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 _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. 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