SrI : Dear Sri Krishna BhakthAs : For your enjoyment during this Sri Jayanthy Season . Sri GeethAchAryan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam , V.Sadagopan ----- Original Message ----- From: "prasanna5" <prasanna5@xxxxxxxxx> To: <rangapriya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 3:34 AM Subject: [rangapriya] Swami Desikan's gopAla vimshatiH > Please find the text of the letter written by Sri Sadagopan Mama in > 1996 on the day of Sri Jayanti. Also find the pdf file uploaed int he > files section which contains Swami Desikan's gopAla vimshatiH and Sri > Sadagopan Mama's translation. It may also be accessed at > http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/acharyas/desika/stotras/gopalavimsati.html > > > Dear Members of the Prapatti group, > > Today is the birthday of our Lord Krishna (Sri Jayanti). On this simha > SrAvaNa month (AvaNi), when the eighth day of the waning moon is > united with the constellation Rohini, our Lord was born. Swami Desikan > composed 20 verses (vimSati) in praise of Him and prayed that he > should be blessed with thoughts exclusively about HIM during his final > moments (antima SmRti) on this earth. Swami composed these twenty > verses when he was overcome by the beauty of the arca-murti of Sri > Rajagopalan in the divyadesam of Tiruvahindrapuram. For more than 700 > years, these verses have been sung prior to Sri Vaishnava > tadIyArAdhanams -- group partaking of food presented to the Lord > earlier -- to seek the Lord's blessings and, also, during the occasion > of marriages to confer the blessings of the Lord on the bride and the > bridegroom. On Krishna Jayanti, the murti of Sri Rajagopalan is taken > in procession around the streets of Tiruvahindrapuram and the Sri > Gopala Vimsati of our acharya is recited. > > Swami Desikan paints a word picture of the incomparable beauty of Sri > Gopalan. He describes the structure of His mantram and affectionately > recalls the many mischievous deeds performed by bAla Gopalan in > Gokulam and Brindavanam to the utter delight of the humans and the > celestial beings. > > Sri Gopala Vimsati must have been very dear to Swami Desikan as > indicated by his inclusion of the twelfth verse of this stotram in his > esoteric masterpiece Sankalpa Suryodayam. There, he depicts Narada > descending from heaven singing joyously the above verse during his > journey to meet Purushan and initiate him into the mahAmantram of the > Lord . > > May our thoughts be blessed with the delectable experience of Swami > Desikan! I salute Sri Vedanta Desikan prior to attempting to provide > an English translation to these bhakti-laden verses dedicated to Sri > Rukmini Satyabhama sameta Raja Venugopalan. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/XUWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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