SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 88 - su-labhah.
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• March 16, 2003
SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam – Slokam 88 -su-labhah. sulabhah su-vratah siddhah Satru-jit Satru-tApanah | nyag-rodhodumbaro'Svatthah cANUrAndhra-nishUdanah || om sulabhAya namah om su-vratAya namah om siddhAya namah om Satru-jit-Satru-tApanAya namah om nyag-rodhodumbarAya namah om aSvatthAya namah om cANUrAndhra-nishUdanAya namah 823. su-labhah – a) He Who can be easily attained. b) He Who makes it possible to attain sukham (sukham labhata). Om su-labhAya namah. su is a prefix (pratyaya) meaning sukham or saukaryam here. The root involved in the nAma is labh – prAptau – to get. sukhena saukaryeNa vA labhyah su-labhah – He Who is attained easily. In SrI viSishTAdvaita sampradAyam, His soulbhayam is one of the two most important guNa-s that is enjoyed by the devotees very much (the other being His sauSIlyam). a) SrI BhaTTar's vyAkhyAnam is – anargho'pi mUlya-bhAsena svIkartum Sakyah – su-labhah – Even though He is priceless, He can be easily attained as if for a small price. SrI BhaTTar gives the example of a woman of multi-defaced body (kubjA) who offered some sandal paste to Lord kRshNa and got Him to visit her house – She seized govinda by the dress and said "Come to my house": vastre pragRhya govindam mama geham vrajeti vai (vishNu purANam 5.20.11). SrI v.v. rAmAnujan gives instances from AzhvAr's SrI sUkti-s: - pattuDai aDiyavarkku eLiyavan (tiruvAi. 1.3.1) – He is extremely easy of access to those who approach Him with devotion. (After describing bhagavAn's parattvam in the first two tiruvAimozhi- s of the first pattu (decad), nammAzhvAr starts to describe His saulabhyam, and this is the first pASuram of the third tiruvAimozhi, where he starts describing the incident where He just let Himself be bound to the mortar just to please yaSOdA. Tradition has it that nammAzhvAr was so moved by this soulabhyam of perumAL that He passed out at this simple, unassuming, virtue of emperumAn mingling with all, and was in this state of lost consciousness for six months before regaining consciousness. That is the kind of anubhavam that the AzhvAr-s had of emperumAn. For those who have gone through ANDAL's nAcciyAr tirumozhi, to understand ANDAL's outburst of emotion, it is important to understand that this is the level where she was in her anubhavam of perumAL). - eNNilum varum en ini vENDuvam (tiruvAi. 1.10.2) – if we count numbers and utter the number 26, He thinks we are referring to Him, and uses this as an excuse to come to us. (Among the tattva-s, the twenty-fifth is the soul (jIva), and the 26th is paramAtmA. If someone counts numerals just for counting purposes, and accidentally utters the number 26, He is willing to assume that this person is thinking of Him as the 26th tattvam, and is willing to appear before this person to bless him. Such is His willingness to be easily accessible). - aNiyan Agum tana-TAL aDaindArgatkellAm (tiruvAi. 9.10.8) - He is very near to those who surrender themselves to Him. SrI v. n. vedAnta deSikan comments that when sugrIva surrendered to rAma for help in getting his kingdom and his wife, rAma considered it His supreme responsibility to protect sugrIva above any other responsibility of His, including protecting sItA. Such is the power of surrender to Him. Lord rAma tells sugrIva: tvayi ki'ncit samApanne kim kAryam sItayA mama | bharatena mahAbAho lakshmaNena yavIyasA | Satrughnena ca Satrughna sva-SarIreNa vA punah || (yuddha. 41.5) "If you meet with death (by My lack of protecting you), I do not care if any of the others are left behind – such as sItA, lakshmaNa, bharata, Satrughna, or for that matter, Myself". That is the level of His ease of accessibility through the simple act of surrender. SrI Sa'nkara's vyAkhyAnam is: patra-pushpAdibhih bhakti-mAtra- samarpitaih sukhena labhyata iti su-labhah – He Who is easily attainable even by the offer of leaves, flowers, fruits, etc., with full devotion. The key words are "with devotion". SrI Sa'nkara quotes from mahA-bhArata: patreshu pushpeshu phaleshu toyeshu akrIta-labhyeshu sadiava satsu | bhaktyeka-labhye purushe purANe muktyai katham na kriyate prayatnah || "The Ancient Purusha is easily attainable by devotion alone, with the offer of leaves, flowers, fruits, and even water, which are always attainable without cost. When such is the case, how is it that people do not even want to try to work towards emancipation?" SrI cinmayAnanda quotes the gItA Slokam where bhagavAn Himself declares that He is "sulabhah": ananya-cetAh satatam yo mAm smarati nityaSah | tasyAham su-labhah pArtha nitya-yuktasya yoginah || (gItA 8.14) "I am easy of access, O arjuna, to that yogin who is ever integrated with Me, whose mind is not in anything else but Me, and who ceaselessly recollects Me at all times". b) SrI satya sndha yatirAja givea a new anubhavam – sukham labhata iti sulabhah – He Who bestows happiness is su-labhah. -dAsan kRshNamAcAryan -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com Group Home: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bhakti-list Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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