Sri:
SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,
Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:
998. thvayyAyatthoU Bhagavathi shilABhasmanO: prANadhAnA
dhAsthrIbAlam praThithaviBhavoU pAdhapadhmoU murArE:
thAmEvAham shirasi nihithAmadhya pashyAmi dhEvA-
dhAthmADhArAm janani! BhavathImAthmalABhaprasUthim
Oh Goddess Paaduka Mother! Even a child or womenfolk would know of
Your achievements in that You helped revivification of a stone or
burnt log of wood. My assigning them to Your credit cannot be
questioned by anybody. The Feet depend on You. While You are
Yourself the basis for Yourself, the feet depend on You. It is You
which inculcated the right spirit of the seld as subordinate to You.
And I feel honoured by Your being placed on my head.
Namo Narayana,
SriMuralidhara Dasan
Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (V.S):
SlOkam 998
1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Oh Worshipful Mother! the Stone at
the roadside became AhalyA, the wife of Sage Gouthama. The piece of
charcoal became King Parikshith. People say that these
transformations took place through the intervention of Your Lord's
holy feet. Those sacred feet are accomodated by You and supported by
You. Oh PaadhukE! Unlike the Lord's feet, You do not need any
support base and are responsible for the jeevan to attain its
svaroopa Jn~Anam. I consider myself fortunate in adorning You on my
head inview of the great vaibhavam that you are associated with.(
Swamy Desikan bases this verse on what is known as Kaimudhika
NyAyam according to which PaadhukAs can be understood as giving new
life to the jeevans at the end of their earthly life inside the
body).
2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam:In this slOkam, Swamy Desikan
points out that the auspiciousness arising from being the servant of
the Lord's Paadhukais is unsurpassed in its vaibhavam and it is
something that is not easy to gain. It is indeed the Vaathsalya
guNam of the Paadhukais that makes it possible and not any planned
striving(prayathnam) on our part. It is PadhukA's motherly
affection for us and your their anugraha paramparais that lead upto
this Parama srEyas.
3) Oh Mother PaadhukE ( Bhagavthee Janani)! Your Lord's lotus feet
have the glories of blessing AhalyA, who was staying as a stone
(SilA) due to her husband's curse; those sacred feet saved the
embryo ParIkshith from apANDava asthram and transformed him form a
cinder block to a living infant (m basmAnO: PrANa dhAnAth); those
same sacred feet destroyed MurAsuran. Such feet with all these
vaibhavams are under Your control (MurArE: Paadha Padhmou
ThvayyAyatthou). Your Lord is the antharAthmA for all the world (
aathmAdharAm) and You are the bearer of that ParamAthmA. You are
worshipped by all the world ( SarvalOka Poojyai ); You have unique
and matchless vaibhavam ( nirathisaya prabhAvasaali ). You are the
cause for the Moksha sukham for the jeevans (Thvam aathma-lAbha
prasUthi). It is only through good fortune I am having You now on my
head without any special prayathnam ( aham dhaivAth sirasi nihithAm
adhya pasyAmi)...(V.S)
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