Jatayu
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• January 7, 1997
I thank Sriman Sadagopan for reminding me of Swami Desikan's hymn on Jatayu,"paramArtha-stuthi" !! All that I had tried to essay in more than two dozen laborious postings, Swami Desikan captured in ONE sterling verse #7 in the 'paramArtha-stuthi' and here it is : avadhIrya chathurvidham pUmartham bhavadharthE viniyUkthajIvithaha san I labhathE bhavathaha palAni janthuhu nikhilAnyatra nidarshanam jatayuhu II My personal English paraphrase of the above : "Any living entity which "transcends" the 4 'purUshArthA-s' and embraces instead You and dedicates its very life for Your Sake, will obtain all fruits -- of the here and the hereafter -- from You !! Jatayu is the grandest example of this truth !! " Dear 'bhAgavatOttamA-s', look at the exquisite brevity of Swami Desikan's Verse here where he has packed into 4 lines of simple Sanskrit what I struggled and could never properly express in thousands of words in my postings of the past two weeks !! I beseech the blessings of our great 'achAryA' and pray to him here to forgive me if in the course of my own so-called "ramblings" on the net I have in any way inadvertantly distorted or otherwise misrepresented the essential message embedded in the above gem of verse in the 'paramArtha-stuthi' !! Sriman Sadagopan has promised me that he will give his remarks on this 'paramArtha-stuthi' shortly on the 'bhakti-list'. I request him to elaborate on this particular Verse #7 which virtually is a HEART-STEALER !!!! nrsumha-priyan, sudarshan
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