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http://www.sundarasimham.org in sources of inspiration for presenting this this of inspiration for presenting in sources down to His Sacred Feet (slOkams 34 to 43). 34 to 43). (slOkams Feet His Sacred down to yenRu, Mukundhan aruL tantha payan peRREn naanE yenRu, Mukundhan aruL tantha Paasuram), composition and Swamy Desikan alludes to his anthamil seer Ayindhai nahar am anthamil seer Ayindhai nahar th Nava MaNI Maalai e-books. Sri Daiva Naayaka PanchAsath is ebook #11 in the th Thiruvaheendhrapuram in three language Thiruvaheendhrapuram in three ahobilavalli series of ebooks available at of the footsteps follow Let us all Thiruvaheendhrapura dhivya dEsam to im SamEtha SrI Achyutha kshEhtram and enjoy the beauty of Sri HemAbjavalli samarpaNam of nine Sri Sook Sri of nine samarpaNam hundred sl Panchaasath in Sanskrit, one Praakrutham, and seven more in ”Sezhu Maalai, Panthu, Kazhal, AmmAnai, Oosal, Simham series ( the Sundara SlOkams 44 to 65 deal elaborately with SlOkams 44 to 72 onwa SlOkams the Lord’s devotees. available to us, way head all the from His state, his hopes, fe (current) afflicted and succor. Desika as Venkatanaa Swamy pini for individual souls representative beco bride should youthful the eternally Naarayanan. bridegroom, Sriman maanaseeka AchAryan, Sri Vaikunta Vaasi Sri The blessings of adiyEn’s Vangipuram Oppiliappan Sannidhi Sri in English by Desika Ratnam Sri D.Ramaswamy Swamy and the 1983 monograph IyengAr have been the ma kavar pirAki adiyurayAl -……Chinthai mozhiya vazhi mozhi Nee In the above passuram passage of Swamy Desikan’s Swamy Desika meditatesSwamy on the various pa monograph on the " Prabhandham (10 the 40 sadagopan.org Achyutha Sathakam. DevanAthan asSriVenkataNaayakidid 4 in her100PrAkruthamslOkamsofSri in
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liyan enjoyed the Lord before as liyan enjoyed the Lord before as 1 1 1 ha Giri as a matchless male elephant elephant ha Giri as a matchless male His refuge. He ne His refuge. of their illnesses. a young maiden in deep love with the the with love deep in maiden young a own incomparable beauty and shines shines own incomparable beauty and s towards the sacred feet of Sri who prostrates before Him and seeks these intense moments, Sri Venkata these intense moments, Sri Venkata y of this bhakthi impels Swamy Desikan (dEvAs) on the hills roams with majesty 7 SaraNAgathAs and hence is known as SaraNAgathAs and hence ". He appears like a green tree with KAM KAM KAM dAsAnAm achyutam sthirajyOti: | O O O L L L S S S E;xaclEk gjeNÔm!. 1. E;xaclEk gjeNÔm!. zanamCyut< iSwrJyaeit>, Dhaiva Naayakan " (One who is always true to His adiyavarkaL). Pray, pay your : : Invitation to the adiyArs to worship Lord DevanAthan! Lord to worship adiyArs to the Invitation Invitation to the adiyArs to worship Lord DevanAthan! Lord to worship adiyArs to the Invitation EANING OMMENTS DhAsa Sathyan
jewelry on His body mingles with His His His body mingles with jewelry on without diminution. who sought He will never abandon anyone, to the the fruits of His sankalpam " obeisance to this SarvEswaran! medicinal properties on the banks of Garuda river full of vitality and comforts of Garuda river full of banks medicinal properties on the and removes all the devotees of the eyes flow Swamy Desikan’s intense bhakthi forsakes anyone Achyuthan, who never His refuge and protection. The intensit Lord just as Swamy NammAzhwAr and Ka ParAnkusa and ParakAla Naayakis. In C to transform into Sri Venkata Naayaki, garuDa nadI taTa tamAlamgaruDa nadI taTa ahIndranagara yEka gajEndram || oaushada achala all celestials of SarvEswaran, the Lord at Thiruvaheendhrapuram known as oushad with the name of " namata tridasAnAm nAtham satyam M nmt iÇdzana< naw< sTy< da sTy< naw< nmt iÇdzana< tmal< AhINÔngra géf ndI tq sadagopan.org toexpressher (praakrutham) Naayaki becomesanintenselove-lornlady Naayaki ‘Venkata Naayaki’ 8
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2 2 2 use Praakrutham to praise You; this use Praakrutham to praise high quality composition in chastehigh quality composition in heendhrapuram to listen to heendhrapuram heendhrapuram to listen to heendhrapuram of Praakrutham. adiyEn is not blessed delight in hearing ke delight in listening to the imperfect the imperfect ke delight in listening to ! The speech of Saraswathy during! The speech of Saraswathy Her 9 KAM KAM KAM O O O L L L his eulogy! S S his eulogy! S geihnI ivlas VyaùtmyI, y one who performs : : EANING OMMENTS Prayer to the Lord of Thiruva Lord Prayer to the Prayer to the Lord of Thiruva Lord Prayer to the C Naayaki From here on Sri Venkata addresses Her NaaTan directly in yEkAntham and reminds Him of His unique attributes as "Achyuthan, Natha Sathyan, Daasa Sathyan, Kimkara Sathyan" as One who never abandons an parrot in cage. Similarly, You should ta parrot in cage. Similarly, You form of an eulogy. speech of adiyEn taking the SaraNAgathy to Him and seeks His protection (rakshaNam). M devotees Oh Lord forever true to Your kinkara satya stuti: tavakinkara satya svayambU gEhinI vilAsa vyAhruta mayee | phaNitA bAlEna mayA iva karOtu panjara suka jalpitam prasAdam || Svy<ÉU ik»rsTy StuitStv )i[ta balen zuk mya pÃr jiLptimv kraetu àsadm!. 2. language became the lilting infant period compose a with powerful intellect to has chosen to Sanskrit. Therefore, adiyEn is not fully of speech whose faculty of an infant, may sound like the prattling developed. In this world, human beings sadagopan.org Venkata Naayaki cites an analogy here:it ananalogy Venkata Naayakicites Her Lord’skeerthi ( bhAshitham Malinam slOkam. Here Venkata Naayaki saysth slOkam. HereVenkataNaayaki This isalsoanaicchAnusandhaana(Self- C consecrates myspeech. water. Both have become one. Thus singing about Your glories withGanga waters,onecan not tell thestre my tongue with the purified throughitsassociation The momentthatimpurestreetwaterfa instance, therainwater fromthestreet withthe glories by beingassociated ofYoursandth praising thatvaibhavam Your vaibhavamenvelopstheworldliketh jn~Anam would haveOh Lord many who is always defects true to Your de in dictionM and grammar. What if it is so?lagnam labhatAmvisuddhimrathyAsa tavakeertijyOtsnAprasarE| bhAshitammamakinkarasatya malinam api l¶< lÉta mama mama ). ). sadagopan.org or the river that flows in river that flows or the blemishless Gangaa pravAham. Gangaa Gangaa Gangaa pravAham. blemishless 11 "thripaTagaa srOthaa" "thripaTagaa srOthaa" srOthaa" "thripaTagaa river is referred here as referred here river is lokams. Upper, bhU and PaathALa three worlds: becoming sacred by flowing into the flowing into sacred by becoming sadagopan.org the King enjoysthe speechof hisclow Oh Lord! Please accept adiyEn’sroyal clownamidstthe pithy statementsma unskille a laughablematter.Itiscommonthatthe wordsan usageof itsunskilled marked by a glories.Inthisaugust about Your Nithya Soorisandnewlyliberatedjeev Oh theLordofCelestials!InYourco M vanditva mahitAnAmmadhyEsrut trastari nayEnasthApitAsObhatAm viNdTv mihtana perumpuliyur -SriSundararAjaPerumAL na< bailzammStuit>.4. S S S inAm bAlisAmamastuti:|| L L L O O O tridasAnAm nAtha tavasamAjE| nAtha tridasAnAm KAM KAM KAM 12 ssembly, adiyEn is reciting my sthuthi isrecitingmysthuthi adiyEn ssembly, urt filledwith theeternally liberated ans (Mukthaas), the VedAs are singing theVedAsaresinging ans (Mukthaas), d and deficient sthuthi and enjoy it as d anddeficientsthuthi andenjoyitas n at darbhAr amidst theassembly of n atdarbhAramidst d meanings.Thisact king is amused by the speech of the 4 4 4 to that oftheroyalclown! to that oftheroyalclown! de by great scholars of his court. of mineisindeed sadagopan.org ). vandhithva ). VikaDa kavi 13 eulogies of the sacred VedAs ( eulogies of the ) and is comparable royal laughable activities of the to the is the manner of speech of a clown ( of speech is the manner BhAlisaa : OMMENTS Swamy Desikan states that his meager efforts to sing meager statesSwamy Desikan this sthuthi on the Lord that his is infantile ( “Trastari nayam” bards and ministers. ministers. bards and C grand contrast to the clown in mahithAnAm SrutheenAm madhyE mama sthuthi: trastarinayEnaSrutheenAm madhyE mama mahithAnAm sTApitaa sadagopan.org JihvAgra SinhAsanan! 14 sadagopan.org while 5 5 5 of the Lord’s abundant grace are of the Lord’s abundant grace our ajn~Anam. adiyEn has stepped stepped our ajn~Anam. adiyEn has nams! You never abandon Your servants. servants. nams! You never abandon Your dhupadEsams from His throne from dhupadEsams 15 dhupadEsams from His throne from dhupadEsams svaroopam and svabhAvam through Your KAM KAM KAM and perform SadupadEsams. of the tongues of SadAchAryAs and of SadAchAryAs from of the tongues O O O (jihvaa simhAsanE laBdha prathishta:) mhAsanE labdha pratishTha:| mhAsanE labdha L L L S S S located on SadAcharyas’ tongues! located on located on SadAcharyas’ tongues! located on : : EANING OMMENTS Our Lord helping us with Sa Our Lord Our Lord helping us with Sa Our Lord they interpret Bhagavath Saasthrams You elect to sit on the throne on top You elect to sit on the throne Your that seat, You instruct us about SadAchAryAs. Those upadEsams banish C throne the on firmly sitting as visualized is TheSadAchAryAs, who are the recipients Lord Our slOkam. this in extolled over the tongues of SadAchAryAs M bhaktha ja Oh Lord who is true to Your reason. forward to thank you for this asmad gurooNaam achyuta jihvA si ASmd!guê[amCyut ijþais sadagopan.org Only thosewithpure mindscansucceed M karburEshu tishThasiachyutanakshaNam|| kalusha jalEshuivahamsa:kashAya | laharishu poorNachandraivasphuta: hrudayEshu dEsikAnAmjAhnavi klu; jlei:vvh AchArya hamsa uRre;u itóSyCyutn][m!.6. S S S thoughts thoughts L L L O O O KAM KAM KAM 16 intheirmeditation You. about minds ofthosewithimpure minds ofthosewithimpure 6 6 6 minds ofthosewith blemishes. ever takeupresidenceinthe and rivers.Similarly,Youwont second in waters of muddythe Swans wontstayevenfor a ponds vaibhavams. Itiswellknownthat always withallofYour the pious mindsofAchAryAs Similarly, Youshinesplendidlyin the wavesofGangariver. Moon isreflectedvery clearlyon are veryclear.Therefore,the The watersoftheriverGanga never abandons Yourdevotees! who Oh LordDhaivaNaayaka, sadagopan.org vanced in the previous slOkam. Our slOkam. previous vanced in the e special position of AchAryAs in our AchAryAs in position of e special 17 e pure and blemishless AchAryAs. There, AchAryAs. There, e pure and blemishless DesikAnAm hrydhayEshu poorNa Chandra iva poorNa Chandra DesikAnAm hrydhayEshu : ) in the waters of the sacred GangA river. GangA of the sacred ) in the waters OMMENTS sampradhAyam in line with the views ad views the with line in th of hearts sampradhAyam the in residing is Lord C is an affirmationThis slOkam of th ( full Moon the like he shines sphuDa: sadagopan.org You willnotabandonme. confidentthat protection. adiyEnis sought Yoursacredfeetas who understandsthistruthhas You andarefickle minded. adiyEn those, whodonothavefirmfaithin readily accessible.Youabandon makes thispossibleandYoubecome come close toYou.Yoursoulabhyam gloriesfaithful chEtanams, in manyBrundhAvanam and similarother ways like theuntutoredmaidens(Gopis)of sothose withunshakable faith inYou that they For andsvabhAvam. svaroopam PramANam forrevealingYour Your protection!Vedamaloneisthe Oh Lordtruetothose,whoseek M doorammunc sraddhita hrudayasulabhO | mAhAtmya: janamprakAsanija aagama mAtrapramaaNa:aagOpI ïiÏt ùdysulÉae Ër< muÂi AagmmaÇàma[> AagaepIjn<àkazinjmahaTMy>, EANING Bhagavaan staysawayfrom Bhagavaan staysawayfrom : Youreveal Your s ntsTydaelaymanan!.7. S S S L L L O O O KAM KAM KAM 18 hasi natasatyadOlAayamAnAn|| those withwavering minds! those withwavering minds! "You become readily accessible" 7 7 7 sadagopan.org labha tatthvam is:labha tatthvam ay from those with ay from those :). ". Swamy Desikan echos ". Swamy Desikan ). For simple folks with utter ). For simple folks to this Bhaktha su to this of access to those who have faith in in of have faith access to those who themmingled with them and made and 19 ) and of being far aw ) and of being piRarkku aRiya Vitthahan piRarkku aRiya AagOpi janam prakAsaAagOpi janam nija mahAthmya dOlAyamAnAn munchasi dhUram : Sraddhitha hrudhaya sulabhan Sraddhitha hrudhaya OMMENTS paatthudayavarkku yeLiavn, paatthudayavarkku " this behavior of the Lord of being easy this behavior Him ( ( devotion fickle Gopis, He was near to devotion like the ( them very happy C paasuramThe AzhwAr passage relating sadagopan.org the Upanishadsiscovered." From thisslOkamtothe25 C likethechEt svahbhAavm YouasOne whodoesnot also praise You asonewithoutanyinauspiciousguNams( Oh Lord who is true to Your SaraNAgathAs! Hundreds ofM Upanishads eulogize upan ullanghita trividhaantam hEyamsaraNaag sakala sadA kshapita %‘'!i"t iÇivxaNt<%pin;da< sda ]iptsklhey ey recognize Youasthe ). These ). They " and sadagopan.org n" - Thiruayindai Sri Devanathan n" - Thiruayindai ng of the Upanishads and define the (One who bears all the sentients and the sentients bears all (One who 21 of Brahman in many soothrams as: Pervasively present in the Universe) and Pervasively present (the indweller), (the indweller), (the Self of all), (the ruler of the souls/jeevans), of the souls/jeevans), (the ruler (the eternal, imperishable reality), imperishable reality), (the eternal, (the bridge across the ocean of samsAram). (the bridge across (the eater, enjoyer), (the eater, enjoyer), SarvAthmaa atthA antharyAmin akshara VaiswAnara achiTila chitachith dhAranA: chitachith dhAranA: achiTila insentients in His body), in His body), insentients Viswa VyAptha: sEthu: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 3. 4. 5. "anantha kalyAna guNa Saarvabhouma "anantha kalyAna guNa The Brahma SoothrAs codify the teachi nature (Svaroopam and SvabhAvam) sadagopan.org recognized as byRaamAnuja indeed infinitely greatis infinitely great.BhumAisdefinedas:" ( abode ofearth,heavenandskyaswe He isthe VaiswAnara. form.As manifested andun-manifested akshara ParaBrahmanhasth nothing higherthan th reality ( This Brahmanisthesourceof theuniverse ( that jeevanseesandhears. thatistheonewho not thejeevaathman only entitythatseesandhearsfromwithin( (Br.Upanishad: III.7.1)or BruhadhAraNyaka Upanishadcelebrates Thefamous is alsothedissolver. KathOpanishad BhUmAdhikaraNam of Brahma sutraas salute Brahman as saluteBrahmanas ofBrahmasutraas BhUmAdhikaraNam entire assemblyofsentientsandinsentients( The Brahmanisrecognizednextas"att this originatesfrom,endsinandissustainedbyBrahman". Brahma" withthemantram: siddhAntham in VisishtAdhvaitha recognizestheBr ChandhOgya Upanishad PrANa 8. 7. 6. daharAkAsa BhUman Aayatana ). He is the bridge to immortality ( immortality ). Heisthebridgeto . The mantram instructs us:"verily, . Themantraminstructs akshara Brahman Aayatana Brahman ). Besidesbeingthecreator an (theinfinitelygreatOne)and (theabode/home ofheavenand earth). (the subtle/sookshama space in one’s heart lotus). inone’sheartlotus). (thesubtle/sookshamaspace is aksharaBrahman( ). The Upanishads state unambiguouslythatthereis ). TheUpanishadsstate the innercontroller.He bliss).Thisinfinite e capacitytosustainandruleeverything intheir "BhUmA guNam" saluted by MundakaUpanishad(II.2.5) asthe saluted by 22 yO vaiBhUmAtathsukham antaryAmi Brahmanpassageof antaryAmi aa" ortheeaterdissolverof ahman accepted as Sriman Narayanan ahman acceptedasSrimanNarayanan ll asthemindandvitalbreath sees butitistheParamAtmawithin Brahman astheindweller inall arulerofall,thisBrahmanis bhUta yOni:) bhUta aksharaath parata: para: aksharaath parata: all this is Brahman, becauseall allthisisBrahman, na anyatOasthidhrushtA amruthasya yEshasEthu d sustainer oftheUniverse,He d sustainer ( bhUma guNa visishta Brahman: Brahman: bhUma guNavisishta greatness ofBrahman is is salutedastheoneand carAchara atta "sarvam khalvidham and isimperishable BhumA " (Hewhois orthe ). This ). The ). It is in sadagopan.org ), ubhaya anantha saviSesha ) and befitting His befitting His vyApakthvam aamAnuja and His aamAnuja and ), ), ), ), ), of advitha vEdAntha. The Aapathsakhathvam ), ), Parathvam desire of those who are impatient SaraNyathvam g influence on R g influence ), ), ated as thegod of theistic personal bration of the Para Brahma tatthvam e insights from Ubhayae insights from the VedAntha, s and Vibhthis/glorious riches ( KaaraNathvam ). 23 ), ), abhandhams in archaa and vyUha forms. abhandhams in ons) of Lord Dhaiva Naayakan as akhila hEya guNa rahithan hEya guNa akhila holds Brahman with attributes with holds Brahman ( d that Sriman NaarAyaNa as: d that Sriman and nirviSesha Brahman Brahman nirviSesha KaruNAkarathvam Niyanthruthvam , Sakthithvam Aarthiharathvam ), ) as against the to reach Him ( lingam SathyakAmathvam 1. ( the Para Brahman of the Upanishads 2. the sole cause of the universe ( 4. His controllership ( 5. His limitless dayaa ( 6. refuge for all ( His role as the sole 7. ( His Omnipotence One who can respond to the ardent 11. 8. guNA His auspicious, blemishless 9. 3. entities ( and outside all created His existence within being a real friend for those in distress ( 10. metaphysical, abstrusemetaphysical, is celebr Brahman in their dhivya pr religion by AzhwArs Prabhandhams had a lastin These Tamil th Desikan. With Swamy successors like establishe VaishNavite AchAryAs kalyAna guNa Saarvabhouman SavisEsah Brahmathvam. The entire Achyutha Sathakam is a cele and Ubhaya lingam (the twin definiti Brahman Brahman qualified with the bhUma guNam). the bhUma qualified with Brahman The VisishtAdhvaitha up VedAntha sadagopan.org AadhAram. Youbearallthe inviolable sankalpam. Nothinginterfere withYoursankalpam.You is AadhAramOh LordofThiruvaheendhrapuram who for You. ThroughM Your divine sankalpam jyOti:sphuran indraanagha || harasi nikhilamnahriyasEahIndranagara sthita:| ananya samsthApyasE karOshi nakriyasEkEnApisthApayasi hris iniol Lord havingallthethree duties! Lord havingallthethree duties! (Image Courtesy: glimpseofkrishna.com) (Image Courtesy: ÔngreNÔan" JyaeitSS)…rn!.9. Siddha SankalpaAchyuthan! yis n s sadagopan.org ). ) are referred to here. ) are referred to here. ). The three fold cosmic JanamAdhyasya yatha: hEtanams of this world. There is no no is There world. this of hEtanams ve this world and its beings at the ve this world h Your unfailing sankalpam, You protect You protect unfailing sankalpam, h Your is no one who can protect You. Through can protect You. Through no one who is 25 Brahmam of Sri BhAshyam as the Jagath Brahmam of Sri BhAshyam Srushti, Sthithi and PraLaya Srushti, Sthithi : akhila bhuvana janma sthEma BhangAdhi Leelaa: akhila bhuvana janma sthEma OMMENTS time of mighty deluge. There is none who has the power to destroy You. Thus Thus You. destroy to power the has who none is There deluge. mighty of time with Your every jeevan and achEtanam and destroy You create, protect most God. Supreme You are indeed the incomparable sankalpam. functions of the Lord ( Sutra: I.1.2 ( This is covered by the VedAntha the same powerful sankalpam, You dissolthe same powerful C Here the Lord is saluted as the Para there Yet, world. this every being in destroyerKaaraNan, Samrakshakan and and having these activities as His sport ( (will), You create all the chEtanams and ac the chEtanams create all (will), You one however that creates You. Throug You. that creates one however sadagopan.org all sentientsandinsentients. Itisbeca antharyAmi evenin thetinyatom hold as savroopam aretheindweller ofallvasthus.This minutest atom.You Oh Lordwhoneverletsgooffanyone M || sarvagata: nijasthiti: srooyasEapratihata tEna prativastupoorNa: apiachyutasakti:ta aNu pramitasya ten àitvStupU[R>ïUyse=ài A[u àimtSyaPyCyut zi´Stv sklxar[aid àÉUta, EANING BhagavAn pervadingeveryentityofHisuniverse! BhagavAn pervadingeveryentityofHisuniverse! : (Image Courtesy: Glimpseofkrishna.com) (Image Courtesy: tht injiSwit> svRgt>. 10. tht injiSwit>svRgt>. VishNu Achyuthan! S S S L L L O O O va sakaladhAraNaaadiprabhootA| KAM KAM KAM 26 s the powerofbear s the of Yourservants!Youpervadeeventhe use ofthisquality,the VedAseulogize 10 10 10 ing and commanding ing andcommanding sadagopan.org of antar " instructs that that " instructs BruhadhAraNyaka ). You are indeed SarvaGathathvam e universe as their inner inner as their e universe states the Prathivasthu and geable in this universe, is universe, in this geable poetic language by Swamy Desikan. by Swamy Desikan. language poetic BrahmaNa of re. Some of the most complex ideasre. Some of the IsvAsyamidham sarvam yathkimcha th n and the universe, was established by n and the universe, was established 27 central doctrines of VisishtAdhvaitham, ade all of them inside and outside ( outside inside and of them ade all Sareera-Sareeri BhaAva ". SarvAntharyAmithvam Sukla Yajur Vedam ient and insentients in th and ient ). of " (all this, whatsoever is chan " (all this, whatsoever is antharyAmin : This central concept of " concept This central OMMENTS sarvagatha poorNan prathivasthu controller ( PoorNathvam " of Brahman this way: of the One pervaded by the Lord). Brhama the organic relationship between Brahman resides in all sent jagathyAm jagath on the 7 AchArya RaamAnuja based IsAvasya Upanishad Upanishad. of VedAnthaa are presented here in simple here in are presented of VedAnthaa bahisccha tath sarvam vyApyabahisccha tath NaarAyaNa; sTitha: " Brahmam is saluted he as Para Achyuthan Prathivasthu PoorNathvam, C You as the all pervasive SampoorNan. There is no obstacle to Your being inside obstacle to There is no SampoorNan. the all pervasive You as You perv of Your creation. all entities sadagopan.org "Sarva:". (amalgamofcauseand KaaraNa vasthu and Youstayastheirindweller.VedA thechEtana-achEta and commanding),all of thesethree features thatareunique activities. Youacceptallthefruitsfrom Lord ( being: between theworldandLord)istake The C intheiractivities( themall command to besustained.You AadhAram ( Oh Achyutha! Youarethe basic support M || karbura: kAryakAraNatva darsita srooyasE achyutasarva:svayam svAmitva sakalAnAm dharaNaniyamana ïUyse=Cyut svR> Svy Body-Soulrelationship niyamana ) as their sadagopan.org ster), every thing Srimath Rahasya Thraya Rahasya Thraya Srimath of ing us that there is no sentient or of this Lord with TuLasi garland on on garland TuLasi with Lord this of tor of the nAma roopa prapancham, d unconditional daasans to Him. He a sEshi (Supreme Ma 29 concepts this way: concepts : Thuzhaai mudiyAn udampAi AASURAM P "Tulai onRu ilai yena ninRa Thuzhaai mudiyAn" mudiyAn" "Tulai onRu ilai yena ninRa Thuzhaai THE OF PradhAna PrathitantraPradhAna adhikAram: ”, Swamy sums up these sums up these ”, Swamy EANING sustainer and controller of them all remind M Sriman NaarAyaNan stays as the crea insentient outside His control. As Sarv in His creation are sEshams (liege) an stands as the Father and we are the body His crown. This is the true meaning of Veda-VedAntham taught to us by the the by us to taught Veda-VedAntham of meaning true the is This crown. His Vedic scholars. Saaram In his " In his Nilaitantha niyamikkumIRaivanumAi thArakanAi yenthaiyumAi yellAm tanathu yenum Ilathu onRu yenAvahai yena ninRa Tulai onRu ilai meypporuLE yenRu vedhiyar vilayinRi nAmadiyOm sadagopan.org cause (KaaraNaa) is elaboratedfurtherhere. cause (KaaraNaa)is Our Lordbeingboth thematerial(UpA C used istheupAdhAnakaaraNam.Th When apottermakespotwithclay,the wonders. ForKaaryavasthusinthiswo Oh Lord true to YourM SaraNAgathAs!nija sankalpasanAtha:vahasini purusha pradhAnasareerObhuvanAn injs Adhi SankaraandAchArya r’s wheelbecome sadagopan.org am to the Brahman would affect its am to the Brahman AndhOgya Upanishad texts to show AndhOgya Upanishad material and instrumental cause. For cause. For and instrumental material strumental cause onstrumental the assumption ew like MaadhvAchArya. Both Aadhi MaadhvAchArya. ew like 31 man being both UpAdhAna and nimittha man being both that there is no conflict in Brah in conflict no is RaamAnujaSankara and AchArya use Ch there that MaadhvAchArya, Brahman in is only the ofthat the admission KaaraN UpAdhaana svaroopa as nirvikAra, subject to modification. Yoga since Brahman would be and Paasupatha take a similar vi mathams KaarANams. RaamAnuja agree on the Lord being the the Lord being agree on RaamAnuja sadagopan.org kaaraNam. For Your creation, Your creation, Your ForYour kaaraNam. istheirVisEsha This seeds. vichithra sakthimanifested in their color, fragrance,tasteareduetothe cause forthem.Theirdifferences in The nourishing wateristhecommon there aremanyfruits andflowers. Inthisworld, Satthva-Rajas–Tamas. combinations ofthethreeguNams: creations varyduetothedifferent functioning ofthesedifferent these creations. Thefeaturesandthe leelai isthe commoncauseforall the fruits ofYoursport (leelai). This blade ofgrass.Thesecreationsare tothelowly from themightyBrahma magnificent varietiesinthis world Your sankalpam,Youcreateallthe Oh Achyutha! Throughthe power of M nija karmasaktiniyatA:achuytabrahmAdisthAvaraantavisEshA:|| kELi:| tava kAraNam anguraprakarEjalamivasAmAnya vishama guna injkmRzi´inyta> ACyutäüai iv;m gu[a»…ràkrejlimvsamaNykar[ sadagopan.org e created beings are due to their e created beings are due ke on lower roles. All the created the All roles. ke on lower eate the world and its beings is still eate the world and its beings g the same is answered here. The am becomes Brahma dEvan and those dEvan and those Brahma am becomes (under the control of their previous of their previous (under the control insignificant blade of grass in spiteinsignificant blade of grass of karma profile, when it comes to their to their it comes when karma profile, st karmas arest karmas viSEsha kaaraNam. their 33 Brahma or a lowly plant. Brahma or a lowly which we can accuse the Lord as merciless or as one one as or merciless as Lord the accuse can we which : OMMENTS karmas), there is no way in karmas), there or the other and take sides. who favors one in created about the reason for the differences The answer to the question Brahma Devan to the lofty beings from Lord to cr response is: The sport of the C The who one viSEsha accumulated puNy or high Paapams ta with lower puNyams vasyAs karma individual by their beings are influenced being activitieslot in birth and as them of view In cause bein and material the efficient among th the same but the differences of Karmas. differences in individual bundles leelai is the common cause and their pa cause and their the common leelai is sadagopan.org Devi matchingYouin allaspects(GuNam,R divine consort.Besides Youboth,there All thefemaleofspeciesfromth ofthisuniverse DevAs, Humans,beasts Oh Achyutha!Allthemaleentitiesinth M || itarat bhavatitavakimpuna: saaapisrI: yuvayO: na astiparam achyutalakshmyA:streesamjn~A:| purushA: tavavibhUti: ïIÉR saip pr vit tvik sadagopan.org Sruthi Sirasi vidheepthE vidheepthE Sruthi Sirasi duties between the dhivya duties between the dhivya the Upanishads ”crystallizes in to the Upanishads itha–PurshArTam aspects of theistic itha–PurshArTam metaphysical and philosophic aspects metaphysical and Tatthva is revealed as the Dhivya Dhivya the as revealed is Tatthva e named female are Lakshmi. There is e named female are Lakshmi. at all the vasthus ofat all the the world stay among dEvAs, humans and animals is VishNu PurANa slOkam’s message is 35 g” Dhivya Dampathis ( ). The voluntary division of : OMMENTS dampathis is referred to here. The to here. dampathis is referred echoed here: "All that is named male echoed here: "All that is naught but BhagavAn Hari. Those who ar nothing beyond them”. C leaves the profound Now Swamy Desikan focuses on the Tatthva-H of Brahman and this slOkam, the ultimate religion. In abstract BrahmanDampathis. The of concrete and captivatin BrahmaNi SreenivAssE this is thethis is th why emphasize situation, obedient to You ? You to obedient sadagopan.org to gainthis quintessentialmeaning. what oneshould know forgainingsathga to You. You stay as the protectorOh DhaivaNaayaka!Thereisnoonein and refuge for all. This isM the essence of yEtAvat jn~AnasAramitijn~Atum na khalutavasadrusaabhyadhikA:nA @tavt! }ansar<#it}atu w Tvmev svRlaek zr{y>, w TvmevsvRlaek S S S L L L O O O tridasa nAthaitaravichintA|| KAM KAM KAM tha tvam yEva sarvalOka saraNya: | tha tvamyEvasarvalOkasaraNya: 36 The research on all theworlds,whoisequalorsuperior thy. Thestudyofal 15 15 15 all Saasthramsand l the sAsthrAs is l thesAsthrAsis sadagopan.org refuge (Paramaam Gathi) for all refuge (Paramaam Gathi) the are our Supreme dhivya dampathis ddhAntham are being emphasized here: ddhAntham are being emphasized 37 the supreme Tatthva and the SaraNya the SaraNya the supreme Tatthva and e distilled essence of all studies. e distilled essence of all studies. : 1. no equal or Superior and Our Lord has 2. Lakshmi is our refuge. Our Lord in the company of OMMENTS unique to our Si Fundamental doctrines Godhead (Para Tatthvam) and the sole mankind. The dhivya dampathis are VedAnthams leads toVedAnthams essential truth. this C Together displaying Together displaying yEka sEshithvam, is th dampathis are our Refuge. This sadagopan.org Lordship isbeingsaluted here. commented upon.Sw who iscommanded) The relationshipbetween Niyantaa (O C commands. Suchisthegloryandpowerof Yourcommands. immensely richphalans.Eventhemi Oh LordofThiruvaheendhrapuram! M aajn~apthi: api druhiNapramukai: bhAti phaNeendrapuraadhipapratipAl Aip Ôuih[àmukE>Aa}iÝS Éait )[INÔpuraixpàitp OMMENTS EANING : : Inviolability of Hiscommands! Inviolability of Hiscommands! The LordofThiruvaheendrapuram alyTsu àkqàÉUt)la, tval'!"nIyàÉava. 16. S S S L tavaalanghaneeyaprabhAvA|| L L O O O KAM KAM KAM 38 ayatsu prakaTaprabhUtaphalA| ayatsu Those who obey Your commands gain Those whoobeyYourcommandsgain ne who commands) and NiyAmya (One ne whocommands)andNiyAmya ghty Brahma can not violate Your violate ghty Brahmacannot amithvam oftheLord ortheoverall 16 16 16 sadagopan.org 17 17 17 "Yaj~na SAdhana Achyuthan!" ns derive pleasure from eating the e, VedAs prescribe karmas with only e, VedAs prescribe karmas king the name of a dEva and offering offering and dEva a of name the king siddhAm labhantE bhuktim || tridasA while, the dEvAs are also satisfied with 39 e dEvAs, You accept the Havis and grant KAM KAM KAM O O O L L L S S S < lÉNte iÇdza Éui´m!. 17. < lÉNte iÇdza ip dassTyaeiÎZy Tvam!, ip dassTyaeiÎZy BhagavAn being the goal of all SathkarmAs! BhagavAn being BhagavAn being the goal of all SathkarmAs! BhagavAn being : EANING offered food. Similarly, the act of invo offered food. Similarly, the act thes indweller of As an the offering. the phalans for the offerer. Therefor The VedAs prescribe various various prescribe The VedAs and karmAs: Yaagams, Homams to SrArdhams. Havis is offered dEvaas like Agni, the different these Indhran, Rudhran. Yet, all of for offerings (havis) are intended grants You. Thou art the One, who You the Phalans for those KarmAs. those havis as the accept all these antharyAmi (indweller) of dEvAs. In pithru SrArdhams, Brahmins are invited and invoked as the pithrus and offered succulent foods. Those who are are satisfied with these offerings the invoked Brahmi the pithrus. Yet, for You. Mean Havis is really intended nigama vidhInAm pravrutti: sarvEshAmnigama vidhInAm api dAsa satya uddisya tvAm | brAhmaNasrAddha nimantrita samAdhi M àv&iÄ> sveR;am ingm ivxIna< äaü[ smaix isÏa ïaÏ inmiNÇt sadagopan.org here. being theYaj~naBhugasperSriVishNu reminds us:" receiver is theLordasantharyAmi here. ThedEvAswillbe The fundamental doctrineofKarmaKhAN C You asthegoal. OMMENTS : nigama vidheenAm apipravrutthi:ThvAmuddhisya invoked and offered theHavisbutultimate invoked andoffered 40 of those dEvAs like Indhra. Swamy thosedEvAslikeIndhra.Swamy of sahasra Naamam is being referred to Naamam isbeingreferredto sahasra Dam of the Veda bhAgam is revealed revealed Dam oftheVedabhAgamis ". The Lord sadagopan.org "MahA Shakthi Achyuthan!" 18 18 18 tinuity in the conferral of Phalans to nce the Lord is eternal. nce the Lord o is everlasting (Nithyan). DevAs may o 41 KAM KAM KAM O O O L L L S S S paNtre;u kae inveRzm!. 18. paNtre;u kae inveRzm!. Ty< n itóis yid nam Tvm!, Ty< n itóis yaagAs in future the performer of e devAs and accept : : BhagavAn staying without destruction even in PraLayam! destruction without BhagavAn staying BhagavAn staying without destruction even in PraLayam! destruction without BhagavAn staying EANING OMMENTS the karmas peformed by the sentients si the karmas peformed by the sentients come and go but there will be no discon C YaagAs and Yajn~As Our Lord is the phala pradhan or the grantor of fruits for One, wh is the only at all times since He Oh DevanAyaka! You are the One who is is One who Oh DevanAyaka! You are the byworshipped in the Yaagams performed One who the only You are the sentients. for those grants them the fruits a finite life Yaagams. The devAs have they can not upto praLayam. Therefore, grant the desired be the ones, who can phalans of performed eternal and KalpAs. Oh Lord, You are all kalpams. in the fruits confer hence You stay inside th aarAdhya tridasa vilayE na tishtThasi yadi nAma achyuta nityam | tvam karishyatikarmaNaam kalpitAnAm kO nirvEsam || kalpAntarEshu M the havis and reward the YaagAs. AaraXy iÇdz ivlye=Cyut in AaraXy iÇdz kir:yit kL kmR[a< kiLptana< sadagopan.org that hasentwinedYou, theKalpaka tree.For thosewho seek Your sacredfeet, She never leavesYoursideeven fora tree. asthewishgrantingKalpaka golden creeperthat embraces Youstanding the PeriyaPirAttiislike they desire.OhLord!YouarelikethatKalpaka tree. and prayfortheremovaloftheirsuffer auspicious creeper. Itwillremove theaf Oh LordtruetoYourSaraNAgathAs!Th M nijacchAyA sadAphalAni nata satya kAnchanalatAsahita:| ivasrI kalpadruma kalpayasi kAnkshitAni ntsTy sda)laininjCDayainiÉRÚinTytapiÇÉuvn>.19. kLpyis kai'!]tainkLpÔum EANING Lord grantingthephalans Lord grantingthephalans : #vïIkaÂnltasiht>, SrIkara Achyuthan! S S S L L L O O O nirbhinna nithya tApatribhuvana:|| KAM KAM KAM 42 moment. Sheislike agoldencreeper with HisdivineConsort with HisdivineConsort flictions ofallthosewhositunderit e Kalpaka tree will be adorned by an e Kalpakatreewillbeadornedbyan ings. Itwillgrantunfailingly what 19 19 19 sadagopan.org You confer all the confer You together both of together 43 aa Vallaree kalpasAkhee: Sri VaradarAja Sri aa Vallaree kalpasAkhee: : OMMENTS PanchAsath). PanchAsath). phalans. desired C (Periya PirAtti) Lord) and the golden creeper tree (the areThe Kalpaka always together (Kalasa jaladhi Kany You banish the samsaric sufferings and sufferings the samsaric You banish sadagopan.org karmas andthustreat everyon Yougrantphalan partiality. display any areequaltooneandalldonot phalan bearinggroundforallkarmas.You ( Oh LordtruetoYoudevotees!ar M tvam|| janAnAmsama:khalunatasatya prasooti:sakala sakala phalAnAm | aathmA apiantara sakalasurANaam nishThA sakala aagamAnAm skl )lana<àsUit>jnan sklagmana< inóaskl Sakala AagamAnAmnishtaa EANING : The Manystates ofBhagavAn The Manystates ofBhagavAn sura[amPyNtr AaaTma, sura[amPyNtr ). Youaretheindweller ofalldEvAs. Youare the a< sm>oluntsTyTvm!.20. SuhRt Achyuthan! e thesameinthisregard. S S S L L L O O O KAM KAM KAM 44 e ultimatemeaningofalltheVedAs s corresponding to the individual’s s correspondingtotheindividual’s 20 20 20 sadagopan.org SarvAntharyAmi, Sakala phalapradha 45 : OMMENTS VaradarAjathvam, the VedAs and birth place of all both srushti) are celebrated here. C (Swami, many roles Sri Achyuthan’s sadagopan.org this deedsbeneath Your station charioteer forArjuna.Youdid all You acceptedto serve asa tothe PaaNDavAs? of partiality toadisplay Does thisnotamount forthePaaNDavAs? ambassador DuryOdhanA’s courtasthe to ushowYouhappenedgo spite ofallthis,canYouexplain and complete(ParipoorNan).In rooted intruthandareeverfull arealways Your adiyArs.You You never breakYourpromiseto with equanimity andimpartiality. treatall pointed outthatYou one seeking Yourrefuge!Itwas Oh Lordwhoneverletsdownany M pramukhEshu prEshaNam- katham vahasipakshapAtampaaNDava | paripoorNa: sadA satya sthitO dAsa samAna:satya iti sarvEshAm kw< vhisp]pat sadagopan.org sTitha:, SadhA Paripoorna:,sTitha:, SadhA ial to every one. How is that ? one. How ial to every for this apparent mystery. for this apparent mystery. d. In spite of all this grandeur, the the grandeur, this all of spite In d. This clearly shows your partiality shows your This clearly to DuryOdhanA’s court. How did that rfect and there is nothing that You dorfect and there Swamy Desikan. Bhaktha DhAkshiNyam 47 You are impartial towards every one; You are towards every one; You You are impartial "sarvEsham Sathya samAna;, : OMMENTS yetsome and You are impart declare that You C art: Oh Lord! Thou Kaaman". AvAptha Samastha are fulfille wishes of Your not have; All PaaNDavAs you on a mission to sent as SarvEswaran happily and patiently. and patiently. happily as SarvEswaran established in truth ; You are always pe truth ; You are always established in requestshappen? Please explain to us and YathOkthakArithvamare the answers sadagopan.org Sathgathi. There is no onebutTh is onlyYouwho givesthatuplifting ha lend ahelping hand andpullthemoutof experiences. Duringthosepainful mome stumble andsuffer.Their indhriyams(faculties)weakenfrom these one another.AsthechEtanamsexperience phalans resultingfromthekarmasof Oh SarvEswara!Lordwhotreats M nAtha nikhilAnAmanya:nAstitvat | karaNaanAm vipariskhalatAmvihvalita vishamE karmamArgE naw iniolanamNyaenaiStTvÚtsTyhStalMb>.22. iv;me kmRmageRivpirSolta anams thepathto sadagopan.org ere is no one except You to give an You to ere is no one except avan and anATa rakshakan.avan and anATa 49 NikhilAnAm Thvath anya: hastha AalamBa:NikhilAnAm Thvath : " (For all the people of the world, th " (For all the people OMMENTS na asthi C practice the in falter we when rescue, our to come can who Lord, the only is It of Karma-Bhakthi-Jn~Ana Yogaas. " uplifting hand). He is the Aapath BhAndh uplifting hand). sadagopan.org not overcome.Youare: islimitless. sakthi(power) Dayaa. Your beyond thereachofYourcompassion? AchyuthA! Isthereanyobject thatis M saktE: ka:atibhara:tasmatkhaluup achyutaka jn~Anasya ka:avishaya: z´e> kae=itÉr>tSmat!olUp }anSy kae=iv;y>ACyutké[ayaStvkaeËriSwt>, EANING : Lord beingtheSiddhOpAyam Lord beingtheSiddhOpAyam aySTvmev Svy sadagopan.org svayam hi. He is Siddhan and is always hi. He is Siddhan and is lp of the Lord at times in which we we which in times at Lord the of lp matchless, unlimited compassion).matchless, unlimited na and Bhakthi yOgams. This slOkam na and Bhakthi yOgams. This siddha upAyam" of His innate because 51 ever existing, never failing and always at hand upAyam). never failing and always at hand ever existing, : 1. (all knowing), Sarvajn~an 2. and sakthan (Omnipotent) Sarva 3. KaruNA apAra (One with Moorthy OMMENTS Thus it is compelling to conclude that You are the SiddhOpAyam ( SiddhOpAyam the are You that conclude to compelling is it Thus C outThe previous slOkam pointed to the He siddha upAyam: falter in our practise of Karma-Jn~A "Svayam reveals that the Lord is the and Sakt guNams like Jn~Anam, KaruNaa to respond to SaraNAgathAs seeking Achyuthan present as never faltering His protection. sadagopan.org fierce watersofsamsAram to You, YoufulfillYour duties asSara terrifying wavesofthe oceanofSamsAr safe shore.Youareanunsinkable,idea boat sailsfollowingthewind.Yourdaya sankalpam isthusindispensabletofe boatsman. Whenthatsankalpamdoesno theothershoreofSa safely acrossto They sink.Its depthisinestimable.Th You serveOh Lord who is true to as Your adiyArs! SamsAram is a huge and fearsome an ocean. unfailing,M sturdy boat for them and carry them || anagha: tvamkhalupOta:aatmanAmkrupAsameeraNEnaprayukta: sAgarEatigabhirE| kinkarasatyabhava dhAra: sankalpa karNa An"STv< olupaet>AaTmna< s»Lp k[Rxar>ik»rsTyÉvsagre=itgÉIre, Bhagavaan becoming the safe boattocrossthe SamsAric Bhagavaan becoming the safe boattocrossthe SamsAric EANING : "Jagata: SEthuAchyuthan!" k«pa smIr[enàyu´>.24. e chEtanamsswirlinitwi the safehaven ofMoksham. S S S L L L O O O NAgatha Rakshakanand ferryusacrossthe Ocean! Ocean! KAM KAM KAM rry usacrossthedangerouswaters.The 52 a. Whenweperform SaraNAgathyto l boatthatisnotaffectedbythe a isthewindthatpropelsusto t exist,Nothingelsematters.Your msAric sea.Yoursankalpamisthe 24 24 24 thout gainingafooting. sadagopan.org , Swamy , Swamy Sri DayA sathakam Sri DayA as thefierce pilot to cross the d strong ship plying the waters of d strong ship 53 slOkam of of slOkam th : OMMENTS AchyuthanDesikan compares a safe an to samsAram, sankalpam serves where His own C to the 38 similar In a metaphor ocean of samsAram. ocean of samsAram. sadagopan.org power tograntanyone Moksham. Pain grant anyone the boon of Moksham. helpmuch This deludedthinking doesnot No body except You, AchyuthA,have attributes has the as SarvEswaran. Many peopleOh Achyutha! Brahma,Sivan,Indhranan consider them also as Iswarans. M lakshamaalEkhy rAtrim parivartayitum | achyuta nadadatimOkshamIswarabhAvEnabhAvitAitarasurA: raiÇ< pirvtRiytu sadagopan.org to bless one with to bless one with hara surA: moksham na dadhathi). hara surA: moksham all powerful Iswarans but they areall powerful Iswarans but ly of the pictures of the Sun will not will the Sun of pictures ly of the into a bright day. Similarly, even the even the day. Similarly, into a bright not have the power not have the r than Sriman NaarAyaNanr than Sriman can grant 55 : OMMENTS The key message is that no one othe one no that is message key The night of the dark the conversion lead to of the dEvAs would complete assembly C bhAvEnaMoksham (Iswara it bhAvithA: may think that they are These dEvAs powerless to grant Moksham. of images of the Sun but all that assemb of the Sun of images Moksham. sadagopan.org Nrusimha Achyuthan-LimitlessAuspicious Qualities 56 sadagopan.org rahitha, anantha ur anantha kalyANa an insatiable nectar to enjoy. In an insatiable nectar to enjoy. 26 26 26 spicious guNams), they can not have have not spicious guNams), they can eless. They have no admixture with eless. They have no admixture e these infinite, auspicious guNams in e these infinite, auspicious guNams of this world or the VedAs can countof this world or the VedAs ess gems that can not be counted by ess gems that can not be counted by ss gems that are Yo to possess these hEya 57 Nams. They are asankhyEyam (beyond (beyond Nams. They are asankhyEyam KAM KAM KAM O O O (Oh Lord of Thiruvaheendhrapuram! Your Your of Thiruvaheendhrapuram! (Oh Lord L L L S S S "AhIndhrapura NaaTa! Tava nirmala guNa - rathnAni "AhIndhrapura NaaTa! Tava nirmala guNa - rathnAni : : The limitless of the auspicious attributes of BhagavAn! of the auspicious attributes The limitless The limitless of the auspicious attributes of BhagavAn! of the auspicious attributes The limitless EANING OMMENTS C The key message is: kalyANa guNams (limitless, blemishless au vigaNayithum na Saknuvanthy" guNams are like the priceless, blemishl numerous to count). are too any one. They Oh Lord of Thiruvaheendhrapuram! You are Oh Lord of people the them. Oh Achyutha! neither amruta rasa sAgarasya ahIndrapura nAtha iva | nirmala mahA arghaaNi saknuvanti ananya na vigaNayitum sulabhAni tava guNa ratnAni || M AhINÔpurnaw inmRlmha"aRi[, Am&t rs sagrSyev tv gu[ rÆain. 26. AnNy sulÉain z²…viNt n ivg[iytu< has The ocean juice. up of nectarine made ocean this matter, You are like an You posse many gems inside it. Oh Lord! are pric guNams. Your auspicious guNams can not se blemishes (heya guNams). One wish these gods Even if gods. any other gu successfully all of Your limitless count). sadagopan.org dhivya MangaLa vigraham (divine, auspic (divine, dhivya MangaLavigraham Thesagesmeditatewi unsurpassable. about Youandglorify themselves.Yo line of the hair (vahidu) on the heads Oh LordofThiruvaheendhrapuram!You M mayUka:|| phurasi syAmaLa kshapita trushAmalamOha seemAnta:| Isa sarvaguNa bhUshita srutiseemantObhujagEndrapura ]ipt t&;amlmaehaemunIna<ùdye;uS)…risZyam¦myUo>.27. ÉUi;tïuit sImNtaeÉujgeNÔp EANING Bhagavaan residinginthe heartlotusoftheSages Bhagavaan residinginthe heartlotusoftheSages : rzsRu Iat, urez svRgu[sImaNt>, : munInAmhrudayEshus Madhava Achyuthan! S S S L L L O O O KAM KAM KAM 58 of theVedAs(i.e).,AllSruthisspeak thout interruptionon Yourblue-hued ious body).Youreside intheirheart are thejewelshiningatparting ur auspicious guNams are totally ur auspiciousguNams are 27 27 27 sadagopan.org the heart lotuses the heart lotuses SyAmaLamayUka: MuneenAm sikan moves on to the celebration of sikan moves on well as deluded thinking from their from their deluded thinking well as l blue hue resides in l blue hue resides h-free (hEya rahitha)h-free (hEya and auspicious 59 Thriuvaheendhrapuram. Desikan Swamy ). BhujagEndhra Isa! Thvam : OMMENTS minds. C the countless, blemis After saluting of the Lord, Swamy De (kalyANa) guNams of the Lord at the roopa mahimai Lord with His beautifu states that the lotuses andlotuses desires, chase away sins as of the Sages ( hrudhayEshu sphurasi sadagopan.org in theirjustwarand protectedthem. fraction ofasecond. Youincarnated ther broad chest.PeriyaPirattiresides Thebeautifulmole Oh DhaivaNaayakA! M udbhaTagaru savidhagata: raNadEvana sObhasEni subha lakshaNasrIvatsa: r[devn sivxgt>%ÑqgéfndItIrvnsivxgj>.28. zuÉ l][ïIvTs>zaeÉseinmRu´ivrh][ïIvTs>, Dhaiva Naayakan shines as amighty elephantonthebanks Dhaiva Naayakan shines as amighty elephantonthebanks EANING : Amara Prabhu:Achyuthan!(SriDevanathan -Moolavar) of Garudanadhi! of Garudanadhi! S S S L L L O O O rmukta virahakshaNasrIvatsa:| as KaNNan and supported the PaaNDavAs as KaNNanandsupported thePaaNDavAs KAM KAM KAM 60 Danadee teera vanasavidhagaja: e aswellwithoutleavingYouforevena You incarnatedasRaamachandrA and of Srivathsam alwaysadornsYour ofSrivathsam 28 28 28 sadagopan.org ). The presence ). The presence PanchAsath for a similar PanchAsath in this slOkam. majestic gait of The Now on the banks of Garuda Nadhi Nadhi Garuda of banks the on Now tsam on the beautiful chest region of tsam on the beautiful chest 61 ephant roaming on the banks of Garuda banks of Garuda roaming on the ephant roam like a mighty elephant. a mighty elephant. roam like slOkam of Sri DevanAyaka nd Garuda saritha noopEGaruda saritha Hastheeva dheepyan gandha : OMMENTS Nadhi (vide 52 Nadhi (vide with its overflowing waters, You overflowing with its C Roopa mahima continues to be celebrated to a strong el the Lord is compared comparison: fought with RaavaNan and destroyedwith RaavaNan fought him. of Mahaa Lakshmi and the mole of Sri Va of the salutation to His roopa soundharyam.the Lord is also noted as part sadagopan.org never changes.This Thirum Yuvaa/iLamKumaran).Thisyouthful stageofYourThirumEni Yuvaa (nithya Sixteen totwentyfive years).YourPa (stage during theirgrowthaskumAran Oh Lordof Thiruvaheendhrapuram! Forth M || tavaroopam sUrimahitamsukham siddham srUyatE nityam svabhAva | abhimatamanuroopam ahIndrapuranAtha stitham akumAra yauvana inTy< SvÉavisÏ<ïUytesUir Ak…mar yaEvniSwt sadagopan.org slOkam and aspects of seven unique and pleases Your ThiruvuLLam. and pleases This ed by the eternally liberated (nithya liberated ed by the eternally the form of bliss and is eulogized by is eulogized by and the form of bliss 63 seven aspects. : 1. akumAra youvana sTitham 2. nithyam 3. SvabhAva siddham 4. anuroopam 5. abhimatham 6. Soori mahitham and 7. Sukham. OMMENTS The Para VaasudEva roopam of the Lord in His archA form at VaasudEva in His archA roopam of the Lord The Para is covered in this Thiruvaheendhraspuram VedAs sing about these of Yours is ador nithya Yuvaa ThirumEni Supreme abode. It is of sooris) at Your C that Para form is saluted here: and did not arise from KarmAs as in the case of the humans. This aspect of of aspect This humans. the of case the in as KarmAs from arise not did and with Your svaroopam fits Your ThirumEni the VedAs. sadagopan.org The presenceofthe various tatthvAsbe C different jewelery(bh indhriyams, Jeevanand allothers) shine (Mahaan,ahankAram,Mana its variations and Oh Achyutha!Prakruthiwithitsthreedivisions (Satthvam-Rajas-Tamas) M parasmin khalusamastA: arthA: tava | triguNam tasyaviharA:achyutapurushaitiaagamagaNyamAnA: AwaRStv olusmSta>priSmn iÇgu[< tSyivkara>ACyutpué;#Tyagmg{ymana>, The TatthvAsstanding asAabharaNams &Aayudhams on The TatthvAsstanding asAabharaNams &Aayudhams on OMMENTS EANING : : Chakra GadhAdhara Achyuthan! UshaNams) and weapons (asthra-sasthrams). UshaNams) andweapons(asthra-sasthrams). ! êpeÉU;[aôSvêpa>.30. His ThirumEni! His ThirumEni! S S S L L L O O O roopE bhUshaNa astra svaroopA: || svaroopA:|| bhUshaNaastra roopE KAM KAM KAM 64 in Your Para VaasudEva roopamasthe in YourParaVaasudEva ing embedded in the form of weapons ing embeddedinthe form ofweapons s, thefiveJn~AnaandKarma 30 30 30 sadagopan.org AdhikAra on the ThirumEni - - -), Swamy Desikan describes - - -), Swamy scribed in this slOkam. In slOkam In slOkam in this slOkam. scribed Para VaasudEva roopam Achyuthan of th, Swamy Desikan refers to theseth, Swamy Desikan five tatthvams on the Lord’s ThirumEni: tatthvams five ons and AabharaNams ons and AabharaNams 65 Thiruvaheendhrapuram. In the Thiruvaheendhrapuram. e-book # 51). e-book # 51). paasuram (PuruDan maNi varamAha paasuram (PuruDan www.sundarasimham.org is de Ayindhai) form at Thiru (archA PanchAsa Sri DevanAyaka thirteen of tatthvAs staying as weap twenty five the archA form at of the Lord in Sangraham of these twenty in detail the location (http:// and AabharaNams in the ThirumEni of the ThirumEni in and AabharaNams sadagopan.org RaavaNan, SiSupAlan, Kamsan etalwh RaavaNan, SiSupAlan, Kamsan avathArams originate. Duringtheseav Oh AchyuthA! FromYourParaVasudE M || avatArA: satphalA samsthApita paramadharmA:sAdhuparitrANa | achyutanikshapitavipakshanishThuraparAkramaNaa: gacchanti tvatta: s rÇa[ sT)la Avtara>. 31. Sarveswara Achyuthan! S S S L L L O O O KAM KAM KAM 66 athArams, You destroy Madhu-KaiDapas, athArams, Youdestroy Madhu-KaiDapas, o harmedYourbhaktha janams.You va roopam, Raama-KrishNa andother roopam,Raama-KrishNa va athArams (incarnations)! 31 athArams (incarnations)! 31 31 sadagopan.org Aadhiyam sOthiyai angu rams to Your bhaktha mingle with who sought refuge in You as Your who sought refuge these avathArams is Saadhu Jana these avathArams ected them from Your seat in SrI SrI in seat Your from them ected h Bhagavath GithA is the topic of this is h Bhagavath GithA ha, You would not have had the unique not have had the ha, You would hu rakshaNam and Dushta nigraham hu rakshaNam and Dushta l for obeying the parent’s commands commands the parent’s l for obeying here. The descent from Sri Vaikuntam here. The descent from Sri rson. Had you stayed at Sri Vaikuntam Had you stayed rson. 67 ), UpadEsam on SaraNAgathy et on SaraNAgathy ), UpadEsam al during these " according to Sri D. Ramaswamy IyengAr. " according to Sri D. Ramaswamy : OMMENTS Pithru Vaakya paripAlanamPithru slOkam. Dharma samrakshaNam, Saad slOkam. Dharma samrakshaNam, referred to aspects of avathArams are " is saluted by Swamy NammAzhwAr as: to this earth vaitthu ingu piRanthu anubhavam of being with Your devotees right here on Your earth. Your earth. on right here Your devotees with being anubhavam of The avathAra rahasyam housed in Srimat C ( The main goal of Vibhava avathArams. samrakshaNam (the protection of those prot could have readily devotees). You yet You took these avathA Vaikuntam and janams and in pe to let them enjoy You the devotees like PrahlAd for protecting established and servedestablished a role mode as sadagopan.org Your body resembles that of sapphire (Indhraneela) gem. That divine blue hue blessedtoenjoyYou inYour Kaalam are of Yourprotection. Those whopopula Yours enjoyedYourroopasoundharyam asRaamaandKr avathArams During Your M rasa:|| dattakaruNya krushNaghanObhavasi kalE dAsajanAnAm nijaruchiharitA hari maNisadruksha rs>.32. k«:["naeÉvisdÄkaé{y dasjnana< kale hir mi[s†]injéichirtay EANING Achyuthan stayingasthedens Achyuthan stayingasthedens : a ugNprpRt, man ÉujgeNÔpurpyRNt>, Sundara Achyuthan! S S S L L Ayindhai! L Ayindhai! O O O KAM KAM KAM yamAna bhujagEndra puraparyanta:| 68 ted thisearthafter YouravathAra and guNAnubhavamwereobjects archAvathAra roopam.Theluster of archAvathAra ishNa, theblessedcontemporariesof 32 32 32 e raincloudofDayaaat e raincloudofDayaaat sadagopan.org ". The Lord is ". The Lord at the time of at the time s one with cool rains. s one cool rains. with them in the bliss of Your divine of Your them in the bliss BhujagEndhra Pura paryantha: kaalE e resplendent like a dark bluish cloud bluish dark like a e resplendent with timely, rejuvenating rains for our rains for with timely, rejuvenating ing rainy cloud and ing rainy cloud ches His Bhaktha janams in and around ches His Bhaktha janams in tees, You drench them with Your dayaa them with Your tees, You drench rapuram and transform them into the them into and transform rapuram 69 rasa: krushNa Ghana: bhavasi e dense KaruNA cloud. varshaa kaala cloud that soak the nourishing, dark rain cloud at Thiru Ayindhai. dark rain cloud at Thiru Ayindhai. the nourishing, : OMMENTS compared to the rain-laden KaruNai that dren In His case, it is His anubhavam. You are indeed are indeed anubhavam. You is th Thiruvaheendhrapuram. He C slOkam is: " The main message of this are like this life-giv sustenance. You maturation of the bhakthi of Your devo protectpravAham and them and immerse dhAsa janAnAm dhattha kaaruNya spreads all places near Thiruvaheendh allspreads places blue color. At this dhivya dEsam, You ar dEsam, At this dhivya blue color. which drenches us of the rainy season, sadagopan.org She elephants (SrIandBhUDevis) andbreakingup sturdytrees like You are roaming intheforests on trees on its way.elephants, generatesteadymadhaja Oh Lord! Youat Thiruvaheendhrapuram.Themightymale are like Oh Achyutha! Youappearastheelephant M || danujaindradruma: gajEndraivakhanDita bahuLadAna:disA drusyamAna garuDa nadeekacchaaraNyElakshyasE 33. Ôum>. dnujeNÔ idzagjeNÔ#vo{ift bhu¦danae †Zyman géf ndIkCDar{yelúyselúmImhIkre[umnaehr>, EANING : Dhaiva Naayakan’s sevaiwith HistwoDevis! Dhaiva Naayakan’s sevaiwith HistwoDevis! the banksofGaruda Nadhi, Anagha Achyuthan! S S S L L L O O O KAM KAM KAM 70 lam arounditskapOlamsanddestroy lakshmI mahI karENumanOhara:| lakshmI mahI thatelephantfrom the aspects of guardingthedirections(dhiggajam) 33 33 33 elephantwillsportwiththefemale sporting withthetwo sporting sadagopan.org DevanAyaka PanchAsath). ruda Nadhi that he alludes to it at ruda Nadhi that visualization majestic of the Lord as a about Lord DevanAthan (Achyutha about Lord s jalam madha from its kapOlam. Thus 71 on the banks of Garuda nadhi. nadhi. Garuda on the banks of : OMMENTS C is so fascinated with the Swamy Desikan the banks of the Ga on roaming elephant two Sri Sookthis in his three places slOkam 52 of Sri Sathakam slOkam 1, 33 and destroying KaruNaa pravAham with Your Your devotees and drenching asurAs forth it in rut gushing elephant like the a majestic elephant You appear as sadagopan.org place ( tribute toYourpower tobringvariousir the Suntogether.Thatraresightof shiningcrown. andthe thirumukha- maNDalam face appear like the darknesslustre. Thebluish-blacktressesthat of the ni crown onYoursirasisradiantwith Oh Lord true to Your daasAs! Your divine faceM shines like the full Moon. The || satyasamagrAm dAsa sthApayati satyam saktim aghaTita ghaTanA mukha chandramauLidinakaramadhyast A"iqt "qna zi´ - - black tresses black tresses Chandran of Your Chandran ofYour sadagopan.org and His agaDithagadaNaa ”. AzhwAr). PoorNa Bhagavath DhyAna Bhagavath DhyAna AmalanAdhi PirAn nga Soundharya anubahvam of the er that shining as the bright Sun Sun as the bright shining er that hAthi kEsAntham approach of approach of hAthi kEsAntham ad to foot (kEsAdhi PaadhAntham), ad to foot tion to the resplendent crown seen crown seen tion to the resplendent kan of the dhivya soundharyam enjoys zhwAr according to Sri D. Ramaswamy dark tresses (Kaaka Pakshams) ondark tresses (Kaaka Pakshams) the 73 according to BhUthatth dhivya Prabhandham of dhivya Prabhandham : Kadir Aayiram RavikalantheritthAl ottha neeL Mudi . Swamy Desikan starts the dhivyA ariyathu yeLithAhum AaRRal ( OMMENTS (Swamy Desikan’s) own enjoyment of Sri RangarAjan in own enjoyment of Sri (Swamy Desikan’s) sOpAnam C Desi Swamy slOkam onwards, From this Sri Achyutha Dhaivya NaayakanSri Achyutha from he the Paad different from which is Thirumudi and the saluta Lord with the of PeriyA follows the MangaLAsAsanam IyengAr: “ ThiruppANAzhwAr in His ThiruppANAzhwAr the wavy, Next Swamy enjoys there. MaNDalamforehead and the Thirumukha known for its sakthi crown ov Chandra Mukham and the radiant sadagopan.org our sinsaccumulated deliberately. sacred faceislikean expiatoryactforoursinsandsuchdhyAnam destroys that havejustblossomed.Themedita aspect ofbeauty.Thetwobeautifuley makefunoftheMoonwith appears to Oh LordwhoisforeverfaithfultoYo M sankalpita duritAniapisamsmrutam parihasita poornachandrampadmasa 35. muom!. tv dassTy s sadagopan.org ). sankalpitha dhurithAnyapi harathy hittham (atonement) for destroying for destroying hittham (atonement) irumukha MaNDalam of the Lord of of the Lord MaNDalam irumukha recognized to have the sakthi to chase recognized to 75 : OMMENTS is celebrated here; it is Thiruvayindhai acquired sins ( consciously away even the serves as the PraayasccThat dhyAnam acquired paapams. the consciously C Th of the of the dhyAnam The power sadagopan.org chest isenhancedby thepresence of presence of SrI Devi andthe mole know because ofthejoint beautytoYourchest Oh Achyutha!There isaspecial M dars vanamAlamvatsam achyuta sthira kaustubhapramukhAnAm| tulasee mAhAtmyam tavamahitammAngaLikam ACyut iSwr vnmal sadagopan.org Lord’s chest starting with Periya Lord’s chest tities on Your chest recognize Your tities on Your and the special objects found there found there and the special objects up of wild flowers (Vyjayathi Maalai) flowers up of wild am. The VakshasTala of the visEsham 77 lebrate Your vaibhavam. vaibhavam. lebrate Your : OMMENTS The six subha lakshaNams adorningThe six subha the enjoying of bhAgyam the have who Those chest. Your of hold taken firmly has sEvai of these beautiful en the samudhAya C PirAtti are in this slOk acknowledged saluted here Lord with MahA Lakshmi is are pointed out. pearl necklace there. The garland made The garland there. pearl necklace stature as SarwEswaran and ce stature as SarwEswaran sadagopan.org gaining reliefbystaying inthecoolsh parAkramam shoulders( powerofYourstrong theDevAswith sorrows of protection. Yourespondtotheircall, the Milky Ocean,when they aretorm Oh DhaivaNaayaka!EvenBrahmA,Sivan M seetaLa sAndraprabhUtAmchAyAmta nirvisati gacchattApa:dEvajana zIt¦saNÔ àÉUta< Daya ). DevAsarecomforted likethetravelersintorridsummer e devnaykivixàmuo>, pul bahu kLp Ôuma[am!. 37. 37. pul bahukLpÔuma[am!. SubhAnga Achyuthan! S S S : dEvanAyakavidhipramukha:| L L L O O O KAM KAM KAM 78 destroy the asurAs and chaseawaythe destroy theasurAsand va vipulabAhukalpadrumAnAm|| va ade ofatreewithmany branches.In ented bythe asurAsandseek Your and IndhranarriveatYourabode 37 37 37 bhuja Bala sadagopan.org " (The " (The ". rest during their vana vaasam: rest during their vana vaasam: lders of the Lord protects the lders of the Lord protects nd and grants all the desired boons to protect SithA PirAtti from wild to protect SithA PirAtti from r samsAric gain all the taapams and 79 like the Kalpakaa tree and those who are and those who Kalpakaa tree like the rAkramam of the Lord: rAkramam of the : BaahucchAyAmavashtabhya Yasya lOka:mahAthmana: Gajam vaa veekshya simham vaa vyAgram vaa-apiGajam vaa veekshya simham VarAnana, comforting shade of the broad shou whole world from sorrows of every ki tree) like the shade of the Kalpaka of the Lord shoulders power of the of the fo beasts and other dangers " naahArayasi santhrAsam Raamasya Baahu samSrithaa 1. " 2. Minister SumantrA’s comforting words to King DasaraTaa about the OMMENTS pururshArTams that they desire. pururshArTams freed from thei them are under resting C IyengArSri D.Ramaswamy slOkams to remind two Srimath RaamaayaNa cites Pa Bala us of the bhuja this regard, Your four shoulders are shoulders are Your four this regard, sadagopan.org appears tobelean and famishedfrom safekeeping. Inspite ofcontainingth protect alltheseBrahmANDams(big bubbles seen on theocean.During BrahmA multitudes of to Yoursankalpam, Fr three guNams (Satthva-rajas-Tamas). our sankalpamagitated andsendsupbigbubbles fromin is the fullOh Moon. Lord The true ocean to is Your theM Prakruthi adiyArs! made When up of the || tavakasmAtnukrusamudaram satya brahmaaNDai: apibharitamkinkara | sankalpa chandrakshObhitatriguNaudadhivipulabudbudaprakarai: äüa{fErip Éirt sadagopan.org d, the Lord obliged and d, the Lord obliged asked the infant KrishNa to open asked the infant its mysteries are saluted here. In are saluted here. its mysteries inside Your stomach inside Your and yet Your entire world housed. Swamy Desikan entire world housed. 81 What a wonder ? r He has been eating mu He has been r : OMMENTS The kukshi (stomach) of the Lord andThe kukshi (stomach) YasOdhaa when Mother KrishNAvathAram, whethe check His mouth to stomachthere inside his saw the she have the gigantic worlds wonders: You away room there to put stomach looks lean from outside and You still have curds. huge amounts of butter and that appearance ? that appearance C sadagopan.org beautiful tolookat. Whenwethink Oh LordofThiruvaheendhrapuram! Thelo M lakshmI pAdapeedasadrusam|| aasana brahmabhramaramvatsa madhya sthita nAthasObhatEsubhagam| Iswara nagara nAbhi ruham tavanaLinambhujaga mXyiSwt äüæmr (Image Courtesy :Stephen-Knapp.com) (Image Courtesy lúmIpad pIQ s†]m!, 39. 39. pIQs†]m!, lúmIpad PadmanAbha Achyuthan! S S S L L L O O O navel! navel! KAM KAM KAM 82 about Brahmaappear theLotusarisingfrom theLotusarisingfrom tus arisingoutofYour navelismost 39 39 39 ing onit,weare sadagopan.org that lotus. That lotus flower also That lotus that lotus. rving the additional role as the foot g from the navel of the Lord and sees Lord and of the g from the navel s being the seat of Brahma Devan. seat of Brahma Devan. s being the 83 : OMMENTS Swamy Desikan identifies that lotus as se Swamy Desikan serves as a foot rest for Your divine consort, Sri Devi seated on Your Your on seated Devi Sri consort, divine Your for rest foot a as serves vakshasthalam. C visualizesSwamy Desikan the lotus arisin that serving role an additional beside PirAtti. rest (paadha Petam) for Periya reminded of Brahman resembling a bee on resembling of Brahman reminded sadagopan.org peethAmbharam sendforth a sunAdham as peethAmbharam. Thebellsassociated with out ofthematthetime oftheirde them todeathwiththehelpofYourpo suffering tothepeopleofworld, Oh Achyutha ParaM Brahmam! When th tavarasanA|| gajaindrasrunkhalA rAjati achyutamukharAratinAtha druDha peeDitamadhukaiTabhasONita rajTyCyut muora ritnawgjeNÔ&ïuŒla tv rzna. 40. †F pIiftmxukEqÉzaei[t EANING : The beautyofthewaistbeltLord The beautyofthewaistbeltLord q ipqab it, pql pirpaqlaMbr "iqta, Madhusoodana Achyuthan! S S S L L L O O O ath reddenedfurther Your beautifulred KAM KAM KAM 84 You engaged them in fight and squeezed engagedthem infightandsqueezed You e asurAsMadhuandKaiDabacaused werful thighs. The blood that gushed paTala paripaaTala ambaraghaTitA| paripaaTala paTala 40 40 40 Youmoveabout.That mEkhalai your waist belt seen over Your sadagopan.org of this mEkhalai (raSanaa) are freed are freed mEkhalai (raSanaa) of this 85 ssociated with their indhriyams. ssociated with urAs, who were killed by the Lord. killed by the urAs, who were : OMMENTS PeethAmbharam is normally yellow. Here it is seen as bright red from the the from red belt) also serves(waist control Manmathan. to tie up and a strong chain as bright as sEvai to have the are blessed Those who seen is it of worldly pleasures a from the hold Here yellow. normally C is PeethAmbharam the blood of the as association with sadagopan.org during thetimeofdeluge. Thosethighs thepalaceabove(viz.,)supporting Your Oh Achyutha! Yourbeautiful-to-behol M || prAsAdastambhasacchAyamUruyugam tava udarasthitatribhuvana nidrAsayanam| deergha veerANaam dAnava satyadrusyatE dAsAnAm tvaedr iSwtiÇÉuvnàasad zynm!, vIra[a sadagopan.org and squeezed the life out of them. out of them. the life and squeezed were crushed to their death. You death. You crushed to their were 87 thighs those powerful them between placed bed. are like their death Those thighs asurAs (Madhu, KaiDabha, HiraNyakasipu) (Madhu, KaiDabha, asurAs sadagopan.org chakram arepressed gentlybySrIDevi. in itsbeauty.Thoselotusfeetcontaining thesignsofconch, stands out the beautyTaambhUlam). Through ofthos ankles arelikeanemeraldKaaLAnjive Oh Achyutha! Yourkneesshine splendidly M achyuta namunchatikAnti:lakshmI: chajanghAma darpaNEna jAnu maNi ACyut n muÂitkaiNt> lúmIirv janu mi[dpR[encj'!"a EANING : The soundharymoftheLord’ssacredfeet The soundharymoftheLord’ssacredfeet mrkt k¦aickyacxNya, Mukunda Achyuthan! sraej laÁDnaEtvcr[aE.42. S S S L L L O O O iva sarOjalAnchanautavacharanau|| rakata kaLaachikayAchadhanyA| KAM KAM KAM 88 ssel (spittoonused Thebeauty ofthosesacred feetare e knees and ankles, Your sacred feete kneesandankles,Your sacred like a mirror made ofgems. Your likeamirrormade 42 42 42 for holdingchewed sadagopan.org vi, who never parts with you even for a you even for never parts with vi, who and enjoyed and saluted Thiruvadi are 89 : OMMENTS C knees, ankles of the Lord’s The beauty in this slOkam. forever associated withforever De you like SrI second. second. sadagopan.org waters ofThirumanjanam flowedtoa Brahma dEvanwashed thosefeetwith worlds with Your feet. As Your foot shotbefore theeyesofallasThrivikraman upwards and reached sathya lOkam, for threefeetoflandfromemperorBa Oh LordwhoissteadfastlytruetoHi M padmam|| trailOkyapAtakampada prasamita janitasuranadhI kramaNa kshaNa tavasarvasaraNyam| nata satya sruti seemantaprasUnamsObhatE ³m[ ][jintsurndIàzimt ïuit sImNtàsUn PAda Padmam and destroyed the anddestroyed sadagopan.org e for celebration e for celebration feet is the caus feet is the protects all the worlds by being their by being their all the worlds protects undharyam Lord, limb by limb of the tus feet of Yours on their head and their head and Yours on of tus feet 91 : OMMENTS here. The enjoyment of the dhivya so here. The enjoyment 43), ends with this slOkam. (Slokam 29 to eulogize Your glories. Your ThiruvadikaL Your glories. eulogize C of Thrivikraman’s sacred The Vaibhavam sins of all. The VedAs adorn all. The VedAs sins of those lo refuge. sadagopan.org You also remove SamsAric Youaremostdelectable to this world. diseases of Your devoteesnear thehillknownas Oushadhagiri.Yo like the medcinal herbs.(moolikais) cure many diseases.(Oushadhis) growwithasingleroot Oh Lo Oh DhaivanAyakA!AtthefoothillsofOu M oaushadhi mahIdharapArsvEuditam iti tribhuvanayEkamoolamaasvAda AaE;ixmhIxrpañeR %idt sadagopan.org the world and helps the world and Dhivya MangaLa ThirumEniDhivya MangaLa is, who do not seek any phalan for any phalan for do not seek is, who as the very root of as the very root dharyam of Lord, Swamy Desikan the 93 mpletely our samsAric diseases. our samsAric mpletely am of this SubhAsraya, am of this SubhAsraya, : OMMENTS You. serving C enjoyed the anga soun After having the darsan reminds us that He stands sins. of our will destroy all co herb to cure us as the delectable Your beauty is enjoyed by ParamaikAnth by is enjoyed Your beauty sadagopan.org VashaTkAra Achyuthan! 94 sadagopan.org the help of a colyrium worn over over worn colyrium a of help the 45 45 45 s that the Lord’s ThirumEni is like a ng Your chest region. This difficult ng Your chest region. know what is under their feet. The know what ied over the eye lids) to make it to make it lids) ied over the eye hind it of the Upanishad Mantram izing and enjoying your subtle dhivya izing and enjoying your Vigraham’s soundharyam and power to Svaroopam nature), GuNams (inherent nija vilOchanEshu kshipanta: | kshipanta: nija vilOchanEshu 95 easures hidden under and enjoy them. enjoy them. easures hidden under and Your mangaLa vigraham dhivya becomes KAM KAM KAM aroopam determined yOgis. by the O O O L L L S S S iniximv pZyiNt Tvam!. 45. iniximv pZyiNt u< injivlaecne;u i]pNt>, u< injivlaecne;u Lord’s ThirumEni revealing His svaroopam Lord’s ThirumEni Lord’s ThirumEni revealing His svaroopam Lord’s ThirumEni : : EANING OMMENTS Similarly, Your dhivyAthma svaroopam is not visible to most of the people people the of most to visible not is svaroopam dhivyAthma Your Similarly, in visual except the yOgis, who succeed C After celebrating the dhivya MangaLa siddhAs however see those treasures with siddhAs however see those tr dig up those They their eyelids. consort adorniThirumEni with Your divine act is accomplishedthe Yogis through by steady it becomes dhyAnam and Your adhyAsccharya visualize You directly and enjoy possible for them to matter, dhivya ThirumEni. In this dhivyAthma sv essential to see Your chase away our sins, Swamy Desikan reveal siddhAnjana (consecrated colyrium appl the Lord’s possible for us to experience (attributes) and VibhUthis (wealth). Sri D.Ramaswamy Iyengar points out that his slOkam has the authority be Oh Lord who is always true to Your devotees! People walk over the treasures, treasures, the over walk People devotees! Your to true always is who Lord Oh and do notwhich are under their feet siddhAnjanam iva syAmAmsiddhAnjanam tava tanum M Zyama< tv tn isÏaÃnimv inTyingUF< ACyut lúmIinvas< nidhim iva pasyanti tvAm || nivAsam nitya nigooDham achyuta lakshmI sadagopan.org elaborated furtherin the28 beginning withthewords: " Yadh-HiraNya nidhim th sLokam ofSriVaradarAjaPanchAsath. 96 ". ThisUpanishadmantramis sadagopan.org His ThirumEni does 46 46 46 rays of Jn~Anam. Those who have rays of Those who have Jn~Anam. You remove entirely the ajn~Anam ofYou remove entirely the bright rays. My Lord! You are the bright rays. My Lord! You a soubhAgyam of the Lord’s ThirumEnia soubhAgyam of the Lord’s ees! The Sun banishes the darkness of banishes the darkness of ees! The Sun the grips of the night of delusion about the a na khalu tEshAm mOha triyAmA || a na khalu tEshAm 97 ~Anam). One who ses KAM KAM KAM O O O L L L S S S ghaTamAna jyOti: | tri lOka yEka grahapati: ghts of ajn~Anam. : : The nescience leaving those who have His sEvai! have leaving those who The nescience The nescience leaving those who have His sEvai! have leaving those who The nescience EANING OMMENTS Your sEvai will never ever be caught in in caught be ever never will sEvai Your the night by spreading his abundant by spreading the night worlds. matchless Sun for all the three thethe chEtanams and spread nourishing of Your tatthvams. the true meanings C Besides destroying our sins, the darsan (ajn chases away all of our nescience not experience any more ni Oh Lord who never abandons His devot Oh Lord who never vighaTita nibiDa andhakAra: vighaTita nibiDa M ¢hpit>, "qman JyaeitiôlaekEk iv"iqt inibfaNxkarae 46. Tv< nmTsTy n olu te;a< maehiÇyama. †iògtae ye;a< yEshAm tvam namat saty drushTi gata: sadagopan.org "Vedam aRinthaBhagavar" 98 sadagopan.org Jeevan is an advaithic term and is is clear distinction between the right next to them, they will not be right next to them, they will 47 sEvai with their hearts filled with sEvai with their hearts filled 47 47 them. Even if these noble souls are noble if these them. Even indicate the experience of Bhakthi of Bhakthi indicate the experience in Sri Vaikuntam. In verse 33 of of 33 verse In Vaikuntam. Sri in mently by AchArya RaamAnuja and the mently why Swamy Deikan uses carefully the eve in VidEha Mukthi or Moksham after eve by the worldly desires of any kind. Even by the worldly desires of any akruthyAdhikaaram of Srimath Rahasya i anubhavam, they are LIKE the muktha i anubhavam, they are LIKE 99 ese blessed souls have the to sacredness KAM KAM KAM am, Swamy Desikan uses the term " O O O L L L usyantE pAvanA: tava bhaktA: || usyantE pAvanA: tava bhaktA: S S S ones (MukthAs) ! ones (MukthAs) ones (MukthAs) ! ones (MukthAs) te pavnaStv É´a>. 47. te pavnaStv Erip n olu ivi³yma[a>, ivi³yma[a>, olu n Erip ory of Your devotees! ". The concept of Jeevan muktha of Jeevan ". The concept : : The Lord’s adiyArs become the equivalent of Liberated equivalent of Liberated adiyArs become the The Lord’s The Lord’s adiyArs become the equivalent of Liberated equivalent of Liberated adiyArs become the The Lord’s EANING OMMENTS Traya Saaram, Swami Desikan makes th vehe Mukthi refuted Jeevan concept of AdhikAra Sangraham and in His Utthar AdhikAra Sangraham and in His anubhavam similar to muktha jeevans words: "Jeevan muktha sadhrusA:" to in this world immersed in Your bhakth in this world immersed in Your muktha sadhrusA: They beli by VaishNavAs. not accepted body. That is casting off the physical purify even those who are associated with purify even those who is the gl jeevans. Such In the second paadham of this slOk In the second paadham of this deep devotion will never be influenced be influenced never will deep devotion stand of enjoyment objects those powerful iota. Th affected by them even by an C M enjoy Your For those who Oh Achyutha! vishaya rasE viraktA: jananai: api na khalu vikriyamaaNaa:| vikAra dr jeevan mukta sadrusA achyuta ivkarjnn iv;yrse ivr´a> jIvNmu´ s†za ACyut †ZyN sadagopan.org and élan". essence performsuchblissful the greatonesofthisearthwhoha eternals andmukthAsinVaikuntamrend This passagefromDesikaPrabhandhamme mahinzthuadaihinRa yellAm, maNNUlahil Vaikuntam aftercastingawaythephysicalbody( experience ofblisssimilarto(notth kaimkaryamsrighthere 100 e sameas)themukthajeevansatSri ve learnttheTamilVedAsofsweet nar ….Vedam aRinthaBhagavarhaLE er to Prama-Padha NaaTan there - er toPrama-PadhaNaaTanthere ans: "Thelovingservicesthatthe ViNNavar ….mEvum adimai ….mEvumadimai ViNNavar in this worldwithéclat ). ). sadagopan.org pleasures are like in the forest. 48 48 48 at wild elephant moving around moving around at wild elephant ouds take on the form of a horse or ouds take on the ll never ever think of its wild days in ll never ever think ry and have finite life. When the ry and have finite life. last. Similarly, the worldly pleasures is immersed in chasing the perishable perishable is immersed in chasing the made shapeless by the blowing wind made shapeless by the blowing t last long. My Lord! You create few Lord! You create few My t last long. enjoy and the moment one wakes up, and appearances are known as Megha and appearances are known t and insignificant hanan forgets the vishaya sukhams just owing mountain streams and stay beyond stay beyond owing mountain streams and 101 KAM KAM KAM O O O L L L S S S shaaNaam sreeNaam vana saritAmshaaNaam sreeNaam | a king captures it by trapping it, trains it and and it trains it, trapping by it captures king a s its days as a wild elephant sTy sdamdae jIv gj>. 48. sTy sdamdae Your devotees spurn wealth of every kind spurn Your devotees Your devotees spurn wealth of every kind spurn Your devotees : EANING makes it the royal elephant, that animal wi makes it the royal elephant, like th is chEtanan The the forest. filled with ego and uncontrollably. He is transien (nonlasting) sukhams. These cl where sky, temporary formations in the and are elephant for a few seconds formationsquickly. These temporary do no chithram or Gandharva city. They the dreams of chEtanams to objects in Oh Lord who is true to Your SaraNAgathAs! The wild elephant will roam in the the in roam will elephant wild The SaraNAgathAs! Your to true is who Lord Oh in swift fl forests, splash themselves anyone. When of the control disappear. They do not those pleasures forget like the royal elephant gandharva nagara svapna sadruk gandharva nagara M s†]a[a< ïI[a< vn sirtam!, gNxvR ngr Svß zra[agt Smrit Tvd!g&hIt> n na smarati saraNaagata tvat gruhIta: satya jeeva gaja: || sadA madO the becomes and feet sacred Your at SaraNAgathy performs indulged by the chEtanams are transito chEt that then chEtanam grace, Your of object sadagopan.org a worthless thingto seek. Those sTAnamslookgreat onlyto thosewithout Oh AchyuthA! ThoseJn~Anisdevoted toYo M vidhi pramukhaNaampadAnighanakandaL na mahayantijn~Anavanta: tarang ivix àmuoa[a u considerevenBrahma Pattamas sadagopan.org their time is over. They are like like over. They are their time is d are intriguing to but look at they stions of BrahmA et al., are totallystions of BrahmA mA and othersmA and like the look beautiful a superficial but has no substance sense 103 nice to look at in foam, which looks sTAnams disappearinside. These after sprout after the rain an mushrooms, which in ground to these po For the vivEkis, are tasteless. down knocked are they but strong look plants Banana unappealing. blows. wind a strong no time, when vivEkam. In the ocean, the waves constantly form and break. Their life is is life Their break. and form constantly waves the ocean, the In vivEkam. Similarly, theshort. of Brah sTAnams sadagopan.org shown byYou.Benefitting fromthe un interact withpeople oflowstation Oh Lord,Theseblessed soulsadmire anddevelopcompas achEtanam- Iswaran) AchArya’s gracedevelopJn~Anamab SarvEswarA! OhLord whonever letsdo M nAtha natasatyasagruNaa:namunchant purushA parasvabhAvA: drushTa sva naw ntsTys"&[a>nmuÁciNt †ò SvprSvÉava>pué;a EANING : The Jn~Anisbeingfriendlytoeveryone The Jn~Anisbeingfriendlytoeveryone g&hITva SvaimnStvzIlm!, kwmip svRjnsaEhadRm!.50. S S S SadAchArya! L L L O O O KAM KAM KAM gruhItvA svAmina:tavaseelam| 104 with compassion.They followthepath out thethreetatthvams(ChEtanam- out wn Yourdevotees!The chEtanams with your souseelyamthat permitsYouto i katham api sarva jana sauhArdham|| sarvajana i kathamapi derstanding ofyoursvabhAvam, they sion towards the less fortunate ones. thelessfortunate sion towards 50 50 50 sadagopan.org ". recognizes that that recognizes samOham sarvabhUthEshu samOham never give up their efforts to help efforts to help give up their never referred to here. He here. referred to e relates to every one with love and and to every one with love e relates through personal example and timely through personal 105 upadEsam of the Lord: " ". : OMMENTS sarva jana souhArdham the Lord resides in every one and henc the Lord resides the They follow affection. The true svabhAvam of a VaishNavan is The true svabhAvam correct their way of life others and to as intervention. recognized is C VaishNava true a of conduct of code this slOkam, this In " develop compassiondevelop the towards and chEtanams less fortunate them to guide upadEsams. through good sathgathy They sadagopan.org boasting, deceitfulness, fearabout who ar express jealousytowards others themselves ontheir high castebirth, think thatthereisnoonewhosuperior tothem( and isitsownMaster.Propelledby th the same( their delusions thatmakethembelieve Oh Lord true to Your adiyArs! ChEtanam M bhaktAnAm|| drusyantE namOhasutA:dOshAdAsAnAmsatyatava dambhaa matsara mAna madErshyA †ZyNte nmaehsuta>dae;ada man mde:yaRmTsrdMÉasUyaÉyam;RlaeÉmuoa>, EANING Inauspicious guNamsstayfromtheLord’sservants! Inauspicious guNamsstayfromtheLord’sservants! : dEhAthma bramam Srimath AzhagiyaSingar -AhobilaMaTam sana< sTytvÉ´anam!.51. ) and the soul ( S S S L L L sUyA bhayaamarshalObhamukhA:| sUyA O O O 106 future, miserlinesstowards Bhagavath- KAM KAM KAM that thesoulandbodyareone feel superiorabout their goodlooks, ese delusions,thesemisguidedsouls s experience alot of hardshipdueto e well offin ama 51 51 51 jeevan ) isanindependententity ahankAram terial sense; ); theypride sadagopan.org ad in them. They live a delusion-free, delusion-free, a live They them. in ad trail them. In the case of Your true of Your trail case them. In the hArya kaDAksham, none of the above hArya kaDAksham, 107 the blessings of Ac devotees having BhAgavatha Kaimkaryam, pomposity, boastfulness, with finding fault malice, other bad traits and a host of others inauspicious attributes show their ugly he inauspicious attributes noble life. sadagopan.org to SrimanD.RamaswamyIyengAr: according come fromSwamyNammAzhwAr’sThiruvAimozhiPaasuraVaakyams The pramANams forSwamyDesikanth C through theirwayoflifefocusedonYou. yugam butarenotaffected by it.They Those who areengaged intheadorationof set will be thatsukhams. of one Whether livingwho veerawayfromYoursacredfeet they in Kali live yugam, in theOh Lordof Thiruvaheendhrapuram!Inth no when the dharmam isM on decline. yE tavapadEpravaNaa:naastika yEshAm mati:itaramukhIkAla:saka kiln naiSt pdeàv[a> ye tv ye;a< mitirtrmuoIkal>sk Kaliyugam isneutralized inthecaseofLord’sadiyArs! Kaliyugam isneutralized inthecaseofLord’sadiyArs! OMMENTS EANING 3. " 2. " ofThiruvAimo thetenpaassurams 1. paRRi pErinbha veLLam peruha persons inthenextfivepaasurams, ungodly meninthefirstfive pasuramsandpraisesthetrue godly thiriyum Kali yugam neengi, dEvarkaL thaamm puhunthu,kithayugam thiriyum Kaliyugam neengi, dEvarkaLthaamm Kaliyum kedumkaNDukoNmin : : laeip te;a re Hecondemns sadagopan.org en to nullify the rmise that the time of ar to You, the Lord. to gain sathgathi. These great to gain sathgathi. These service at Your sacred feet help service at Your sacred feet 53 53 53 proverbs to bring home the message proverbs to bring home the message has the capacity ev when they show disrespect to the the to disrespect show they when SaasthrAs state that the end is near SaasthrAs state that the end MaNDalam. The situation is theMaNDalam. The situation is same icize these noble BhagavathAs and find and find BhagavathAs noble icize these Such BhAgavatha apachAram will nullify Such BhAgavatha apachAram 109 KAM KAM KAM (2) AahAtha kaalatthukku anna dhvEsham, kaalatthukku anna dhvEsham, (2) AahAtha O O O L L L S S S ess of Bhaagavatha apachAram: exists. One has to su ity to the BhAgavathAs de pZyiNt tavke É´jne, pZyiNt tavke rlier”. vskrm{fl #v iCDÔm!. 53. vskrm{fl : : Ills arising from finding faults with Lord’s adiyArs! Lord’s finding faults with from Ills arising Ills arising from finding faults with Lord’s adiyArs! Lord’s finding faults with from Ills arising EANING OMMENTS Sriman D.Ramaswamy IyengAr quotes two C of this slOkam on the seriousn dear the at cavil or with (1) vinASa kale vipareetha Buddhi: fault find they when fools, pOrAtha kaalatthukku ”It is a sign Brhamma dhvEsahm. Sri DR Swamy states: in calamity impending of BhAgavathAs behavior of the Lord. This Prapatthi performed ea Oh Achyutha! Those BhAgavathAs engaged in Those Oh Achyutha! atyAsanna vinAsA: achyutaatyAsanna vinAsA: pasyanti tAvakE janE | bhakta sumArgE mooDhAmOksha ruchInAm divasa karamanDala || iva chchitram M ATyasÚ ivnaza> ACyut mUFa id mae]écIna< sumageR crit fools Some desire Moksham) the Mumukshus (those who way. the show ones where none fault with them destruction has arrived for such fools, BhagavathAs, who are dear to You. performed. the Prapatthi that one has sees a hole in the Soorya for one who for those who show animos sadagopan.org the brightmoonlight ofBhakthi. auspicious attributes cometothefr ahankA sky. TheharmfulguNamslike before, becomeclearly visible.Theadiy Oh Achyutha! When theclouds move M sphuranti nabhOnibhA:tavabhaktA:|| bhAsamAna bhaktijyOtsnA: natasatya | ghaTita tArakAprAgbhArA: nitruTita durmAnaghanA:nirmalaguNa Éasman Éi´JyaeTõa> ntsTyS) inÇuiqt ÊmaRn "na>inmRl "iqttarka gu[ àaGÉara>, EANING : The PurityofYouradiyArs The PurityofYouradiyArs Svayambhu Achyuthan! …riNt nÉaeinÉaStvÉ´a>.54. S S S L L L O O O KAM KAM KAM ont. The spotless guNAs shinenowwith ont. ThespotlessguNAs 110 ram havenowbeenremovedandthe away,thestars Ars of Yours shinelikethatcloudless Ars ofYours 54 54 54 which were hidden sadagopan.org iyArs shed plesant ded with inauspicious qualities like ded with inauspicious of the Lord andof the Both are the sky. fear, anger et al. The sky similarlyfear, anger et is ms. Just as the cool moon light adds ms. Just as the ouds. Like the star-studded sky, the ouds. Like the slOkams 46 to 54 (this slOkam), the was celebrated. The next and the was celebrated. The next e bhakthi of the ad e bhakthi of e who have performed Prapatthi and are 111 : OMMENTS light on those who approach them. From light on those known as PrapannAs. C adiyArs the is between The comparison spotless. The adiyArs’ minds are not clou spotless. The it does not have any cl spotless because adiyArs shine auspicious guNa their with to the sky, the intens special beauty ofgreatness of the adiyArs the Lord focus on thos five slOkams subsequent pride, envy, ostentations, conceit, malice, sadagopan.org Saaram). ParihAraad PrapannAs (vide:AparAdha They receive laghusikshai(lightpunishme one whohasperformedPrapatthi, prapatthi period,cleanseshimandmakes lighter punishments forthesins acqui punishments becausethey arecloserto the womanservants inthe inner cham YoursAsthrams.It of theirtrespasses period. Tothem,Youhandoutlightpuni PrapannAs mightaccumulatesinscons Your lotusOh Embodiment of Sathyam to Your adiyArs! Those who have sought refuge feet at M have no fear yOgyamsikshA skhalitAnAm apiyatha of | prapannAnAm gati:natasatyapadAmbujamtava na khaluyamavishayE la Soiltanamip ywayaeGy< iz]azu n oluymiv;yegitnRtsTy EANING The advantagescomingthewayofPrapannAs The advantagescomingthewayofPrapannAs : pdaMbuj< tvàpÚanam!, ÏaNt ik»ra[aimvl¸vI.55. S S S L L L there is no danger of suffering in Narakam. O O O KAM KAM KAM 112 suddhAnta kinkaraaNaam iva laghvI || ivalaghvI suddhAnta kinkaraaNaam nding inYamalOkam.Someofthese red bythePrapannanduringpost- hikAram ofSrimathRahasyaThraya shments in proportion totheseverityshments inproportion thequeen.Similarly,ourLordgives him fitfor Moksham.Therefore,for bers ofthe Kingare givenlighter ciously during their post-prapatthi ciously duringtheirpost-prapatthi nt) inviewoftheir special status as isthecustomaryinthisworldthat 55 55 55 sadagopan.org emselves from the fear drives them to lead 56 56 56 ed feet and free th who fear about the consequences of who fear about the consequences ey fear the sufferings at the hands of ey fear the sufferings at the kaamams and bhOgams of this world. kaamams andof this world. bhOgams 113 brukuTi bhujangi darsanabrukuTi bhujangi trastA: | KAM KAM KAM rashTa manmatha rasa aasvAdA: || O O O L L L happenings! happenings! S S S gh they saw a snake. This æuk…qI Éuj¼I dzRn ÇSta>, ò mNmw rsaSvada>. 56. ò mNmw rsaSvada>. : Performing SaraNAgathy fearing future untoward SaraNAgathy fearing Performing Performing SaraNAgathy fearing future untoward SaraNAgathy fearing Performing EANING M many chEtanams, are Achyutha! There karmagati dOsha duhkhitA: krutAnta karmagati dOsha k«taNt kmRgit dae; Ê>iota> ACyut àæ AcRiNt tv cr[aE prab archanti tava charanau achyuta narakam. Th their karmas and landing in Yama Kinkaraas. When Yama knits his brows in anger over their many sins, they become afraid as thou a life away from the temptations of at Your sacr SaraNAgathy They perform fears of entering Yama lOkam. sadagopan.org AarAdhanams. You receivetheirAarAdhan You AarAdhanams. consider anyoneelse astheirdhaivam You acceptardentlytheAarAdhanam reaches Youbutisnotconsideredanything forworldlysukhams (AarAdhanam) is Oh Achyutha!BrahmaandtheDevAswo M taam|| sirasApratigruhNaasi svayam sEshAmiva yA yEkAntiprayuktA aalagati tavacharanauachyuta yEkaiNt àyu´aze;aimvSvy< Aalgit tvcr[aEACyut EANING The uniquenessoftheAarAdhanamperformedby The uniquenessoftheAarAdhanamperformedby : Thiruaaraadanam byParamaikanthis ivixna=PycRna==cirta, izrsa àitg&Ÿaistam!.57. ParamaikAnthis! ParamaikAnthis! vidhinA api archanA aacharitA | vidhinA apiarchanAaacharitA| S S S L L L O O O KAM KAM KAM 114 and donotseek an and done by ParamiakAnthis, who do not whodonot done byParamiakAnthis, and notforMoksham.Theirpoojai rship Youwithardour.Their worship 57 57 specialbyYou.Ontheotherhand, 57 am with joyandplace itwithYour am with y phalansfortheir sadagopan.org entified and accepted by You as a far by You as a and accepted entified vattam(Sesha Thus the Vasthram). e of BrahmA and the other dEvAs. e of BrahmA and 115 superior AarAdhanam compared to thos superior AarAdhanam AarAdhanam is id of the ParamaikAnthis head bent and adorn it as a pari it as a and adorn head bent sadagopan.org ApramEya Achyuthan! 116 sadagopan.org in the enjoyment of Your divine in the enjoyment NDalam melt like the Moon stone. stone. NDalam melt like the Moon 58 58 58 fall on it, the Moon stone (Chandra vered simultaneously all over at that vered simultaneously all over at that am. Your divine face is the Full Moon. am. Your divine face is the the Kadamba tree. No wonder You do wonder You the Kadamba tree. No aagavathAs of the Lord (TadheeyALs) flood. Their whole body experiences whole body experiences Their flood. The minds of those who are blessed to blessed The minds of those who are ppenings to a Kadambaa tree, when the 117 KAM KAM KAM O O O L L L S S S demonstrated for them! demonstrated demonstrated for them! demonstrated : : of Dhaiva Naayakan and the Lord’s Achyutha tatthvam Achyutha tatthvam and the Lord’s Naayakan of Dhaiva of Dhaiva Naayakan and the Lord’s Achyutha tatthvam Achyutha tatthvam and the Lord’s Naayakan of Dhaiva EANING OMMENTS The immersion in the BhagavathAnubhavam by the adiyArs in the BhagavathAnubhavam The immersion The immersion in the BhagavathAnubhavam by the adiyArs in the BhagavathAnubhavam The immersion on enjoying their Lord is like the ha C the Bh by experienced The horripulation thunder and rain strike. The tree gets co kAntha stone) will melt and flow as a stre kAntha stone) will melt and the rays. Its lustre is the assembly of Mukha Ma enjoy the sEvai of Your Thiru joyous tears that form a They shed horripulation (rOmAnjali). They look like the budding of flowers of not abandon these BhAgavAthAs steeped beauty. M When the rays of the Moon Oh AchyuthA! tv muo JyaeTõa Ôaivt mans ziz kaNt àvah s sadagopan.org thunder strike. time withbuddingblossoms.Ithappens 118 instantaneously,whentherainand sadagopan.org 59 59 59 . Those who do not have this mature have this . Those who do not se are Your body. Therefore they do se are Your ! Your adiyArs know that all the athAs of ripe Jn~Anam however attain however attain athAs of ripe Jn~Anam adopt the ancient dharmAs that are 119 KAM KAM KAM O O O L L L S S S tvAm yEva durlabham itarai: || tvAm yEva durlabham m. They know about the impermanence of worldly of worldly about the impermanence m. They know HayagrIva Achyuthan! sTy g&hItzañt xmaR>, sTy g&hItzañt : BhagavAn becoming easy to approach by His adiyArs easy to approach BhagavAn becoming BhagavAn becoming easy to approach by His adiyArs easy to approach BhagavAn becoming EANING Oh Lord true to Your SaraNAgathAs causative factors for Moksha M chEtanams and achEtanams in this Univer not show enmity towards anyone. They pleasures and do not therefore seek them Bhagav Jn~Anam do not reach You. The gts¼aStv É´a> yaiNt Tvamev ÊlRÉimtrE>, 59. 59. ÊlRÉimtrE>, yaiNt Tvamev É´a> gts¼aStv sarvEshu api nirvairA: saraNaagata gruhIta sAsvata satya dharmA: | bhaktA: yAnti gata sangA: tava zr[agt sveR:vip invERra> sadagopan.org lakshaNam oftheadiyArs. from worldlypleasures(nissangathvam)is was referred toasoneof theirunique In slOkam50,thesarvajanasouhArdham C You safely. OMMENTS : 120 features. Here, their disassociation pointedoutasyetanotherdistinct aspectoftheadiyArsLord sadagopan.org 60 60 60 can not succeed in reaching You. The You. reaching in can not succeed Their minds would be vacillating as a a as vacillating be would minds Their ere are many who are immersed in ere are many who are immersed in e right near them in Your archA form. m. However much such people try to people much such m. However . Unless and until their attachments to i na labhantE DOlAyamAna manasa: || i na labhantE DOlAyamAna manasa: 121 KAM KAM KAM api gaganam iva sadA durgrAhyamapi gaganam iva | O O O L L L S S S n lÉNte faelayman mns>. 60. n lÉNte faelayman Adrushya Achyuthan! to Vishaya sukhams! to Vishaya to Vishaya sukhams! to Vishaya sÚmip ggnimv sda Ê¢aým!, sÚmip ggnimv : EANING Bhagavan being hard to reach for those who are attached those who are attached hard to reach for Bhagavan being Bhagavan being hard to reach for those who are attached those who are attached hard to reach for Bhagavan being reach You, they do not succeed. You ar You succeed. do not they reach You, Even that is not of much use to them the worldly pleasures are severed, they Oh Lord of Thiruvaheendhrapuram! Th Oh Lord of Thiruvaheendhrapuram! result of not finding the true dharma M enjoying the transient, worldly pleasures. enjoying the ahipati nagara indra tvAmahipati nagara aasannam Tva< Aa Aihpit ngreNÔ ap vishayEshu vilaganta: tvaramaaNaa: iv;ye;u ivlgNt> Tvrma[a Aip iv;ye;u ivlgNt> sadagopan.org accessible tothemlikethenearby ( oscillate betweenVishayasukhams You my Lord is alwaysC nearby ( by. not accessibletothenon-devotees.TheLo howeverto Isitpossible sky isnearby. if theyacceleratetheirefforts( Aasannam api,ThvamgaganamivadhurgrAhyam OMMENTS : sadhA Aasannam api sadhA Aasannam thvaramANA: api ThvAmnalabhanthE api thvaramANA: sky,which cannotbegrasped( 122 dOlAyamAna manasa: dOlAyamAna touch itandholdit?Similarly,Youare rd eludesthemevenifHeis near ). They do not attain You even). TheydonotattainYou ) tothosewhoseminds ) butYouarenot ). sadhA sadagopan.org 61 61 61 their Prapatthi at Your sacred feet here and delight in performing various here and delight in performing various d to keep them here for a while longer a while longer d to keep them here for llow the path to sathgathi according to y Moksham right away. Why is this odd y Moksham right away. Why is this 123 KAM KAM KAM sakala | rakshaNa utsuka ruchinA O O O L L L S S S their Prapatthi! their Prapatthi! Sri AdivaN SaThakOpan sklr][aeTsuk éicna, sklr][aeTsuk : EANING The reason for the prapannAs staying in this world after world after in this for the prapannAs staying The reason The reason for the prapannAs staying in this world after world after in this for the prapannAs staying The reason have long lasting desire to gain Moksham and leave their bodies. Yet, they stay stay they Yet, bodies. their leave and Moksham gain to desire lasting long have here with their bodies and do not enjo so that they others to fo can help few M who have performed Those Oh AchyuthA! situation? It is because decide You have Your sankalpam. These great souls stay bhaktA: tAvaka sEvA rasa bharitA: bhaktA: tAvaka rs Éirta> É´aStavk seva Tvya Swaipta>. 61. icr< ka'!i]tmae]a APyCyut kr[ain xriNt mOkshA: api achyuta tvayA sthApitA:karaNaani dharanti chiram kAnkshita || sadagopan.org they would like. bodiesthan longer,holdontotheir inthisworldalittle sankalpam, theystay rakshaNa uthsukaruchinaaTavabhakthA:sTApithA: ones toleadothersSathgathibyperceptandexample( delayed ?ItisbecauseofYourdriving Whyisitth antharanga Kaimkaryams. bethereatSriVaikunta would rather Your Supremeabodeaspertheirwish. Th ( Oh Lord! Your bhakthAs have intense desireC to gain mOksham for a long time bodies untilyoucallthem toascendYourSupremeabode. kaimkaryams toYourarchAform atthe Tava bhakthA:chiramkAnkshithamOkshA: OMMENTS : 124 m with You and serving Youwiththeir m withYouandserving eir ascent toYoursupremeabode is desire toupliftallanduseYourdear temple andstayherewiththeirgross ey arestillhereeventhough they ) andyettheydonotascendto ). Obeying Your Thvayaa sakala sadagopan.org thy to the people of the of to the people thy thy to the people of the of to the people thy ocean. The enduring auspicious 62 62 62 impeccable good conduct to help the impeccable good conduct to help the such as compassion are the boulders such as compassion are the boulders ce ocean of samsAram. Through such 125 KAM KAM KAM In Srimath RaamAyaNam, we come across In Srimath RaamAyaNam, we come across world! world! hira sEtu darsaneeyai: janAn || hira sEtu darsaneeyai: janAn O O O L L L S S S SEthu Bandam! setu dzRnIyEjRnan!. 62. setu dzRnIyEjRnan!. taryis ntsTy injÉ´E>, taryis ntsTy : EANING BhagavathAs showing the sathga BhagavathAs BhagavathAs showing the sathga BhagavathAs forming the dam to cross over the fier attributes found in Your BhagavathAs M adiyArs! His to true is who Lord Oh the story of the Raama sEnai crossingover the dam built the ocean with boulders. You bless the BhagavathAs with suffering chEtanams cross the samsAric sthira guNa giri janitai: santArayasi nata satya nija bhaktai: | janitai: santArayasi nata sthira guNa giri st janma paripATi jaladhim jangama jintE> sN iSwr gu[ igir j¼m iSwr jlix< jNm pirpaiq sadagopan.org to travel over and reach the Lord’s supreme abodelater. to traveloverandreachtheLord’ssupreme serveasbridge tarryhere, BhAgavathAs to Moksham.Lord’s commands Their toSwamy DesikanexplainsinthisslOkamhowtheBhaagavathAscarryout help Lord more people has to travel " on theC auspicious path leading the BhAgavatha sEthu. suffering chEtanamsthewayto reachYo asthebridgethro serving BhagavathAs OMMENTS : Sakala rakshaNa uthsukaruchi 126 ugh their sadh guNams, You show the Youshow ugh theirsadhguNams, over thesamsAricoceanforothers ur supremeabodebytravelingover ". TheLord’s sadagopan.org s come their way. The antE Mruthyum priyam iva antE Mruthyum priyam iva i and await death like a dear i and await death like a 63 63 63 they exist here during the post- here during they exist happenings to destroy their Moksha to destroy their Moksha happenings sult, their fear about future births in sult, their fear about future ksham at the time when their current current ksham at the time when their welcome death as a pleasant guest and welcome death as a pleasant s about Moksham, they welcome death. they welcome death. s about Moksham, 127 kaL! The prapannAs performed Prapatthi performed Prapatthi kaL! The prapannAs KAM KAM KAM O O O L L L S S S v ntsTy piím idvsm!. 63. v ntsTy piím onal sukhams and dukkham àaÝ< ihtimit pirpZyNt>, PrapannAs welcoming death! welcoming PrapannAs PrapannAs welcoming death! welcoming PrapannAs krutha kruthyA: pradheeksh : ). prapatth They have performed EANING anticipated guest. at Your sacred feet and wished for Mo at Your sacred feet and wished adhithim Oh Lord who is true to Your adiyavar Oh Lord who is true to Your As a re bodily existence would be over. greet it fondly ( prasamita bhayA: prAptam prAptam bhavAntara hitam iti paripasyanta: | nata satya bhaktA: priya atithim iva bhAvayanti tava || paschima divasam M Éya> àaÝ< àzimt ÉvaNtr É´a> iàyaitiwim ÉavyiNt tv While this world would be banished. prapatthi period, additi favorable PrapannAs consider them as conviction virOdhis. Secure in their They They are not afraid of death. sadagopan.org AdishTana Achyuthan! 128 sadagopan.org needed. Those needed. Those as. They pick competent pick competent as. They ). eir death. They see the world s. They recognize that the Sath Sath the that recognize They s. thy at Your sacred feet see the the thy at Your sacred feet see of completion of their mission to of completion of their mission preserved. For this reason, they preserved. For this reason, they 64 64 64 r future generations. Now the work You lead them to Your self-luminous You lead them to Your self-luminous nAs to His Supreme abode! nAs to His rformed their Prapatthis successfully m and through them uplift the world. world.the m and through them uplift nAs to His Supreme abode! nAs to His ght the lamp of Parama Jn~Anam to n~Anam. To chase away this darkness n~Anam. To chase away this a lamp, where there is darkness. This This a lamp, where there is darkness. Jn~Anam is very much wish to light a lamp of Jn~Anam for the wish to light a lamp of Jn~Anam 129 KAM KAM KAM nijam padham O O O L L L S S S ajn~Anam due to the failure of the chEtnams to a Svy< àÉ< k«t kayaR>. 64. a Svy< àÉ< k«t thout knowledge about tatthv tóaipt prm }an àdIpa>, tóaipt prm ) supreme abode ( ) supreme abode ). They sense the approach of th : : EANING Achyuthan leading the Prapan the leading Achyuthan OMMENTS Achyuthan leading the Prapan the leading Achyuthan krutha karyA: svayam-prabham Our SadAchAryAs are those who have pe C ( filled with the darkness of know about the Tatthva-Hitha-PurushArTam SampradhAyam has to be nourished and select sathpathrams as sishyAs and li maintain the SadAchArya paramparai fo Oh Achyutha! It is customary to place It is Oh Achyutha! that You assigned to them is completed, prakaTa timirE jn~Ana pradeepA: | pAtra pratishThApita parama bhuvanE tvayA nijam padam sadAneeyantE achyuta || svayam prabham kruta kAryA: M paÇ ài àkq itimre Éuvne of aj world is filled with the darkness as Your (ajn~Anam), the lamp known Your Supreme abode. ( nIyNte=Cyut Tvya inj< pd< sd nIyNte=Cyut You invite these BhagavathAs at the time You invite these BhagavathAs PrapannAs, who have performed SaraNAga PrapannAs, who have performed They approach of their time of death. world sunk in darkness wi sisyAs, instruct them on Brahma Jn~Ana sadagopan.org at Yourlotusfeethere reachSriVaikun Oh LordofThiruvaheendhrapuram! Th M pannagEndramukhAnAm|| prAptA: tavasAyujyampanktimpoorayanti ahIndrapuranAthatvAm| druDha teevrabhaktinayanA:paripasyanta: àaÝaStv sayuJy (GhOshti) of the Nithya sadagopan.org ). eternally liberated eternally liberated in Your sevai. Their firm bhakthi firm bhakthi sevai. Their in Your The nithya soori ghOshti is fulfilled soori ghOshti is The nithya Saayujya mOksham. With un-winking Saayujya mOksham. With un-winking SrI Vaikuntam and joins the group of for enjoying You. They enjoy further enjoy further You. They for enjoying e nithya ssoris and accorded a status the ghOshti of the the ghOshti of ngregation consisting of Aadhi Seshan, consisting of Aadhi ngregation Garudan and others to enjoy You and to Garudan and others 131 nithya ssori ghOshtim poorayanthi nithya ssori ghOshtim : OMMENTS eyes, they devour the beauty of the Lord and perform Kaimkaryams for Him. Kaimkaryams for Him. the Lord and perform of devour the beauty eyes, they is welcomed by th The Muktha Jeevan equal to them. nithya sooris. The Mukthan experiences Mukthan experiences nithya sooris. The C at has now arrived The Muktha Jeevan (eye) of sight the instrument becomes join They that You enjoy. the bhOgams sooris) like AdhisEshan, ones (Nithyab kaimkaryams. blemishless serve You with They complete the co by their joining. Garudan, VishvaksEnar ( and others down. At SrI Vaikuntam, they delight they delight SrI Vaikuntam, down. At sadagopan.org feet of theLord,theygained yOgam togainMoksham.Afterperfor delays andchosetheeasier-to-practi and othersabandonedthedifficultroute process topursueBhakthiyOgamfor wouldbedelaysingainin there yogams, that have to beBhakthi yOgam, therearesteepsteps ascended first.Jn~Anam andsakthitopursueBhakthiyO Ev Oh Achyutha! Muchukundhan, Kshathraba M saraNam gatvAtvAmmuktAmuchukun vimukhitA:| achyutasamAdhisOpAnakramaviLamba sannata sulabham mucuk…Nd]ÇbNxuàmuoa>.66. zr[< gTvaTva sadagopan.org ) for the dEvAs. ) for the dEvAs. g their body, the still swirling in the whirlpool ofstill swirling in the whirlpool Etanams as working slaves before Etanams as working slaves 67 is and the other world because of is and the other world because 67 67 the end of castin ones (nithya Sooris). Now it is the (nithya ones becomes a Muktha Jeevan and joins Sri Vaikuntam, dEvAs worship them. Sri Vaikuntam, dEvAs worship them. ans, since the muktha jeevan is freed jeevan is freed ans, since the muktha rld. When the PrapannAs reach Sri rld. When the PrapannAs PaSu samAna janthu PaSu are described by the VedAs as the behavior of dEvAs before and after behavior of dEvAs before these PrapannAs and worship them. The these PrapannAs and worship 133 KAM KAM KAM O O O L L L S S S i: bhavati sadA datta bali: || i: bhavati sadA gatvA dEvanAtha tava padam | gatvA dEvanAtha Tva devnaw tv pdm!, Tva devnaw tv DevAs worshipping the PrapannAs! DevAs worshipping DevAs worshipping the PrapannAs! DevAs worshipping : : EANING OMMENT After performing the Prapatthi and at from the indebtedness to devAs. The chEtanam is like a working cow ( C Prapannan arrives at Sri Vaikuntam and liberated of the eternally the ghOshti dEvas’ turn worship the muktha Jeev to tai: yEva sarvai: samsaramaaNa tai: yEva sarvai: Oh Dhaiva NaayakA! The chEtanams dEvAnAm pasu samAna: jantu: dEvAnAm pasu M jNtugR devana< pzusmanae dÄ bil>. 67. Évit sda s sadagopan.org ). slOkam of Sri DayA slOkam of Sri th ham and when it falls on a jeevan ham and when it falls on a jeevan http://www.sundarasimham.org e Lord on a chEthanam is celebrated e Lord on a chEthanam y to Sri Vaikuntam and enjoy Moksha and enjoy Moksha Sri Vaikuntam to y and Sathakam e-books on the Dayaa 135 all soubhAguyams including Moksham. all soubhAguyams Paasuram of ThiruppAvai and the 20 nd : OMMENTS Sathakam (Vide: The ThiruppAvai Sathakam (Vide: at and Sri Dayaa Sathakam Thiruppaavai C KaDAksham of th of the dhivya The power 22 a la the here Prapathti to start their one way journe to start their Prapathti sukham there. sukham BhagavAn’s KadAksham is JaayamAna KadAks with at birth, that jeevan is blessed sadagopan.org us by Bhaktha PrahlAdhan. Lord VishNu’s Naama sahasrams have tobe have Naamasahasrams us byBhakthaPrahlAdhan. LordVishNu’s (Naama sankeerthanam). Itisoneof The narajanmam isablessedone when C arise fromYournAmasankeerthanam. Th most delectableliketastingnectar. creating alltypesofauspiciousness. Bhramam. ThesankeerthanamofYourdivi and givesstrengthtothesuffering makes thechEtanansuffermuch.YournA awareness ofthethree tatthvams. That (mental delusion)thatthechEtananha prepare himself toperformPrapatthian saadhakan’s bhakthiforYoursacredfeet vEr) ofthat tree. Asonecontinue Moksha dasaiasatree,thenYour nAma those who chant YourOh Lord who is nAmAs. true to His adiyArs! Th If one M tavakeertanamamrutanibham|| satya sakala kusalayEkakshEtramkinkara mOksha sukhavrukshamoolammOhaja skl k…zlEk]eÇ< ik»rsTytvkItRnmm&tinÉm!. 69. mae] suov&]mUl sadagopan.org fear, destroys sins and propels us and propels us sins fear, destroys to be enjoyed as sankeerthanam. The The as sankeerthanam. to be enjoyed 137 sankeerthanamnaama dispels samsAric towards the of Moksham. path listened to and even more they have more they have to and even listened sadagopan.org the aboveBhagavath Geeta slOkam," slOkam conveysthesamemeaningandis slOkam HegrantssrEshtaPhalans to waste. not do it perfectly or leaveitincomple not doitperfectly puny efforttowardsHisAarAdhanamplea Sriman Narayanan’svaathsalyamtowards is C Moksham. will notgo towasteandwillblessthatpe fruit ofMoksham.Hence, even the li savehimfromthe towards Prapatthi, an incompletestage.Thatincomple at Thereisnosinthataccruesfromstopping fruitless. Itwillyielditsfruits. getsinterrupted. andit AarAdhanam tosome with sraddhAandbhakthi.Due You for Oh Achyutha!AchEtanambeginstheperformanceofAarAdhanam M bhayAt|| rakshatiachyutamahattarAt svalpA apitavasaparyA prasanga:| vicchEdEapinapratyavAya na astiabhikramanAsa: SvLpa=ip tvspyaRr]TyCy naSTyiɳm nazaeivCDede=ipnàTyvayàs¼>, OMMENTS EANING :"svalpam abhyasya dharmasya, thrayathE mahathObhayAth" thrayathE abhyasyadharmasya, :"svalpam : : The powerofBhagavathAarAdhanam! The powerofBhagavathAarAdhanam! ut mhÄrat!Éyat!.70. S S S L L L nEhabhikrama nAsOsti.... O O O 138 te AarAdhanam willleadthechEtanam te AarAdhanam ttle poojadone byanyonewithSraddhA KAM KAM KAM te, Heispleasedand samsAric fear and grant theultimate samsAric fearandgrant for that svalpa AarAdhanam (GithA (GithA for thatsvalpaAarAdhanam This AarAdhanamdoesnotbecome mishaps, he couldnotcompletethat mishaps,he considered thesame rson withallkinds offruitsincluding ses Himimmensely.Evenifwecould of such huge magnitude that even a 70 70 70 does not let it go notletitgo does " --Githa II.40 " --GithaII.40 form as that of form asthatof ). This sadagopan.org Sri Ashta-bhuja Sri KaamAseeka u are pleased. If You You If pleased. are u from their links to You. from their links to You. SlOkam of SlOkam th lar thought to reinforce the they desire. disposition. Further, their ability their disposition. Further, 71 71 71 p other gods instead of You. Thosep other gods instead of You. ious little that they can do. Their ious little that they can do. ificant phalans is incorporated insideificant phalans is incorporated You get angry at me, who indeed can . While the facts are like this, why are like this, the facts While . Thvayi rakshathi rakshakai: kimanyai:, other gods? If the chEtanams worshipother gods? If the chEtanams 139 KAM KAM KAM O O O " (If you show compassion to adiyEn, where is L L L anugraham! anugraham! S S S the phalans that grant phalans only when Yo ant phalans they grant arise ant phalans they grant arise bhayam kutha: syAth Thvayi saanukampE, rakshaa > às¼liMÉt àÉavE>. 71. > às¼liMÉt : (SlOkam 5): " : , Swamy Desikan expresses a simi Other gods gaining their glories due to Achyuthan’s Achyuthan’s due to gaining their glories Other gods Other gods gaining their glories due to Achyuthan’s Achyuthan’s due to gaining their glories Other gods EANING OMMENTS doctrine of omnipotence of the Lord: " Lord: doctrine of omnipotence of the Thvayi chArakshathi rakshakai: kimanyai:, ithi niscchitha dhee: Srayaami ashtakam C is similar to that housed in here The sentiment expressed ashtakam kutha: syAth Thvayi jaatha roShe the room for fear from anyone? When come forward to protect adiyEn?). In the 8 M are those who worshi There Oh AchyuthA! aprasAdE aprasannA: tava prasAdE dAsa satya prasannA: | aarAdhyA tai: bhavanti parE kim prasanga lambhita prabhAvai: || àsade dassTy àsÚa>, Aàsade AàsÚaStv preAaraXya ÉviNt ik< tE gods respond favorably and prec disposed, there is are not favorably insign these even outreach to grant Their chEtanan Your sankalpam to bless that these time by seeking out waste one’s gain all You directly, they can happiness or otherwise is dependent on Your happiness or otherwise is dependent to grant even the insignific sadagopan.org to protectadiyEn,whenYoursankalpam isnotinadiyEn’sfavour.) protect me,thereisnouseinaskingan forward tooffer Your protection. When firm mindthatthereisnoneedforan ThiruvELukkai dhivyadEsamresidingonth nithyam, NruharEVegavatheetaDASrayamThvAm AmOgha Achyuthan! 140 yone to protect adiyEn, when You step toprotectadiyEn,whenYoustep yone yone elase.Allofthemarepowerless You decide not to come forward to Youdecidenottocomeforward e banks of Vegavathee river! I am of e banksofVegavatheeriver! Iamof ” (Oh NrusimhA of ” (OhNrusimhAof sadagopan.org (Oh Lord of (Oh Lord of falling rain). falling "Kimkara Sathya! ithara thridasA: 72 72 72 the downpour from the clouds. clouds. the downpour from the dew from hundreds of moist clouds. clouds. dew from hundreds of moist n is like the ChathakA birds, whose whose birds, ChathakA the like is n n not succeed singly or collectively to to n not succeed singly or collectively fuge (Kinkara Sathya)! Let us assume e Your body.(lasting What blessings the other dEvAs do for adiyEn, when ink water directly from the ponds or ink water directly from the about these gods, much less worship these about En bliss of has developed through the and they can consume water from the and 141 ed upwards to the KAM KAM KAM hing", answers Swamy Desikan. O O O hitham karshayanthy?" karshayanthy?" hitham L ryatE katham api chAtaka trushNaaryatE katham || L L S S S ik< nu kir:yiNt ihtm!, ik< nu kir:yiNt kwmip catk t&:[a. 72. kwmip catk The powerlessness of the other gods! of the other The powerlessness The powerlessness of the other gods! of the other The powerlessness : : EANING OMMENTS prasannA: mama kim nu Thiruvaheendhrapuram! What good can “Not pleased with me?) they become Swamy Desikan’s question to the Lord is: C that adiyEn the gods, who ar worships Can ? worship my with pleased become they when me, on confer they can good) desire that adiy the great they fulfill not! They ca worshipping You ? Certainly nIhar "n ztE> n olu pUyRte nIhar "n ztE> seek Your re Oh Lord true to those who This situatio grant me Moksha sukham. by only can be quenched Their thirst Therefore adiyEn will not even think birds can not dr them. (The chathakA itara tridasA: prasannA: nu karishyanti kinkara satya mama kim | hitam satai:neehAra ghana poo na khalu M ik»r sTy mm #tr iÇdza> àsÚa> showering of thirst is not quenched by the rivers. They have a hole in their neck rains as they lie with their necks turn sadagopan.org turned outtobeneither lastingorbli ardently. OnceadiyEn realizedthe thinking allalongthat thesewerethela that thoseweretruecomfortsandgo quenches itsthirst.Likewi real water.Finally,itfindsthe be a flowing river. It runs in great haste only to find that it is a mirage and not of watertoquenchitsthirst.Itsights Oh Achyutha! Athirstybeastinadesert M pravahatghanakrupAsarita:|| aasrita pravAhEshu prasrutAyA: mrugatrushNaaachyuta anugata sukha àvahe;u às&taya>Aaiïtàvh Anugt suom>&:[aACyutiv EANING Immersing inthe floodof BhagavAn’s KaruNaa! Immersing inthe floodof BhagavAn’s KaruNaa! : se, adiyEnchasedafter ïaMyit tvmamk t&:[a, Amrutha Achyuthan! ˜ S S S n k«pasirt>.73. L L L O O O KAM KAM KAM 142 ssful, adiyEn became sorrow stricken. It ssful, adiyEnbecame sorrowstricken.It worthlessness ofthe chaseafterwhat visrAmyati tava mAmakatrushNaa| tava visrAmyati water source, drinks from there and drinksfromthere watersource, sting pleasures that adiyEn wasseeking sting pleasuresthatadiyEn at the turn of a road what appears to at theturnofaroadwhatappearsto roams here and there to find sources hereandthere tofindsources roams t deluded. adiyEn wasted my time t deluded.adiyEnwastedmy 73 73 73 worldly sukhamsthinking sadagopan.org s of the world is just is just s of the world a thrushNaa (thirst for from the abundant flood of KaruNa from the abundant flood of to quench their thirst. Alas, it turns thirst. Alas, to quench their (adiyArs) serving You. Now, adiyEn serving You. (adiyArs) st for the lasting sukhams. Swamyst for the lasting sukhams. st for the Lord and His BhaagavathA’s the desert. Swamy suggests that the desert. Swamy suggests we nds. The travelers in the desert get nds. The travelers in the real thing. Swamy Desikaninstructs usreal nourishing flood of Your Dayaa pravAhamnourishing flood 143 Your flood of Dayaa spreading of Dayaa Your flood everywhere instead of Vishaya sukh of the air during the torrid summer days produces the torrid summer days of the air during ithya (impermanent) sukham : OMMENTS out to be just an illusion and not the out to be just an illusion and that chasing after the an mirage in like chasing after the illusory develop KrishNa thrushNaa transient worldly sukhams). Such a thir quench our thir sath sangam will fully drink deep Desikan recommends that we the Lord. flowing from an illusion as though water is flowing in the form of a river. This mirage is is mirage This river. a of form the in flowing is water though as illusion an desert sa particularly seen over the deluded by this mirage and run towards it The effects of refraction The effects myself in that cool and has immersed all my desires. and have fulfilled C is at this stage, adiyEnis at this across came and particularly towards Your towards and particularly dear ones sadagopan.org ( wordsthatSwamy The twogroupsof C karma(arite VedAs statethataKaamya phalans thatadiyEnsoughtincludin even oneofthosekarmasgotfulfille linkedto with somedharmAs(karmAs) performsome yajn~ams.ad started to Oh Lordwhonever failstorespond to M ivaskhalatcharaN kAntAra pAnthaka angavishamAndharmAn vikala sakala katrivzIyRma[>.74. kaNtar paNwk#vSol½r[ae=iSm ivkl skla¼iv;man!xmaRn! state tobein.Pleasedono not knowingwhatisgoingtohappenme notfulf adiyEn’s desiresare wild animals. wandering inthelabyrinthine pathways Saathvika thyAgamandislikeonefallen upliftment. adiyEn does not know how to perform thesemanner toattracttheattentionof karmas in a spirit of plants aflagtoannounceth act completed toperfection.adiyEn’s bear fruit, when the angams (constituent limbs) of that main karma are KaanthAra PaanTakan KaanthAra OMMENTS EANING : : The PoetExpressesHisSorrowfulState The PoetExpressesHisSorrowfulState ) andhispitiablestate duetoexhaustionfromthetiring ntsTyXvjinÉan!xaryn!, t abandonmebutprotectme. at heisaVaidheekanbydo S S S L L L O O O KAM KAM KAM nata satya dhvaja nibhAndhArayan | nata satyadhvaja g the most important of those karmAs. g themostimportantofthosekarmAs. a: asmikAtaraviseeryamaaNa:|| 144 of theforest andfearingattacksfrom d. They were powerless to grant the d. Theywerepowerlesstogrant those Yajn~As.adiyEnfoundoutnot the worldinsteadofforpersonal intheforestafte in this regard is like some one who iyEn engagedmyselftogetinvolved iyEn Your adiyArs(nathaSathya)!adiyEn performeddesiring illed and adiyEn isin illed andadiyEn next.OhAchyutha Desikan uses to introduce himself Desikan usestointroduce 74 74 74 ing karmas in a boastful ing karmasinaboastful r exhaustionfrom phalans) canonly thegripoffear ! It is a pitiable ! Itisapitiable sadagopan.org ) are evocative in their in their ) are evocative a traveler in the forest, who is not who in the forest, a traveler Nan" is one who is overcome by fear Nan" is one who pathways of the forest. forest. pathways of the 145 Kaathara ViSeryamANan Kaathara to PaanTakan" refers "KaanthAra imagery. way. "Kaathara ViSeeryamA sure about his way in the labyrinthine after losing his travel across the forest paths ( the forest travel across sadagopan.org dharmAs. adiyEn hides my true form li Oh Achyutha! adiyEnM pretends as though I engage in the pursuit of eternal lakshmIsamaksham|| hasasi -noonam achyutamaam vipratIsAram aghaTamAna | -agraskandhapravruttam pravaNaanAm sthira dharma varma A"qman ivàtIsarm! ACyut ma< iSwr xmRvmRSwigtm!AxmR approbation oftheoutside world.They hide hisdeformities and amengagedin EANING : Swamy Desikan’sNaicchiyam(Contrition)! Swamy Desikan’sNaicchiyam(Contrition)! sthagitam adharma àv[anam¢ SkNxàv&Äm!, MahOtsaha Achyuthan! hsis nUn< lúmI sm]m!. 75. 75. lúmIsm]m!. nUn< hsis S S S L L L O O O KAM KAM KAM 146 ke onewhowearsash performing fewkarmas forgainingthe think thatadiyEnisagreatVaidhika. 75 75 75 ield (kavacham) to ield (kavacham)to sadagopan.org of regret over my lapses. If adiyEn over my lapses. of regret Lord will not ignore the sipArisu Lord will not ignore paapi standing in the front row of front row standing in the paapi eeds, atleast one quarter of my sins of my one quarter eeds, atleast of such kapaDa naatakams front of in the Lord sees through these deceptive 147 elms him, Swamy Desikan regrets over his ore You will come to my rescue. ore You will come surely come to his rescue. surely come to his rescue. vi is moved by my pitiable state and pleads with my pitiable state and pleads vi is moved by the world and himself about his exhibitions of piety his exhibitions about and himself the world : OMMENTS You to free me from the miseries that swirl around me. What do You do? You You do? You do What me. would be destroyed.Sri De around swirl that miseries the from me free to You fun poking be to appear and form true my consort dear Your to explain to seem will not courage however that You adiyEn has the comforting at my expense. pleading and theref ignore Sri Devi’s overwh In a mood of depression that C sense not have the does adiyEn sinners. my misd over regret of had that sense to mislead deceitful acts that and Aastheekyam. He concedes audacity acts and is laughing over the himself out of this black moodHis Devi. Swamy Desikan pulls and comforts that the himself over the thought Devi and will (intercession) of His The gnawing fact is that I am a mahA that I am a fact is The gnawing sadagopan.org sathakam: " sathakam: object fortheLord’sDayaahasitsechos innthe34 hisrequesttotakepiyonhimasthefittest The prayerfulrequesttoconsider C Dayaa pravAham! itself. Thereforeprotect meby making the fullpowerofYour Dayaasakthica the PuNyasaalis(blessedoneswithabunda compassion. It is true that Your dayaa considerssins, adiyEn myselfasth the fruitsofthesesins.Asonecollaps accumulates evenin oneday’stime.It Oh Achyutha!Inthislifeofmine,limi M kAla: alamnasakala:karuNaayA: asmindEhayEkadivasEapikrutam| duritam taritum achyuta kalae=l< nskl>ké[aya tirtumCyut Êirtm!AiSmn! flow. assembled. Therefore, my Lord! adiyEn is the fittest object for Your Dayaa to time will not besufficien OMMENTS EANING Swamy Desikanstatesthatheisthefitobjectfor Swamy Desikanstatesthatheisthefitobjectfor : : anubhavithum agaOgamnAlamAagamee kaala:". deh @kidvse=ipk«tm!, Stv pU[RpaÇmSMyym!.76. t to experience the multitudeofsins thatadiyEnhas Lord’s Dayaa! Lord’s Dayaa! S S S tava poorNa pAtram asmi ayam || asmiayam pAtram tava poorNa L L L O O O KAM KAM KAM 148 e fittestobject for receiving Your can notrevealitsglor tless indeedarethesinsthatadiyEn n however show its valour and glorify n howevershowitsvalourandglorify ing undertheunbearable loadofsuch this fittestobjectthetargetofYour will take limitless time toexperience will takelimitlesstime nce of righteous deeds). In my case, nce ofrighteousdeeds).Inmy 76 76 76 th slOkamofSriDayaa ies inthecaseof All thefuture sadagopan.org 77 77 77 AnAm bhavati na kaluAnAm bhavati dourbalyam || stroying the cEtanam’s sins! stroying the h sight of the powerful ones in the h sight of the powerful ones stroying the cEtanam’s sins! stroying the es (kalyAna guNams) are limitless limitless es (kalyAna guNams) are om the battle field. It is like the om the battle field. It is : ble as the Lord’s kalyANa guNAs. But ess as well. Even then, Your KalyANa then, Your KalyANa Even ess as well. R themselves from view shows that they themselves from trate their feeling of weakness and concede victory and disappear. and concede victory kalyANa guNAs prevail over my sins and A 149 KAM KAM KAM O O O L L L < Évit n olu daEbRLym!. 77. < Évit n olu YENG S S S I s. The secretive way in which they live, move and s. The secretive WAMY mama dOshaaNaam api na asti kutra api gaNanA| kutra api gaNanA| api na asti dOshaaNaam mama D.R S D.R RI S BY : EANING OMMENTS BhagavAn’s KalyANa guNams de BhagavAn’s BhagavAn’s KalyANa guNams de BhagavAn’s C are as innumera the poet, ”My sins, says way in which my sins hide the furtive guNA will perish befoe Your demons clearly existence have their inferiority. In the final analysis, Your tathA api jaya: prathamAnAm adhikamtathA api jaya: leel auspicious attribut Oh Achyutha! Your decisively.guNams win over adiyEn’s paapams adiyEn’s paapams are fearful flight fr about Your guNams and take they catc when powerless ones run away, rout them”. achyuta tava guNaanAm achyuta tava guNaanAm M ACyuttv gu[ana< mm dae;a[amip naiSt k…Çaip g[na, àwmana< Aixk< lIlana twa=ip jy> are limitl (anantham). adiyEn’s paapams lose to sins my causes guNAs auspicious Your about hearing Even field. battle My sins their form and get destroyed. sadagopan.org protect mefrommyselfandmypuerileways. forever. WhatanarroganceIdisplay.Oh carry onas ifI amimmunetothisinevit piling up.Thesightofthisirreversib night. Chipsfromthebranchesofth every one’slifetimeincludinghisis The kavinowrepents overhisindifferenc C save adiyEnfromthis self-destructivebehaviour. impermanence andstrutaboutvainglorious conceptionAdiyEn iswatchingthesehappenings a cutoff andnights)are branches (days thatOh Achyutha! Noone’s lifehere isperm I am goingM to last forever. bAlamid drishTvA apidruptamanasam patantiaayu:drumakhanDaani| achyutatruTita rAtrim divasam I do not†ò!va=ip †Ý mns< balimdanImip ÉrSv mamàmÄ>. 78. recognizeraiÇ< idvsmCyutÇuiqtptNTyayuÔRumo{fain, my own OMMENTS EANING Swamy Desikanregrettinghis haughty behavior Swamy Desikanregrettinghis haughty behavior : : S S S L L L O O O KAM KAM KAM felled bytheaxeoftimeeverydayand 150 AnIm api bharasva mAm apramatta: || apibharasvamAmapramatta: AnIm e treeof life arefa ll around me and yet have the haughty ll aroundmeandyethavethehaughty le truthdoesnotseemtofazeme.I anent. Their livesarelike trees, whose one by one and end up in a day’s time. time. one byandendupinaday’s able fact.Ithinkth e andconceit, whilebeingawarethat Lord!Pleasecometomyrescueand ly. OhLord! itisYou alonewhocan 78 78 78 lling around and are lling aroundandare at Iwillbehere sadagopan.org ge of the thatched ge of the thatched age sets in and the 79 79 79 dhivya dEsa paasurams are to be ! The state of one’s body is pitiable. body is pitiable. ! The state of one’s stances, My Lord, You are the only one stances, My Lord, You are the only forever. The old The forever. ing vishaya sukhams. adiyEn seems to age, adiyEn longs for the return of the age, adiyEn longs for the return inking and protect adiyEn. Thirumangai ground, this body of ours can fall down ground, this body of ours can ing for permanent bliss! ing for permanent penchant for impermanent things. For For things. penchant for impermanent ing for permanent bliss! ing for permanent for youthful experiences once again and water drop at the ed 151 age and the dysfunction of the limbs and one can not predict whether it will have it will whether can not predict one KAM KAM KAM raNE api deergha yauvana trushNam || raNE api deergha ng grace except Your Dayaa. ng grace except O O O L L L anta salila bindu sadrukshE | anta salila bindu S S S ip dI"R yaEvn t&:[m!. 79. : : Kavi expresses his long Kavi expresses Kavi expresses his long Kavi expresses EANING OMMENTS Knowing fully well the frailties of old It is in such a helpless state, when It is in such a helpless state, the Like breath next second or not. down on leaf of a house that will fall to be here any moment. It is not going at this st limbs get dysfunctional. Even know my youthful stage. Oh Lord! You C faculties with time, adiyEn still longs the taste of the non-last wish to have have learnt nothing. Under these circum to beat some sense into my deluded th AzhwAr’s heart melting BhadrikAsrama recalled here. Oh Lord who never forsakes His dear ones Oh Lord who never forsakes savi adiyEn, there is no some one like nisvAsa sankaneeyE dEhE paTala nisvAsa sankaneeyE M s†]e, dehe pqlaNt sill ibNÊ inñas z»nIye Tv< ma< jrTkr[e= ntsTy janais tvam mAm jaratjAnAsi nata satya ka sadagopan.org MahA Veerya Achyuthan! 152 sadagopan.org Hence You should Hence You dentally. Even those, I Even dentally. a clear knowledge about tes for gaining sathgathy. adiyEn’s 80 80 80 nkalpam and PrAthikUlya varjanam. nkalpam and PrAthikUlya varjanam. nE! There are many rites that are nE! There are many rites ease do not let adiyEn drift in the out paying heed to two of the angams tent with the ways prescribed by the tent with the ways prescribed please protect adiyEn from my willful adiyEn from my willful please protect do not forsake me in disgust over my er my mistakes. taion of Your SaasthrAs and develop 153 KAM KAM KAM ~AtEshu mAm api pratikoola gatim | O O O L L L S S S na< sTy n olu tv yu´m!. 80. na< sTy n olu y. adiyEn does not gain w that I learnt about acci u mamip àitkUl gitm!, u mamip àitkUl : : Kavi’s prayer to the Lord not to abandon him ! abandon not to the Lord to Kavi’s prayer Kavi’s prayer to the Lord not to abandon him ! abandon not to the Lord to Kavi’s prayer EANING OMMENTS and foolish ways and come to my rescue. Oh Lord, adiyEn has drifted too long with recidivism is appaling. adiyEn is now very much ashamed over my acts of of acts my over ashamed much C very now is adiyEn of Prapatthi anushtAnam: Aanukoolya sa adiyEn comes up with my own intrepre appaling. is viparItha the obligatory ri Jn~Anam about recidivism omissions and commissions. Oh Lord, pl swirling whirlpool of samsAra anymore ; Oh DhAsa Sathya! adiyavarkku Meyyava ajn~Ata nija kartavyam yadrucchA jn M A}at inj ktRVy ) andwhataretobeavoided( mip ikimitjanaissvRm!, a powerless speck. You know very well what is the k…é:v injùdyini]Ým!.81. e SarvEswaran.Please in S S S L L L O O O ". Sri DR Swamy also quotes theinsightful ". SriDRSwamyalsoquotes KAM KAM KAM 154 You areOmnipotenttoactandsetthings beneficialformeandprotectme. e OmniscientLord.Youknowprecisely ra kurushvanijahrudayanikshiptam|| fullywell aboutmeasanOmniscient er (nallavai) and renounce the latter er (nallavai)andrenouncethelatter whatarethethingstobepursued foradiyEn.Thisprayerfulappeal know what are all good and what are knowwhatareallgoodand to do what You wish for my good. 81 81 81 pariharaNeeyam tervene andprotectmeby Yath hitham mama! Yath hitham mama! ). adiyen’s sense sadagopan.org be beneficial for my ultimate welfare ultimate welfare for my be beneficial 155 MahA Bala Achyuthan! Achyuthan! MahA Bala (Image Courtesy : B.Senthil Kumar) (hitham)”. these circumstances. Pray do what would Pray do what these circumstances. sadagopan.org of three guNamsSwamy Desikancompareshislottothatof an C serve YouatYourSupremeabode. canreapauspiciousnessto adiyEn sothat tosathgathi speech, mindandbody subject to Your divine souverignity today and forever. Hence, please is by theropesofthreeguNamsand direct my anything for itself. It moves as the people move it.and forthadolltiedtobranchwith Similarly, adiyEn is bound Inthisworld,th Oh DhaivaNaayakA! M trishu tasya apimamatridasEsvara | ivaparavasa: dAruputraka guNagruheetO idAneem upariapiayam tSyaip mmiÇdzeñriÇ:vipkr[e;uÉvsuos»Lp>.82. #danImuupyRPyy< gu[g&hItaedaépuÇk#vprvz>, forgainingthe instruments tosathgathy utter helplessnes,pleasehavemerc Oh speech andbody(thri-karaNams). dhAru puthraka:ParavaSa: Prayers fortheredirectionofVaak Prayers fortheredirectionofVaak OMMENTS EANING : : d unabletodoanyt ). adiyEnhastherefore nocontrolovermymind- S S S sathgathi! sathgathi! L L L O O O api karaNEshu bhava sukha sankalpa: || api karaNEshubhavasukhasankalpa: KAM KAM KAM 156 ere isasportwherepeoplemove back Lord! Under these circumstances of my thesecircumstancesofmy Under Lord! y onadiyEnanddirectmythree a rope.That dollis ultimate auspicousness ofMoksham. ultimate auspicousness hing independently ( notanindependentone.adiyEnis thewoodendolltiedwithropes 82 82 82 - - Manas andKaayam to Manas andKaayam to powerless to do powerlesstodo guNa gruheetha sadagopan.org ghOra kaLEBara e way of Moksham. from incarceration from with the handcuffs the handcuffs with adiyEn’s karmas to the ). Until then, the jeevan ). When the body falls down, ). When the time of the falling of the body, 83 83 83 e Paapa karmas end up with their s like svargam and Paapa karmas will handcuffs that bind one inside the one inside that bind handcuffs release this jeevan me of death, the puNya karmAs of a a of karmAs puNya the death, of me of them stand in th prapannan are distributed by the Lord are distributed by the Lord prapannan rable sufferings. The Upanishads and rable two kinds: PuNyam and Paapam. The two kinds: PuNyam and Paapam. s hands were tied up 157 him with Moksha sukham. Swamy Desikan with Moksha him KAM KAM KAM kuhara nirgatham O O O slOkam, Swamy Desikan is pressing the Lord L L L th S S S e you going to distribute ingRt< kir:yis mam!. 83. ingRt< kir:yis k«Tva mm iàyaiày vgeR, k«Tva mm iàyaiày nija karma nigaLa yugaLam slOkam to the 90 " (fierce bodily prison). At the rd : : Prayers to the Lord to free him from the bodily prison! the Lord to free him Prayers to Prayers to the Lord to free him from the bodily prison! the Lord to free him Prayers to EANING OMMENTS was not only in this bodily prison but it was not only in this bodily prison but of Paapam and PuNyam ( sins and puNyams of the over the left calls the perishable sareeram in this slOkam as " kaarAgruham ( this hole escapes from the jeevan enemies. Ohwhen are you going to Lord, enemies. bless when He is going to to tell him C From this 83 PuNya KarmAs will yield enjoyable phalan PuNya KarmAs will yield enjoyable Both result in fearsome naraka vaasam. as the Therefore, both are considerd the SaasthrAs state that during the ti and th Prapannan goes to their friends inside the body and when ar appropriate friends and foes ? Oh Achyutha! adiyEn’s karmas are of Oh Achyutha! adiyEn’s karmas innume prison of one’s body and cause nija karma nigaLa yugaLam achyuta krutvA mama priya apriya vargE | yugaLam achyuta krutvA nija karma nigaLa kadA ghOra kaLEbara kArAgruha kuhara nirgatam karishyasi maam || M ACyut inj kmR ing¦yug¦< karag&h k…hr kda "aer k¦ebr sadagopan.org its bodilyprisonandcleanseitofall astowhenHeisasks theLord goingto to one’sfoes andfriends (Priya–apriya sins and puNyams thatclingto it. sins andpuNyams 158 releasehim (theprapannajeevan) from vargams)respectively.SwamyDesikan sadagopan.org maraNa rience. As the that painful expe 84 84 84 unite him with the Brahma Brahma the unite him with unite him with the Brahma Brahma the unite him with from this world, JeevaathmA is exited from this world, JeevaathmA is exited move their fatigue by embracing the move their fatigue by embracing 159 akshyasi dayita iva mAm || Dimbham KAM KAM KAM Naadi! Naadi! O O O L L L S S S tAraNa Achyuthan! tAraNa Achyuthan! s diyt ifMÉimv mam!. 84. s diyt ifMÉimv e chEtanan experiences then immense pain ( pain then immense experiences e chEtanan xmin magR gim:yNtm!, xmin magR gim:yNtm!, : ); the chEtanan gets fatigued from Swamy Desikan’s prayers to Swamy Desikan’s Swamy Desikan’s prayers to Swamy Desikan’s EANING from the body and th M time of departing At the Oh Achyutha! vEdhanai hArdE tvayikadA visrAntam brahma dhamani mArga gamishyantam | dr dinakara datta agra karam achyuta ivïaNt< äü hadeR Tviy kda krm! ACyut Ôúyi idnkr dÄa¢ indweller of these chEtanams, You re sadagopan.org Thriuvaheendhrapuram! WhenareYougoingto affection like afatherlookingathisch journeythere adiyEnwill get holdoftherays to Your willstartmeoff which (Brahma Naadi), Parama Padham. At that time, You will look at me with slOkam. mArgam afterexitingfromthebodyvi jeevan at thetimeofdeath.Thebe This and the next slOkam describe the rising up ( C other than SriVaikuntam.Please entering intoanyoneofthe100naadis, me atthetimeofdeath, jeevans atthetimeof theirdeparture OMMENTS : removemybodilyfatigueandpreventme from facilitate myentryintothe101 160 of Sunasthewalkingstaffandbeginmy from thebody. Inthis manner,embrace ginning ofthetravelviaarchirAdhi ild runningtowardshim.OhLord of which willenduptakingmetoworlds a BrahmaNaadiis to travel by archirAdhi maargam; to travelbyarchirAdhimaargam; grant mealltheseblessings ? uthkrAnthi ) ofthePrapanna decribed inthis st naadi naadi sadagopan.org d takes the jeevan AadhivAhikA: Tava 85 85 85 ansport him to the end of their areas Prapannan during the ascent to Parama during the Prapannan i VaahikAs along the path of along the i VaahikAs i VaahikAs along the path of along the i VaahikAs ion of the archirAdhi mArgam. The ion of the archirAdhi gahana triguNa maru kAnthAram || gahana triguNa maru kAnthAram 161 ) amAnavan appears an KAM KAM KAM light! light! O O O L L L S S S ghn iÇgu[ mé kaNtarm!. 85. 85. kaNtarm!. mé iÇgu[ ghn archirAdhi mArgam : ). 1. Agni – Devatha of the day 2. Sukla Paksha dEvatha 3. UttharAyaNa dEvathai dEvathai 4. Varsha 5. Vaayu 6. Sooryan-Chandran. EANING Prayer to be led by the Aadh Prayer to be Prayer to be led by the Aadh Prayer to be M travels via Brahma nAdiOh Achyutha! While the Prapannan and archirAdhi amAnavan, waiting the to him taking others and Agni by greeted is he mArgam, end stat the god of lightning at the greeting the hierarchy of the devathAs kadA amAnava antA: agni mukhA aativAhikA: tava purushA: | atilanghayishyanti tamO maam achyuta Each of them honor the prapannan and tr pué;a> AaitvaihkaStv Ai¶muoa kda AmanvaNta> mam! ACyut tmae Aitl'!"iy:yiNt Padham are: of station end the At adhikAri. next the to over him hand and jurisdiction of and Indhran VaruNan, by task this the path of light ( in assisted is He NaaTan. Padha Parama to PrajApathi. All of them, my Lord, are Your servants ( PurushA: sadagopan.org VaasudEva Achyuthan! 162 sadagopan.org d being led to the d being led to ) full of sorrows to Your blissful sorrows to ) full of are described in ThriuvAimozhi X.9 are described u are going to transport me from this to transportu are going me from this of Sri Vaikuntam an Sri of mArgam, the welcome by the Lord’smArgam, the 163 marukAntharam : OMMENTS grand gem-bedecked hall of the Lord hall of the Lord grand gem-bedecked decad. Kaushithaki Upanishad belonging to Rg Vedam is the pramANam for the (Firsttravel via the ArchirAdhi Maargam Chapter). AadhivAhikAs,gates the arrival at the ( desert landscape samsAric Supreme abode. C the archirAdhi The travel through adiyEn is awaiting for the time, when Yo the time, when is awaiting for adiyEn sadagopan.org PuNya SravaNaKeer 164 thana Achyuthan! sadagopan.org 86 86 86 Vaikuntam. Once a Muktha Jeevan Vaikuntam. Once a Muktha Jeevan which the entire set of objects of which the entire set Satthva (one of the three eternal u going to will that adiyEn can enjoy u going to will that tween the created universe and the tween the created universe and the s the sacred virajA river and gain the s the sacred virajA river and ss adiyEn Kaimkarya with nithya the jeevan exits from the body and the jeevan exits from the i Vaikuntam and never returns back to al and complete their BrahmAlankAram. al and complete their BrahmAlankAram. m, the muktha Jeevan gains a beautiful tthvamaya body there. Afterwards 500 tthvamaya body there. Afterwards 165 suddha sattvamaya tanum | saumya KAM KAM KAM O O O L L L S S S a zuÏ sÅvmy saEMy tnum!, tnum!, saEMy a zuÏ sÅvmy : Longing for the Suddha Satthvamaya body! Satthvamaya the Suddha Longing for Longing for the Suddha Satthvamaya body! Satthvamaya the Suddha Longing for : EANING OMMENTS eternal Supreme abode of the Lord, Sri eternal Supreme achEtana tatthvams), the material out of The river Viraja marks the boundary be The river Viraja marks the boundary C crosses the Viraja river, he enters Sr and eternal body made up of Suddha Sri Vaikunta are constituted. Oh Lord dear to Your adiyArs! When adiyArs! Your to dear Lord Oh the created cosmos. At Sri Vaikunta langhita virajA saritam lambhita sadA langhita virajA M sirt< liMÉt sd l'!i"t ivrja k«t äüal»ar< kir:yis ntsTy ik»r< kda mam!. 86. kinkaram kadA mAm || karishyasi nata satya kruta brahmAlankAram hasarrives at Parama padham, it to cros suddha sa imperishable and beautiful him with garlands, by decorating jeevan the muktha honor celestial nymphs clothing et colyrium, fragrant powder, Oh Lord of Thiru Ayindhai! when are Yo when are Oh Lord of Thiru Ayindhai! these glorious anubhavams and ble these glorious SaamrAjyam? sadagopan.org Prabhu Achyuthan! 166 sadagopan.org 87 87 87 that came out of the milky ocean is that came out of the milky handham. Oh Lord! You should wear wear handham. Oh Lord! You should A has that Kousthubha gem as his Kousthubha gem A has that d placed it on Your chest to serve as as serve to chest Your on it placed d ur chest! At that time, Periya PirAtti When are You going to bless me with me When are You going to bless an out of the ocean of SamsAram to an out of the ocean of SamsAram from its En’s dharma bhootha Jn~Anam i darpaNam iva lakshmI i darpaNam iva drushTam || 167 KAM KAM KAM O O O L L L asa nAtha sphurita aalOkamasa nAtha sphurita | S S S i[ dpR[imv lúmI†òm!. 87. i[ dpR[imv lúmI†òm!. : Prayer for upliftment from the ocean of SamsAram! ocean upliftment from the Prayer for Prayer for upliftment from the ocean of SamsAram! ocean upliftment from the Prayer for EANING Oh Dhaiva NaayakA! The Kousthubha gem Oh Dhaiva NaayakA! The Kousthubha gem samsAra sAgarAd utkshiptam trid M s HrishikEsha Achyuthan! 168 sadagopan.org ). Swamy madhu pravAhE Tava 88 88 88 rivikraman, those feet sportingly rivikraman, those feet sportingly ur sacred feet with our imperfect imperfect our with feet sacred ur kELi krAntha thribhuvanam kELi krAntha feet and perform nithya (eternal), feet and perform nithya (eternal), ating from Your feet is like the flood is like the ating from Your feet r You at Parama Padham ? You must r You at Parama Padham ? hAram as Thrivikraman and how He Sivan placed those waters on His head on His head placed those waters Sivan e lotus flower. When will the day dawn, will the day When e lotus flower. rformed Thirumanjanm (sacred bath) to rformed Thirumanjanm (sacred ta satya kELi krAnta tribhuvanEta satya kELi krAnta | t srota: sUchita madhu pravAhE || t srota: sUchita 169 KAM KAM KAM ) O O O L L L S S S honeyflowing from there ( there from honeyflowing ôaet> sUict mxu àvahe. 88. ôaet> sUict Longing to reach the Lord’s lotus feet! reach the Lord’s lotus Longing to Longing to reach the Lord’s lotus feet! reach the Lord’s lotus Longing to : : EANING OMMENTS when adiyEn can sit under those lotus when adiyEn can sit under niravadhya (blemishless) kaimkaryams fo grant adiyEn this boon soon. C Swamy Desikan salutes the Lord’s avat those feet as it passed by his home of sathya lOkam. The waters from that that from waters The lOkam. tongue? During Your avathAram as Th sathya of home his by Brahma pe measured the three worlds. passed it as feet those Gangai. Thirumanjanm flowed as dEva Those waters origin and purified Himself. th resembling feet Your from honey of lotus those on seated being of bhAgyam the have will he measured all the three worlds as a sport ( when to as inquired enjoy the (as a bee) to feet Paadha PadhmE kadhaa bhavishyAmi? madana ripu makuTa maNDanamadana ripu makuTa surasari glories of Yo How can one describe the kadA tava pAda padmEna bhavishyAmi M ³aNt iÇÉuvne, Éiv:yaim ntsTy kei¦ kda tv padpÒe sursir m{fn mk…q irpu mdn sadagopan.org Varadha Achyuthan! 170 sadagopan.org of Swamy tha: dhAsa: kadhaa Your lotus pair of feet pair of feet Your lotus ! ThvaccharaNa ambhuja ). In the previous slOkam SthOtra Rathna slOkams 89 89 89 athAram and wondered as to when n Your lotus feet on their heads and n Your lotus feet on their heads like to have the bhAgyam likelike to have the bhAgyam the the Lord adorning his head! the Lord adorning the Lord adorning his head! the Lord adorning SirOlankAram. adiyEn should receive 171 KAM KAM KAM tava pada ambhuja yugaLam | tava pada ambhuja O O O Soori sadhruksha: dayi L L L S S S Kadhaa - - -Thrivikrama nam alankarishyathy? Oh ThrivikramA! when are ing to adorn his head. ). When would that day dawn? : : Prayer for the lotus feet of Prayer for Prayer for the lotus feet of Prayer for EANING OMMENTS Your blessings to be Your dear one performing unimpeachable Kaimkaryams dear one performing to be Your Your blessings Nithya Sooris always ( like the bhavishyAmi C one of the Swamy Desikan is echoing here Oh DhAsa sathya! Upanishads always ador feet as Upanishads to wear Your lotus upanishad chira: kusumam uttamsya upanishad chira: M yug¦m!, k…summ! %Ä Pavithra Achyuthan! 172 sadagopan.org " na punarAvarthathE All of adiyEn’s karmas would have 90 the land of no return ! the land of 90 90 the land of no return ! the land of En to Your parama padham, adiyEn En to Your parama padham, adiyEn to the chEtanams. There adiyEn will to the chEtanams. There adiyEn plains "the state and status" the of residual karmawill necessitate that You. When will be the day all these be the day all will You. When ). The jeevan has no desire to return to return to the Karma bhUmi. Sinceto return to the Karma bhUmi. here from the Nithya vibhUthi there. there. here from the Nithya vibhUthi of enjoying You and serving You and of enjoying You and serving Yours, adiyEn will enjoy the bhOgams enjoy adiyEn will Yours, Your avathArams as per Your will, when SrI Vaikuntam You will enjoy adiyEn as with Jagath vyApaarams like creation, 173 KAM KAM KAM O O O L L L S S S many Brahma Soothrams. " apunar nivrutthi yOgyam : : Seeking the Kaimkaryam in Seeking the Seeking the Kaimkaryam in Seeking the EANING OMMENTS is one of the Brahma soothrams that ex muktha jeevan ( C This slOkam has references to Oh Deva NaaTa! When You elevate adiy Oh Deva NaaTa! When You apunar nivrutti yOgyam avatAraapunar nivrutti | saha charatva dhanyam vihAra anubhavishyasiaatma sama bhOgamAtram dEvanAtha kadA nu mAm || M xNym!, Avtar ivhar shcrTv ApuninRv&iÄ yaeGy< mam!. 90. kda nu devnaw AnuÉiv:yis AaTm sm ÉaegmaÇ< again enter this karma bhUmi. would never way ? pleasures will come adiyEn’s been destroyed and hence there is no been destroyed and hence much as adiyEn (Your sareeram) enjoys adiyEn’s return to Your leelA vibhUthi vibhUthi me leelA send Your to wont You return me, with adiyEn’s unite to time the bliss adiyEn will be immersed in long a for desire adiyEn wont have any therefore awaiting been have You during You back either. adiyEn will join sathgathi You descend down to show the of abode Supreme At this enjoy You. not be involved but will just like You sustenance and dissolution. Here at sadagopan.org anubhavishyasi? " adiyEn asannam(food)andYouth question is:WhenareYougoingtobewithMeatYoursupremeabodeenjoy last oftheeightslOkamsthatuses and JagathSrushti-rakshaNasamh excepttheLord’suni at Srivaikuntam Both theLordandMukthaJeevan The othersoothramthat Swamy desikanreferstothisCo-descentas" LeelA Vibhuthiforfulfilling jeevan back,itisinthe sending themukthajeevanback tosams Jn~Ani isHisinner soul( the Lord( jeevan, whom He worked very hard to gain. This muktha jeevan is very dear to andtheLordHimsel bhUmi to thekarma sahacharathva dhanyamAathmasa athyantha priyan ". context ofco-descent,when Jn~Ani thuAathmaivamE is conneceted here is" here is conneceted ). InHisownBhagavat His avathAraKaaryam.In 174 que bhOgams such as Sriya: Pathithvam que bhOgamssuchasSriya:Pathithvam enjoy tothesamemeasureallbhOgams KadhA (when)inits text.Herethe Ara MaNDalam.IfeverHesendsthe ma bhOga Maathram kadhaa nu nu ma bhOgaMaathramkadhaa Ara vyaapArams. This slOkamisthe This Ara vyaapArams. e annAthA (eater of that foood): e annAthA(eaterofthatfoood): f does not want to part with that avanRannODu vanthupOyum bhOga Maathrasaamyam h Geetha, Lordsaysthe ). Hecannotthinkof HeHimself enters His Parama PadasOpAnam ". ". ". , sadagopan.org ); adiyEn is under Your 91 91 91 vealed all my desires to You. adiyEnvealed all my desires to You. svacchandhan t Your sankalpa Balam as sahakAri,t Your sankalpa Balam as u to fulfill what I have requested control. You are always an independent control. You are always an independent ue but am incapable of executing them executing of but am incapable ue ). 175 Overcome by the adhbhutha guNAs of the adhbhutha guNAs by Overcome KAM usa vachana mAtra sAramusa vachana mAtra | vaSagam KAM KAM O O O L L L ya Vaak (Truthful person). ya Vaak (Truthful person). S S S ). Please bless adiyEn What to realize truthfully sana< sTy sda SvCDNd>. 91. sana< sTy sda Sathya Vaak z vcn maÇ sar< vzgm!, z vcn maÇ Tava vaSagan : : EANING OMMENTS Swamy Desikan’s appeal to make him a Sathyan (meyyan)! him a Sathyan to make appeal Desikan’s Swamy Swamy Desikan’s appeal to make him a Sathyan (meyyan)! him a Sathyan to make appeal Desikan’s Swamy adiyEn is powerless to do anything. adiyEn is powerless to do prays to Yo Yours like Dayaa, adiyEn make adiyEn a Sath explicitly and total control ( One without control by anyone. Withou One without control by anyone. spoken that make Please longing. my articulate to words in expressed adiyEn words of mine come true ( can only express my wishes with my tong can only express my wishes Your full through deeds. adiyEn is under C Oh Lord! You are a svatantra Purushan ( Oh DhAsa Sathya! adiyEn has explicitly re Oh DhAsa iti sphuTa manOratham maam yEtAdr iti sphuTa manOratham M ma< @ta† #it S)…q mnaerw< g[E> sTy< da k…é:v inj gu[ gaNai:kurushva nija guNa satyam dAsAnAmsatya sadA svacchanda: || sadagopan.org anubhavam of Your sacred feet,They areParamabhOgyam forall.adiy which are desired by the greatOh Achyutha! Yourdelectablelotusfeetaremost desirable foreveryone. ones like the M prArthayE tvAmachyutakAnkshitapa jAti:itisAgaramtaritumanA:| mAruti bAla plavagaivataraLa: àawRye TvamCyutka'!i]t pdpÒ]mSvmmkapeym!. 92. ja #vtr¦aemaéit Plvg bal EANING Begging theLord tobearwith his impudentact! Begging theLord tobearwith his impudentact! : SurAnanda Achyuthan! itirit sagr sadagopan.org e. Here, Swamy impudent act is like that of a baby of a baby act is like that impudent thi enshrined ther thi enshrined gis, BrahmA and SivA). gis, BrahmA and SivA). th Swamy AlavanthAr’s StOtra Ratna um athyantha dhUram Tava parijana the mighty vamsam the mighty and of HanumAn 177 slOkam of StOtra ratnam:”yOgi varyaagra slOkam of StOtra ratnam:”yOgi th : OMMENTS Desikan thinks about the 47 Desikan thinks about the slOkams and many moods of bhak the Swamy Desikan was very much involved wi Swamy Desikan that alone will enable it to jump over the wide ocean. AdiyEn of oscillating oscillating of AdiyEn ocean. wide the over jump to it young enable that indeed to that it belongs who reasons monkey, will resemble wishes alone my pursue to that firmness of lack and bhakthi wish.monkey’s audacious C dhyAth gaNyai: Vidhi-Siva SanakAdhyai: even is a in who behave and You, senses my by serve driven is to (adiyEn vruttha: desire kAma my kAmayE by bhAvam propelled am I yet and manner willful of great yO beyond the reach of the likes sages, MahAchAryAs AzhwArs. My and the sadagopan.org Aniruddha Achyuthan! Aniruddha 178 sadagopan.org ). Oh d being tossed about Vishaya sukhams 93 93 93 the sea shore. The child wades into the sea shore. The child wades of helplessness by comparing himself of helplessness ays to the Lord of Thiruvayindhai to ngers and brings it ashore. Similarly, ngers and brings it ashore. the ocean of SamsAram and is being the ocean ings and is tossed about by the waves. that infant. The anxious mother jumps va aavarta bhrami nimajjantam | samsAra Bhandhams and vow to chase storm tossed sea like a compassionate 179 ean (of samsAra) an KAM KAM KAM O O O L L L ddhrutya sEvasya svayampathyam || S S S of her helpless child. child. helpless of her : : Prayers to save from imminent dangers of samsAram! save from imminent Prayers to Prayers to save from imminent dangers of samsAram! save from imminent Prayers to EANING OMMENTS mother coming to the rescue Swamy Desikan describes his utter state the waters of the sea and loses its foot the waters of the sea begin to attack The animals of the sea the child out of the da in the water, pulls ocean ( of the samsAric denizens attacked by the fierce adiyEns’ Lord! You should cut asunder is beneficial. do what away my miseries. Please C to a child that has fallen in to the oc waves and whirlpools. He pr in the fierce lift him out of the dangers of the Oh Achyutha! A mother takes her child to A mother takes her child Oh Achyutha! helpless adiyEn is being swirled about in achyuta vishaya aakrAntamachyuta vishaya bhava arNa M Éva[RvavtR æim inm¾Ntm!, ACyut iv;ya³aNt< jnnI Stn PuNdareekAksha Achyuthan! 180 sadagopan.org ). adiyEn regard is like the a cool hail storm? All it was just an illusion. g hail storm for adiyEn g hail storm for adiyEn ). Please drench adiyEn adiyEn drench Please ). glances, make me joyous! adiyEn an. adiyEn in this 94 94 94 traveler sees the mirage looking like looking like traveler sees the mirage to reduce his sufferings from the the from sufferings his reduce to execution of such acts that are execution of such acts would then be quenched. Similarly, Similarly, would then be quenched. e mirage for relief. Oh Lord! You e mirage for relief. Oh Lord! karma-maya gharma taptham through the performance of the variousthrough the performance of 181 KAM KAM KAM sisirai: achyuta kaTaakshai: || sisirai: achyuta O O O L L L S S S at there is no water and is at there ich would be like the coolin ppiness if the sky sends down :[aiÉ> kaiÉrPynaÔRm!, :[aiÉ> kaiÉrPynaÔRm!, Achyutha! Maam (Tava) SiSirai: KadAkshi nirvrutham of the KarmAs ( KarmAs the of : ". Oh Achyutha through Your cool through Achyutha ". Oh : Prayer for the Lord’s KatAkshams to fall on him! to fall the Lord’s KatAkshams Prayer for Prayer for the Lord’s KatAkshams to fall on him! to fall the Lord’s KatAkshams Prayer for EANING OMMENTS kaapi sukha mrugha thrushNApi: api anArdhram Maam is singed by the heat after the mirages does not get any sukham or relief or cooling from running ( with Your cool glances, wh C The prayer here is: " kArayasva Oh AchyuthA! In the height of summer, a of height In the Oh AchyuthA! karma maya gharma taptam sukha mruga trushNaabhi: kAbhi: api anArdram | maam karakAkArayasva nirvrutam M tÝ< suo m&g t& kmR my "mR 94. ma< krka izizrErCyut kqa]E>. karySv inv&Rt< towards ita river (Kaanal neer) and runs later th heat. He recognizes heat his sufferings from the prevailing sukhams adiyEn is chasing after alpa kaamya karmas and am suffering from as Your Sesh inconsistent to my svaroopam chasing th traveler in the summer heat Your direct and storm rain cooling the of form the in rescue my to come should karuNA kadAksham on me. What would then be his ha What would then be sadagopan.org tired limbs. When it falls on one, it not only cools but serves as a gentle massage to the ( Maam karakaSiSirai:kaDAks hai: nirvruthamkarayasva hai: 182 ). Karaka isAalamkatti. ). Karaka sadagopan.org ). darSanAth darSanAth ). Swamy Desikan e glances of the ". Those humans who do Tava chintana vimukhAnAm Subha dhrug On the other hand, the glances Of Of glances other hand, the the On 95 95 95 Oh Lord! Please bless me so that the the that so me bless Please Oh Lord! not fall on me. In contrast, when we not fall on me. In contrast, him to have th En the nectarine BhAgavatha to have dhrushti Visham 183 KAM KAM KAM vishANaam iva | darsanAt mOchayan O O O MahAthmabhir Maam avalOkyathAm L L L S S S ). They can kill one with their looks ( do not think of Thee ( Visham ;a[aimv dzRnaNmaecyn!, ;a[aimv dzRnaNmaecyn!, Desiring BhAgavatha KaDAksham! Desiring BhAgavatha Desiring BhAgavatha KaDAksham! Desiring BhAgavatha : ). Their drushti is aSubha dhrug. ). Their drushti : ) is like poison ( poison like is ) EANING OMMENTS listen to the speech of BhagavathAs devoted to You, it is like nectar flowing flowing nectar like is it You, to devoted BhagavathAs of speech the to listen adiy bless from their mouth. Please dhrishti fall on me. mOchayan dhrushtis of such unfortunate ones do dhrushtis of such unfortunate the BhAgavathAs of the Lord are auspicious ( The dhrushtis of those who The dhrushtis not have firm devotion Your feet are like those snakes. Great harm will for glances fall. come to those on whom their C dhrushti Oh Achyutha! Some snakes can kill humans with their poison by just looking at at looking just by poison their with " humans kill can called is snakes Some poison Achyutha! Oh of type This them. tava chintana vimukhAnAm drushTitava chintana M tv icNtn ivmuoana< †iò iv 95. É´ana< gmy nyanasarm!. ma< ACyut Am&t muoanaimv amruta mukhAnAm gamaya nayana aasAram iva maam achyuta bhaktAnAm || prays like Swamy AlavanthAr before ( MahAthmA’s glances fall on him sadagopan.org Oh Achyutha! The pleasuresoftheworl M tvayi nirmamammamahrudayam|| amruta nidhauivaachyutasthApaya chapratigrahEshupraluThitam| pratimEshu madhunibhEshuchatruNa visha miLita Am&t inxaivvaCyutSwapyTviyinmRm sadagopan.org Kuppai Visham kalantha ). ) that the chicken poke at. ( ) and transient. adiyEn’s mind rolls ) and transient. ound praising ordinary human beings beings ound praising ordinary human e the Lord is there to grant all what is there to grant e the Lord ultimate analysis. Further, they are they are analysis. Further, ultimate Oh Lord! You are most delectable like are most delectable Oh Lord! You l vishaya sukhams and and refocus it on ) and confer infinite bliss on enjoyment. enjoyment. on bliss ) and confer infinite Kuppai 185 thruNam : TVM III.9.4). Desika Bhaktha SirOnmaNi: TVM III.9.4). Desika Bhaktha amrutha nidhi amrutha ). They will look tasteful like honey at the superficial the superficial at like honey will look tasteful ). They : Swamy NammAzhwAr ThiruvAimozhi: III.9.5). Swamy : Swamy NammAzhwAr ThiruvAimozhi: yennAvathu yetthanai nAlaikku pOthum pulaveerhAL, minna- yennAvathu Mama hrudhayam Thvayi sTApaya Mama hrudhayam : ) and similar in worth to rubbish ( ) and similar in worth to rubbish OMMENTS Visha miLitha madhu in these alpa sukhams that are ruinous. in these alpa sukhams of nectar ( the assembly harmfu from away mind my turn Please You forever ( kiLarathanna selvam who run ar NammAzhwAr chides the poets whil to earn money to sustain themselves, they desire ( manisarai paadi padaikkum poruL C as triflesThe vishaya Sukhams are identified ( and as harmful the great harm in will cause level but a blade of grass ( insignificant like thEn SrI D. Ramaswamy us of the Paasurams of Swamy IyengAr reminds SaThakOpar. ( sadagopan.org on my head ( praNamathsamjvarou praSamitha from samsAricafflictionsofYourdear ones ( lustre ofthe toenailsonYourfeet sacred feetarelikeatreasure( Oh Lord!adiyenis C Thou placeYoursacredfeetof Yoursonmyheadandblessme! destroys alltheirtApams. Suchisth their heads,thekaanthifrom thenail confer on themallMangaLams.When Yo and anushtAnam. YoursacredfeetarelikethetreasureforadiyArs AdiyEn isnowinawretchedstate Oh NamathSathya(theLordwhoistrue M prabhAjharaprasamita pravahat nakha nityam asminkrupaNEnikshipanamatsatyanidhisadrukshau| àvhÚo àÉaHràzimtà[mT inTymiSmn! k«p[eini]pnmTsTyinixs†]aE, unbearable tApams. Prayer totheLordplaceHis Prayer totheLordplaceHis OMMENTS EANING : : Tava charaNou nikshipasva Tava charaNou forever lowlyone( s 97 sacred feetonhis(Kavi’s) 97 97 pravahath nakhaprabhAjara ) thatIcameacross.The ). For adiyEn, Your ). ForadiyEn,Your sacredfeet!May sadagopan.org 187 Garuda dvaja Achyuthan! sadagopan.org word asatruthfulone. of thewaves ofthe ocean.Therefore, become false.ThatassuranceofYours monkeys that"Youwillneverabandon anyonewhosought YourrakshaNam"will sought Yourprotection.assurances thenYouwillbedecriednot doso, as at Yoursacredfeet. Therefore, Youwo proper way.Peopleoftheworldsay abhayam sarva bhUthEpyO dadhAmEyathathvrathamMama abhayam sarvabhUthEpyO yAchathE prapannAya tavAsmeethi sakrudEva protecting everyone, whosoughtHisrefuge even once: come His way,AlavanthAr toremindtheLordabout if He doesSwamy Desikanadoptsamethodus not keep up with HisC public pronouncement about Oh Achyutha! It is not clear to me wh M bhavEt khalusAgaraghOsha: itijanitEjanavadEap saraNaagata Évet! olusagr"ae;>pu zra[agt #itjintejnvade=i OMMENTS EANING Pressing theLordofThiruvaheendhrapuramtoprotect Pressing theLordofThiruvaheendhrapuramtoprotect : : i¦ne ta†z 98 98 98 med Prapatthiinthe sadagopan.org ". This is a kind of nindhA sthuthi. This is a kind of nindhA sthuthi. ur presence should not be exposed not be ur presence should (adiyEn is roaming around the world around the world (adiyEn is roaming in this context (Periya Thirumozhi Thirumozhi context (Periya in this rd the dire consequences that will that rd the dire consequences gathy at You are my Your feet and 189 ThvadhagrE SaraNAgathAnAmNaaTa! ParAbhavO tE anuroopam na to the sorrows, if You relinquish Your responsibilities to protect them as Your responsibilities to protect them as to the sorrows, if You relinquish Your svaroopam).promised. This wont match 4.9.4): "dEsam aRiya UmakkEthirihinROm" AaLAi in Yo SaraNAgathy (Those who performed Thirumangai AzhwAr reminded the Lord reminded the AzhwAr Thirumangai declaring that I have performed SaraNA declaring that does not raisefollow if He up to His SaraNAgatha responsibilities as rakshakan: " rakshakan). rakshakan). Swamy Alavantharout pointed to the Lo sadagopan.org any recourseotherthan theLord) and Prapatthi totheLord). SwamyDesikanidentifies himselfas" KaaruNikAs AacchAn.SwamyDe to MadaipaLLi about hisAchAryaParamparairisingup PeriyAzhwAr. SwamyDesikanoffers hi Thirumozhi pleadsfortheLord’sgr the LordasagreatSriVaishNavite where hebeggedtobeble StOtraratnam, intheconcludingslOkaof sentiment ofSwamyAlavanthAr Sri D.RamaswamyIyengArpointsou C protecting adiyEnformyAchAryAs,ifnotadiyEn. great affectionformyAchAryAs.Theref rakshaNa bharam(theburden ofprotecti AchAryAs, whoareexpertsinPrapatthian upAyam otherthanPrapatthiatYour Oh Natha Satya!OhLordoftheUniv M taan tavadrushTvApriyAnnibhrutamna | nikshipta: asmichaagati:nipuNai:tvayinAthakAruNikai: ta (merciful DayALus) and (mercifulDayALus) : [ESTviy naw kaéi[kE>, kaéi[kE>, [ESTviy naw ntsTy ÉrSvaTmnaeÉrm!.99. ssed atleast for the sake of his grandfather dear to the sakeofhisgrandfatherdearto ssed atleastfor of AchAryAs! of AchAryAs! S S S L L L O O O KAM KAM KAM 190 ace inthenameofHerAchAryan,ace t thatSwamyDesikanechoesthe ta satya bharasvaaathmana:bharam|| ta satya s Prapatthi, while re s Prapatthi, sikan describeshisAchAryAsas points outthatthose AchAryAshave AchAryan. AndalinHerNaachiyAr from AthrEya RaamAnuja (ApuLLAr) fromAthrEyaRaamAnuja(ApuLLAr) erses! AdiyEnhasnotobservedany NipuNa: sacredfeet.Themostmerciful ng me)atYourlotusfeet.You have 99 ore, You must accept the burden of 99 99 ushtAna vidhis have placed adiyEn’s placedadiyEn’s ushtAna vidhishave (well skilledinperforming minding the Lord minding theLord agathi: " (without sadagopan.org KaaruNikai: KaaruNikai: ). ccept the burden of protecting adiyEn of protecting adiyEn the burden ccept 191 ). They are dear to You (Tava Priyaan). to You are dear ). They (Tava Priyaan). Lord thru the act of Prapatthi ( the act of Lord thru thAnn dhrushtvaa nibhruthamthAnn dhrushtvaa bharam bharasva ( Atleast look at them and then firmly a Atleast look at nipuNai: Thvayi nikshiptha: asmi Thvayi nikshiptha: nipuNai: placed him at the feet of the the feet of at him placed 192 sadagopan.org sadagopan.org sadagopan.org BhayApaha Achyuthan sadagopan.org ). " (please accept ight of her youth pakkaNa Aaneetha ( Maam labhasva 100 100 Sathyan at the dhivya dEsam ofSathyan at the dhivya dEsam 100 labhasva mantri jana vijn~Apitam || labhasva mantri his lost son after many years in the king, which was lost during the bustle to the counsel of his ministers. You to the counsel of his ministers. manthri jana vijn~Apitham Nrupa iva manthri jana vijn~Apitham a bridegroom accepts his bride as his a bridegroom accepts his bride o has reached the he ta bhrama nija kumAram iva nrupa: | ta bhrama nija 193 r level right now but will be elevated as r level right now but will be KAM KAM KAM ed as a boy of the hunter clan. O O O L L L ) and (2) like the king, who accepts his long lost S S S miNÇjn iv}aiptm!. 100. iv}aiptm!. miNÇjn anyone who sought Your protection! You should sought Your protection! anyone who : : Prayer for acceptance of him by Sri Dhaiva Naayakan! of acceptance Prayer for Prayer for acceptance of him by Sri Dhaiva Naayakan! of acceptance Prayer for EANING OMMENTS bhavishyath youvana vadhUriva forest during a hunting trip in response forest during a hunting trip me like should accept adiyEn and wed is This me. over life’s companion. adiyEn is at a lowe rule and me accept Please You. by accepted is adiyEn as soon my prayer to You. C Swamy Desikan the addresses Natha Thiruvaheendhrapuram and appeals ardently: " how the Lord should accept him: (1) as a describes adiyEn). Then Swamy bridegroom accepts a future bride, wh ( son at the recommendation of his ministers after his son’s extended stay at the abode of the hunters forgetting his royal heritage accept me like the King who welcomed welcomed who King the Oh Lord who never abandons like me accept nata satya aaneeta gaLita kirA pakkaNa M k…marimv n&p>, gi¦t ikrat æm inj ntsTy pŠ[anIt vr #v ma< lÉSv Éiv:y*aEvn vxU< vadhUmbhavishyat yauvana vara iva maam gaLitha kirAtha bhrama nija kumAram, The reference here is to the child of a and was rais the forest of a hunt in sadagopan.org a sadheart.Meanwhile, The king could not find it inspite of an intense search. He returned home with and wasreunitedjoyouslywithhisson. child. Thekingwasthrilled,accepted recognized therajalakshaNamsandadvise later, accidentallyTheministersof hunting clanandhad lostallknowledg took it home and raised it as his own. The child adapted to the ways of the hunter intheforestcame 194 the recommendations oftheministers therecommendations the kingcame acrossthechildand e aboutitsroyallineage.Manyyears d thekingthatitwashislonglost acrossthehelplesschild, sadagopan.org 101 101 101 Sathakam was composed by Sri 195 KAM KAM KAM O O O L L L S S S KavitArkika Simham! zaeÉta< sm¢gu[m!. 101. zaeÉta< sm¢gu[m!. acayR ve»qez ivrictm!, acayR ve»qez Phala Sruthi for Sri Achyutha Sathakam! Phala Sruthi Phala Sruthi for Sri Achyutha Sathakam! Phala Sruthi : EANING VenkatEsa Kavi adorning the titles of KavitArkika Simham and VenkatEsa Kavi adorning the titles of KavitArkikaSimham and This sthOthram named Sri Achyutha M iti kavi tArkika kEsari iti kavi tArkika vEdAntAchArya vEnkatEsa virachitam | subhagam achyuta satakam sahrudaya guNam || hrudayEshu sObhatAm samagra #it kivtaikRk kesir vedaNt sùdyùdye;u suÉgmCyutztk< sadagopan.org Oppliappan KoilVaradAchAriSaThakOpan daasan, as: toSwamyDesikan.ThissthOthramisdescribed Lord Ranganatha Simhaman The titles ofKavitArkika C and enjoyit! wi the earandtongue.MayBhagavathAs VedAnthAchArya. Ithasmanyspecial SobhathAm May thisAchyuthasatham tocherish Narayana) it by SwamyDesikan,whoinvitessahrudha OMMENTS 2. 1. Sri HemAbhjavalli SamEtha SrIDE Samagra GuNam Samagra GuNam subhagam ) ! : srImatE vEnkatEsAya vEdAantaguravE nama:|| vEdAantaguravE srImatE vEnkatEsAya (sweetandbeautiful) kavitArkikasim kivtaikRkis nce anddevotionalcontent) sahrudhaya hrudhayEshu ing delectable to k;aykb lhir;upU[RcNÔ#vS)…q>, jaûiv deizkana< ùdye;u EANING BhagavAn notstaying inthe BhagavAn notstaying inthe :