandenjoysHim " (incomparable ". She ). His sadagopan.org and its entities during His home at the mighty His home at the e lost to His beauty totally as a periencing the Lord of Sapthagiri the Lord periencing lutes the nectarine beauty of the to know that you are residing in my my in residing are you that know to NammAzhwAr of takes on the role the "SudhA Tanu" of the Lord of the "SudhA Tanu" of the kudi kondirunthAyE" kudi kondirunthAyE" 113 ke the ripe red BhimbhA fruit) fruit) ke the ripe red BhimbhA "MEga VaNNan" "MEga VaNNan" h that swallowed the world of the rain- laden clouds). "Thiru NEmi Valavan" "Thiru NEmi perience! Oh Lord who has perience! "Ulaham uNDa Peru VaayA" "Ulaham uNDa Peru VaayA" "kOlak-Kani Vaay PerumAn" "ThEnE ThiruvEngaDa Maamalai mEya Maamalai "ThEnE ThiruvEngaDa kOnE yenn manam manam yenn kOnE "SenthAmaraikat-senkani Vaay naal thOL amudhE" "SenthAmaraikat-senkani Vaay naal thOL (One with lotus-soft beautiful eyes, red lips and beautiful four arms and eyes, red lips and beautiful lotus-soft beautiful (One with honey: as the insatiable Honey to ex (Oh delectable PraLayam) (One sporting Sudarsanam in His right hand) (One with the dark blue hue Thirumangai addresses the sweetness of ex the sweetness addresses Thirumangai (One with the beautiful mouth li Seven Hills! What an enriching feeling it is it feeling enriching What an Hills! Seven heart). In the ThiruvAimozhi decad 6.6 Swamy ParAnkusa Naayaki and describes how senses and how sh VengaDam overpowered Her woman. Swamy NammAzhwAr in the decad 6.10 sa salutations:Lord of Saptha Giri with choice (the One with the huge mout sadagopan.org SudhATanavENama: (PraNavam) Himas: the LordofThirumalaiandsaluted All theAzhwArsexceptThoNDaradippodi nectarine toexperience) 114 haveenjoyedtheamruthavapuof sadagopan.org THE IS WHO ), . AN N RISH VAMSAM K ADHU Y ENKATA THE AAMAM (V AAMAM AAMAM ed Devaki belongs to this Yadhu ram as YaadhavEndhran is saluted s son Budhan and then on to YayAthi and to perform many miracles as of VasudEvar and Devaki to destroy pre-eminent among the YaadavAs). OF N the 710th Sri VishNu Sahasra Naamam N N 115 TH TH TH yadveNÔay nm> yadveNÔay nm> ) RULERS APTHAGIRI 28 28 28 S ThirukkOvilUr Thiruvikraman ThirukkOvilUr ThirukkOvilUr Thiruvikraman ThirukkOvilUr ThirukkOvilUr Thiruvikraman ThirukkOvilUr HE HE HE THE OF à[vm! ( T T T ORD L (praNavam) yaadavEndrAya nama: (praNavam) yaadavEndrAya AMONG THE OMMENTS OMMENTS BEST TO C C "BhavAmi Yaadhava kulE sOham samagrAthmanA" "BhavAmi Yaadhava kulE sOham ALUTATION S DDITIONAL DDITIONAL OMMENTS OMMENTS A C A C and king Yadhu. VasudEvar who marri avathAra purushan. The Lord's avathA The Yadhu clan arose from Chandran, Hi This SrI VenkatEsa Naamam isThis SrI VenkatEsa Naamam close to Vamsam. KrishNa was born as the son Kamsan (asuran KaalanEmi's rebirth) by SrI NaarayaNeeyam: (SVSN): "Yadhu SrEshtAya nama: " (The (SVSN): "Yadhu SrEshtAya sadagopan.org saluted theLordthisway: with KaamadhEnu'smilk.Indhranfellat performed AbhishEkam forthe BhUmi. ThehumiliatedIndhranbrough protected theterror-strickenGopAsandGopisaswellcattleofVraja after theLorddestroyedIndhran'spo to acknowledge the divinityof DevAs)performedGovindhaPattAbh of KrishNa and His role as DhIpam vamsam. HeistheYaadhavakula SarvEswaran. This was KrishNaistheIndhrA YaadhavAbhudhyam. Swamy Desikanhascreatedoneof the kings likeKams Svaroopam todestroy (The Lord'swords:Iwillincarnatein Lord of Thirumalai isthisYaadhavE Lord ofThirumalai who believe thatthey areth engagein incarnate indifferentformsand swiftl commands the trespassersofyour Emperor ofthis worldanditscontroller, Oh Lord!Thouartthefather,AchAryan Namas-ThubhyamBhagavathEPurushAya MahAthmanE VaasudEvAya KrishNAyaSa mAnam vidhunvan-jagadhIsa-maaninAm mAnamvidhunvan-jagadhIsa-maaninAm dhurathyaya: kaalaupAttha-dhaNDa: PithA Gurusthvam jagadhAmadhIsO PithA GurusthvamjagadhAmadhIsO hithAya svEcchAtanubhi: samIhasE --SrImadBhAgavatham:X.27.6 --SrImad BhAgavatham: X.27.9 e mastersofthisworld. an, whoterrorizeothersonEarth). 116 ndhran (Venkata KrishNan) who isthe (VenkataKrishNan) ndhran athvathAm PathayENama: the Yaadhava Kulam in my ParipoorNa myParipoorNa the YaadhavaKulamin thefeet oftheYaadhavEndhran and ishEkam to theIndhranofYaadhvAs ishEkam to andTilakam.The y forthebenefit oftheworld.Thou Thou as the wielder of Time punish t the divine cow, KaamdhEnu, and t thedivinecow,KaamdhEnu, wer byliftingGovardhanaGiriand Lord ofGovardana GiridhAri yourdhivyaleelaistohumblethose, and therulerofthisworld.As (thefamousruler)oftheYaadhava greatest Kaavyamscelebratedas other Indhran(King sadagopan.org and the AntharyAmi is Brahman for all 117 His own will and is of Suddha Satthva Suddha Satthva is of will and His own rushOtthaman, who has assumed His form assumed His who has rushOtthaman, chEthanams and achEthanams. chEthanams and Giri out of of the Saptha on top svaroopam. is the Jagath KaaraNan He Omniscient One. He is the Divine Pu He is the Divine One. Omniscient sadagopan.org Our Lorddoesindeed existasalittl "iLam Kumaran"andneverever experiences aging. (vruddhan). OurLordispresentalways the stagesofChildhood(Saishavam othernameisDak ThiruviNNagarappan's theLordof The AzhwArsalutes A C A C S OMMENTS OMMENTS DDITIONAL DDITIONAL ALUTATION TO C C OMMENTS OMMENTS THE (praNavam) nitya-yauvana-roopavatEnama: L ORD ( à[vm! Sri Maalankaarar Sri Maalankaarar Sri Maalankaarar T T T OF HE HE HE S ) APTHAGIRI inTy yaEvnêpvtenm> 29 29 29 TH TH Y TH OUTH ------118 e boyinKrishNAvathAram tothrill the ThirumAlirumchOlai ThirumAlirumchOlai ThirumAlirumchOlai N N N ), Youth (KumAran) and a old man andaoldman ), Youth(KumAran) shiNa VenkatEsan.Humansgothrough ThiruviNNagar as"iLamKumaran". , as NithyaYuvA(EternallyYoung)or WHO AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM . IS THE E MBODIMENT OF E TERNAL sadagopan.org ". e worlds. He has in e worlds. He has this world and the (Flute Music). The ther, YasOdhA. His equally charming His equally ther, YasOdhA. eela Sukhar) recognizes this KisOra recognizes eela Sukhar) " His hands the boon of (He has in is generous to all th is generous to y of vENu Gaanam has soft and reflecting cheeks and His tches the people of enjoyed by LeelA Sukhar: His beautiful His beautiful Sukhar: enjoyed by LeelA 119 joyment of the Gopis and other BhakthAs and other BhakthAs of the Gopis joyment madhana-muktha-haasAmrutham Youth in his mind and salutes Him: in yet another lilting slOkam: akhilakisOra aakruthi asthi UdhAram " (growing stage of Youth in its freshness). " (growing stage of Youth in --SrI KrishNa KarNAmrutham: 1.6 --SrI KrishNa --SrI KrishNa KarNAmrutham: 1.87 mukulAyamAna nayanAmbhujam vibhO: mukulAyamAna nayanAmbhujam muraLI-ninAdha makarandha-nirbharam muraLI-ninAdha makarandha-nirbharam makurAyamANa-mrudhu-gaNDa-manDalam makurAyamANa-mrudhu-gaNDa-manDalam mukha-pankajam manasi mE vijrumbhathAM mukha-pankajam manasi mE Hastha-nyastha apavargam Hastha-nyastha Jagathraya vimOhanam Jayathi maamakam jeevanam Jagathraya vimOhanam Jayathi maamakam jeevanam prathikshaNa vilOkanam praNaya peetha vasI mukham prathikshaNa vilOkanam praNaya peetha samucchvasitha YOUVVANAM tarala saisavAlankrutham madhacchuritha lOchanam PrOnmilan nava-younam PrOnmilan the en fit for that of a Yuvan form is Giri. top of Saptha Himself as Nithya YuvA on as He Presents KrishNa Bhakthar (L The 14th century Tatthvam as: " (Child-Youth) form of little boy, who Yes, there is the His hands " for Hisfrom Him). He is known those who seek refuge Moksham for " beauty of this eternal youth that bewi DevAs is saluted by LeelA Sukhar minds of PeriyAzhwAr and His foster mo and His foster PeriyAzhwAr minds of LeelA Sukhar visualizes this eternal this eternal visualizes LeelA Sukhar lotus like mouth is filled with the hone eyes resemble a fresh bud of lotus; He He lotus; of bud fresh a resemble eyes The beauty of this eternal youth is this eternal youth of The beauty sadagopan.org who blessesmewith true Jn~Anam.Thou devotion toyou.Thou arttheOne,whofu Oh Lord of Gods! Thou art the One, him: Sri LeelaSukhargoesontodescribe experience. ThisKrishNaTatthvamis Honey. Hisshiningsmileissweet What awonder!Hisbeautifulfaceis My Lord"snithyaYouvvana ThirumEni Purushan, LeelaSukharsays: thisNa Celebrating theanubhavamof forever!). bewitches allthe threeworlds.Maythat changingeveryminuteto looks are Youth anddisplayssmilesfilledwith His eyes arefilled withthewonderful intoxicating beautyofbudding andHisfo Youvvanamisgrowing (My Lord's Madhuram Madhuramvadhanam MadhugandhimrudhusmithamyEthadhahO Madhuram VAPURASYAVibhO: ----Sri KrishNa KarNaamrutham: 1.91 ----SriKrishNaKarNaamrutham: prEmadham chamEkaamadham jeevanam chamEjeevitham vEdanam chamEvaibhavam dhaivatham chamEDEvanaaparam indeed Sweet,Sweetand indeed Sweet! 120 what this sweet KrishNa Tatthvam is to what thissweetKrishNaTatthvamisto kaamarasam.Hisnectarinesmileand who blesses me with Vaathsalyam-filled who blessesmewith Vaathsalyam-filled sweet, reminiscent of (Vapu:) issweeterthanthesweetest. er thananythingthatonecan become insatiableinanubhavamand va Youvana, NithyaYouvanaParama va Youvana, lfills allmydesires.Thou arttheOne arttheOne whoblesses mewithall lifeforceofmine bevictorious rm asachildisslowlyslidingaway. thesweetnessof sadagopan.org is nitya yuvaa roopanis nitya yuvaa in his StOtra u shrEyAn bhavati jAyamAna: " u shrEyAn bhavati deed my life and life breath I do I life breath life and deed my s birth, the younger and more glorious s birth, the younger 121 amrutOdadhim" ”achintya divyAdhbhutha NITYA YOUVVANA lAvaNya maya divyAdhbhutha NITYA ”achintya "YuvA suvAsA: pariveeta"YuvA suvAsA: AgAth, Sa You. any God except of not know Yajur BrahmaNam salutes this nithya yuvA: and the more He take young He is ever does He become. paysSwamy ALavantAr his tribute to th Ratna slOkam this way: wealth and auspiciousness.wealth art in Thou sadagopan.org Lord KrishNa iseverything: Lord KrishNa C C OMMENTS OMMENTS S ALUTATION . HeistheOnetobe know 2. Heisofthe formofalltheFour VedAs; 1. F OUR V ED TO A S THE . H sarvE Yaj~nA:sarvaijyasayaKrishNa:" "sarvE vEdA: sarva-vEdhyA: saasthrA: saasthrA: "sarvE vEdA:sarva-vEdhyA: (praNavam) catur-vedAtmakAya nama: (praNavam) catur-vedAtmakAya E L IS ORD ( THE à[vm! T T T OF HE HE HE SUBJECT S 30 30 30 n by all of His SaasthrAs; n byallofHisSaasthrAs; APTHAGIRI ) Thiruvithuvakkodu Thiruvithuvakkodu Thiruvithuvakkodu ctuveRdaTmkaynm> TH TH TH OF 122 N N N SALUTATION AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM , WHO IS THE BY INDWELLER THE F OUR V OF ED ALL A S . THE sadagopan.org ppanai" la Naayaki recognizes the Lord in hwAr salutes the Lord as "Veda hwAr salutes the Lord of ThiruallikkENi as Vedam and of ThiruallikkENi of the Lord and sees Him as Veda of the Lord and sees Him as kAsam, the Sun and the Moon and the kAsam, the Sun and the Nama:" by the 129th SrI Vishnu Sahasra 129th SrI Nama:" by the 123 be known in all the four vEdAs".) in all the four vEdAs".) be known "Veda-vidEva cha:" "Veda-vidEva --Periya Thirumozhi: 2.3.2 --Periya Thirumozhi: 2.3.2 of all the Four VedAs). of all the Four --Periya Thirumozhi: 9.4.9 "vEdaaisccha sarvam ahamEva vEdhya:" sarvam ahamEva vEdhya:" "vEdaaisccha vedamum vELviyum ViNNum iru sudarum AadhiyumAnan aruL tantavavA namakku OMMENTS OMMENTS Vedatthai Vedatthin Suvaip-payanai --Aadhiyai, C C Amudhai, and YennaiALudaya A Amudhai, and YennaiALudaya 3. of all Yaj~nAs. form He is of the 4. Sarva VyApi. SarvAthmakan, He is DDITIONAL DDITIONAL A A Moorthy, Yaj~na Moorthy, the vast Aa Universe. behind the prime force (Our Lord says: "I am the One to (Our Lord says: "I am the One grace the Here Kaliyan acknowledges Vedatthin Suvaip-payan: the vedAs. in One Mudhalvan”, the Supreme In the ThiruppullANi Paasuram, ParakA Viraha Taapam as: (I am indeed the knower knower (I am indeed the the Lord Thirumangai Mannan salutes Az In His TirukkaNNapura Paasuram, is saluted as: "VedAya That is why He Naamam (SVSN). He declares in GitA: sadagopan.org Moorthy's sacredfeet. Kaliyan states here that he does not know of anything except the ChathurvEda Him as: Chathur-vEdAthmakthvam oftheLordis Thirumangai paysrespectto Th saluting Paasuram In amoving 4. Saama vEdiyanE(Saama Vedam) SaamavEdiyanE(SaamaVedam) 4. (Yajurvedam)and TaittirIyA 3. PouzhiyA,(AtharvaVedam), 2. ChandhOhA(RgVedam), 1. AzhunthUr mEltisaininRaAmmAnE ChandhOhAPouzhiyATaitthiriyA anthONinnadiyanRi MaRRaRiyEn --PeriyaThriumozhi:7.7.2 SaamaVediyanENedumAlE His Chathur-Veda-Svaroopam: His Chathur-Veda-Svaroopam: 124 ErazhundhUr PerumAL,SrIGosakan, salutedherethrough referenceto sadagopan.org Tath VishNO: ). VishNu's sacred ter. He enters in to all ). VishNu is venerated as the AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM Thiru Kapisthalam Thiru Kapisthalam Thiru Kapisthalam ------Sri Vishnu Sahasra nAmam salutes s starting from the passage: ”VishNOr Yaj~nO vai VishNu: N N N 125 iv:[ve nm> ) ST ST ST ich are His vibhUthis (wealth). ich are His vibhUthis (wealth). 31 31 31 à[vm! AND IMMOVABLE) AND IMMOVABLE) HE HE HE d from the root, "Vis" to en ( T T T (praNavam) VishNavE nama: (praNavam) VishNavE Sri Gajendra Varadhar Sri Gajendra Varadhar Sri Gajendra Varadhar OMMENTS OMMENTS C C DDITIONAL DDITIONAL OMMENTS OMMENTS SALUTATIONS TO THE ONE WHO PERVADES ALL BEINGS (MOVABLE ALL BEINGS (MOVABLE TO THE ONE WHO PERVADES SALUTATIONS A C A C An entire Sahasra Naamam known as The name "VishNu" is derive wh chEthanams and achEthanams, BhAratham. Tatthvam in MahA elaborately this special VishNu Sooktham offers its salutation nukam --". sooris ( That VishNu's supreme abode is enjoyed by the nitya paramam padham sadhA pasyanthi Sooraya: form, goal and fruit of all Yaj~nams ( sadagopan.org RaamAyaNam: allbrav VishNu istherepositoryof responsible forIndrAwinninghisbattles( feet exudes nectar: " and achEthanams( This powerpervadeseventheminute therefore as ( ThrivikramAvathAram sinceHemeasured The nAmAall as: charAcharams. InHisGitOpadEsam,Herefe ofeverywhere. Thereis thusaninseparabl VishNuon all.thing withoutexceptionandshowersHis HeVishNu stayseverywhere(SarvathrasT is recognized This anupravEsam(entry)andvyApthi asoverall commentaryforthisnAmam. pervader"Sva-vibhUthi bhUthamchidachidhAthmakamSARVAMvisathiithi" as "avi Vishnu Sahasra Naamamasthe2nd,259thand663rdNaamAs. VishNu isthe31stSriVenkatEsaSahasr isThe JayAdhimantramofSruthihintsthat also VishNu. devoted to linked with “VishNur-vikramanNAth dEva:" “VishNur-vikramanNAth "na tadhasthivinAyathsyAthMayAbhUthamcharAcharam". "Sarva gatha:PrathivasthuPoorNan" "VishNu: parvatAnAmadhi "adhikam mEnirEVishNum". Sakala dhAraNaaadhiprabhUthA VishNO: PadEparamEmadhvautsa: ). ThisVishNuTatthvamissaluted nAbhavan" ortheOne whoispresent 126 e association betweenVishNuandall e association ery andvaloraccordingtoSrimad itha:). AsVishNu,Hepervadesevery st atomandbearsallchEthanams a Naamam and it occurs thrice in Sri a NaamamanditoccursthriceinSri (pervasion) of the Lord saluted as oftheLordsaluted (pervasion) benedictions andArul(divinegrace) Indrasya yujya: sakhA pathi: SAmA avatu" theLordofSevenhillsisVishNu: thethreeworldswithHissteps rs tothispervasive presencein The Shadaksharamanthramis ). by SwamyDesikan. " VishNuis ). is the is the sadagopan.org THE NEVER AS WHO ROLE IS NE t of never leaving H O THE , FROM SLIPS . APTHAGIRI S NEVER at ThiruvahIndhrapuram with the AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM EING OF hvam, Sri VenkatEsan is saluted also hyuthi means the ac B N N N BhAratham, Achyuthan declares His vow BhAratham, Achyuthan WHO ams (101st, 320th and 557th). Swamy 127 ORD ACyutay nm> ACyutay nm> ND ND ND NE L ) ThiruppAdagam ThiruppAdagam ThiruppAdagam O UPREME (Never will I abandon my bhakthAs). 32 32 32 THE S HE , HE HE HE à[vm! . T ( S T T T A (praNavam) acyutAya nama: (praNavam) acyutAya CHYUTHAN HAKTH A B TO IS H ALUTATIONS "na thyajEyam kaTanchana" OMMENTS ABANDONS OMMENTS S C C one, who has sought refuge. In MahA as 100 slOkams in PrAkrutham through his Sri Achyutha Sathakam. 100 slOkams in PrAkrutham through his Sri Achyutha Ac Chyuthi means leaving or abandoning. by three Sri Vishnu Sahasra Naam Svaroopan Desikan has saluted VenkatEsa As Achyuthan behind the Achyutha tatt As Achyuthan behind sadagopan.org To celebratetheAchyuthaTatthvam, never everslipsfromHisposition rebirths and comedown fromtheir appointedpositions.OurLordasAchyuthan ever astheOverlord ofall.Brahma chyavanam onanyoccasion.Hedoesno even ifHetakesanavathAramasBrah As Achyuthan,HeneverlosesHissuprem on theAchyuthaTatthvamthisway: SrI VishNUsahasraNaamampassageco rakshaNamisHischosen duty. and Karmam.Aasritha "TasyAham napraNasyAmi" Lorddeclares: the In SrImadRaamAyaNam,whichisSaraNAgathysAsthram, Lord VenkatEsanisAchyuthanandne Achyuthan Himself. Theyhavelimi and havelimitstotheirpowers,whic asthi lift usout ofthe miseriesofSamsAram(" one equalor superiortoHimasAchyuthan) that isnotsharedbyanyothers( This Achyutha Sakthi( brightest lamponthe hillsof Thiruv and staysasAchyuthanforthem.His sa games withthem.Heisalwa " JyOthi: DaasAnAm Sathyam "ACHYUTHA :praTitha: PrANa: praNadhOVaasavAnuja:apAmnidhi: " accordingtoSwamyDesikan).Rest ", theenduringRadiance,which ne adhishDAnam apramattha:prathishtitha:" ", theOnewhoistrueto PrabhAvam ys thereforthem.Heis" (I do not disappear from him). It is His dharmam as SarvEsvaranandSarvaRakshakan. ) isawondrouspower( sadhrysa abhyakA:nakhalu ver failsinHis vowtoprotectus. 128 , Indhra are Karma-vasyAL andsuffer areKarma-vasyAL , Indhra Enkatam for alltoseeandexperience. Enkatam for Swamy Desikan salutes Himas" SwamyDesikansalutes ts incomingtoourrescue.Our t comedownfromHisexaltedstatus h aregrantedinthefirstplaceby ma, Indhraetal.Thereisneverever acy and His position as SarvEswaran, acy andHispositionasSarvEswaran, ntaining the320thnAmAelaborates nkalpa Jn~Anam stays steadyasthe nkalpa Jn~Anamstays . There is noone togivethehand to of theDevAshave Thvath anya:hasthaaalamBa:na ver dims.Heisalsosalutedas His dAsAs. Heneverplays His dAsAs. SaraNAgatha Sathyan adhbhutha sakthi IsvaraBhAvam /There isno sTira sTira " ) sadagopan.org A AH (M " as per Swamy CONSORT is the dearest consort BELOVED IS H ). AAMAM TO AAMAM AAMAM ThirukKadalmallai ThirukKadalmallai ThirukKadalmallai le, their anyOnyam is celebrated in pathis, they are our ParadEvathais as SrI Sookthis. As the husband of SrI Sookthis. As the husband ------those who seek their protection. She those who seek their e He adores Her as “MaalOlan". He N atEsan acquires the name of Sri N N dharama chAriNi. Lord VenkatEsan is ear support and fellow traveler) for the 129 DEAR RD RD RD AKSHMI IS L piÒnIiàyay nm> piÒnIiàyay ) 33 33 33 WHO HE HE HE of PadmAvathi ThAyAr. He T T T à[vm! ( ONE Stalasayanar(Utsavar) Stalasayanar(Utsavar) Stalasayanar(Utsavar) THE (praNavam) padminI-priyAya nama: TO ALUTATIONS S OMMENTS OMMENTS BhAvAroodou Bhagavathi yuvAm Dampathi dhaivatham na: BhAvAroodou Bhagavathi yuvAm Dampathi dhaivatham C C delighted to have Her help and henc Lord in quenching the samsAric fires of is united in this endeavor as Saha Desikan. She is His Priya Sahachari (d Vallabhan and SrInivAsan. As Dhivya Dam He is the revered consort of AlarmElthe divine coup Mangai. As PurANams, IthihAsams and AchArya PadmAvathi (Sri Devi), Lord Venk per Veda Manthrams. " sadagopan.org as Padhmini Priyan. as Padhmini ForthisHe about Hisdutiessuccessfully. place ofpermanent residencesothatHe When Shecameoutofthe with anappropriateform. acquires thenameof PadhminiPriyan.Sh milky ocean,OurLordgave 130 canhaveHerkatAkshamalwaystogo is grateful to her and relates to her isgratefultoherandrelates e follows HiminallHisincarnations HerHisloftyChest asa sadagopan.org . VI DE MI U H B OF ORD ). Here is to the the salutation L THE AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM ThiruvidavEnthai ThiruvidavEnthai ThiruvidavEnthai y BhUmi DEvi as the Consort of the IS s SrI Devi and BhU Devi as His two ------t of His own sankalpam as SrI VarAha t of His as "MaayA VarAha Mahishi" or the N N N 131 xraptye nm> xraptye nm> TH TH TH WHO ) 34 34 34 ONE à[vm! HE HE HE ( THE T T T Sri Nithya KalyANar Sri Nithya Sri Nithya KalyANar Sri Nithya Sri Nithya KalyANar Sri Nithya TO (praNavam) dharA-patayE nama: (praNavam) dharA-patayE ALUTATIONS S Hreesccha tE LakshmIsccha Pathnyou 1. Sarvam SahA, 2. AchalA, OMMENTS OMMENTS C C As Vedam declares, Lord VenkatEsa ha pathnis ( Lord as the Divine consort of Bhoomi DEvi. Thirumalai is known as VarAha KshEthram. BhUmi DEvi is saluted Consort of the Lord who incarnated ou Bhagavan. The various names that glorif Lord are: sadagopan.org the following SrI VenkatEsa SuprabhAtham: the followingSrIVenkatEsaSuprabhAtham: toHimfor BhUmiDevi.Thesalutations as sirasA thudadhAthi thousand headsbytakingAadhisEshaRoopam( further inrecognizingthegreatnessof SambhAvayanMadhuripu: rAja kanyAmvakshasthalEna SrI DevionHischestandhonorsHer( SrI BhUsthuthiofSwamyDesikan.Our The dearnessofBhUmiDevitotheLord jaladhE: vElEva the ultimateboundarytoOcea sangamAth asouHarichandana:labhdhapOsaha:Bhavathi powerful togranttheWishesofa withHerLo BhUmi Devi'sassociation (VasundharA). injunctions, Hervastness(VipulA) Her Lord,infinitecapacitytofo reveal Herdurabilityincomingtothe Her Lordisproudabouttheseandothe 6. Vasundhara. PruTveeand 5. 4. Vipula, 3. 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( T T T WHO WHO Sri Jagadeesa PerumAL Sri Jagadeesa Sri Jagadeesa PerumAL Sri Jagadeesa Sri Jagadeesa PerumAL Sri Jagadeesa (praNavam) nirmalaaya nama: (praNavam) nirmalaaya NE AND O AmalanAdhipirAN: ( S A THE Amalan Aadhi PirAn adiyArkkennaiAtpaduttha Amalan Aadhi PirAn adiyArkkennaiAtpaduttha TO Vimalan ViNNavarkOn virayA pozhil Venkatavan HAKTH B Thirukkamala Paadham vanthen kaNNInuLLana okkinRavE Thirukkamala Paadham vanthen kaNNInuLLana okkinRavE nimalan ninmalan neethi vaanavan neeLmathiL ArangatthammAn nimalan ninmalan neethi vaanavan neeLmathiL ArangatthammAn ALUTATIONS OMMENTS OMMENTS S C C Nimalan and Ninmalan. The key word here Sanskrit Nirmalan invoked in this Naamam Here ThiruppANAzhwAr salutes the Lord This salutation is to be linked with This salutation is to be linked dhivya Prabhandham, from the dhOsham of finding faults in He is Amalan in that He destroys the dhOsham of all. 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BY THEM prabhAtham time at His TO ARDENTLY HELP AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM unedumthANDakam (ebook 103) unedumthANDakam (ebook 103) them to the DevAs as saluted by as saluted to the DevAs them upakArams that He has done when the N N N 139 WORSHIPPED devpUijtay nm> devpUijtay nm> TH TH TH ThirumAalirunchOlai ThirumAalirunchOlai ThirumAalirunchOlai PROTECTIVE ------) IS IS 37 37 37 H WHO HE HE HE Azhagar Azhagar Azhagar à[vm! T T T ( FOR DevAs are assembled at Su S ONE A (praNavam) deva-poojitAya nama: EV THE D TO ALUTATIONS S OMMENTS OMMENTS C C The entire assembly of Sannidhi to thank Him for all the great DevAs faced catastrophes from aggressive asurAs. 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BLESS AMS TO T R A ARMS ThiruPaarkadal ThiruPaarkadal ThiruPaarkadal ------URUSH nAm chathurbhujOVishNu: nAm chathurbhujOVishNu: FOUR P ) is saluted by VishNu PurANam MahA Purushan with four arms ( arms four with Purushan MahA 141 OF THE ctuÉuRjay nm> ctuÉuRjay nm> ChakraadhyAyudha BhUshaNam". ) HAS KINDS à[vm! WHO ( FOUR THE 38TH NAAMAM 38TH NAAMAM THE THE 38TH NAAMAM 38TH NAAMAM THE THE 38TH NAAMAM 38TH NAAMAM THE ). This is the Para Roopam or the transcendental form ). This is the Para Roopam or the transcendental form SrI KsheerAbdhi Naathan SrI KsheerAbdhi SrI KsheerAbdhi Naathan SrI KsheerAbdhi SrI KsheerAbdhi Naathan SrI KsheerAbdhi ONE (praNavam) catur-bhujAya nama: THE THE TO “ChathurthAnAm PurushArTA "Chathur-bhujam udhArAngam "Chathur-bhujam ALUTATIONS S OMMENTS OMMENTS C C chathurbhi: SamEtham of the Lord. 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UDARSANAM WHO ( T T T SrI Thiruvikraman SrI Thiruvikraman SrI Thiruvikraman S ONE (praNavam) cakra-dharAya nama: (praNavam) cakra-dharAya THE NAMED TO paathu vastath Param chakram Chakraroopasya ChakriNa: paathu vastath Param chakram Chakraroopasya ChakriNa: YadhAyattham Jagacchakram K ALUTATIONS S OMMENTS OMMENTS Meaning C Meaning C The world is rotating like a spinning Chakram is the Sankalpa Sakthi of the Sakthi Chakram is the Sankalpa Lord (ChakrINa:). Sudarsanar carries AayudEswaran (Lord of weapons). Th salutes this Hethi SthOthram the upper hand of the Lord) isthe upper hand of the of Swamy De ShOdasAyudha SthOthram gi Koora NaarAyaNaJeeyar. Sudarsanar sadagopan.org sundarasimham.org/ebooks/Shodasaayudha.pdf sudarshana kavachamNote: Sudarshana vaibhavamcontai et al can be fo Your heroic actsintheirdefense. nescience ofthose,whoapproachYou perform togainanupperhandandma the Lord'sdevotees.Youovercomeeve kaaryams !YoustandastheSunwhodest Oh Sudarsana,whodestroysasurAsto ChakrAyudham fulfillstheLord'ssankalpam: Another SudarsanaashtakaslOkamcele Sudarsanam ( One oftheSudarsanaashtakaslOkamsce protect usall! The LordHimselfhastakentheformof His disc.Maythat loftychakram arecontainedinsideth time divisions with thesubdivisions ofseconds, minute Meaning Meaning Amara-dhrushta-svavikrama Samara-jushta-bhramikrama Amara-dhrushta-svavikrama Dhanuja-VidhyA-nikarthana Dhanuja-visthara-karthana Jani-tamisraa-vikarthana Dhanuja-visthara-karthana Jani-tamisraa-vikarthana Jaya SrISudarsanaJaya Subha JagathroopaMaNDitha Hail toTheewithsuchvaibhavam! 144 und with annotated comments in http:// in und withannotatedcomments e great weapon of VishNu,Sudarsanam. e greatweaponofVishNu,Sudarsanam. ning the ShOdashAyuda stotram, ning theShOdashAyudastotram, for anugraham.DevAsdelightseeing Bhajath-avidhyA-nivartana brates theChakradhAriandhow s, hours, days and years. Allofthese andyears. s, hours,days ke them powerless. theirroots forengagingindushta ry kindofMaayaithattheasurAs roys thedarknightofsamsAramfor lebrates theLordforadorning ) Youremovethe sadagopan.org . MAN A ARANDH P AS alpam and stays on top WORLDS HREE T world (SrI Vaikuntam) as His AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM Thiru BadrikAsramam Thiru BadrikAsramam Thiru BadrikAsramam THE i Vishnu Sahasra Naamam:"Thrikakud ------N N N rlds. ThridhAmna is ThripAdh VibhUthi rlds. ThridhAmna is ThripAdh IN 145 iÇxaçe nm> ) TH TH TH 40 40 40 SHINES is the Master of the three worlds and is the the is and worlds three the of Master the is à[vm! ( HE HE Padham out of His own sank Padham out of His HE T T T WHO (praNavam) tridhAmnE nama: NE Thiru Badri NArAyaNan Thiru Badri Thiru Badri NArAyaNan Thiru Badri Thiru Badri NArAyaNan Thiru Badri O THE TO OMMENTS OMMENTS ALUTATIONS C S C Vaikuntam, He is ParamdhAman. Here, He is the LeelA VibhUthi NaaTan. He He NaaTan. VibhUthi LeelA the is He Here, LakshaNam. transcendent He has the ParamdhAman. is world. 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(Sarvasya VaseeSarvayEsAana:). svairvimukthO amrutham asnuthE death, agedeath, attains immortality and pain, ( Our Lord is NirguNan in the sense that Our Lord is NirguNan the Prakrithi have no place in BhagavAn the Prakrithi His control sadagopan.org knower, knownandtheknowing the Lordisrealizedwithoutdistinct Nirvikalpa SamAdhiisastateofDhyA C C S OMMENTS OMMENTS ALUTATION TO THE O NE (praNavam) nirvikalpAyaNama: Thiru MukundaNayakan Thiru MukundaNayakan Thiru MukundaNayakan WHO ( T T T à[vm! HE HE HE IS 42 42 42 VISUALIZED ) inivRkLpaynm> even withoutself-consciousness. ND ND ND 148 N N N nam, whereexclusiveconcentration on andseparateconsciousnessofthe AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM ------Thiruvelukkai Thiruvelukkai Thiruvelukkai THROUGH N IRVIKALPA S AAMADHI . sadagopan.org . SHAM O DH OR BLEMISH ANY ssness) are His SvabhAvams. He is ssness) are His SvabhAvams. AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM nauspicious guNAs). He has the twin nauspicious guNAs). He has the twin spicious attributes and free from all spicious attributes and free from He is the loftiest among the Lofty among He is the loftiest aathmakan. He has no Satthva-RajO- aathmakan. He has no N N N Thiru SaalakkrAmam Thiru SaalakkrAmam no room for describing Him as NirguNa room for describing Him no Thiru SaalakkrAmam WITHOUT -- 149 -- -- RD RD RD IS in:k¦»ay nm> in:k¦»ay nm> ) 43 43 43 WHO ext (BhAratham-ARanya KANDam): HE HE HE NE à[vm! T T T ( O SrI ShrI MUrthy SrI ShrI MUrthy SrI ShrI MUrthy (praNavam) nishkaLankAya nama: nama: (praNavam) nishkaLankAya THE TO PavithrANAm hi Govindha: Pavithram paramuchyathE PavithrANAm hi Govindha: Pavithram PuNYAnAmapi PuNyOasou MangaLAnAm cha MangaLam PuNyOasou MangaLAnAm cha MangaLam PuNYAnAmapi ALUTATIONS S OMMENTS OMMENTS Meaning C Meaning C Govindhan is the purest of the Pure, Govindhan is the purest of the Pure, Bhagavathis saluted here. Sathyam, Jn~Anam, Anatham, Svaroopam (blemishle Aanandham and AMALATHVAM There is full of auspicious attributes. Brahman. He is samastha KalyANaguN TamO guNams. He has no hEya guNams (i lakshaNams (Ubhaya Lingams) of: All au amangaLams, for dhOshams and hEyams. Sage Dhoumyar's UpadEsam Yudhishtrar is apt in this cont sadagopan.org fragrances inHissacredbo Upanishad statesHeis am PuNyams. Heisthemostauspicious "Sarva gandha:Sarva Rasa:" dy. Hehasallthetastes). 150 ong auspiciousthings.AsChAndhOgya (He hasallthe sadagopan.org Bheema Bheema . ). He is " is He ). arsome arrows of FEAR ANY WITHOUT IS Vijaya Raaghavan. He is saluted as as saluted is He Raaghavan. Vijaya AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM nams.) SrImad RaamAyaNam of Sage than those of the fe than overpowering heroism and unmatched N N N Thiru AyOdhi WHO Thiru AyOdhi Thiru AyOdhi -- -- 151 -- NE TH TH TH inrat»ay nm> inrat»ay nm> I Raghuveera Gadhyam-Yuddha KaaNDam ) O 44 44 44 THE " (One with matchless parAkramam). His arrows SrI RAman SrI RAman SrI RAman HE HE HE à[vm! TO ( T T T (praNavam) nirAtankAya nama: nama: (praNavam) nirAtankAya ALUTATIONS S " (He has terrific powers. He is frightful to His enemies and to His enemies He is frightful " (He has terrific powers. Thrayambhaka samadhika ghOrAsthrADambhara OMMENTS OMMENTS aprathidhvandhva Pourushan C C “ His Heroism is celebrated in Sr His Heroism Sthuthi about section and in ParamArTa are recognized as being more powerful Lord Sivan ( ParAkraman Valmiki salutes Sri Raamachandran's valor in many cantos of His epic. movingly affectionate to His aasritha ja sadagopan.org Aanandham. Youcannot bedefinedor Your Svaroopamand SvabhAvamischan totally freefromhEyams(blemishes). Oh Lord, who is celebrated by hundreds of Upanishads! They salute You as "Sathyam Jn~AmananthamBrahmaSvaroopan" He isNathaSatyan(truetothose, C Meaning C Meaning sadhA kshapithasakalahEyam saraNAgathaSathyasathya-Jn~Anandham OMMENTS OMMENTS S ALUTATIONS ullangitha ThrividhAnthamupanis TO THE -Achyutha Sathakam:SlOkam8 O (praNavam) niranjanAyanama: SrI Govardanesan SrI Govardanesan SrI Govardanesan NE T T T ( WHO à[vm! HE HE HE 45 45 45 IS FREE ) TH TH TH inrÃnaynm> 152 ------Thiru VadaMathurai Thiru VadaMathurai hadhAm sathAnigAyanthiThvAm Thiru VadaMathurai limited by place, time and vasthu. limited byplace,time andvasthu. N N N FROM whoseek Hisprotection).Heis geless astheabod AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM FALSEHOOD (S ATHYA e of Jn~Anam and and e ofJn~Anam S VAROOPI ). sadagopan.org 153 You are present at all times and places and are places and all times and present at You are in all present pervasively Svaroopan. as Sathya & achEthanams chEthanams sadagopan.org Lord hasalltheJivAs andalsoHisinnu “Numberless arethe effulgent JeevAs. assalutedbySwamyNammAzhwArare His splendorandauspiciousattributes Meaning C Meaning C OMMENTS OMMENTS S ALUTATIONS VaNN PuhazhNaaraNantiNNkazhalserE YeNN perukkannalat-thoNNporuLeerila (praNavam) nirAbhAsAyanama: Sri Ahobila Narasimhar Sri Ahobila Narasimhar Sri Ahobila Narasimhar TO -- ThiruvAimozhi:1.2.10 ( T T T à[vm! THE HE HE HE O 46 46 46 NE ) inraÉasaynm> TH TH TH WHO 154 N N N ------ IS Singavezhkundram Singavezhkundram Their qualitiesarenumberless. The Singavezhkundram AAMAM merable, auspicious qualities asHis AAMAM AAMAM FULL OF AUSPICIOUSNESS . sadagopan.org the Lord of Seven Hills. incarnated as Archai (Consecrated as Archai (Consecrated incarnated facts. You unite Yourself with the with the You unite Yourself facts. for your protection". Such is His for your protection". only about Him (SrIman NaarAyaNan). only about Him gaLAnAm MangaLam" can be inferred can be inferred gaLAnAm MangaLam" hi. All of these are subservient to Him. are subservient All of these hi. andran, then SrImad Vedam became 155 rm of the Paasurams of AzhwArs rm of the Paasurams of AzhwArs He took on the form of Moorthys at Temples), then Moorthys at Temples), then Then the Vedams tookthe fo on RaamAyaNam. When SrIman NaarAyaNanRaamAyaNam. NaarAyaNaHis name all these signifies They are strong bulwark Lord's feet. "NirAbhAsa" tatthvam. auspiciousness as "Man His unmatched that VedAs speak from the recognition as SrI Ramach incarnated When He prakAra, as His aspects, as His VibhUt as His aspects, prakAra, sadagopan.org the elaboratepushpAlankArams andthe That humble clay flower was moremade ofleftoverclay andpresented ittotheLord. important to thepresent atanotheraarAdhanam,where Lord of Seven Hillslate toreceivetheofferingsofday. than as towhere He wasatthetimeof hi Kingknownforhis One day,ThondaimAn to Him. display ofworship.TheBhaavambehind devotion wouldOur Lordsaysthatevenapetal offlow please Him. He does not need any ostentatious or elaborate C C OMMENTS OMMENTS S ALUTATIONS TO OFFERING THE (praNavam) nityatruptAyanama: O ( NE Thiru NArAyanan T Thiru NArAyanan T Thiru NArAyanan à[vm! 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Him, Hebecomes angryoverthetrespa becomes freeofanymisfortunes.Hebe With SrI Padhmaavathi's(SrIDevi C C OMMENTS OMMENTS S ALUTATIONS TO THE (praNavam) nirupadravAyanama: O NE Thiru KaruNAkaran Thiru KaruNAkaran Thiru KaruNAkaran ( T T T à[vm! WHO HE HE HE 48 48 48 IS ) FREE inépÔvaynm> TH TH TH 158 N N N FROM -- aman andhencedoesnothaveany -- She intercedes for the erringJeevans She intercedes forthe -- 's) sambhandham, Lord SrInivAsan 's) sambhandham,LordSrInivAsan ThirukkAragam ThirukkAragam ThirukkAragam comes Amalan. Ifsh comes Amalan. sses oftheJeevansandisreadyto of Mercyandaffection(Sahaja AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM mi likeangerandthemindsetto ANY MISFORTUNES e werenotwith ( ALAKSHMEE ). sadagopan.org ). AMAS ATTHVA T S AND UDDHA AJAS (S R OF AYAN M ADMIXTURE Nilathingal Thundam Nilathingal Thundam Nilathingal Thundam ATTHVA is different from the Kshara or AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM ------S KalyANa GuNAs. He is It means that s in the Suddha Satthva state, He is s in the Suddha Satthva state, He is to the blade of grass) and Akshara/ to the blade ANY e worlds and their beings and yet N N N ry of His own as the Supreme Person 159 inguR[ay nm> inguR[ay nm> TH TH TH ) UDDHA S ssociated with the three guNams. guNams. ssociated with the three 49 49 49 IS WITHOUT à[vm! HE HE HE ( tter affected by GuNAs is bound to decay and by GuNAs is bound to decay tter affected T T T WHO (praNavam) nirguNAya nama: (praNavam) nirguNAya NE IGRAHAN O Thiru Nilathingal Thundatthan Thiru Nilathingal Thundatthan Thiru Nilathingal Thundatthan V A THE L TO ANGA M ALUTATIONS OMMENTS OMMENTS DHIVYA S C C NirguNa does not mean one without any NirguNa does not mean one GuNAs. He all the three the one above (from Brahma down perishable entities kUtasta entities (totally liberated selves). Our Lord VenkatEsan is in a catego (PurushOtthaman/ParamAthmaa). He is immutable; He enters all th is untouched by the dhOshams a “Bound non-conscient" ma perish. Since our Lord is beyond GuNA sadagopan.org light oflights according abode ofSrIVaikuntamfreefromthe This "NirguNa ", Suddha Satthva MayaKarma thatisripeandtheothershinesout evenwithout eating". sitonthesametree.Of moving together and havingsimilarqualities andParamAthman) "The twobirds(JivAthman here: eating thefruitandothernot guNAs. Upanishadicexampleofthetwo vasyan in theworld.Heisnotakarma imperishable. Theworld'sblemishesjust Meaning Meaning dhvA SuparNAsayujAsakhAyAsamAnamvrukshamparishasvajAthE TaOranya: pippalamsvAdhvathi Tacchubram JyOthishAm vidhu: JyOthis-tadhyadhmavidhO HiraNmayE parEkOsEvirajamBrahmanishkalam to theknowersofaatman: 160 --Mundaka Upanishad:3.1.1 --MundakaUpanishad:2.2.10 unlike theothersboundbythree unlike PurushOtthaman stays inHissupremePurushOtthaman stays anasnanyOabhichAkaseethi three GuNAs and ispureandthe three GuNAs and thesetwo,theoneeatsfruitof thefruitsoftree)arerelevant birds sitting on the same tree (One onthesametree birds sitting do not touch Himevendo nottouch ifHemingles sadagopan.org IS H IN I, DAK E OWM , K ru Mountain. It is the MACE . DIVINE AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM HAND Thiruvaranvilai Thiruvaranvilai Thiruvaranvilai vine mace of the Lord (KaumOdakee), (KaumOdakee), Lord the of mace vine ------r Lord of Seven and is saluted Hills in THE N N N 161 TH TH TH gdaxaray nm> gdaxaray nm> LOWER ) SPORTS 50 50 50 LEFT hAyudha SthOthram this way: HE HE HE à[vm! WHO Thirukkuralappan Thirukkuralappan Thirukkuralappan ( T T T qual in strength to the Me NE (praNavam) gadAdhArAya nama: (praNavam) gadAdhArAya O HiraNmayeem Meru-samAna-sArAm Vaikuntha-VaamAgra karAbhimrushtAm GadhAm sadhAham saraNam prapadhyE THE KaumOdakeem dhaitya kulaika hanthreeem TO ALUTATIONS OMMENTS OMMENTS S Meaning C Meaning C which is golden and is e which is golden I seek always the protection of the di Gadhai (Mace) is a divine weapon of ou the third SlOkam of the Panc sadagopan.org the lefthandofVaikuntaNaaTan. matchless slayer of the assembly of AsurAs. It is gently held by the palm of 162 sadagopan.org IS H IN , AARNGAM , S bow is the subject of of is the subject bow BOW . IVINE D Thirukkudanthai Thirukkudanthai Thirukkudanthai HAND ------ AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM Raamachandram namAmyaham , which pours out unfailing arrows at THE serves as the instrument of death for serves dispels the misery of the oppressed, e weapon of Lord Raamachandra. With N N N bheethAnAm bheethi-nAsanam bheethi-nAsanam bheethAnAm 163 RIGHT ST ST ST za¼Rpa[ye nm> za¼Rpa[ye nm> ) SPORTS 51 51 51 LOWER HE HE HE WHO à[vm! the Lord's mighty SaarangA T T T ( NE O SrI SArangaPANi PerumAl SrI SArangaPANi SrI SArangaPANi PerumAl SrI SArangaPANi SrI SArangaPANi PerumAl SrI SArangaPANi (praNavam) SaarngapANayE nama: (praNavam) SaarngapANayE THE TO AartAnAm aarthihanthAram dhvishathAm kaaladaNDam Tamm ALUTATIONS S OMMENTS OMMENTS C C another PanchAyudha Sthothram: Saarngam is the divine bow of the Lord of His bhakthAs. It is th the enemies Saaranga bow in His hand, Our Lord and the frightened destroys the fear of the enemies of His aasrithAs: The seeking of refuge of sadagopan.org DevAs. Thisbowshowersthunde of thebow string,whenheardremoves For everIseektheprotectionof Meaning Meaning Sarngam SadhaahamSaraNamprapadhyE bhavanthi Daitya-asani-bANavarshee Yaj-jyaa-ninAda-sravNaath surANAm Yaj-jyaa-ninAda-sravNaath chEthAmsi nirmukthabhayAni sadhya: r like arrows on the Asuraas. r likearrowsontheAsuraas. 164 Lord's bow of Saarangam,whosetwangs Lord's bowof instantly thefearfr om theheartsof sadagopan.org IN ) ANDHAKAM (N WORD S DIVINE ThiruchErai ThiruchErai ThiruchErai . ------seeks refuge in that divine sword of AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM smeared with the blood flowing from to being the Master of this powerful THE lutes the power of that sword: lutes the power of that N N N WAIST 165 nNdikne nm> nNdikne nm> IS ND ND ND ) H of the Lord and His bhakthAs. ADORNS 52 52 52 the RaakshasAs and asurAs. à[vm! HE HE HE WHO ( T T T SrI SAranAtha PerumAL SrI SAranAtha PerumAL SrI SAranAtha PerumAL (praNavam) nandakinE nama: nama: (praNavam) nandakinE NE O THE TO ALUTATIONS S OMMENTS OMMENTS C C He is saluted as NandhakinE Nama: due and resplendent sword. SthOthram sa The fourth PanchAyudha Nandhakam is the sword of the Lord. One the Lord, which is frightful to the Lord, which is frightful the enemies necks of the severed The blade of that Sword Nandhakam is sadagopan.org Tamm NandakamNamaHarehpradheeptham cchEdha-ksharac-chONitha digdhadhAram Khadgam sadhAhamSaraNamPrapadhyE RakshOsurANAm kaDinOgra-kaNTha 166 sadagopan.org IN ) AANCHAJANYAM (P ONCH . C HAND DIVINE AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM ne conch, PaanchajanyA, is always ne conch, anyam. AndAl has envied this Conch, this Conch, anyam. AndAl has envied Lord's mouthhas pointed out that and Ashtabhujakaram Ashtabhujakaram Ashtabhujakaram the frequency of communion with the ("sol aazhi veNN sangE'). Our Lord's("sol aazhi veNN sangE'). very dear to the Lord, since it has the N N N ------THE Chakram and Sankham are mentioned at 167 UPPER RD RD RD zŒxarkay nm> zŒxarkay nm> MahA Lakshmi, His dear consort. ) LEFT 53 HOLDS 53 53 IS H HE HE HE à[vm! WHO T T T ( SrI AdhiKEshavan SrI AdhiKEshavan SrI AdhiKEshavan NE "Sankha Chakra GadhApANE", O (praNavam) sankha-dhArakAya nama: nama: (praNavam) sankha-dhArakAya THE TO OMMENTS ALUTATIONS OMMENTS S C C Our Lord's conch is pure white in hue Our Lord's conch is pure white divine conch has the name of Paanchaj which has the intimate contact with the even the Devis of the Lord do not have mouth. The sankhA is Lord's nectarine same place of origin (the Ocean) as same place of origin (the Ocean) mentioned first, whenever the Lord's This may be the reason why the divi one place: sadagopan.org in thesky: destroys theprideof haughtyasurAs. Th the soundofwhichfilledby theairfr The secondPanchAyudhaSthOthramseeks AndaaL hasbestowedthehonorifictitle "paschAth bAhudhvayEna pratibhatasamanEdhArayanSankhachakrE" Tamm Paanchajanyam Sasi-kOtisubhram Tamm Paanchajanyam Sankham sadhAhamSaraNamprapadhyE Yasya dhvanir-dhAnava-darpa-hantaa VishNOr-mukhOtthAnila-pooritasya 168 of "SankarayyA"onthisnithyaSoori. om thedivinemouthofVenkatEsan is conchshineslikecroresofMoons the unfailingrefugeofthisConch, sadagopan.org . (Let Me become Me become (Let oorthys? Because, FORMS MANY OF IS dhAya, the Lord exists in each and dhAya, the Lord exists in each and AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM WHO present as anEka M present as sankalpam revealed in the Upanishadic N N N as the antharyAmi. Hence all the forms 169 ONE TH TH TH AnekmUtRye nm> AnekmUtRye nm> ) Thiru OOragam Thiru OOragam Thiru OOragam indeed the Lord's own Moorthy. Lord's own Moorthy. indeed the THE 54 54 54 TO HE HE HE à[vm! T T T ( (praNavam) anEka-mUrtayE nama: (praNavam) anEka-mUrtayE ALUTATIONS S “Tath aikshatha, bahu syAm prajAyEyEti" “Tath aikshatha, bahu syAm OMMENTS OMMENTS C C that are found in this world are statement: every being, sentient and otherwise, every being, sentient and otherwise, This plurality too flows from His own According to the VisishtAdhvaithic sampra Many). to be the Lord for need there a Why is sadagopan.org salutes thisanEkaMoorthithvamway: He doesnot relishbeing alone ( DhwarakAdheesan: theLordas the16,100formsof VishNu PurANamalsosalutes other ofthe wivesof DEvakiPuthran. these many forms of KrishNa at DhwArakai as He went from one palace to the to be with each of His 16,100 asthefourVyuhaMoorthys to Himsuch wives al This isthe726thVishNuSahasraNaamam ”yEka MoorthyirumUnd ShOdasatsthree sahasrANisathamEkamtathOadhikam tAvanthi chakrEroopANiBhagavAn DevakIsutha: SA yEkAkinaramathE 170 ways. Sage Naradha was blessedtosee ways. SageNaradhawas . In DhwAraka, He took 16,100 forms ru MoorthypalaMoorthy---" . He has many forms that are unique . Hehasmanyformsthatareunique ). Swamy NammAzhwAr Swamy ). sadagopan.org A N RISH NA E K AND na chakshushA AAMA R DevAs and Rishis reveal MANUSHYATHV AS be the mere human child be the mere human child ( that Arjuna and Sanjayaa FORM SVARAN I E). ilee" (one who is beyond experience ilee" (one who is beyond experience AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM Thiru PArtthan PaLLi Thiru PArtthan PaLLi Thiru PArtthan PaLLi ses to Him as SarvEswaran. At that AS ------t manifest. He, incarnates as Raamant manifest. He, incarnates HUMAN s Supreme Purushan’s nature manifest s Supreme Purushan’s nature N N N 171 AVy´ay nm> AVy´ay nm> TH TH TH ) NATURE GOOHATH 55 55 55 Himself to the human eyes: " Himself to the human ASSUMES TRUE HE HE HE à[vm! aavaNa's destruction, the for seeing Him. It is thus ( nt. He declares Himself to Himself declares nt. He T T T IS WHO " (no body sees Him with the fleshy eyes) says the (praNavam) avyaktAya nama: (praNavam) avyaktAya H NE Thiru ThAmaraiyAL Kelvan Thiru ThAmaraiyAL Thiru ThAmaraiyAL Kelvan Thiru ThAmaraiyAL Thiru ThAmaraiyAL Kelvan Thiru ThAmaraiyAL O THE CONCEALS TO YET AND OMMENTS ALUTATIONS OMMENTS S C C of King DasarathA. After R His Supreme Nature and offer their prai time, He becomes Vyakthan. The Lord does not manifest pasyathi kasccha nainam Upanishad. AzhwAr salutes Him as “Kaatk by mortal eyes). He becomes manifest however to the devout and provides provides and devout the to however manifest becomes He eyes). mortal by them with a special faculty Avyaktha strictly means one, who is no Avyaktha strictly means one, not make Hi and KrishNan and yet does or patent. He keeps it late sadagopan.org interferedwi ahankAra-mamakArams BrahmA andRudrAcouldnot.Latterhaddonepenancefor eonsbut their see Himdirectlywiththemascaraofde In thisThirumAlaiPaasur pine awayforHisCompany: those lackingindevotion butisvery much saw HiminHisViswaroopam atKuruKshEthram.OurLordisavyakthAfor viNNulAr viyappavandhuAanaikkuanRuaruLAiyeendhaen KaNNAraA! UnnaianRO kaLaikaNAkarudumArE peN ulAmSadainaNumpIramanumIndiranum yeNNilA Oozhitavam seidArveLginiRppa am, AzhwArpointsoutthat th thedirectvisualization. 172 votion, whileeven accessibletothesi alowlyelephant could exalted DevAs like exalted DevAslike ght ofthose,who sadagopan.org IS LEVEL H HIP SEEK THE WHO AT , HAND THOSE FOR LOWER DEEP LEFT . AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM IS THIGH H N N N Thiru VELLakuLam Thiru VELLakuLam Thiru VELLakuLam -- -- 173 -- TH TH TH REFUGE kiqhStay nm> kiqhStay nm> ONLY ) is known as the KaTi hastham. IS 56 56 56 DISPLAYS HE HE HE RAM à[vm! T T T ( SrI SrInivAsan WHO SrI SrInivAsan SrI SrInivAsan A NE (praNavam) kaTi-hastAya nama: (praNavam) kaTi-hastAya O SAMS THE HasthEna soochayasi NaaTa! KaDisTithEna MaamAsrithasya SumatEArathibhIshaNOapi SamsAra Saagara iyAn bhavatheethi noonam SamsAra Saagara iyAn bhavatheethi noonam VaamEna BhUmigamithas Tava SuprabhAtham THAT TO INDICATE TO OMMENTS OMMENTS ALUTATIONS S C C SrI DakshiNa VenkatEsa suprabhAtham explains this mysteriousSrI DakshiNa VenkatEsa suprabhAtham explains this mudhrA and its symbolism: One of the Hastha mudhrais of Lord SrInivAsan is the left lower hand that is is that hand lower left the is SrInivAsan Lord of mudhrais Hastha the of One This bent at the mid thigh level. sadagopan.org auspicious dawntoyou! for those,whoseekyourprotection. thigh, youseemtoindicatethatthete Oh Lord SrInivAsa! Through Your left lower hand positioned over your mid Meaning Meaning 174 rrorizing samsAramisonlythighdeep Oh BhUmi NaayakA! Maythisbean Oh BhUmiNaayakA! sadagopan.org . UGAMS Y ALL IN GIVER th wonder on the Lord's Lord's the on wonder th BOON Thiru Kanchi Thiru Kanchi Thiru Kanchi ------ivAsa is held in the KaDi avalambita AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM e desires of His devotees-the m, the other lower arm is held in a GREATEST N N N 175 vràday nm> vràday nm> TH TH TH ) THE IS 57 57 57 à[vm! HE HE HE ucchina mAlai, dwelling wi WHO ( T T T NE SrI VaradarAja PerumAL SrI VaradarAja PerumAL SrI VaradarAja PerumAL O (praNavam) vara-pradAyanama: THE TO ”KaruthA varam taru Dhaiva PerumAL vandhAr" ALUTATIONS S OMMENTS OMMENTS C C mudhrA as seen in the previous nAma mudhrA as seen in the previous says Swamy Desikan in Thir While one of the lower arms of Lord SrIn of the lower While one gesture of munificence. It is a mudhrA consisting of an open palm, signifying signifying palm, open an of consisting mudhrA a is It munificence. of gesture the Lord's readiness to grant th Varadha MudhrA. sadagopan.org well. 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Him requestingboonshavetheBhaagyamof Thirumala hillswithGovindhaNaam boon granter(VaradaRaajan)inallth Lord ofThirumalaisknownasKaliYuga Swamy Desikan.: boundlessmunifi theLord's possessions, His Iswaryam.However,whilenormallyan There isabsolutely nothingtheLordwoul propensity tograntall that “TamathuanaitthumavartamakkuvazhangiyumtAmmigaviLangum" sakruthsevayaanithya sevAphalamThvam aham dhUrastastE PadhAmbhOja-Yugma ahamdhUrastastE prayaccha PrabhOVenkatEsa anthamilA udhaviyellaamaLappAryArE" ”azhiyAtha AruLazhip-PerumAnseyyum praNAmEcchayaagatasevAmkarOmi anjali bhaddhahastham 176 containing such a prayeris: e four yugams.Thosewho climbup the ng thatkaimkaryaminSrIVaikuntam. a sankeerthanam and stand before a sankeerthanamandstand we seek and much more. Sangraham. ”Who indeed can measure Sangraham. ”Whoindeedcanmeasure enest desire to prostrate before your toprostratebeforeyour enest desire Varadhan.Infact,Heistheloftiest d notgiveus,includingHimselfand all Sudarsanam provides?" OurLord's provides?" Sudarsanam ything givenawayreducesthegiver's cence only adds to His glory, says Hisglory, says cence onlyaddsto this occasional worship, the reward this occasionalworship,thereward hip, our Lordgrants thatboonas hip, our getting the Lord Himself as their gettingtheLordHimselfastheir ). Whenweprayandtell Him sadagopan.org nce please forgive me for all the sins nce 177 trespass of your commands. trespass of your commands. the sins from Him. He grants that boon too: He grants that Him. from the sins ParayA krupayA paripaahi Hare paripaahi Hare ParayA krupayA athivElatayA Tava dhurvishahair- dhurvishahair- Tava athivElatayA anuvEla kruthair-aparadhAra- sathair anuvEla kruthair-aparadhAra- bharitham tvaritham Vrusha-sailapathE! tvaritham Vrusha-sailapathE! bharitham ajn~AninA mayA dhOshAn asEshAn vihithAn HarE! HarE! asEshAn vihithAn ajn~AninA mayA dhOshAn KshamasvaThvam Seshasaila SikhAmaNE Thvam Kshamasva Meaning Meaning Meaning Meaning Oh Lord of seven hills! 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The BrAhmaNan TheBrAhmaNan and soonafter,itslifewasstolen. the Brahminfromthere. re the Lord and cried thathischildrendie re theLordandcried uld notbesnatchedawayagain. 180 y longYaagam,DhwarakApathicouldnot s avathAram and that it was the play of andthatitwastheplayof s avathAram this time,theYaagamwasoverand get HimbacktoHisSupremeabode taneously fromDhwAraka.Hehelped produceamrutham force thatwouldtakethebabyaway. otect theexpected baby.Arjunan me & protect his child that was to me &protecthischildthatwasto iot andtraveledtoVaikuntam is duetotheadharmamprevailingin oblations were over. At that time oblations wereover.Atthattime prevent theentryofanyspirit or , who take refuge in Him is thus His refugeinHimisthusHis , whotake and blessed them blessedthem and sadagopan.org . ARE FEAR MINDS FROM WHOSE FREEDOM "ata sO abhayam gatO THOSE AND FOR ThiruvaLLUr ThiruvaLLUr ThiruvaLLUr ------from the view point of mortals is SUCCOR AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM amam "Bhaya Naasana:", the Lord RELIEF N N N fears that besets us. The surrender to ent MudrAs (KaDi and Varada mudrAs), THEM 181 TH TH TH GRANTS 60 60 60 AatRlaekaÉyàday nm> AatRlaekaÉyàday ) HE HE HE PROVIDES WHO E T T T NE H SrI Veera RAghava PerumAL SrI Veera RAghava PerumAL SrI Veera RAghava PerumAL à[vm! 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NaimisAraNyatthuL YenthAi" ng righteousness, I incarnate onthis ng righteousness,Iincarnate ctor ofallchEthanams).Srimad haya pradhAnamtoDEvAs,SiddhAs gathy Saasthram is repletewiththe gathy Saasthramis aftertheendofli e of protection is the core of His righthand,OurLo fe here.Oncewe rd showsusthe sadagopan.org and crowned him and crowned fending Kaakam, when it fell Kaakam, when fending at offending crow deserved to crow deserved at offending d for finding some one to protect one to finding some d for he sought refuge at His feet. at refuge he sought igns to be my friend (and hides his his hides (and friend my be to igns Nan on sea side the na thyajEyam kaTamchana" kaTamchana" na thyajEyam achandraa is etched in RaamAyaNam: achandraa is etched in RaamAyaNam: to me by protecting him against any to me by protecting him against fear once they sought my protection. fear once they sought my protection. e monkey king, SugrIvan and crowned e monkey king, adhAmyEthath vratham Mama” adhAmyEthath vratham Mama” 183 "mithrabhAvEna samprAptham "mithrabhAvEna samprAptham the DaNDakaa forest. He saved the of He saved forest. the DaNDakaa the worl feet after roaming at His BhANam. Evenhim from Raama if th him once Lord forgave the be killed, King of KishkindhA. him later as the of Lankaa. later as the king "Abhayam sarvabhUthEbhyO dh sarvabhUthEbhyO "Abhayam 3. pradhAnam to He gave abhaya th 4. protection to VibhIsha He offered Meaning Meaning Meaning Meaning danger, I will not abandon him. danger, I will not abandon him. janthus from My vow is to protect all the I will not abandon any one even if he fe even I will not abandon any one enmity) as SaraNAgathy long as he has performed at my feet and soughtmy any danger will come if protection. Even The abhaya PradhAnam vow of Lord Raam sadagopan.org another blessedbhakthAofLordVenkatEsa. ThiruvEnkatam. ThebrotherofAakAsa puramand receivedboon at NaarAyaNa TheyperformedKa Devi. was DharaNi law ofLordVenkatEsan.Hewastheki AakAsa RaajanisthefatherofPadh C C S OMMENTS OMMENTS ALUTATIONS TO (praNavam) AakAsarAjavaradAyanama: THE O ( à[vm! Thirupathi SrI SrInivAsan Thiru PAdham Thirupathi SrI SrInivAsan Thiru PAdham Thirupathi SrI SrInivAsan Thiru PAdham KING NE T T T WHO HE HE HE OF ) T 61 61 61 Aakazrajvrday nm> GRANTED HO ST ST ST ND mAvathi ThAyArandhencethefather-in- 184 N N N ng ofThonDai maN AI Raajan was ThondaimAn chakravarthy, wasThondaimAnchakravarthy, Raajan THE AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM s andblessingsfromtheLordof MAN nyA dhAnam toLordSrInivAsan nyA dhAnam BOONS D ALAM TO . A AK Dalam andhisqueen A SA R AAJAN , THE sadagopan.org . OGIS Y OF LOTUSES " (The Lord sits in the the in sits Lord (The " HEART THE IN an to take His seat inside the an to take His AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM sits with great affection inside the s presence in the hearts of yOgis: yOgis: of hearts the in presence s Lord, who resides in the hearts ofLord, who resides in the hearts space as His Temple. He arrives with ABODE cording to the AzhwAr and he goes on N N N IS 185 ThiruppuliyUr (Kutta NAdu) ThiruppuliyUr (Kutta ThiruppuliyUr (Kutta NAdu) ThiruppuliyUr (Kutta ThiruppuliyUr (Kutta NAdu) ThiruppuliyUr (Kutta ND ND ND H ------HAS 62 62 62 yaeigùTpÒmmiNdray nm> yaeigùTpÒmmiNdray Hrudhi tishtathi yOgInAm ) HE HE HE the same one resting in the milky ocean, on top of the same one resting in the milky ocean, on top of WHO T T T NE à[vm! Thiru MAyappirAn Thiru MAyappirAn Thiru MAyappirAn O ( THE (praNavam) yogi-hrut-padma-mandirAya nama: TO "VeLLatthin uLLAnum Venkatatthu mEyAnum uLLatthil uLLAn enRu ohr" uLLAn enRu ohr" "VeLLatthin uLLAnum Venkatatthu mEyAnum uLLatthil ALUTATIONS OMMENTS OMMENTS S C C BhAgavatha PurANam says: " Venkatam hills and inside the heart lotus of yOgis). Yogis are very dear to the Lord and He heart lotus of the Yogis and treats that AdhisEsh MahA Lakshmi and His throne, (Please understand Him as to say: describes Hi hearts of yOgis). AzhwAr This "uLLuvAr uLLatthu uLan kaNDAi". yOgis is none other than VenkatEsan ac sadagopan.org MangaLam? having youinsidemyheartlotus.Who My Lord!Kuladhaivam!OhSrinivAs lotus, wherehevisualizestheLord with heart lotusoftheYogis.PeriyAzhwAr resting onHisbedofAdhi Here, PeriyAzhwArvisualizestheLord Meaning Meaning Aravindhap-pAvayumthAnumahampadivanthupuhunthu--" "AravatthamaLiyinODum azhahiya pARRkkadalOdum "AravatthamaLiyinODum azhahiyapARRkkadalOdum YemmanA yennkuladhaivamEyennudayaNaayakanE ninnuLLEnAi peRRananmaiivvulahinilaar peRuvAr? --PeriyAzhwAr Thirumozhi: 5.4.3 --Per sEshan insidehisheart. 186 SrIDeviseatedontheAdhisEshan: as KsheerAbdhiNaathanwithSriDevi iyAzhwAr Thirumozhi:5.2.10 describes thissceneinsidehisheart a! Ihavegainedthe soubhAgyamof in thisworldcanclaimthatkindof sadagopan.org IS H BY PESTLE A TO . a Kavi AzhwAr's dhivya ROPE A WITH PUNISHMENT AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM UP Thirusiripuliyur Thirusiripuliyur Thirusiripuliyur e pranks of KrishNa during his infant e pranks of KrishNa during AS ------ttuNNappaNNiya peru Maayan" by YasOdhA for His mischief, the Lord N N N A TIED 187 s midriff says AchArya RaamAnujA, while dameadray nm> dameadray nm> DH RD RD RD ) O WAS AS 63 63 63 , Y HE HE HE WHO à[vm! ( T T T the opening lines of Madhur the opening lines NE Thiru Arul Maa Kadal Thiru Arul Maa Thiru Arul Maa Kadal Thiru Arul Maa Thiru Arul Maa Kadal Thiru Arul Maa O (praNavam) dAmOdarAya nama: "MuktA DamOdhara bandhana ". "MuktA DamOdhara bandhana MOTHER THE TO "KaNNInuNN siRutthAmpinAl Ka "KaNNInuNN ALUTATIONS S OMMENTS OMMENTS C C still wears a rope of pearls around Hi DamOdhara is associated nAmam with th Prabhandham: a husking(The MaayAvi, who helped His Mother to bind him to mortar with knotted and fine sections of coir rope). In commemoration of Him being tied up describing His many pieces of jewelry adorning Him: days. This is celebrated by sadagopan.org His waisttiedwitharope( minutes later,whileHismotherwasaway and allowedHimselftobetiedup( SarvEswaran) uptothe mortar.OurLord ofstringsstillleftheral of additions mortar. Sheaddedanotherstringandsti a stringandfoundthattobetwoin took with astick.ShedecidedtotieHimdownhuskingmortar. scolded andthreatenedherinfant.She to punishHimforHismischiefinbr glorious incident of the all powerful Lord being bound to mortar 9ofSr Chapter The Dasamaskandham, by His mother amenable to being tied up with a trivial rope to themortar:amenable tobeingtied upwithatrivialrope Swamy NammAzhwAr wondersatthesoulabhyam,whichmade Parabrahman AndAL : whobrought a It isthisDaamOdharan, tying Himup" tried tofastenthemortar".With human form, theMasterof senses--H nay, whois theuniverse itself -- Him, theunmanifest andSupremesportinga is yetthebeforeandafte "He whohasneitherinsidenoroutside, beautifully describedbySrImadBhAgavatham(10.9.13-14): The adhbhutham oftheOm their curse. of thosetrees.Hebought thosetreesdo totaketheform byasage two Arjunatrees,whoweregandharvAscursed "taayai kudal viLakkma seythaDaamOdharanai" "taayai kudalviLakkma r, theinsideand theoutside ofthewhole universe, DaamOdharan nipotent beingtied upbya simpleGopiis 188 kattuNNa paNNiya Peru Maayan ways shortoftwoinchestotieHim(the the Lord'shelp,YasOdhasucceededin eaking apotofcurd.First,YasOdhA ches tooshort tofastenHimthe who hasneitherbeforenorafter;who who ll glory to His Mother, YasOdhA says ll glorytoHisMother, YasOdhAsays ll itwastwoinchesshort.Anynumber wn and released the gandharvAs from wn andreleasedthegandharvAs could nothavethehearttohitHim tookpityonHismother'sexertions on household chores, Our Lord with with onhouseholdchores,OurLord Imad BhAgavathamcelebratesthe im, theGopi,taking ) crawled over and wentbetween ) crawledoverand forher child, ). Few sadagopan.org irundu yEngiya yeLivE ". yEngiya yeLivE irundu paasams on four hands. He protects paasams on four VaishNava chinham. His hue is that that is His hue VaishNava chinham. "Tani Mudalvan" and tells us that His tells us that and "Tani Mudalvan" one of the Twelve PuNDrams used by PuNDrams Twelve one of the mantrA uttered at the end of each mantrA uttered at the end 189 “aamO (avan) taram ariya".“aamO (avan) "yetthiRam uralinOdU iNainthu iNainthu uralinOdU "yetthiRam "DaamOdharan" also salutes AzhwAr as is the presiding deity of DhAmOdharan outsidethe inside and body. This PuNDram of the adorner's is worn on the back of the neck. ultimate It is significant that the Achamaneeyam is DaamOdarAya Nama. glory is indeed unfatomable: unfatomable: glory is indeed decorate their bodies as VaishNavAs to Sun. His weapons are four of early morning sadagopan.org KrishNAvathAram: Jagath pAlanam(theprotectionofth C C OMMENTS OMMENTS . Herescuedthecattle fromthefo 3. Helifted theGovardhana Mounta 2. 1. He savedtheGopAsandGopis S Him fromthefuryof Indhra. fire andsavedthecattle andthelive KaaLiyan andsubduedhim. ALUTATIONS TO (praNavam) jagat-pAlAya nama: (praNavam) jagat-pAlAya THE Thiru VayalALiManALan Thiru VayalALiManALan Thiru VayalALiManALan ( T T T à[vm! O HE HE HE NE 64 64 64 WHO ) jgTpalay nm> TH TH TH 190 IS N N N THE e Universe) is His vyApAram. During e Universe)isHisvyApAram.During in and saved those in andsavedthose AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM rest fire.Heconsumed theforest from thepoisonofserpent, - - - PROTECTOR Thirunagari Thirunagari Thirunagari lihood ofthose,who soughtHis OF THE who dependedon U NIVERSE . sadagopan.org ram as Lord VenkatEsa, the Lord isram as Lord VenkatEsa, curse of a Sage. BhagavAn's paadham curse of a Sage. being swallowed by a python, who was python, who was by a being swallowed 191 the Universe and its beings. the Universe and protection. protection. the body of snake back into and released him from touched the snake VidhyAdaran.that of a beautiful cursed to take that form due to a cursed to take 4. Nanda from father, He saved His in protecting fully engaged In every avathAram including ArchAvathA In every avathAram sadagopan.org internal andtheexternal KrishNaandRaam Thrivikrama, Nrusimha, - "PaapaNaasanAyaNama:"Therecounti This SrIVenkatEsanAmamiscloseto a trice. coming intouchwithfire,thesinsget of oursins.Likethecotton destroysall of Hismanthram(NamOVenkatEsAya) Therecitation (ParamaPaavanan). Our LordVenkatEsan'snameismostsacred the recitationofnAmAslinkedtoHis avathArams. C C OMMENTS OMMENTS S ALUTATIONS Thiru ValliRAman Thiru ValliRAman Thiru ValliRAman (praNavam) paapaghnAyanama: TO enemiesofSrIVaishNav T T T THE ( HE HE HE à[vm! O 65 65 65 NE ------TH TH ) TH WHO Thiru PuLLamboothamkudi Thiru PuLLamboothamkudi Thiru PuLLamboothamkudi pap¹ay nm> 192 the992ndSrIVishNu N burnt toashes(TheeyinilthUsAhum)in N N DESTROYS A removesthesinsofallpeople.The AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM ng oftheLeelAsLord as ALL aas aredestroyedduring SINS UTTERLY SahasraNaamam . sadagopan.org . DEVOTEES IS H FOR AFFECTION AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM of hearing, singing about, and of SrImad BhAgavatham, the special N N N GREAT ent in KrishNAvathAram. The bonds of lettered Gopis speaks a world about His 193 TH TH TH É´vTslay nm> É´vTslay affection for them are summarized: affection HAS ) Thiru YathOthakAri Thiru YathOthakAri Thiru YathOthakAri 66 66 66 WHO HE HE HE T T T à[vm! ( ONE THE (praNavam) bhakta-vatsalaaya nama: TO ALUTATIONS S OMMENTS OMMENTS C C This is the 742nd Naama of Sri Vishnu Sahasra Naamam. His special affectionThis is the 742nd Naama of Sri Vishnu Sahasra for His BhakthAs is particularly evid friendship and love He has for the un friendship and love He has for devotion to His BhakthAs. At the very end of the Dasama skandham status the Lord's of Bhakthan and "By constant and continuous practice sadagopan.org Tatthvam oftheLord. specialce are Bhaktha VathsalaPerumAL Thirumangai mannan'stenpaasurams to indicatethetightrealtionship Vathsalan, whichisPattarAvi inTamil. The PerumAL atthedhivyadEsamof abandoning theirkingdoms". engulfs allbeings.It isseekingthat overcoming theotherwiseirreversiblean by day, andremembering thegloriousdeedsof by virtue of it, he attains the Supreme abode of the Lord, 194 between the Lord and His BhakthAs. BhakthAs. His and Lord the between ThirukkaNNamangai isknown asBhaktha BhattarAvi meansthesoulofBhakthAsBhattarAvi Lord, man's devotion to Him grows day devotiontoHimgrowsday Lord, man's state thekingsgotoforests (Dhivya Prabhandham1638-1647)on d inevitableapproachofdeath,which lebrations oftheBhakthaVathsala sadagopan.org . THE KINGDOM CURB TO LOST RAM t of the Tatthvam A THEIR of three feet of land of three i, got what he asked and AVATH REGAIN S A V and ThirukkOvalUr Desam dhivya E AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM D the First aasramam of BrahmachAri rthy. Had He gone as a grahasthan HRIVIKRAMA N N N d for the enjoymen for d inseparable Consort under the deer skin inseparable 195 T aasurams of the Mudal AzhwArs (Poygai, HELP iÇiv³may nm> iÇiv³may nm> TH TH TH ) AND TOOK 67 67 67 not have received the gift HE HE HE à[vm! WHO ( T T T went as a dwarf BrahmachAr NE Thadalan, ThiruKAzhicheerAma Vinnagaram Thadalan, ThiruKAzhicheerAma Thadalan, ThiruKAzhicheerAma Vinnagaram Thadalan, ThiruKAzhicheerAma Thadalan, ThiruKAzhicheerAma Vinnagaram Thadalan, ThiruKAzhicheerAma (praNavam) trivikramaaya nama: O HAKRAVATHI THE C TO ALI B OF ALUTATIONS OMMENTS OMMENTS S HAUTEUR C C behind the Thrivikrama Naamam. He took to receive Bikshai from Bali Chakrava (second aasramam), He would BhUtham and PEy) have to be recalle SeerkAzhi (KaazhiccheerAma ViNNagaram) SeerkAzhi paasurams of Thirumangai AzhwAr and Swamy Desikan's SrI DehaLeesa the P sthuthi (ebook #72) as well as from Bali. He hid His that He wanted in His sacred thread and sadagopan.org avathAram andperformsHisprapatthi: alankarishyathi moordhAnam ( as aabharaNam Thrivi Swamy AlavanthArpraysforthat mahimnA saThrivikrama: glories( one voiceaboutHimandHis He isthemainsubjectmatterof Bhattar interpretsitastheLord,who 533rdSriVish This Naamamisalso thene two stepsandsentBalito then grewtothegiantsize found athttp://sundarasimham.o DehaLIsaSthu Note:SwamiDesikan's “Loka VikrAnthacharaNousaraNamtEavrajamVibhO" Thrivikrama ThvaccharaNAmbhujadhvayammadheeya ). ofThrivikramanandmeas ). AchAryaRaamAnujasa rg/ebooks/dEhaLisaSthuthi.pdf 196 three VedAs and all the VedAs speak in in three VedAsandallthespeak traverses or pervades the three VedAs. threeVedAs. traverses orpervadesthe nu SahasraNaamam.SwamyParAsara thi withannotatedcommentscanbe krama Paadhamtodecoratehis head ther worldwiththethirdstep.. ThreeN VedAn kramathE yO hi ThreeN VedAnkramathEyOhi ured theworldswithHis lutes theThrivikrama sadagopan.org RA A IMSUM . S THE ALAM FOR ND A M akram (CharavALa giri), which is owing foot of the Lord went upto HRUVA AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM FOUNDATION the trajectory of the upward moving D form of an animal known as Udumbu (a BrahmANDam without making a hole in the Lord passed by anthariksham, N N N Thiru Sempon sei kovil Thiru Sempon sei kovil Thiru Sempon sei kovil OF 197 THE ------ iz ) 68 68 68 WHO HE HE HE à[vm! NE T T ( T CONSISTING O brated by Thirumangai AzhwAr in the fifth paasuram fifth paasuram the AzhwAr in Thirumangai brated by Thiru PerarulAlan Thiru PerarulAlan Thiru PerarulAlan (praNavam) simsumArAya nama: THE TO HAKRAM C ALUTATIONS S OMMENTS OMMENTS C C All the stars of the universe are in the medium-sized lizard). The glory of ThrivikramAvathAram and foot of the Lord is cele of ThirunedumthANDakam. 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(All this is verily Brahman as this is born of Brahman, withdrawn in to Brahman ChAndhOgya Upanishaddeclares: The lakshaNamofVishNu C C S sa yayEshONimaitha dhAthmyamidham OMMENTS OMMENTS ALUTATIONS "Sarvam KhalvidhamBrahmatajjaalAnithisAnthaupAseetha" TO THE O (praNavam) jagad-vyApinE nama: (praNavam) jagad-vyApinE NE ( ---ChAndhOgyam: 6.13.3 is invokedhereagain. T WHO T T à[vm! HE HE HE IS 73 73 73 ACH ) PERVASIVELY jgd!Vyaipne nm> RD RD RD E THANAMS 204 N N N aka reveals that all entitiesinthe aka revealsthatall AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM sarvam Tadh satyam sa AathmA sarvamTadhsatyamsaAathmA PRESENT . IN ALL CH E THNAMS AND sadagopan.org ery being and every and every ery being gath KaaraNan and is existed as Naama-Roopam less, timeless, endless, faultless and came all the others. He pervades manner in all created entities. entities. in all created manner the Lord and His relationship to the Lord and His relationship nce of the five elements. The Lord the five elements. nce of ing invisible. In the final deluge, He ing invisible. In the final deluge, air, water and earth. Out of them, he air, water and earth. Out of r the body of ev eme authority, the VedAs, of excellent eme authority, the VedAs, of His stomach during the PraLayam as of His stomach during 205 line of thought and says: line of thought out that He is the Ja He is the out that ---ThiruvAimozhi: 1.1.7 roys the Prapancham that TidavisumperivaLi neer nilamivaimisai sudar mihu suranE suruthiyuL ivai uNDa padar poruL avai avai thoRum muzhuvathumAi udanmisai uyirenak-karanthengum paranthuLan paranthuLan udanmisai uyirenak-karanthengum Meaning Meaning and protects them in a small portion and protects them in a small Supr the from obtained is world the are author which The VedAs, effulgence. propagation, through only orally without a writing the ages, which sustain process for transmission" The Jagath VyApakathvam of the Lord and the supporting are scriptures covered by this naamam. 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All this knowledge but be thing, controlling and directing, devours all and thus dest here the Upanishad points Upanishad here the therefore present in a pervasive a in present therefore Swamy NammAzhwAr follows this sadagopan.org slips from His lofty status as Jaga slips fromHisloftystatusas He istheLordofUniverseandJeevan of theUniverse: whoisthecreatorand Lord NaarAyaNan, salutesHimasSrIman TaitthirIyam aspects ofHissplendor. their origin(originate)fromHiminthis Omnipotent Brahman,andtheembodimentofDayA.Allcreatedentitiestake this Naamam.HeistheCreatorof The BrahmaSoothram(1.1.2):" C C S ALUTATIONS OMMENTS OMMENTS "Pathim VisvasyAthmEswaram S "Pathim VisvasyAthmEswaram TO THE ONE (praNavam) jagat-kartrE nama: (praNavam) jagat-kartrE SrI AnDALukkum aiyyan SrI AnDALukkum aiyyan SrI AnDALukkum aiyyan WHO T T T ( HE HE HE à[vm! 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He is the observer. at He can come to their rescue and and rescue their to come can He at do not have the intelligence to think do not have the intelligence WITNESS N N N AntharyAmi Brahmam hasra Naamam (15th and 517th Naamam). 207 THE TH TH WORLD TH jgTsai][e nm> jgTsai][e nm> ) IS 75 75 75 me always and therefor WHO HE HE side of all the activities of the Jeevan (34th side of all the activities HE à[vm! T T T ( NE O Thiru ArAvamudhar (moolavar) Thiru ArAvamudhar Thiru ArAvamudhar (moolavar) Thiru ArAvamudhar Thiru ArAvamudhar (moolavar) Thiru ArAvamudhar (praNavam) jagat-saakshiNE nama: THE TO ALUTATIONS S OMMENTS OMMENTS C C He looks at the Jeevans closely so th He looks at the Jeevans I left Your presence and laughed heartily about my deceit until my ribs hurt hurt ribs my until deceit my about heartily laughed and presence Your left I me. 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SarIrArOgyam arTAmsccha--apavargaprathO th, Isvaryam, BhOgams and MOksham for BhOgamsandMOkshamfor th, Isvaryam, 210 e DaasAs tothisJa e DaasAs gathAm Pathi.As sadagopan.org THEY THAT BOON THE WITH DEVOTEES AAMAM AAMAM Sri VilliputthUr AAMAM Sri VilliputthUr Sri VilliputthUr . ------IS reach out and grants whatever the . Such is His never-drying generosity, ving Moksha SaamrAjyam, He feels bad N N N H 211 SEEK TH TH TH 77 77 77 iciNttawRàdaykay nm> iciNttawRàdaykay BLESSES ) s sought by the BhakthAs. HE HE HE T T T WHO SrI vaTapathra sAyee SrI vaTapathra SrI vaTapathra sAyee SrI vaTapathra SrI vaTapathra sAyee SrI vaTapathra NE à[vm! ( O THE (praNavam) cintitArtha-pradAyakAya nama: nama: (praNavam) cintitArtha-pradAyakAya TO OMMENTS OMMENTS ALUTATIONS S C C He has four arms to give each of the four PurushArTams. They compete with with that He has not anything more to give compete They He is VaradrAjan. spring. which is like an eternal PurushArTams. four the of each give to arms four has He each other to grant the boon BhakthAs want from Him. Even after gi after Even Him. from want BhakthAs He has long and generous hands that sadagopan.org time, thefootstool(Peetam) thatsupport You werecrownedin AyOdhya andsaton section): KaaNDam Desikan inHisSrIRaghuVeeraGadhyam(Utthara issalutedbySwamy His unrivalledEmperorshipasLordRaamachandran is Omnipotentandhas nonewho matchHim invalorandheroism. He is Jayaseelan in all His endeavors and His victory is never ever in doubt. He C Meaning C Meaning OMMENTS OMMENTS S ALUTATIONS haaDaka GirikaDakalaDahapaadhanikaDa taDapariluDitha nikhila nrupathikireeDakODimaNigaNa kiraNanikara TO Thiru NandaviLakku PerumAL Thiru NandaviLakku PerumAL Thiru NandaviLakku PerumAL THE neerAjitha charaNaraajeeva! O (praNavam) jishNavEnama: T T T NE ( HE HE HE à[vm! 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Later in His avathAram days, avathAram days, Later in His ndhanan. 219 vaki and VasudEvar at DhwArakai. NaarAyaNan thus and Devaki Na became parents, De with His He reunited blessed His Mother with the bliss of with the bliss His Mother blessed sadagopan.org VasudEva). Sooraisanothernamefor VasudEva). In thecontext ofKrishN Paadhukais behind in His AsthAnam. behindinHis AsthAnam. Paadhukais (MalOlan) ofAhobilam rush Nrusimhan Jeeyar invokedHim,SrILakshmi When AdhiVaNNSaThakOpa which propelsHimtowardsHisBh 649th NaamAs).The342ndNaamamemphasiz This NaamamisinvokedtwicebySr Father ofourLordduringKrishNaavathAram. C C OMMENTS OMMENTS S ALUTATIONS Thiru Sowrirajan Thiru Sowrirajan Thiru Sowrirajan (praNavam) saurayE nama: (praNavam) saurayE T T T TO AvathAram, HeisthesonofSoora(thevaliant HE HE HE ed insuchhastethat He ( THE à[vm! 82 82 82 O akthAs inagreathaste. 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RAM A S the timewhenGovindhaNaama AAMAM AAMAM reaches itscrescendotocelebrate AAMAM RAVANAM AT T HIRUMALAI - - - Guna seelam Guna seelam Guna seelam (P URATT Onthe PurattAsi . A SI S RAVA N AM ) sadagopan.org GARMENT SILK enjoyment of the HUED - MULTI , . WAIST behold as it adorns His divine body. AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM BEAUTIFUL ze shifts to the s from the waist to the ankle of the IS hAmbharam of the Lord of SrIrangam hAmbharam of the A NaimisAraNyam NaimisAraNyam NaimisAraNyam N N N - - - H 227 TH TH TH pItaMbrxray nm> pItaMbrxray ) 86 86 86 ADORNS AROUND HE HE HE SrI DEvarAjan SrI DEvarAjan SrI DEvarAjan T T T WHO à[vm! ( NE O (praNavam) pItAmbardharAya nama: (praNavam) pItAmbardharAya THE TO "kadiyAr pozhil ArangatthammAn araic-chivantha aadayin mEl "kadiyAr pozhil ArangatthammAn araic-chivantha OMMENTS OMMENTS ALUTATIONS S C C known for its beautiful groves). 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It is fragrant like the Lord's body ( body Lord's the like fragrant is It givesof the Lord and reason for this comp flowers. like Kousthubham jewe leaves His body present. Here Swamy Desikan states thatHere Swamy Desikan the Vaij sadagopan.org The definition givenbySwamyParA the Lord,BrahmAisknownasLotus-born (Padhma Bhuvan). house ofBrahmA.Thus,theLord issa Nama:" Outofthenavelbirthles The 48th, 198thand348th VishNuSahasraNaamamsare"PadhmanAbhAya C C OMMENTS OMMENTS S ALUTATIONS YasyanaabhOtadhuthpatti "PaarTivam bhUriPadhmamthunAbhou ashtadalam mahath YasyahEmamayeedhivyaakarNikAmEru: uchyathE NAVEL TO THE TO Thiru Anantha PadmanAbhan Anantha Thiru Thiru Anantha PadmanAbhan Anantha Thiru Thiru Anantha PadmanAbhan Anantha Thiru (praNavam) padmanAbhAya nama: (praNavam) padmanAbhAya PROVIDE O NE T T T ( à[vm! HE HE HE WHO 89 THE 89 89 HAS ) sara Bhattar to thisNaamamis: sara Bhattarto TH TH TH HOUSE pÒnaÉay nm> 232 A : PadhmanAbha:Sa UchyathE" N N N LOTUS luted asPadmanAbhanandthesonluted of s Lord, a lotus arose thatbecamethe arose s Lord,alotus ------ AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM ThiruAnantha Puram ThiruAnantha Puram FOR ThiruAnantha Puram FLOWER H IS SON SPROUTING , B RAHM A. OUT OF H IS sadagopan.org whose divine and peri-carp is said towhose divine and one of the twelve PuNDrams worn by one of the twelve e neck to have Lord PadmanAbhA's PadmanAbhA's Lord have to neck e autiful Paasurams and asks us to get autiful Paasurams and asks ananthapuram has Lord PadmanAbhan ananthapuram has Lord PadmanAbhan otects the Manas. The salutationotects the Manas. as we nkham, Chakram, Sword, Bow and mace.nkham, Chakram, 233 r all types of SamsAric illness. of SamsAric r all types Eshan. Swamy NammAzhwAr has performed Eshan. Swamy NammAzhwAr -ThiruvAimozhi: 10.2.3 -ThiruvAimozhi: 10.2.3 and gigantic, eight-petalled lotus (padhmam) arose (padhmam) lotus gigantic, eight-petalled out and sErum-taNN Ananthapuram sikkenap-puhuveerAhil sErum-taNN Ananthapuram PanchAyudham PadmanAbham praNamAmi arka-rOchisham arka-rOchisham PadmanAbham praNamAmi PanchAyudham theerum nOy vinaikal yellAm tiNNam nAmm aRiyacchonnOm theerum nOy vinaikal yellAm Meaning Meaning resting on a gigantic bed of Aadhis resting on a gigantic bed of MangaLAsAsanam for with be this Lord there today to gain salvation: out that quick arrival at the city of Swamy NammAzhwAr points Thiruvananthapuram and worshipping Sri Harilakshmi samEtha Sri PadmanAbhan would be sure cure fo The famous Dhivya Desam of Thiruv The famous Dhivya Desam protection is: of the sleeping Lord of the navel (Naabhi) Meru itself. be Mount is the presiding deity for PadhmanAbhan pr Sa has five weapons, VaishNavAs. He He Sooryan. of that like is color His on the back of th adorn the PuNDram In ancient time, a divine time, a divine In ancient sadagopan.org and consequentcompassionleadingtoanugraham: becomes one of thejanthus thatwouldbe afflictions andgrantthemMokshaSu the Lord"tocapture"manykinds DhIpikai(s Swamy Desikan’sSaraNAgathi jeevans and offeringthemSaraNAgathi. His YogaNidhrAisallaboutsuchchin C C CH OMMENTS OMMENTS E S THANAMS ALUTATIONS prathyak parAngmukha mathE:asameekshyakarthu: prathyak parAngmukha samsAra NaaDyarasikasyaTavAsthuThrupthyai: samsAra AND "sathvAni NaaTavividhAnyabhisanjighrushO: (praNavam) mrugayAsakta-mAnasAya nama: (praNavam) mrugayAsakta-mAnasAya TO prAchIna sajjana viDamBana bhUmikA" prAchIna sajjanaviDamBana TO THE ( LIBERATE à[vm! Thiru Bhakthvathsalan Thiru Bhakthvathsalan Thiru Bhakthvathsalan O T T T NE HE HE HE ) WHO 90 90 90 THEM m&gyas´mansay nm> TH TH IS TH 234 FROM FOND N N N kham. SwamyDesikanpraysthathe of Janthussuffering fromSamsAric ------thanais (thoughts) on catching such thanais (thoughts)oncatchingsuch come theobject of theLord'sfocus AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM ThiruNindravUr ThiruNindravUr ThiruNindravUr lOkam 43)referstothe"hunt"by THE OF CHASING CYCLES OF THE BIRTHS SUFFERINGS AND DEATHS OF . sadagopan.org rths to get closer to you. They go rths to get closer dances of the jeevans. As for me, I the jeevans. dances of e of those acts of mine is the acts of mine is those e of many janthus (Jeevans) and wish to (Jeevans) many janthus rbearers. I dress like them and acts rbearers. I dress like them For this purpose, you grant different you grant different For this purpose, patthi) invite your attention as the patthi) invite your attention orming a dance in this samsAric world samsAric this in orming a dance d on their KarmAs. You guide them to d on their KarmAs. 235 Meaning Meaning your benevolent sway. bring them under base to these Jeevans kinds of births bi deeds during these perform appropriate trespasses andcommit many upliftment. I do the means for my forget my mind. On whatever that comes to my fo performance of Prapatthi following of mine (Pra act like them. May this this SamsAram. Jeevans in the of connoisseur of the dance at be found Sookthi SaraNAgathi Deepikai can Desikan's Sri NOTE: Swamy http://sundarasimham.org/ebooks/57SGTD.pdf Oh Lord! You come forward and confront You come forward Oh Lord! about these activities perf as they are You watch and enjoy these sorrows. full of sadagopan.org The referencehereisto The (http://sundarasimham.org/ebooks/14DAS.pdf): (http://sundarasimham.org/ebooks/14DAS.pdf): Swamy DesikansalutesthisAsvAroo time ofKruthaYugam,whereSatthvamdominates. the worldfortherighteous destroy theprevailingadharmamsandprepare Hewillarriveonahorsewithswordinhandand all nAsthikAsandPaapis. He will come amidst us to remove our inauspiciousness causedbythe Lord will be born as the son of Brahmin, VishNuyasas and put an end to the C C OMMENTS OMMENTS S BhAvinyA dasayABhavanniha bhava-dhvamsAyana:kalpathAm ALUTATIONS KALKEE VishNuyasasutha: KalikaTAkAlushya-kUlankasha: KALKEE VishNuyasasutha: KalikaTAkAlushya-kUlankasha: TO Thiru SowriRAja PerumAL Thiru SowriRAja PerumAL Thiru SowriRAja PerumAL (praNavam) asvArooDhAya nama: (praNavam) asvArooDhAya THE the tenthandfinalavathAra O ( T T T à[vm! NE HE HE HE advancement ofKaliYugam. WHO 91 91 91 AVATH ) AñaêFay nm> ST ST ST IS 236 samsAric Bhandhams SEATED N N N A Dan in his DasAvathAra SthOthram Dan inhisDasAvathAra -- RAN -- -- AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM ThirukkaNNapuram ThirukkaNNapuram ThirukkaNNapuram . ON A WHITE m oftheLord,when HORSE (bonds) and destroy destroy (bonds) and AS K ALKI sadagopan.org 237 dharmam kArthayugam prarOhayathi yannismthrasadhArAdhara: yannismthrasadhArAdhara: prarOhayathi kArthayugam dharmam nissEsha-kshatha-kaNDakE kshthitalE dhArAjalaoughair-dhruvam dhArAjalaoughair-dhruvam kshthitalE nissEsha-kshatha-kaNDakE sadagopan.org Tatthvams. TheSword represents Jn~Anam. Thus alltheweapons andAabharaNam 1.22.74). ajn~Anam. Thesheathofthissword is The flamingswordofKnowledgeisthe accordingtoVishNuPurANam. is bornoutofwisdom(sadhvidhyA) oftheLordrepr This sword,Nandakam, C C S OMMENTS OMMENTS ALUTATIONS TO THE (praNavam) khaDga-dhAriNEnama: O Sri OppilliappanPerumAL Sri OppilliappanPerumAL Sri OppilliappanPerumAL NE ( WHO T T T à[vm! HE HE HE WEARS 92 92 92 SOURCE ) of!gxair[e nm> ND ND ND 238 THE N nescience or avidhyA (VishNu PurAnam: PurAnam: nescience oravidhyA(VishNu N N OF esents pureknowledge(jn~Ana),which most powerfulweapontodestroyour ------s oftheLordrepresent different J SWORD AAMAM AAMAM Thiru ViNNagaram AAMAM Thiru ViNNagaram Thiru ViNNagaram OY ). KNOWN AS N ANDHAKAM ( THE sadagopan.org heeptham Khadkam sadhAham heeptham Khadkam ting us, Thrivikraman is viewed as ting us, Thrivikraman ndra protecting us with drawn sword drawn sword ndra protecting us with with LakshmaNa to go in front and with LakshmaNa to go in e chApa-BANadharO yuvA e chApa-BANadharO yuvA 239 and the PanchAyudha SthOthram salutes salutes SthOthram PanchAyudha and the saraNam prapathyE saraNam prapathyE Sannaddha: kavachee khadge gacchan mamaagrathO salakshmaNa: nithyam Raama: pAthu Tamm NANDAKAM nAma HarE: prad RakshOsurANAm kaDinOgra-kaNDacchEdaksharac-chONitha digdhadhAram kaDinOgra-kaNDacchEdaksharac-chONitha RakshOsurANAm Nandakam this way : forms of the Lord protec Among the 12 direction. nirrudhi with Nandakam standing in the protecting us Raamacha One of the visions of the Lord Lord 's Sword is radiant in its lustre Sword is radiant Lord 's is depicted in the AapadhApaharthAra SlOkam: The prayer is for Lord Raamachandra The prayer is for Lord Raamachandra in hand, bow and arrowprotect the Jeevan with sword always. sadagopan.org that KubErangavetocelebrateHiswedding inagrandstyle. byHisdevoteesintheHu samarpaNams KubhEran tocelebrate Hisweddingwith The sthalaPurANamsaysthatourLord C C OMMENTS OMMENTS S ALUTATIONS (praNavam) dhanArjana-samutsukhAya nama: (praNavam) dhanArjana-samutsukhAya TO THE SrI SrInivAsa PerumAL SrI SrInivAsa PerumAL SrI SrInivAsa PerumAL ( à[vm! O NE T T T HE HE HE WHO DEBTS ) 93 93 93 xnajRnsmuTsukay nm> IS TO RD RD RD FOND 240 K N N N ------UBH thedaughterofAakAsaRaajan.The Thirumala/Thriupathi Thirumala/Thriupathi Thirumala/Thriupathi hadtoborrowalotofmoneyfrom OF ndis help Him to pay back the loans AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM E ASSEMBLING RAN . WEALTH TO PAY H IS sadagopan.org IS H IN . . TILAKAM RI ESIKAN ESIKAN U D D ASTH K WAMY WAMY S Thirupathi Thirupathi Thirupathi S r this creation because this one . - - - AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM d's auspicious dheepam (Visvasya BY BY the world that the Lord adornsHis hUri Rangan because of His KasthUri rd's forehead. For those, who worship rd's forehead. For those, who is for the purpose of removing the is for the purpose of removing RADIANT auty of the face. This NyAsa Tilakam is N N N 241 TH TH TH HAS ILAKM ILAKM FOREHEAD T 94 94 T 94 WHO SA SA HE HE HE A NE A SrI SrinivAsa PerumAL SrI SrinivAsa T SrI SrinivAsa PerumAL SrI SrinivAsa T SrI SrinivAsa PerumAL SrI SrinivAsa T Y Y O N N "nsarlsNmXy kStUiritlkaeJvlay nm> kStUiritlkaeJvlay nm> "nsarlsNmXy THE OF OF ) TO à[vm! ( OOKTHI OOKTHI S S RI RI ALUTATIONS S S S (praNavam) ghana-saara-lasan-madhya kastUri tilakOjvalAya nama: kastUri tilakOjvalAya nama: (praNavam) ghana-saara-lasan-madhya HE OMMENTS HE OMMENTS T C T C stands radiant as a Tilakam for Prapatthi. It is the Tilakam that brings out the be Swamy chose the name NyAsa Tilakam fo it have their nescience removed. It it have their nescience removed. of the people of darkness of Aj~nAnam beautiful KasthUri Tilakam. having in PuNDram Urdhva the with PerumAL at SrIrangam is known as Kast interchanged be can tilakam This Tilakam. the worl the same effect of being MaangaLIka PradhIpam). The Tilakam is always present on the Lo is The Tilakam sadagopan.org about theSrIRanganAthanador ning KasthUriTILAKAM. 242 sadagopan.org ONSCIOUSNESS , C NAM ~A N J OF . AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM Thiru ShOlingUR Thiru Thiru ShOlingUR Thiru Thiru ShOlingUR Thiru thi vyajAnAth" vanced the concept of Brahman as vanced the concept ------, chith (consciousness) and Aanandha LISS ROOPAM N N at both Vij~nanam and Aanandham is N B 243 THE TH TH TH AND si½danNdêpay nm> si½danNdêpay the essence of Brahma Svaroopam. the essence of 95 95 95 HAS ) HE HE HE WHO T T T SrI YOga Narasimhar SrI YOga Narasimhar SrI YOga Narasimhar à[vm! NE ( “aanandhO BrahmE O (praNavam) saccidAnanda roopAya nama: roopAya nama: (praNavam) saccidAnanda THE TO ALUTATIONS OMMENTS OMMENTS S C C Sath-chith-aanandhaa. Here Brahman is Sath (absolute being) TaittirIya and BrahadrANyaka have ad (absolute bliss principle). This is (absolute bliss principle). This is BrahadhAraNyakam also instructs th TaitthirIyam describes Brahman as: sadagopan.org indicated by: Brahman ( Vij~nanam AanandhamBrahmA yEsha hy-evaaanandhayathi 244 ). ThisBrahman bestowing blissis (TaitthirIyam: (I.7.1). (TaitthirIyam:(I.7.1). sadagopan.org . WORLD WHOLE THE ON d thus reveals His vaibhavam. This AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM m, Niyanthruthvam and Seshithvam- AUSPICIOUSNESS ll the sentients and insentients as His and insentients ll the sentients tivities through the power of His tivities through the power of His N N N ves svaroopam for the different vasthus for the different svaroopam ves 245 TH TH TH atthA). This is DhArakathvam. jgNm¼¦daykay nm> jgNm¼¦daykay 96 96 96 SrI AyOdhyA RAman SrI AyOdhyA SrI AyOdhyA RAman SrI AyOdhyA SrI AyOdhyA RAman SrI AyOdhyA CONFERS g the Master of all Jeevans. of all Jeevans. g the Master ) HE HE HE T T T WHO the jeevans recognize Him as the Undisputed Lord and the jeevans n as Niyanthruthvam. à[vm! NE ( O THE (praNavam) jagan-mangaLa-dAyakAya nama: nama: (praNavam) jagan-mangaLa-dAyakAya TO OMMENTS ALUTATIONS OMMENTS S C C Lord is Sarva MangaLa Vigrahan. He gi Lord is Sarva MangaLa Vigrahan. of the world and their existence (s He enables them to engage in ac in engage to them enables He sankalpam. This is know He is delighted to make make them use Him as their PrayOjanam an or bein is Known as Seshithvam sambhandhams-DhArakathva three These permits Him and no one else to bear a sadagopan.org elaborate furtherontheSarvaMaangalyaSvaroopamofLord. Maangalya Sthavam(http://sundarasimh This way,Hebecomes Jagan-MangaLaM and isknownasPradhAnaPrathitanthram. own body( SarIrAthma BhAvam ). Thisdoctrineisuni 246 oorthy. Thesalutationscontainedin am.org/ebooks/mangalyastavam.pdf) am.org/ebooks/mangalyastavam.pdf) que toVisishtAdhvaitham sadagopan.org . VAI O N ~ AJ SACRIFICES (Y S OF A NY ~ FRUIT AJ Y THE ALL OF GRANTS AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM in the Body of Yaj~na VarAhan as as VarAhan Yaj~na of Body the in ThirukkaLvanUr ThirukkaLvanUr ThirukkaLvanUr nam, its means and the ultimate goal. FORM Yaj~na Purusha avayava varNanam ------AND na Svaroopi with all the vessels and na Svaroopi with all the vessels and N N N S THE 247 A y}êpay nm> y}êpay nm> TH TH TH N ) OF ~ IS AJ 97 97 97 (Yaj~nO vai VishNu:). Y HE HE HE à[vm! OF WHO ( T T T Thiru Adhi Keshavan Thiru Adhi Thiru Adhi Keshavan Thiru Adhi Thiru Adhi Keshavan Thiru Adhi NE ORD O (praNavam) yaj~na roopAya nama: (praNavam) yaj~na L THE THE IS TO E :) H U N ISH ALUTATIONS V OMMENTS OMMENTS S C C This svaroopam of the Lord as Yaj~ accoutrements used in Yaj~nam are seen described in SrImadh BhAgavatham: (III.13.37-42). VishNu PurANam salutes Him as the Yaj~ roopan He is therefore Yaj~na sadagopan.org ParAsara Bahttarcomments: This Namaisthesameas979thNa thatenjoysorHe (It isBhagavan C C OMMENTS OMMENTS S ALUTATIONS "thAnn bhunkthEbhunakthi TO THE (praNavam) yaj~na-bhOktrEnama: O Thiru KOlavalli RAman Thiru KOlavalli RAman Thiru KOlavalli RAman NE PROTECTOR T T T ( WHO HE à[vm! HE HE 98 98 98 istheprotectorofYaj~nam). IS ) THE TH TH TH OF y}ÉaeKÇe nm> 248 N N N ENJOYER THE ma of Vishnu Sahasra Naamam. Swamy ma ofVishnuSahasraNaamam. ------Thiru VELLiangudi Thiru VELLiangudi Thiru VELLiangudi AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM vaa ithiYaj~naBhuk" Y AJ ~ OF N A ALL S . OFFERINGS AND IS THE sadagopan.org ) NAM ~A N (J . INTELLIGENCE PURE RAHMAN OF B e enjoyer), as the inner self of the as the inner self e enjoyer), AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM th thrividham prOktham yEthath Ogyam and PrEritha, it leads to the pure Jn~Anam dwelling eternally eternally the pure Jn~Anam dwelling mukthO bhavathi ithyarTa:" mukthO ahman. This Brahman is the inner self inner self ahman. This Brahman is the the controller (prErithA). When one FORM N N N ThirukkArvanam ThirukkArvanam ThirukkArvanam NADHA 249 ------icNmyay nm> icNmyay nm> A THE TH TH TH ngraha of AchArya RaamAnujA: ) OF 99 99 99 IS HE HE HE Thiru Kalvar Thiru Kalvar à[vm! Thiru Kalvar ACCHIDH ( T T T WHO S (praNavam) cinmayAya nama: (praNavam) cinmayAya AS NE O THE TO sarvam mathvA Brahma Bhavathi "bhOkthA bhOgyam prErithA ithyEtha bhOgyam "bhOkthA OMMENTS OMMENTS ALUTATIONS C S C inside the JeevAthman as antharyAmi Br inside the JeevAthman as antharyAmi who is th of the bhOkthA (the jeevAthman object of enjoyment (BhOgyam) and as Moksham according to VedArtha Sa This Brahman should be comprehended as This Brahman should be comprehended understands Brahman as BhOkthA, Bh sadagopan.org GuNam anddevelops thetasteforMoks the jeevanattime ofbirth,then isourSarva Swami. SrIman NaarAyaNan mukthitadhO mukthabhOgya:). liberated Jeevans them fromthecycles ofbirthsand Doctrine). Heistheonlyone,who achEthanams. HeisthustheSeshi, Suprem Our LordVenkatEsanisthe voluntary embraceofSrIDevi"(SrInivAsaTatthvam). He is the Supreme ruler, "whose ruler ship is made fruitful as he gets the C C OMMENTS OMMENTS S ALUTATIONS TO Thiru ParamapadaNathan Thiru ParamapadaNathan Thiru ParamapadaNathan THE (praNavam) paramEsvarAya nama: (praNavam) paramEsvarAya O (SrImaan NaarayaNO Na: Pathi:akhilatanu: NaarayaNO (SrImaan NE T T T ( HE HE HE à[vm! WHO 100 100 100 IS ) ENTITIES THE prmeñray nm> TH TH - TH - - can grant Moksham to Jeevans andfree can grantMokshamtoJeevans Thiru ParamEswara ViNNagaram Thiru ParamEswara ViNNagaram Thiru ParamEswara ViNNagaram 250 deaths. HeistheOneenjoyed bythe Swami and Para Tatthvam (Supreme SwamiandParaTatthvam that personbecomes richwithSatthva S N N N UPREME ham. Nooneelse e MasterofallChEthanams and When He as ParamEswaran looks at looks WhenHeasParamEswaran AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM . I SVARAN OF can grantMoksham ALL BEINGS AND sadagopan.org an as their Iman NaarAyaN a Raaja Padha Sthothram, where He a Raaja Padha 251 the ParamEswaran, SrIman NaarAyaNan. They are under the influence of Prakruthi of Prakruthi the influence are under They They themselves recognize Sr They themselves Karma vasyA:) Prakruthi adhinA:). Prakruthi adhinA:). Sivan composed Manthr Swamy. Lord He is the Daasan of declares that since they are not ParamEswaran. The other gods are under the influence of of the influence gods are under The other not ParamEswaran. are since they ( their KarmAs ( sadagopan.org realize Moksham.This conviction is themanthramand medicineforusto AzhwAraversthatSrImanNaarAyaNan In hisMukundhaMaalai,KulasEkhara this doctrine: NaarAyaNan NaarAyaNan For thepurposeofgainingMoksham, the One and onlyOne,whocanbless uswithMoksham). (He isnotdependent Swamy NammAzhwArsalutesSrimanNaarAyaNanas: C C S OMMENTS OMMENTS ALUTATIONS (KaaraNam thudhyEya:) "Apavarga-pradhO Hari:" "Apavarga-pradhO TO (praNavam)paramArtha-pradAyakAyanama: THE "TannSaarvillAt-Tanip-Perumoorthy" O on anyoneelseforremoving ( NE SrI BhUvarAha PerumAL SrI BhUvarAha PerumAL SrI BhUvarAha PerumAL à[vm! T T T WHO HE HE HE 101 101 ) 101 GIVES prmawRàdaykay nm> makes ThirumangaiAzhwAr declare: S UKHAM ST ST ST 252 THE N N N overcome SamsAric afflictions and to overcomeSamsAric afflictions andto SUPREME one tobemeditateduponisSrIman VishNu dharma slOkam underlines VishNu dharmaslOkam ------AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM . SrI MuShNam SrI MuShNam SrI MuShNam P the sorrowsofallandHeis URUSH A R T AM OF M OKSHA sadagopan.org of the seven hills of the seven who seek His protection. who seek His protection. rd standing on top top on standing rd who believe that there are other there are other that who believe 253 ksha Sukham on those, ksha Sukham on ss one with Moksham.) ss one with Moksham.) "MaRRumOr Dhaivam uLathenRiruppArOdu uRRilEn" uRRilEn" uLathenRiruppArOdu Dhaivam "MaRRumOr (I will not associate(I will with those, Dhaivams that can ble Dhaivams that SrIman NaarAyaNan in the form of the Lo Mo is the One to confer sadagopan.org path marked outby AchAryaRaamAnuj path marked Moorthy accompaniedbyMahA LakshmionHisChestandtravelthe Let usseektheboon of Bhak of blissandtherefore Heissupremelytranquil. As LordSrInivAsanisunitedwithSriDevi C C OMMENTS OMMENTS S vinatha vividhabhUthavrAtharakshaika dheekshO ALUTATIONS Bhavathu mama parasmin sEmushiBhakthiroopA Bhavathumamaparasmin Sruthi-sirasi vdheepthE BrahmaNiSrInivAsE akhila bhuvanajanma-sTEmabhangAdhileelE Thiru GnAnapirAn Thiru GnAnapirAn Thiru GnAnapirAn (praNavam) saantAyanama: T T T TO HE HE HE ( à[vm! THE 102 102 102 O NE ) ND ND ND 254 zaNtay nm> ------WHO AzhwAr Thirunagari AzhwAr Thirunagari AzhwAr Thirunagari A atthebeginningofSrIBhAshyam: N N N thi fromthisParamaSaantha alwaysandasSriya:Pathi,Heisfull IS AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM SUPREMELY TRANQUIL . sadagopan.org re as the Parama re as the Parama avan is invoked he avan is invoked is saluted by one of the JithanthE the JithanthE by one of is saluted VaasudEvAmithadhyuthE VaasudEvAmithadhyuthE 255 --JithanthE StOthram --JithanthE StOthram NamO BhagavathE VishNO NamO BhagavathE SAANTHAYAA cha visuddhayASAANTHAYAA tEjasE ParamAthmanE Saantha Moorthy. Saantha Moorthy. SlOkams: SthOthra and tEjas of Bhag The purity, splendour Lord VenkatEsan's Saantha Svaroopam Svaroopam Saantha Lord VenkatEsan's sadagopan.org makes Him qualified for SrImath Sabhdham, SrInivAsan. makes HimqualifiedforSrImathSabhdham, SrInivAsan. greatest vaibhavamsadornstheChest ( ( maalA ever fragrantVedAs( dhivya sampath the demonMadhu( wealth for theLord,whodestroyed boundary ofMercyandcompassion( ( attributes abode ofallauspicious SrImath statusandisfilledwithever Due tothelovingglancesofHisCo C C Sakala BhuvanaprArthanAKaamadhEnu: OMMENTS OMMENTS S ALUTATIONS ). Sheis thewish-granting ). She is the head garland made of MandhAra Flowers for the TO THE O nithya aamOdhaanigama SrI ThothAdriNAthan SrI ThothAdriNAthan SrI ThothAdriNAthan (praNavam) srImatE nama: (praNavam) srImatE T T T NE HE HE HE WHO ( à[vm! 103 103 103 IS THE Kaapi KaaruNyaseemA Kaapi RD RD RD ) KalyANAnAm avikalanidhi: 256 nsort SrI Devi, the Lord acquires the nsort SrIDevi,theLordacquires ïImte nm> N N CONSORT N y auspiciousness.Sheistheeternal KaamadhEnu forthewhole world KaamadhEnu Vaksha Sthalam ------AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM ). SuchaSrIDeviwiththeabove VAnamAmalai VAnamAmalai VAnamAmalai OF vachasAm mouLiMandAra S R I D EVI ) of Her Lord and ) ofHerLordand ). Sheisthe divine (S Madhu Vijayina: R I ). Sheisthe NIV A SAN ). sadagopan.org . VALOUR INVINCIBLE OF AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM IS Thirupputkuzhi Thirupputkuzhi Thirupputkuzhi ------N N N jith, KumbhakarNan and RaavaNa, He Sage VisvAmithrA at SiddhAsramam, inSage d by SrImad BhAgavatham this way: yed 14,000 rakshasAs at JanasthAnam yed 14,000 rakshasAs at 257 WHO TH TH TH daed¡fiv³may nm> daed¡fiv³may NE ) O d not be matched by any God. 104 104 104 THE HE HE HE à[vm! T T T TO ( SrI Vijaya RAghavan SrI Vijaya RAghavan SrI Vijaya RAghavan SrI Vijaya RAghavan SrI Vijaya RAghavan SrI Vijaya RAghavan aaruhya yAnamaTApi sasaara Raamam (praNavam) dOrdaNda-vikramAya nama: nama: (praNavam) dOrdaNda-vikramAya Rakshapathi: svaBalanashtim avEkshyarushta sva syandhanE dhyumathi MathalinOpaneethE ALUTATIONS S OMMENTS OMMENTS C C He is Omnipotent. He is sarva sakthan. No one can and has defeated Him in in Him defeated has and can one No sakthan. sarva is He Omnipotent. is He destro battles. Single handedly, He The destruction of RaavaNan is salute during His RaamAvathAram. In Yaaga SamrakshaNam on behalf of destroying the foul Taatakai, Indhra displayed such that coul a valor sadagopan.org splendid RaghuveraGadhyam. salutesthedhivyapara Swamy Desikan beenexpended. puNyams have heroism”, RaavaNanfellontheearthlike his heart.Asthewatchingassembly listed thetrespassesofRaavaNaandhi RaavaNa hitRaamawithsharparrows shining chariotofIndhradrivenby to fightRaamachandran.Thereintheba destruction ofhisMoolaBalasainyam(arm RaavaNaa, thekingof Meaning Meaning BhANam chavajramivatadhhrudhayamBhibhEtha sOasrugvaman-dsamukhairanyapadhath vimAnAth sOasrugvaman-dsamukhairanyapadhath vimAnAth yEvam kshipandhanushisannidhimuthsasarja haahEthi jalpathi janE sukrutheevariktha: VibhrAjamAnamahananisithai: kshuraprai: -SrImad BhAgavatham:9.10.21and23 Raakshasaas wasangered 258 t himwiththe BrahmAsthram andtore Maathali, thecharioteerofIndhra. of peopleshouted kramam of Lord Raamachandra in His ofLordRaamachandrain kramam named Kshupram. Raamainreturn namedKshupram. theonesfallingfrom Svargamafter ttle field, he saw Raama seated ona ttle field,hesawRaamaseated y ofelite)andgotontohischariot over the sight of the over thesightof "haa haa,whata sadagopan.org UPREME S THE IS able Tatthvam that WHO FORM A . ARCH AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM l or superior. The only act for us to l or superior. The only act for Melkote,nArAyaNapuram Thiru Melkote,nArAyaNapuram Thiru Melkote,nArAyaNapuram Thiru our Bhara SamarpaNam (request for N THE N -- N -- -- the ParAthparan and fall at His sacred the ParAthparan and fall at His sacred PoorNa-shAdguNya vigraham 259 IN UPREMES owledging the unassail praTpray nm> praTpray nm> TH TH TH S ) SAN OF E 105 105 105 à[vm! HE HE HE ( T ENKAT T T V (praNavam) parAtparAya nama: ORD L TO Thiru SelvapiLLai (Vairamudi sEvai) Thiru SelvapiLLai (Vairamudi Thiru SelvapiLLai (Vairamudi sEvai) Thiru SelvapiLLai (Vairamudi Thiru SelvapiLLai (Vairamudi sEvai) Thiru SelvapiLLai (Vairamudi "jitham tE PUndareekAksha namsthE VisvabhAvana namasthEasthu HrushIkEsa Maahapurusha Poorvaja namasthEasthu HrushIkEsa Maahapurusha parAnandha PARABRAHMAN namasthE ParamAthmanE" parAnandha PARABRAHMAN namasthE ParamAthmanE" jitham te PuNDareekAksha ALUTATIONS OMMENTS OMMENTS S C C do is to fall at His sacred feet ackn feet He is SrIman NaarAyaNa without any equa sacred His at fall to is do We accept the fact that we have been won over by the divine beauty, beauty, divine the by over won been have we that fact the accept We unmatched valor and limitless mercy of for accepting gratefulness feet with and recite : of Supremes He is, as the Supreme accepting the burden of protecting us). sadagopan.org DEvathA ParamArTyAdhikAram ParAthparan. ThenamegivenbySw Desikan isdevotedtotheestablishment asthe ofSrImanNaarAyaNan The entire sixthchapter of SrImat by His ParAthparaTatthvamisinvoked ". 260 amy Desikantothischapteris:" h Rahasya Thraya Saaram of Swamy Swamy h RahasyaThrayaSaaramof the address of Him as Parabrahman. ofHimasParabrahman. theaddress Para sadagopan.org . RAHMAN ). B UPREME S THE AAMAM AAMAM AAMAM standing all by Himself during the standing all by Himself MadhurAnthakam MadhurAnthakam MadhurAnthakam d others as AadhipirAn and asks us One that exists at the time of MahA One that exists at the time -- other than this ParAthparan and IS -- -- Lingam of total blemishlessness and Rudhra, Indhra and all other gods, N N N aanthi Parvam: 210.24 261 präü[e nm> präü[e nm> TH TH TH WHO ) NE O 106 106 106 anantha KalyANa GuNams anantha KalyANa à[vm! 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He is the Prabhu limitless auspicious attributes ( limitless auspicious attributes He is the one defined by the Ubhaya He is the one defined by sadagopan.org Parabrahmam: anRu Naanmukhan tannodu DevaraulahOduuyirpadaitthAn ninRa AadhipirAnniRkkamaRRait-dhaivamnaaduthirE KunRam pOlMaNimAda needuThirukkuruhUrathanuL OnRum DevumulahamummaRRumyAthumilla -- ThiruvAimozhi:4.10.1 262 sadagopan.org ON AND ) RESIDING GLORY ( EVI I D R S AIBHAVAM V WITH ). 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She and intercedes for us with Her Lord at that SaraNAgathy thereaft The detailed commentary on SrI GuNa Sundara Simham web site (http://sun at sadagopan.org before approachingourFatherleaves thero Bytaking Her forthatreason. approach HerLordthroughwithout She hasthe greatest ofaffectionfor reduces theangerthatLorddevelops She isourMotherandEmpress.re lotus flowersinHerhandsandisseated The divineconsortof theLordof Venkataachalapathi: the JagadhIsan,Lord The firstVenkatEsaPrapatthislOkampays links toHis divineconsort. extensively theVaibhavamacquiredby Meaning Meaning tad vakshassthala nityavAsa rasikAm-tatkshAnti samvardhinIm | samvardhinIm nityavAsa rasikAm-tatkshAnti tad vakshassthala padmAlankruta paaNipallava yugAM-padmAsanasthAmsriyam padmAlankruta vAtsalyAdi-guNojvalAm bhagavatIm-vandEjaganmAtaram|| IsAnAm jagatOsya vEnkaTapatEr-vishNO: parAmprEyasIm IsAnAm jagatOsya vaTsLyaidgu[aeJJvla< ÉgvtI—vNdejgNmatrm!. vaTsLyaidgu[aeJJvla< tÖv]SSwlinTyvasriska mewithoutanyfearoranxiety. 264 Universes, PadhmAvathi ThAyaar holds ThAyaar Universes, PadhmAvathi ute ofprostratingbeforeourMother us asourMother.Therefore, wecan the Lord as SrInivAsan through His through the LordasSrInivAsan sides atthechestof ourLordand on the lotus flower with great joy. onthelotusflowerwithgreatjoy. overthetrespassesofjeevans. fear ordoubt.AdiyEnbowsbefore obeisancetotheDivineconsortof sadagopan.org sadagopan.org sadagopan.org Thiru NArAyaNan (Moolavar) --Melkote 265 sadagopan.org SrI VenkatEsan: eternal JagadhIswaran andParaBrahmam Aanandhathvam asJagadhIs Sathyathvam, Jn~Anathvam,Anan MangaLam ( MangaLams asJagadhIswaran Jagadhees (Supreme Lord)and Upanishads Pathi.VedAsand JagathAm Ubhaya VibhUthiNaaTan (BhUlOkametalandSriVaikuntam).Heis He isthesoleownerofimmeasur C C OMMENTS OMMENTS S ALUTATIONS ivna ve»qez nityAya niravadyAyasatyAnantha-cidAtmanE| TO --SrI VenkaTEsamangaLam,slOkam5 THE inTyay inrv*aysTyanNdicdaTmne, svaRNtraTmne ïImÖee»qezaym¼¦m!. (praNavam) jagadIsvarAyanama: O NE T T T ( à[vm! HE HE HE WHO waran. SodeclaretheUpanishads.Heis waran (Lord ofallworlds). 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