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SvabhAnu Yajur-Upaakarmaa and SravaNa Vratham day
Kadaka Maasam, Greeshma Ruthu , Aadi 26th day

SrI:

Fifty First SlOkam (Prayer for removal of SamsAric Taapams)
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VaathyA-sathair-vishaya -raagatayA vivrutthai:
vyAkoorNamAna manasam ViBhudhAthirAja
nithyOtapthamapi mAmm nijakarmagarmai:
nirvEsaya svapadha-padhma madhu pravAham 

General Meaning:
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Oh Deva NaathA ! The ever expanding desires about
the material pleasures (Vishaya sukhams) is like 
the fast moving and dangerous vortex of a tornado.
The mind of mine caught in the middle of that vortex
is being tossed about wildly from here to there and
everywhere.The trespasses against Your sAsthrAs 
scorch me like the heat of an intense summer.Oh Lord!
Please banish my sufferings by immersing me in the honey
like cool flood of the anubhavam of Your lotus feet!

Additional Comments:
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The prayer of Swamy Desikan is: " MAmm Sva-padha-padhma
madhu pravAham nirvEsaya". Please bless me to be immersed 
in the cool and delectable flood of the honey that flows 
from Your lotus like ThiruvadihaL. Swamy Desikan gives
two reasons for such a request for immediate help:

1) "Vishaya rAgatayA vivrutthai: vAthyA sathai: 
vyAkoorNa manasa:" (sthithOsmi) 

The Vishaya sukhams ( unquenchable thirst for the enjoyment of 
transitory pleasures of the world)have taken on the form of
hundreds of dangerous tornados (vaathyA sathai: vivrutthai:)
and are tossing my mind (VyAkoorNamAna manasam mAmm)
violently in all directions through their immense power.
They never stop and adiyEn has no freedom from them.

2) " nija karma garmai: nithya uptapthavAn " asi

The heat generated by my dushkarmAs(nija karma
garmai:) meanwhile keeps me roasted always
( nithya taptham).

The only antidote for the above two kinds of sufferings
is immersion in the most enjoyable and cooling flood of
honey ( madhu pravAham) from Your lotus feet(Sva-pAdha padhmam).

Please grant me this boon of immersion in that flood of
honey( Sva-Padha Padhma madhu pravAham nirvEsaya)! 

Swamy Desikan asks for immersion in the " thEnE peruhum
Thiruvadi" of the Lord. 

SlOkam Fifty Two: (Prayer for Nithya Vaasam at Thiruayindhai)
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Jaya ViBhudhapathE Thvam darsithAbhIshta dhAna:
saha SarasijivAsA mEdhineebhyAM vasAbhyAm
nalavanamiva mrudhnan pAparAsim nathAnAm
GarudasaridhanUpE gandha-hastheeva dheevyan

General Meaning
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In this slOkam , Swamy Desikan like the Father-in-law
of SrI HemAbhjavalli ThAyAr prays to the Lord to reside
permanently ( nithya vAsam) at this Dhivya dEsam to bless 
generations of His BhakthAs and BhAgavathAs.

Oh the Lord of DevAs( ViBhudha PathE)! You are roaming
joyously on the banks of Garuda nathi like a mighty elephant 
in rut(Gandha Hasthi) with ichor flowing from its eyes.
Your kOlAhalam in that state is most enjoyable to watch. 
Your sevai is also majestic in that state. Just as ichor flows 
continously from the eyes of the elephant in rut, Your hands
are granting the desired boons to Your bhakthAs without stopping.
The elephant in rut will move wildly through the lotus ponds
and destroy them . Similarly , You destroy the huge 
assemblies of sins accumulated by Your devotees by stomping 
on them . The male elephant in rut would sport with his wives on
the banks of rivers and roam in the forests.Similarly , You sport
with SrI and BhU Devis on the banks of Garuda nathi at
this dhivya dEsam.Thus Thou should reside forever at 
at ThiruvahIndhrapuram with Your unmatched Parathvam(Supermacy),
Soulabhyam (neermai) and Soundharyam (Vadivazhahu). 

Additional Comments:
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Swamy Desikan is now at the very end of the SrI Sookthi 
and is praying for the nithya Vaasam of the Lord at
ThiruvahIndhrapuram just as Brighu Maharishi did 
as the father-in-law of the Lord.Brighu Maharishi 
sits with folded handson the right side of the Lord
at the garbha graham . The Lord heard the prayer of
His father-in-law and responded positively . Opposite 
Her foster father , SrI HemAbhjavalli ThAyAr sits with
folded hands. Moolavar stands facing both His divine consort
and His father-in-law at this dhivya desam.

Swamy Desikan is overcome by the majestic gait of 
the Uthsavar on sanchAram with His Ubhaya NaacchiyAr 
on the banks of Garuda nathi and has His sevai as a majestic
elephant in rut (Gandha Hasthi) strutting about . Swamy salutes 
Him as the One , who grants all the boons that a BhakthA desires
( darsitha abhIshta dhAnan).Swamy visualizes Him destroying 
the mighty piles of accumulated sins of His bhakthAs prostrating 
before Him just as an elephant in rut tramples the lotuses in 
the pond ( naLa vanamiva nathAnAm pApa raasim mrudhnan).
The sanchAram of the Lord with His two Devis on the banks
of Garuda nathi in the majestic Gaja gathi overwhelms 
Swamy Desikan(Gaja saridhanUpE vasAbhyAm sarasija VaasA 
MEdhineebhyAm saha dheevyan DEvanAtham dhrushtvA ,
Jaya vijayee bhava ithyAhu:).

The Fifty Third and Final SlOkam (Poet's Mudhrai)
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niravadhi guNa jAtham nithyam nirdhOshamAdhyam
naraka maTana daksham nAkinAmEkanATam
vinatha vishaya sathyam Venkatesa: kavisthvAm
sthuthipadham adhigacchan sObhathE SathyavAdhee

General meaning:
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Oh Dhaiva NaayakA! There is no limit to Your auspicious
attrbutes.never ever was there any room for blemishes
among Your guNams.You are the prime cause of this Universe
and its beings.You are the expert , who removes naraka 
bhayam from the chEthanams.You are the uncontsted leader of
all DevAs including Brahman.The vow that You have taken to come
to the rescue of those , who seek Your protection will never
fail. Your SaraNAgatha Rakshanam vow has never failed. You have
acquired the name of Natha Satyan (adiyavarkku Meyyan)
because you have always been true to Your adiyvar .
While eulogising You as the Supreme Lord , this poet
with the name of VenkatEsa has transformed in to 
a SathyavAadhi ( One who never swerves from the Truth
or one who talks about Sathyan /adiyavarkku Meyyan)
and has understood You as the One saluted with the name of
Sathyam ( sathyam Jn~Anam Anantham Brahma).

Additional Comments:
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Swamy Desikan focuses on the following Six lakshaNams of
the Lord at ThiruvahIndhrapuram:

1. Abode of limitless auspicious guNams( Niravadhi guNajAtham)

2. Forever Blemishless ( Nithya nirdhOsham)

3. Prime cause of the Worlds (Aadhyam)

4. Skilled Destroyer of narakAnubhavam for those who seek
His protection ( Naraka MaTana daksham)

5. The matchless Lord of the DevAs(NAkinAmEka Naatam)

6. True to His prapanna janams ( Vinatha vishaya Sathyam).

Then Swamy Desikan states that he as the poet blessed 
to eulogize SrI DEvanATan as the subject of his sthuthi
is shining himself as Sathya Vaadhee. 

Great Upanishidic doctrines are referred to in this concluding
salutation to Lord DevanAthan as the Para Brahmam by 
Swamy Desikan and he alludes to the great transformation that came 
over him as he chose Lord DevanAthan as the subject of his
SthOthram . Lord is Natha Sathyan or Adiyavarkku Meyyan.
Lord is saluted as "Sathyam " By Upanishads . Swamy Desikan
states that the kaimakryam of composing this SthOthram has
given him the title(Birudhu) of Sathya Vaadhee ( One who speaks 
about the Upanishadic Sathyan). 

As NigamAntha MahA Desikan , Swamy Desikan connects to
the fundamental question that Upanishads tackle: the definition of
" the ultimate principle or reality by knowing which every thing
else becomes known".Upanishads identify and salute this
ultimate reality as Brahman and describe it as " Satya, Jn~Ana, 
Prajn~Ana , Chith , Aanandha, BhUmA and AntharyAmi". This ultimate
reality is limitless (anantha) in its Svaroopam and GuNams .
Every thing takes its origin form this Brahman (JanmAdhyasya yatha:
of Brahma Soothram) while identifying it as the one from which
the Universe and its beings originate (Srushti).TaittirIya
Upanishad defines this Brahman as " Sathyam Jn~Anam Anantham
BrahmA" and goes on to say: " That from which all these beings
are born, that by which they live and that unto which , 
when departing they enter, seek to know it as Brahman".
Swamy Desikan relates these Upanishadic doctrines to
the Para Brahmam at ThiruvahIndhrapuram in ArchA form 
and salutes Him as "Aadhyan" in this concluding slOkam.

Swamy Desikan addresses himself as Satya Vaadhee or one who 
speaks about this Satyan , who is defined by BruhadhAraNyaka
Upanishad as " Sathyasya Sathyam " or the reality of the real.
ChAndhOgya Upanishad clearly spells out the name of Brahman
as Sathyam ( tasya ha vaa yetasya BrahmaNO naama Satyamith).
The same ChAndhOgya Upanishad in the section on BhUma
(Infinitely great) VidyA declares that we have to 
comprehend Brahman as Satyam and meditate on it as
Satya for attaining liberation from the cycles of
births and deaths(Moksham).Swamy Desikan touches also 
on the UbhayaLingAdhikaraNam of Brahma Soothrams
in his concluding slOkam of SrI DevanAyaka PanchAsath.

It is a great bhAgyam to share with You all 
some thoughts on Swamy Desikan's great
sthOthram on the Lord of ThiruvahIndhrapuram
named "SrI Deva Naayaka PanchAsath".

Jaya Jaya SrI DevanAtha, Jaya Jaya SrI DEvanAtha !
Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan 

P.S: May the powerful prayers and appeals of 
Swamy Desikan to Lord DevanAthan as the Upanishadic
Brahman for removing his samsAric afflictions and 
his prayer for nithya vAsam as Archaa Moorthy at 
ThiruvhaIndhrapuram inspire you all to take part
in the RathnAngi Kaimakryam for the Lord and recieve
His eternal blessings ! Our Lord is going to like
a splendorous JyOthi with His RathnAngi as He travels
with SrI Devi and BhU DEvi in the raaja Veedhis of 
ThiruvahIndhrapuram.

>From tomorrow, adiyEn will move on to SrI Achyutha
Sathakam composed in prAkrutham by Swamy Desikan 
about the Vaibhavam of Lord Deva Nathan .




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