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[sv-rituals] PurattAsi SravaNam MangaLAsAsanam at Kaanchi:ThAyArSannidhi:Part IV

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Sadagopan • Sat Oct 26 2002 - 18:38:08 PDT 


SrI:

SrI MahA Devi SamEtha Sri VaradarAja ParabrahmaNE nama:

Dear BhakthAs:

At the conclusion of the recitation of SrI GopAla Vimsathi
at the mukha mantaPam of ThAyAr Sannidhi in front of KaNNan ,
Haaratthi for ThAyAr will be performed. Following slOkams
praising Jagan MaathA and Her divine consort will ring out:

1. anAdhE nissImnO dhurithajaladhEryannirUpamam 
   vidhu: prAyascchittham yadhuraghudhurINasayavidha:
   tadhArambhE tayA giramavadhadhAnEna manasA  
   PrapadhyE ThAmEkAm SriyamakhilanATasya MahishIm 

(BhakthAs: May I request You to have the joy of identifying
 the source of these verses ? This will be a nice interactivity
 on Your parts this way .)

2. mahEndRAgnA VishNu prabhruthishu mahathva-prabhruthivath
   prapatthavyE tatthvE parinamitha-vaisishtya vibhavAm
   adhrushyathvam dhUthvA kamithurabhigamyathva JananIm
   Sriyam sIthApAngAm aham asaraNO yaami saraNam 

Both of the above slOkams are PurushakAra Prapatthi slOkams
addressed to the Universal Mother .BhakthAs are encouraged
to link them with their sources and respond .

Three more slOkams from SrI Sthuthi will be recited now:

3. sEvE dEvi thridasa mahilA mouLimAlArchitham thE
     SiddhikshEthram  samithavipadhAm sampadhAm paadhapadhmam
   yasminnIshan namitha sirasO yApayithvA sarIram
     varhtishyanthE vithamasi padhE VaasudEvasya dhanyA:

     ---SrI Sthuthi SlOkam 

(meaning):

4. MaathA dEvi Thvamasi BhagavAn VasudEva: PithA mE
     JAthassOham Janani YuvayOrEkalakshyam dayAyA:
   dhatthO Yushmath parijanatayA dEsikairapyathasthvam
     kim thE bhUya: priyamithi kila smEravakthrA vibhAsi

      ---SrI Sthuthi: 20th SlOkam

(meaning): Oh MahA Devi! When the dEva shtrIs prostrate
before You , the flower garlands on their tresses fall 
at Your Thiruvadi and that scene looks like their archana
of Your Thiruvadi with those flowers. Your Thiruvadi
removes all dangers for Your bhakthAs and blesses them
with great auspiciousness.Those who have performed 
the easy -to-perform SaraNAgathi at Your Thiruvadi are 
truly blessed(MahA BhAgyasaalis). They reach Your Suddha-
satthvamaya Parama padham (SrI Vaikuntam)at the end of 
their earthly life and perform nithya kaimkaryam for You 
and Your divine consort.Thus a small prostration/namaskaraNam
at Your auspicious Thiruvadi yields the greatest of boons.
adiyEn salutes those powerful Thiruvadis.


5. KalyANAnAm avikalanidhi: kaapi kaaruNyaseemA
      nithyAmOdhA nigamavachasAm mouLimandhAramAlA
    sampathdhivyA Madhuvijayina: sannidhatthAm sadhA mE
      saishA dEvi SAKALA BHUVANA PRATANAA KAAMADHENU:

     ---SrI Sthuthi: 24th SlOkam 

(Meaning): Periya PirAtti shines as the abode of 
all mangaLams. She is the One , who confers MangaLam
on any mangaLa vasthu inthis world . She forgives all
the trespasses of Her wayward children and pleads 
with Her Lord to overlook their trespasses against
His sAsthrams. At the time of Prapatthi , She stands as
UpAyam as well as UpEyam with Her Lord and shines as 
the boundary of DayA.She is praised in the VedAs and
vedAntham as " the ever-fragrant garland of MandhAra
Pushpams resting on their heads".She is recognized by
Her Lord as His chief wealth.She stays as the divine
KaamadhEnu for the whole world and grants Her devotees
al what they  seek form Her.May this SrI Devi of 
wonderous attributes stay inside my heart always !
  

This will be followed by the second slOakm of YathirAja sapthathi:

SahadharmacharIm SourE: sammanthritha JagathhithAm
ANUGRAHAMAYEEM VANDHE  nithyaamajna~tha nigrahAm 

(Meaning): The AchAryai next to the Lord is SrI Devi,
His sahadharmachAriNi. She joins her Lord in thinking 
about the auspiciousness that She can confer on
Her Bhaktha janams(Sammanthritha Jagath hithAm).
She is the embodiment of dayA (anugrahamayi). She does not
know about punishing chEthanams (Her children) ever.
When her Lord engages in RakshaNa vyApArams , 
She stands by Him and helps Him perform those duties
effectively. adiyEn salutes this periya PirAtti of
limitless glories . 

The next slOkam salutes the MahA Devi seated in the middle
of the Lord's chest (Muramardhanasya bhujamadhya peetikAm):

6)  iyamathra VisvajananI samutthiTA
      KamalAvikAsikamalOdharasTithA
    Muramardanasya Bhukamadhya peetikAm
      adhiruhya visvamavathi sva-vIkshaNai:
    
    --- Source to be identified by Desika bhakthAs

Following kattiyam for Swamy Desikan is recited aloud 
so that His PurappAdu with Yethsarikai can be announced
by the kattiyam Swamy :

SrIrangarAja dhivyAj~nA labdha VedAnthAchaarya Padha!
TathsahadharmachAriNee krupAtthAkhilatanthra SvAtantrya !

The two titles given by Lord RanganathAn and Sri RanganAyaki
( VedAnthAchAryan and Sarva Tantra Svathanthrar) are hailed here.


Swamy  Desikan now moves aroud the prAkAram of ThAyAr
sannidhi and the powerful slOkam that helped the BrahmachAri
to be blessed with the shower of gold coins is remembered:

7) yOgArambhathvarithamanasO YushmadhaikAnthyayuktham
     dharmam prApthum praTamamiha yE dharayanthE dhanAyAm
   tEshAm bhUmEr-dhanapathi gruhAth amBarAthambhudhErvaa
     dhArA niryAnthyadhikamadhikam vAnchithAnAm vasUnAm

    ---SrI Sthuthi: 16th SlOkam 

(Meaning): Oh SrI Devi! Some paramaikAnthis of
this world engage in the practise of Bhakthi yOgam
for gaining Moksha siddhi. For that they have to
practise Jn~Ana yOgam first and for the realization of
success with Jn~Ana yOgam , they have to perform 
karma yOgam before that. As angams for the practise of Bhakthi 
yOgam as Yaagam , they have to abide by VarNAsrama dharmams.
For being successful practioners of this Yaj~nam , 
they need special anugraham . Because they are ParamaikAnthis,
they can not ask anyone except both of You for such 
an anugraham. When they pray to You both for this anugraham ,
both of You confer on them much more than what they sought 
(from every where).Those anugrahms are realized right here
like treasures unearthed from the BhUmi.Those showers of wealth
can pour out from the treasury of KubhEran . It can be like 
the wealth that was showered by KubhEran on behalf of Raghu
MahArAjan to help Kouthsar.That wealth can come from the sky 
as in the case of KusElar. That auspicousness can arise
from the ocean as it happens in the case of commerce
linked to sea journeys. One thing is for sure.That limitless
wealth blessed by You will come even from places that are
hard to  imagine and will multiply. Such is Your glory!

Swamy  Desikan would have arrived now at the MahA Navami 
MaNTapam .There , He recieves SaThAri, sandal paste,
ManjaL kAppu and other maryAdhais. All the Sri Sthuthi
slOkams are recited now as He ascends the Kola Padi
of ThAyAr  sannadhi to get near His waiting Mother and 
thereafter the GhOshti would recieve Theertham and SaThAri.

ThAyAr PerumdEvi would be thinking all along about 
the right kind of present for Her son on this special day.
She knows that any Isvaryam will be rejected by Her son
with the statement "asthi mE hasthisailAgrE vasthu pathAmaham
dhanam". She knows that Her son will reject the boon of
kaivalyam or AathmAnubhavam as nasvaram .She now concludes
that blessing Her son with sErthi sEvai with Her Lord
would be the only boon that will please him ( ThvadhanjchEth 
praseedhasi TavAsmi samIpadhaschEth: prayer of Swamy  Desikan) .
She says : "asthu thE" and gives that boon as Her present
(PaaridhOshikam).Lord listens to this and every time He has 
PuRappAdu with His dEvi(s) , He stops at Desikan sannidhi 
first at His temple and blesses Swamy  Desikan with SaThAri 
and sEvai with His Devi(s). 

The next stops are Garudan Sannidhi and SrI Azhagiya Singar
Sannidhi(Guhai Narasimhan Sannidhi) and the respective
MangaLAsAsanams there.   

(To be continued)

Swamy  Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,
SrI MahA Devi samEtha Sri HasthigirIsAya namO nama:
Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan 






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