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Sadagopan • Sat Nov 02 2002 - 17:19:56 PST 


SrI:

Dear SrImathi Radha Rangarajan:

Thanks very much for your note.
These slOkams are beautiful indeed.
The other slOkams are from Sankalpa SooryOdhayam.
The multisided genius of Swamy  Desikan is
abundantly evident in them.
Best wishes,
V.Sadagopan 


At 03:35 PM 10/30/02 -0800, you wrote:
>Respected Sri. Sadagopan Swamy,  I try to read the postings but never
>write.  To day you have asked the readers to identify some slokams that
>are recited in Hasthigiri as part of the purattasi Sravanam uthsavam.
>It is a great pleasure to read and think about these slokams.  They are
>the third and fourth slokams of Sri. Nyasa Thilakam.  What joy to think
>of the great acharya first doing saranaagati at the lotus feet of our
>mother who happens to be the Jaganmaatha also, taking her kind advice to
>heart.  The next slokam so beautifully shows how Piratti  because of her
>vathsalyam and vaallabyam makes the inaccessible lord(inaccessible due
>to our misdeeds)  easily available to us (purushakaaram) and then again
>as nithyaanapaayini is ever upayam and upeyam for our total surrender.
>Sri. Ranganayaki seems to be doing more than the Lord who is upayam and
>upeyam while thayar is purushakaram which probably is most important,but
>for this role of piratti there would be no chance of approaching the
>lord for very grave sinners, upaayam and upeyam equally with Him.
>  
>There is one more slokam that you would like to be identified.  I do not
>know the source.  I am eagerly looking forward to learn that.
>
>Thank you so very much for your postings.  They are great sources of joy
>and knowledge.  Kindly pardon the mistakes I might have made
>
>Servant of Sri. Ramanuja devotees
>
>Radha Rangarajan



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