Sri:
Dear Sri RanganAtha BhakthAs :
Let us study 5 slOkams of Sri Abhithi Sthavam today
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this moving sthOthram , You can access the MP 3
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SlOkam 14 :
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bhavanthy mukhabhEdhathO bhaya-nidhAnamEva PrabhO
SubhAsubha vikalpithA: jagathy dEsa kaalAdhaya:
ithi prachura-sAdhvasE mayi dhayishyasE Thvam na chEth
ka ittham anukampithA Thvadh anukampaneeyasccha Ka:
( Meaning) : Oh Lord of Thiruvarangam ! Wise people have classified
Svarga lOkam and naraka lOkam as desirable and undesirable locations
respectively to reside . Similarly , they have labelled Krutha Yugam as
the golden yugam to live and Kali Yugam as the undesirable Yugam to be
born in to . If one analyses deeply , svargam , Narakam , Krutha and Kali
Yugams
--all of them--create inauspiciousness in their own(different )ways and
cause fear (Bheethi) to us. This fact makes me filled with anxiety and bheethi .
Oh Lord ! You must take pity on adiyEn and protect me thru abhaya pradhAnam .
If you do not decide to do so , adiyEn can not think of anyone to play this
role .
Also , there is no one more qualified than adiyEn to be the object of Your
dayaa.
Therefore , out of Your matchless compassion , Rangaa , You should
protect adiyEn and chase away all of my fears .
(Comments): Swamy Desikan describes himself as "Prachura Saadhvasan" ,
One who is frightened about the present and future . Swamy Desikan states
that all that which have been grouped as auspicious or inauspicious based on
dEsam and Kaalam ( subha-asubha vikalpithA: dEsa kaala aadhaya: )
generate ultimately fear only in their own ways ( mukha bhEdhata: bhaya
nidhAnma yEva bhavanthy) . Swamy Desikan prays for Lord RanganAthan's
unparalleled karuNai to intervene in his most deserving case . Swamy
convincingly
states his case for the Lord's grace : " ittham anukampithA Ka: ? Thvath
anukampaneeyasccha Ka : ? " Who is there except you to shower such
grace ? Who is more fit than myself as a recipient of that (Your) grace ?
With such a precision logic of Swamy Desikan , Lord RanganAthan
had no choice except to intervene and answer Swamy's prayer
in the affirmative.
SlOkam 15 :
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Sakruth prapadhana sprusam abhaya-dhAna nithyavrathee
na cha dhvirabhibhAshasE Thavmithi viSrutha: svOkthitha:
yaTOkthakaraNam vidhus-tava thu yAthudhAnAdaya:
kaTam vithaTamasthu tath krupaNa-sArvabhoumE mayi
(Meaning) : Thiruvaranga PrabhO ! During Your avathAram as
Lord Raamachandra , You declared before the world that You
will grant abhaya pradhAnam to anyone , who surrendered to
You even once and sought Your rakshaNam ; You also stated
publicly that You will not go back on any promise made by You .
These two statements are well known to the people of the world.
VibhishaNan , Sugreevan and others who have benifitted from
seeking You as their SaraNAgatha Rakshakan know that You will
fulfill the promise that you made at any cost . When the situaton
is like that , how can Your compassion becoome fruitless in the case
of adiyEn , who is the first among the helpless ? Your vow to protect
the helpless one seeking Your protection can not become defunct .
You must therefore come to adiyEn's rescue and chase away my
fears .
(Comments) : Swamy Desikan introduces himself here as " KrupaNa
Saarvabhouman" . KrupaNan means impoverished or destitute or
Kaimuthal aRRavan . Akinchanathvam and ananyagathithvam
are two requirements for the successful performance of SaraNagathy
at the sacred feet of the Lord and to gain His favorable response . Swamy
Desikan reminds the Lord of three things here that the Lord Himself has
stated in public(Sva ukthitha: ) : (1) Aham sakruth prapadhana sprusAm
abhaya dhAna vrathee (2) dhvi na abhibhAshathy (3) Aham YathOkthakaari .
When these are standing statements from You , How can they fail in
my case , which is most deserving asks Swamy Desikan .
SlOkam 16 :
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anukshaNa samuTthithE dhuritha vaaridhou dhustarE
yadhi kvachana nishkruthir-bhavathy sAapi dhOshAvilA
tadhittham agathou mayi prathividhAnam AadheeyathAm
sva-bhuddhi parikalpitham kimapi Rangadhurya ThvayA
(Meaning): Oh Lord of Thiruvarangam ! In this sorrowful samsAra
MaNDalam , the sins acquired by a samsAri grows every moment
like the rising waves of the gigantic Ocean . It is not possible to control
their growth thru the proper control of mind and body . When it comes
to the ocean of Sins , it is impossible to cross this ocean with appropriate
prAyascchittham . Even the performed prAyascchittham is nullified by
the accrual of additional sins or by the incorrect performance of
that prAyascchittham . The samsAri does not have either the knowledge
about the appropriate prAyascchittham or power to execute it correctly.
adiyEn is an ideal example of one such samsAri , who has accumulated
a vast assembly of Sins and stand before You in a helpless state. You must
use Your sankalpam to show me a way to destroy my gigantic bundles of sins
and save me .
(Comments) : Swamy Desikan compares his sins to a vast ocean ( dhuritha
Vaaridhi), which is not trespassable (dustharam) because its waves(the sins)
are growing higher and higher every second (anukshaNa samutthitham) .
There are repentance acts ( PrAyascchittham/nishkruthi ) prescribed by
Bhagavath Saasthrams to destroy these sins and get across the forbidding
ocean of SamsAram . When that prescribed prAyscchittham is improperly
executed , it becomes null and void ( kavachana nishkruthi bhavathy yathi ,
saa api dhOsha AavilA ) . That brings adiyEn back to square one and makes
adiyEn without any recourse (agathi) . Under these pitiable circunstances ,
Your sankalpam alone can lead to an appropriate PrAyaschittham for adiyEn
( mayi vishayE Sva-Buddhi parikalpitham kimapi prathividhAnam ThvayA
AadheeyathAm) . Swamy Desikan states that Lord of Srirangam knows
what PrAyaschittham ( PrathividhAnam) is right for him and begs the Lord
to prescribe it .
SlOkam 17 :
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VishAdha BahuLAdhaham vishaya-vargathO dhurjayAth
BhibhEmi vrujinOttharas-ThvadhanubhUthi vicchEdhatha:
mayA niyatha nATavAn-ayam-ithi ThvamarTaapayan
dayAdhana JagathpathE dayitharanga samraksha maam
(Meaning): Oh Lord who relishes His residence at Srirangam !
adiyEn is one , who continously accumulates my sins and adds
them on and on . The so called pleasures of this world are really
filled with sorrow. It is not easy for adiyEn to destroy them . adiyEn
has been caught in this web of my own sins and experience excruciating
pain arising from my inability to enjoy You. You are the Lord of Lords
(SarvEswaran) . You are reputed as the owner of the vast wealth of
Dayaa . It is You alone , who can take pity on adiyEn's helplessness
and extend Your compassion to protect me from all these vipareethams.
No one can stand in Your way , if You decide to rescue me . You can
justify Your act of rescuing adiyEn with the thought : he has considered
Me as his Master always and hence I am duty bound to protect him ".
This must be Your rationale for my rescue states Swamy Desikan
in this slOkam .
( Comments) : Swamy Desikan addresses the Lord as : " Dayaa Dhana !
Jagath PathE ! and Dayitha Ranga " here while asking for the Lord's
protection ( Samraksha maam ) . Dayaa dhanan refers to Him having
the abundant wealth of Compassion (Dayaa, anukampaa , KaruNai) .
The address of " Jagath PathE " refers to His Swamithvam or Lordship
over all the Universe . "Dayitha Ranga " relates to His fondness to live
in the middle of the island formed by the Cauvery river .
Swamy Desikan now introduces himself as a lowly one :
" aham vrijina uttharan" ( One filled with Paapams of every kind).
Swamy says that these sins are interfering with his enjoyment
of the Lord (Thvath anubhUthy vicchEdhanam) because these sins
arising from the involvement with material pleasures (Vishaya
vargatham ) are sorrow producing ( vishAdha- Bahulam ) and
difficult to conquer ( dhurjayam ) by oneself . All of these cause
great fear in me ( aham BhibhEmi) . Please remember the meaning
behind adiyEn's statement that You are my Lord always ( mayA
niyatha NaaTavAn ithi Thvam arTApayan) and protect me well
( Maam samraksha ) .
SlOkam 18
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nisarga niranishtathA Tava niramhasa: SrUyathE
tathas-thriyuga srushtivath bhavathy samhruthi: kireeDitham
taTAapi SaraNAgatha praNaya bhanga bheethO bhavAn
madhishDamiha yadh-bhavEth kimapi Maa sma tajjehapath
( Meaning) : Oh Supreme Lord of Thiruvarangam with the six primary guNams
( JnAna-Sakthi-Bala-Isvarya -Veerya and tEjas) ! Paapam has no sambhandham
with You (KarmAs do not touch You) . Therefore , Upanishads salute You
as One who is intrinsically free from sorrow of any kind. There is no
inauspiciousness even if You destroy me ; that act is like a leela based
on Your sankalpam to create the world and its beings. You who is
"fearless" have however one fear left . That fear is associated with
Your refusal of the wishes of one , who sought Your protection thru
the act of SaraNAgathy and the consequent break in relationship
(friendship) between the two of you . Therefore , You have taken
the vow to shower Your anugraham on Your SaraNAgathan. adiyEn
is one , who has performed prapatthi to You . Therefore , Please do not
hesitate to identify what is auspicious for adiyEn and bless me with
that boon .
( Comment ) : VeDas recognize You as sinless ( nirmahasa: )
and intrinsically free from sorrows ( Nisara niranishDathA ).
Therefore the act of creation and destruction (Srushti and SamhAram)
are like a sport for You ( kireeDitham bhavathy) and it does not create
any sorrow for You , when You dissolve the universe . You destroy to
create as part of Your leelA . Even with such disassociation from
fear , You still are afraid of one thing : fear about refusal to respond
to the prayer for protection by PrapannAs ( TaTAapi SaraNAgatha
praNaya bhanga bheetha: BhavAn ) . I have performed SaraNAgathy
at Your sacred feet . Hence You can not refuse to shower Your anugraham
on adiyEn . Therefore please look into what may be beneficial for me
during the post-prapatthi period in this world and bless me without fail .
Srimath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil V.Sadagopan
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