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SrI:
SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

Dearest srivaishnavas,

Sloka 1:

kaanThasthE purushOtthama: paNipathi: sayya(S)anam
vaahanam 
vEdAthmA vihakESwarO yavanikaa maayaa jagan mOhinI
bramhESAthi suravraja sathyitha: tvaddhAsa dAseegaNa: 
srIrithyEvacha naamathE bhagavthI brooma: katham thvAm
vayam.. 
[forgive for transliteration]
hEy BhagavthI! ? The One who is blemishless, faultless
and possessed with all aucpicious attributes (kalyANa
guNAs)! PurushOtthaman is Your darling Lord ? the One
who is equal to You in all aspects; Thus You both are
equal to each other in every manner? The king of
snakes- AnanthAzhwAn- is Your Seat as well as Bed
(just like he is for your Lord); The vEdAthmA- Garuda
is Your vehicle and seat as well. JaganmOhinI!- The
Cosmic matter- mUla prakruthi- [that engulfs maaya in
everyone to hide their Athma swarUpam and bind them to
their karma vasanaas- with viparItha jnAnam] ? is also
at Your service as the curtain. Chathur mukha brahmA,
Rudran, DevEndran, along with their spouses are all
your servants and are pleased to be at your beck and
call. Your divine name is also the most esoteric SrI?
When such is the case, how can any of us be able to
tell Your glories clearly.. and do justice to it?

In the First sloka, it is thus emphasised that both
the vibhutis Nithya and Leela - that is the eternal
world paramapadha and the material world belong to
Lakshmi as well. ALavandhAr in the first verse of
Chatussloki establishes the equal status of Sri Devi
with Her consort. As Chief of Sarva BhutAs, she enjoys
an equal status and rules the physical and the
transcendental universe.  She possesses like Her Lord,
Svarupam , Rupam, GuNam and Vibhavam equally in its
entirety. 

You share in equal measure the six auspicious GuNAs of
Her consort (BhagavAn)- namely JnAnam, Bhalam, Sakthi,
Iswaryam, Veeryam and ThEjas. That is why You are 
known as Bhagavathi or ShAtgunya SampoorNai. You are
inseparable from Your Lord at all times and states
(nithya anapAyini- never leave Him ever. Thus with
such equal qualities, You have chosen Him as Your
darling Lord and He has You as His divine Consort? He
is PurshOtthaman and You are BhagavathI.. With all
sentient and non ?sentient with His Sareera and
attributes, are You the qualifying one for Him as His
pathnI- I pondered. I have found that all such
vivhUthis (attreibuites- of Chethana, achEthanas-
devas, humans, plants, cosmic matter, etc.. etc..) are
all Yours as well and You rule them in equal manner.
You are with Him at all times uninterruptedly. Since
You became His spouse, You are now enjoying the same-
some may argue. That argument holds good for bhUmA and
nILA dEvi and not for You.. SaasthrAs say that You
both are SEshi for the whole world.. You possess the
six guNAs that constitute Bhagavathvam. Chauthumukha
brahmA, Rudra et al along with their spouses serve You
and are Your servants. Coming to think of it, You
alone have the name SrI.. and He gets His identity as
Sriya: Pathi.. In addition to all these qualities, You
have the recommendation role as well (Purushakaram)
and also point to Him His daya and protection role.
You intercede with Your Lord on behalf of us ? when we
perform our surrender to You and Him as Dhivya
Dampathi and recommend that we be forgiven by Your 
Lord to become the object of His grace. 

Alavandhar first says the Lord if her Pathi (husband)
and then says everything else is under Her ruler
ship.. It is to mention that there are no two
independent Lords here and then there will be chaos.
Here is She being His eternal consort, be with Him at
all times and together rule the world.. as Lord [eka
seshithvam) and thus as Sahadharma chaariNi. He
without her, and she without Him would never be
possible and hence there is no way that one will rule
without the Other.. As long as this is understood,
there will no confusion- says Sri UttamUr Swamy. 

paNipathi sayaa- with enjoyment, ecstatic, joyful
Ananthaseshan, Adhiseshan, fragrant, white, tender
bodied Adhiseshan, with the length and breadth is the
bed and seat for Mhalakshmi. Thus the entire Nithya
suRis and Nithya vibHuthi is under her ruler ship and
Lordship.

Sri Muralidhar shares his excitement on this: Swami
Desikan goes into raptures as he elaborated upon the
salutation "vEdhAthmA vihagEshvarO" describing the
greatness of Garuda. Again it is helpful to dwell on
the salutation "srIrithyE vachanAma thE Bhagavathi
brUma katham thvAm vayam" (Oh Goddess, known by the
name of Sri one lifetime is insufficient to fully
comprehend the meanings underlying your name. This
alludes to the fact that even one cannot fully
comprehend the 6 meanings SriyathE [She is sought
after by all for refuge], ShrayathE [She grants refuge
to all who seek her], ShruNOthi [She listens to the
appeals of those who seek refuge in her] ShrAvayathi
[She conveys this appeal to Her Lord Narayana, the
master of the Universe], ShruNAthi 
[She removes all obstacles and impediments in the way
of those who seek her-i.e., destroys the sins of those
who seek refuge in Her] and ShrINAthi [She grants them
lasting wealth] in one's lifetime)

thvaddAsa dAsIgaNa: everyone- including the Devas and
their spouses are all Your servants.

In the PancharAtra smahitA, SrI Maha Vishnu explains
to his senior disciple VishvaksenA, the nature and
attributes of His consort, Sri Mahalakshmi. He states
that She is the resting place of all Gurus, ruler of
all worlds, eternal and imperishable. He elaborates 
further on their relationship: Just as the Universe is
pervaded by me both in essence and quality, all this
is pervaded by Her also . Therefore, She is the
disposer and ruler of all.... She is pervaded by me
and similarly, I, the Lord, am also pervaded by Her.
The difference between me and Her is that She, who is
the ruler of all is subservient to me on Her own
accord being sahadharmachaarinI.. To Her as well as
the Universe that I am the Lord, is well known in
Vedas. 

In the same PancharAtra SamhitA, Sri  Mahalakshmi
herself has explained Herself and Her consort, their
pervasion and their ruler ship. Sri Vatsya Varada Guru
[also called as Nadhadhoor ammaaL, the author of the
illustrious work on SaranAgathi known as Prapanna
ParijAtha has elaborated on the relationship between
the divine couple as  follows : That supreme energy of
Brahman, which is as is lustre to the moon, is the
Goddess Lakshmi , who is coexistent with Brahman in
all His conditions, and who is in His own nature and
is indestructible. 

Thus She is endowed with the three capacities of
UPAYATVA(being the means), UPEYATVA (being the end)
and PURUSHAKAARA (being the mediatrix) and is the
ruler of the whole world

ThirumaamagaL ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam
Alavandhar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan



                
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