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54) ArTithaarTa pradhAthrE SrI
VenkatEsaaya Nama:
Salutations to Lord VenkatEsa , who grants all the boons desired by His
bhakthAs !
When Sage Sounaka, Agastya and
others are bestowed with the rare privilege of witnessing the Lord's
Visvaroopam, in response to their eulogies , the Lord tells them to seek from
Him anything and everything they might desire, with absolutely no
reservations. He assures them that none who comes to worship Him at Tirumala
would return empty-handed and unsatisfied.
We find from experience, ours and
others', that the Lord is living up to His assurance with alacrity till date
and people with varied wish-lists are accomodated by Him, irrespective of
whethr they really deserve all that they seek.
Not only does the Lord grant
everything that His devotees seek, He is also responsible for satisfying the
desires of those who worship other deities, for, it is He, as the
inner-dweller of the other deities, who indirectly gives the seekers whatever
they want, says the Lord in the Gita--"labhate cha tata: kaamaan, mayaiva
vihitaan hi taan". This is munificence beyond contemplation, for we
see philanthropists being generous to those who come to them for assistance--Srinivasa
is the one and only Paramatma, who extends His generosity to those who seek
out other deities too.
PurushArTams (goals of life ) are four in number
: Dharama , arTam , Kaama and Moksham . Lord VenkatEsa grants any one of
these four boons to those who are fortunate to
climb up His hills , stand before Him and seek these boons. He responds to His
BhakthA's prArthanAs and grants them whether they are trivial or lofty in
nature. To grant these boons desired by His bhakthAs , He gave up His
attachment to Vaikuntam and sports gracefully with Lakshmi as Lord SrInivAsan
on the banks of Swamy PushkaraNi .
His mangaLa slOkam celebrates His generosity (
oudhAryam ) as Kaliyuga Varadhan in granting all the boons sought by
the supplicants .Hre is a treasure trove (arTinAm
nidhi: ) for them to help themselves :
Sriya: KaanthAya KalyANa nidhayE nidhayEarTinAm
SrI Venkata-nivAsAya SrInivAsAya MangaLam
Venkata KrishNan as GithAchAryan describes the
seekers of wealth ( arTArTi ) that approach Him this way:
ChathurvidhA bhajanthE Maam janA: SukruthinOrjuna
aartthO Jig~nAsur-arTArTi Jn~Ani cha
Bharatharshabha
--Bhagavath GitA : 7.16
(Meaning) : Four kinds of men of good deeds
worship Me, Oh ArjunA ! These are the distressed (aartthan) , the seekers of
higher knowledge ( Jig~nAsu) , the wealth seeker( arTArTi ) and the men of
knowledge and discriminating intellect (Jn~Ani).
Whatever boon they desire , Lord VenkatEsa is
ready to grant them that boon . He is Kaliyuga Varadhan and acts as a
wish-granting Kalpaka tree on Thirumala hills.
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