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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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