SrI:
PaarTiva Samvathsaram
, Kanyaa Maasam ,
KrishNa Paksha Thritheeyai ,
Revathy Nakshathram
Dear BhakthAs
of BhagavAn Sri Lakshmi Narasimhan :
HH Srimath Azhagiya Singar is
one of the greatest AchAryAs
having a unique Saili
(style ) of writing and blessing us
with KaaakshEpams on
ProuDa ( difficult) granthams .
His clarity
of thought , felicity of diction and ability to
anticipate questions on the
minds of his listeners & readers
are
legendary . adiyEn
will include some excerpts from his
writing from the latest issue
of Sri Nrusimha Priya that is
related to the slOkam of
today .
HH Srimath Azhagiya Singar's
79th birthday celebrations
are being planned for Dec 10
at Bangalore with Chathur Veda
PaarAyaNam in the
Vaidhika Kramam . You are all invited
to take part in this joyous
festival .
The Fourth SlOkam of SrI
Sthuthi
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In the Fourth SlOkam , Swamy
Desikan describes how SrI DEvi
reveals Her Lord as Para
DEvathai to us .
yath-sankalpAth bhavathi
KamalE yathra dEhinyameeshAm
janma-sTEma-praLaya rachanA jangamAjangamAnAm
tath kalyANam kimapy yaminAm
yEka lakshyam samAdhou
poorNam
tEja: sphurathy bhavathee paadhalAkshA rasAngam
(Meaning): Oh KamalE ! MahA
Devi! Your Lord has many Vaibhavams :
(1) He has the sentients and
the insentients as His
Sareeram and stays
inside them as their antharAthmaa
( indweller=antharyAmi Brahmam) .
(2) His sankalpa sakthi is
behind His acts of creation , protection
and dissolution of
the Universe , which
are just leelAs for Him .
(3) He stays as the Most auspicious One
and confers auspiciousness on
all the auspicious vasthus . They
become auspicous because of His MangaLa
Svaroopam .
(4) The Yogis control their senses
through His anugraham ( practise of AshtAnga
yOgam
) and are
blessed to visualize His dhivya MangaLa vigraham inside their
heart lotuses
.
(5) He stays as ParipoorNa Nambi
everywhere and every thing through
His unique Svaroopam
( inherent
nature) and matchles kalyANa guNams .
Oh Mother MahA Lakshmi ! You stay on
the chest of this tEjOmaya Moorthy without
ever leaving that place of residence of
Yours . Not for a fraction of a second do you
stay away
from that cherished
home of Yours . You confer on Him the name of
SrinivAsan
through Your
residence . He welcomes the contact of the red dye
adorning Your
sacred feet as His
defining mark . That red dye enhances
His natural beauty
further. As a
defining sign ( lakshaNam) , that red dye
associated with
Your Thiruvadi
becomes the reason for all of His unique
vaibhavam .The
Upanishads take
their cue from that lakshaNam and eulogize
Him as the Supreme Being .
You are thus
the root cause behind all the glories
of Your Lord . Oh SrI Devi ! That
is Your glory !
Additional
observations on the Individual sections of this slOkam
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Swamy Desikan lists First the
unique guNams of the Lord , His leelais ,
His Sankalpam , His
pervasive presence everywhere (anthar and Bahir-
VyApthi) , His conferral of
auspiciousness to
vasthus and Janthus and
His tEjas (Lustre)
. He goes on then to reveal the power behind these all
.
(1)
Kimapi tEja: For describing the asAdharaNa tEjas of the Lord ,
Azhagiya
Singar quotes from
VishNu PurANa slOkam ( 1.9.67):
" apoorva-roopa-sanTAnam
tEjasAm raasim Urjitham "
Sage ParAsara
is describing here the asAdharana ( extraordinary) soundharyam
(beauty) of the
Lord . That kind of roopam ( ThirumEni) and its structure
is not to be
found anywhere else . That roopam is a tEjO raasi (
niravadhika
tEjOmaya
ThirumEni ) . Before that limitlessradiance , every other lustre shrinks
in to
insignificance just as the lustre of a firefly before that of the
Sooryan .
Our Lord's soundharyam is niravadhika ( limitless ) soundharyam (
beauty
and proportion of His limbs)
; His niravadhika sougandhyam ( fragrance) ,
soukumAryam/Youvanam (
tenderness & youthfulness) and LaavaNyam
have been
praised by AzhwArs
and their conclusion is that He is an insatiable
nectar
( AarA amutham
). All of these aspects of youthful
beauty of the Lord
has been referred to by
Azhagiya Singar as : " Youvana unmukheebhUtha
sukumAra tanu : ". Our
Lord's ThirumEni soundharyam is insatiable , whether
enjoyed for one day or
one year or one yugam . This insatiable anubhavam of
the Nithya Sooris is saluted
by the Vedams as : " SadhA pasyanthi Sooraya: ".
The Nithya Sooris can not
even close their eye lids for a second since they do
not want to lose that
aanandha anubhavam even for that second .
Our Lord's Sankalpa Balam :
With the matchless power of His
Sankalpam
(will and volition) , our Lord has the
sentients and insentients as His body
and stays inside them as their antharyAmi
Brahman ( indwelling Lord as controller ,
commander and
witness) . BrahadhAraNya
Upanishad elaborates on His
antharyAmi Tatthvam . The Jeevans and the
insentients are VisEshaNAmsa
and the indwelling Lord is the VisEshyAmsa
. They are different from each
other and are real. BhagavAn through His
sankalpa sakthi rules all other real
entities . He creates , protects and
dissolves these various kinds of chEtanams
and achEtanams . Swamy Desikan salutes this
sankalpa Balam as : " Yathra
Dehini ameeshAm jangama
ajangamAnAm janma- sTEma-praLaya rachanA
Yath sankalpAth Bhavathi "
( The first two lines of this fourth slOkam )
.
Let us look now at the the
other half of the slOkam (3rd and 4th lines) .
SamAdhi of the Yogis and
BhagavAn's manifestation
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" tath kalyANam yaminAm yEka
lakshyam " That auspicious and
beautiful ThirumEni of
BhagavAn , the target of the Yogi's saadhana ,
becomes visible in their
meditation inside their heart lotus.
" Yath PoorNam
"
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That Sankalpam of BhagavAn
results in His presence everywhere and
in every vasthu that he
creates . The OmkArAthmaka Vasthu (BhagavAn)
pervades in this changable
world in the spirit of what IsAvAsyOpanishad reveals
:
" IsA vAsyam idham sarvam
yathkinccha jagathyAm jagath " , " PoorNasya
PoorNamAdhAya PoorNamEva
avaSishyathE ". That world is full ( PoorNamadha:);
This world is full (
PoorNamidham ). That is summed up by Swamy Desikan
succinctly as "Yath PoorNam
".
Sri Devi's place of residence
in this tEjO raasi known for its Sankalpa Balam
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She resides on the chest of
this ParamAthmA engaged in many vyApArams
through His Sankalpa
Balam .Her feet are decorated with a radiant red lacquer
dye.
That rubs on the chest of the
Lord , when She moves and leaves a mark of
Her presence .
All the glories of
the Lord arise from Her presence on His chest
and
Her presence in
turn is revealed by the mark of the red dye from Her Thiruvadi
.
The VedAnthAs recognize Him
from that lakshaNam and eulogize Him as
the Supreme Being based
on that revelation .She is the auspiciousness
behind our Lord's
auspiciousness . She is SrI and He is SrInivAsan .
That is how He is recognized
and revered says the 4th SlOkam .
Srimath Azhagiya Singar
ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil
VaradAchAri SadagOpan
Your support for
the 79th Birthday celebrations for our Revered
AchAryan
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adiyEn seeks your valuable
support . $250 per family would be most
welcome . Support of more
than $250 is very much appreciated . Any amount
will ofcourse be
recieved with anjali . Some have given $101 , some $1,000
sofar. We can never
ever pay back for the MahOpakAram of Srimath Azhagiya
Singar and other AchAryAs for
their matchless dayaa to bless us with
Jn~Anam to join the Sath
SampradhAyam and Prapatthi anugraham .
At this time , adiyEn is
interestd in your pledges and Your samarpaNams
can be sent before the third
week in November .
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