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Stotras of Vedanta Desika
by Sri D. Ramaswamy Ayyangar
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17. Vairagya Panchakam
This cannot be reckoned as a stotram in the same sense in which
the other works in this book are. But of course like every work
of this great poet of God, it has a divine flavour. Total absence
of desire for worldly wealth, and all-absorbing desire for the
Lord -- that is the vairaagya, freedom from attachment, that is
held out as the ideal here. Sage Vidyaranya sent an invitation to
Desika to come to Vijayanagaram and take up an assignment under
the king. It is in answer to it that these verses were written
and sent. Desika's contempt for kingship (1), his contentment
(2), self-respect (3) and feeling of richness engendered by the
possession of undying wealth in the shape of the Lord (4 and 6)
are amply evident from these slokas. Sloka 5 repeats the sound
"dhana" eleven times. Sloka 6 says in so many words:
I have no self-acquired property nor any obstructed heritage.
I
have however unobstructed heritage (apratibandhadayA) in the form
of Lord Varadaraja atop the Elephant-hill, Hastigiri in
Kanchi, which was acquired by my (pitaamaha) paternal grandfather
(Brahma).
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