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Dear Sri MahA Lakshmi BhakthAs:

In the second slOkam of the Naama Vaibhava sthaBakam of 
Sri Lakshmi Sahasram , Sri VenkadAdhri Kavi instructs us that
the NaamAs of our Mother are extraordinarily efficent in quenching
the unbearable heat of the Taapams :

arNavEndhratanayE  athidussahE: dhurnarEndhra-guNa-varNanAtapai:
Aartayaa rasanayA adhya Seethalam keerthayAmi Tava nAma kOmaLam 

arNavEnhdra tanayE = Oh Daughter of the king of the Oceans ! 
( the reference here is to the birth of MahA Lakshmi from the Milky 
Ocean as the daughter of the Samudhra Raajan during the churning
of the Milky Ocean by the Lord to gain Her as " PeNNamudhu" ).

Tava Naama kOmaLam SeethaLam keerthayAmi = adiyEn is now engaged in 
the sankeerthanam of Your most beautiful and cool Sahasra naamams .    

What is the effect of such keerthanam on adiyEn's  tongue that has until now 
been parched by 
the singing of the praise of the inauspicious and insignificant kings of this 
world ? The recitation
of Your cool and beautiful NaamAs has brought immense comfort to my tongue and
has immersed me in the cool and rejuvenating amrutha pravAham of Yours .

My tongue until now was experiencing intolerable sufferings (  Aarthi) from the 
relentless 
heat associated with my effort in singing about the nonexistent ( imaginary) 
attributes of 
the inauspicious kings . This attempt at the guNa varNanam  of these evil kings 
( dhur-narEndhrA guNa varNanam ) for eking out a livelihood was like being 
baked 
in the midday  heat of the Sun  . The sufferings experienced by adiyEn's  
tongue 
( VarNanAthapai: aarthayA rasanayA ) through abuse of the poetic skills blessed 
by You  
was terrifying . adiyEn was used to invent auspicious and lofty guNams in these 
haughty , 
wealthy kings and lied through my efforts to praise them . The consequence was 
terrible
for my tongue . It experienced immense sufferings.    

By switching now to sing about Your seethaLa , kOmala dhivya nAmams , adiyEn
has brought joy and comfort to my parched tongue ( rasanayA adhya SeethaLam 
kOmalam 
Tava Naamaani keerthayAmi). The Aarthi ( suffering) of my tongue(rasanA ) is 
now gone.

The VairAgyam of Swamy Desikan expressed through His powerful pentad of slOkams
in the Sri Sookthi of VairAgya panchakam under similar circumstances has to be 
recalled here .
The commentary on Sri VairAgya panchakam can be accessed at the Sundara Simham
Web site in the form of an e-book :

http://www.sundrasimham.org/ebooks/ebook14.htm 

Sri KaNNan Swamy's beautiful Summary in Tamizh of this slOkam is :

dhUrttharai puhazhntha tApam
theertthiDa nAvil taNmai
sErtthiDa unn nAmatthaik-
keerthanam paNNUhinrEn

Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradaachAri Sadagopan  

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