SrI:
Dear BhakthAs
:
The 11 SlOkams of SrI Sthavam have
now been covered .
adiyEn will move on to Sri Vaikunta
Sthavam . This magnificent
Sthavam of KurEsar has 100 slOkams
and has the SaarArthams
(essential menaings of Sri BhAshyam
passages ) and therefore
it has been recommended as a must to
study by us .
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Sri Vaikunta Sthavam ,
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The Structure of Sri Vaikunta
Sthavam
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1) The First slOkam is a magnificent
tribute to EmperumAnAr
by KurEsar . This slOkam is the
one that we use daily :
" yO nithyamachyutha padhAmbhuja
yugamarugma " .
(2 )& (3) : These
two slOkams offer prayer to recieve the anugraham
of
Swamy NammAzhwAr in the
efforts to compose SrI Vaikunta Sthavam .
4) Salutatiomns to Sriman NaarAyaNan
, the Jagan-MangaLa JyOthi :
the Svayam JyOthi
.
(5) Prayer for the Lord to appear
before the Kavi with His Dhivya
MangaLa Vigraham
.
(6) Salutations to the DhivyAthma
Svarooapm of the Lord .
(7) Description of the Vaathsalyam
of the Lord for His BhakthAs .
(8) KurEsar's discomfort about
his ability to engage in the task of
eulogizing the Lord
.
(9) Declaration of his (KurEsar's)
determination to make a
feeble
attempt to eulogize a miniscule of
the Lord's limitless glories .
(10) Salutations to the Lord's
foremost attribute : KshamA ( forbearance) .
We will study the Sri
Vaikunta Sthava slOkams few at a time :
First SlOkam of SrI Vaikunta
Sthavam
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yO nithyamachyutha
padhAmbhuja-yugma-rukma-
vyAmOhathas-tadhirANi
thruNAya mEnE
asmadh-gurOr-bhagavathoasya
dayaikasindhO:
RaamAnujasya charaNou SaraNam prapadhyE (Meaning): adiyEn has sought the
refuge of the sacred feet of
AchArya RaamAnujA , the huge ocean
of Mercy and who possesses
the celebrated six guNams of
BhagavAn Himself . He considered
every
thing else other
than the golden pair of the lotus feet of Achyuthan ,
as worthless
blades of grass . He
is our illustrious AchAryan , who chases
away the dark night of nescience (ajn~Anam) suffered by the
ThoNDar
Kulam ( BhAgavatha GhOshti)
.
(Comments) : ANDAL
addressed Her Lord in ThiruppAvai and
requested Him to hear
Her celebration of His
golden pair of sacred feet :
" unn poRRAmarai
adiyE pORRum poruL
kELAi " . KurEsar takes his cue
from here
and describes the
matchless sacred feet of the Lord , which are
the bhOgya vasthu ( object of
enchantment ) for AchArya RaamAnujA
as : " Achyutha
padhAmbhuja yugma rukma vyAmOhatha: " .
KurEsar addresses AchArya RaamAnuja
in the first slOkam as
"
Bhagavatha: " (ShAdguNya SampUrNa BhagavAn) . AchArya RaamAnuja
was a SanyAsi
with ThridhaNDam . Why does KurEsar call him as "BhagavAn " ?
The clue is that both BhagavAn
and AchArya RaamAnuja are " Trayyantha
samrakshakars " (protectors of the VedAs) in SanyAsi roopam holding
the ThridhaNDams
(MukkOl Munivar) . In
DattAthrEya avathAram ,
BhagavAn appeared as
a SanyAsi
carrying the ThridhaNDam
and protected the three Vedams
( ThridhaNDa dhAriNA
poorvam
VishNunA rakshithA Thrayee ). In
Kali yugam , AchArya
RaamAnuja
took on SanyAsa Aasramam and
defended the VedAs
through
his Sri Sookthis (Sri BhAshyam ,
VedAntha dheepam ,
VedAntha Saaram et
al).
" Dayaika SindhO: asmath GurO:
RaamAnujasya " : BhagavAn gets
angry at times over the limitless trespasses of
His Saasthrams by
the jeevans ( kRodham Aaharayath theevram ) and
makes nigraha
sankalpam ( vow to punish the erring jeevan) .
AchArya RaamAnujA
on the other hand never gets angry at us
and is an ocean of Dayaa
and Vaathsalyam in correcting our errors and
showing us the path of
redemption ( ujjevanam) .
Second SlOkam of
SrI Vaikunta Sthavam
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thraividhya vruddha-jana moordha-vibhUshaNam
yath
sampaccha sAthvika-janasya yadhEva
nithyam
yadhvaa SaraNyam asaraNya-janasya
puNyam
tath samsrayEma VakuLAbharaNa
angri-yugmam
(Meaning) : May we , who have no other refuge , be blessed to
attain the impeccably pure(sacred) feet of Swamy NammAzhwAr
adorning the garland of VakuLa pushpams ! His sacred pair
of feet is the lasting crown for the heads of poorvAchAryAs
( AlavanthAr , RaamaanujA and NaaTa Muni) ; Those pair of feet
of
Swamy NammAzhwAr is the wealth for those , who are the abodes
for Satthva guNam .
SrivathsAnkAcchAr Swamy points
out that one can hear the echos of
the passages from Swamy AlavanthAr's and AchArya
RaamAnujA's
Sri Sookthis in this and other slOkams .
Third SlOkam of Sri Vaikunta
Sthavam
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bhakthi prabhAva
bhavathadhbhutha-bhAva-Bandha
sandhukshitha praNayasAra rasouka poorNa:
vEdArTa ratnanidhi:
Achyutha-hivya dhAma
jeeyAth
ParAnkusa payOdhiraseemabhUmA
Swamy NammAzhwAr
(ParAnkusar) of
limitless glories
is compared here to
the auspicous Milky
Ocean and is hailed
for eternal rememberance by all of us ( aseema bhUmaa
ParAnkusa PayOdhi:
jeeyAth ) . PallANDU is sung for
the milky
ocean of Swamy
NammAzhwAr , who is the
abode of lustrous
gems representing
the essence of VedAs ( VedArTa
rathna nidhi: ) .
He is recognized as
the living place for
BhagavAn (Achyutha
Dhivya dhAma ) and
as one , who is full
of divine love for the Lord ,
which found its
outlet as
Paasurams renowned for their Para Bhakthi ,
Para Jn~Anam and Parama Bhakthi .
The trinity of the waters from
the river , springs and rain
join
together to make the
combined waters of the mighty ocean .
Similarly , the intensity of the
bhakthi of Swamy NammAzhwAr
for BhagavAn transformed into
nava rasa anubhavams and flowed
as his divine paasurams . The three
sources of flow into the Milky
Ocean are Swamy NammAzhwAr's Para
Bhakthi ( Bhakthi prabhAvam) ,
Para Jn~Anam ( BhAva bhandha: ) and
Parama Bhakthi ( PraNaya Saara:).
Swamy KurEsar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam
,
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