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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. 
> 



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