GodhA Sthuthi slOkams of Swami Desikan : Part I
From the Bhakti List Archives
• July 3, 2000
Dear BhakthAs :
adiyEn invited your attention to the 500 page
commentary on the 30 Paasurams of ThiruppAvai
of Anna VayaR Pudhuvai ANDAL by U.Ve. PerukkaraNai
Sri ChakravarthyAcchAr Swamy of Desika Bhavanam ,
and requested your particpation to help release
this magnificent manuscript in to a printed monograph .
Ten BhakthAs have responded sofar with pledges that
add up to $ 984 . AdiyEn will match this amount
on a one on one basis because of adiyEn's desire
to catalyze the printing and release of this scholarly
commentary on the great Prabhandham of ThiruppAvai
by GodhA Piratti for the world wide aasthikA community .
We need a total of $2,800 . With the matching of
the currently pledged amounts , we have now come to
the level of $1968 against the target of $2,800 .
We just need $ 832 more or pledges of $ 416 for
Matching purposes .
As an expression of my gratitude for the BhakthAs
who are taking part in this last Kaimkaryam for
this year from my end , adiyEn thought few postings
on the anubhavam of the great sthuthi of Swamy Desikan
on ANDAL revered as GodhA Sthuthi would be appropriate.
This sthuthi brimming with affection and reverence
for GodhA has 29 slOkams . These slOkams also
house the tattuvams that ANDAL taught us for
our hitham and ujjevanam (upliftment). These postings
will take off from the earlier ones on the study of
the deep Tatthuvams enshrined in ThiruppAvai of ANDAL .
These earlier postings of adiyEn are archived in
the December 96 and January 97 archives of
the Bhakthi list .
Swamy Desikan described his sthuthi on
GodhA dEvi and its effect on those who
recite it as "Bahu GuNa RamaNIyaam ya:
Sa bhavathi BahumAnya: SrimathO Rangabharthu:"
( Those who recite this GodhA sthuthi
containing the splendid tributes to the many
KalyANa GuNams of Godhai would become very
dear Her Lord , Sri RanganAthan) .Swami Desikan
also pointed out the slOkams of GodhA Sthuthi
arose form him out of the fully blossomed
Bhakthi for Her ( Ithi vikasitha bhakthE:
utthithAm VenkatEsAth). May we through
the recitation of the GodhA Sthuthi and
contemplation on its deep meanings enshrined in
its 29 SlOkams become dear to Sri RanganAthA ,
the beloved consort of ANDAL.
adiyEn's sister , Kaimkrya Sri Padma
VeerarAghavan of West Mambalam has tuned
the 29 slOkams of GodhA sthuthi in Ghana
and rakthi raagams and has taught it to
hundreds of ladies of Chennai . She is
currenltly working feverishly on GodhA Sahasram
project at Desika Bhavanam at Mylapore
to train 1,000 ladies to sing GodhA
Sthuthi in unison at SrivilliputthUr in front
of Our ThAyAr , ANDAL .
AdiyEn will be happy to arrange for all
the particpants in this kaimkaryam to receive
a tape of the 29 slOkams of the GodhA sthuthi
tuned by my sister and sung by a small
group of ladies . RaagAs like Raama PriyA ,
Nattai, GowLai, Aarabhi ,VarALi , Sri ,
Naayaki and Surutti are some of the raagams
used in this rendering .
AdiyEn will commence the postings on
the individual slOkams of Swamy Desikan's
GodhA Sthuthi next.
Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SatakOpan
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