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Fourty seventh SlOkam ( Vaibhavam of PrapannAs)
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nishkinjanathva dhaninA VibhudEsa yEna
nyastha sva-rakshaNabharastava pAdha padhmE
nAnAvidha praTitha yOga visEsha dhanyA:
nArhanthi Tasya satha kOtitama amsa kakshyAm
General Meaning:
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Oh DhaivanAyakA! Those with special sakthi and Jn~Anam
who understand the upaasanAs like Sadhvidhyai and Dahara
Vidhyai taught in ChAndhOgya Upanishad are blessed to
practise the celebrated upAyam of Bhakthi Yogam to
gain MOksha Siddhi. Those who do not have that special
sakthi or Jn~Anam use their total insufficencies and
helplessness (aakinchanyam) as the capital to fall at
Your sacred feet and seek Your sole protection. Such
persons leave the burden of protecting them exclusively
(not by any other gods) at Your sacred feet. They become
thus PrapannAs . When one evaluates the relative glories of
the Bhakthi Yogi and the Prapannan , it becomes clear that
even the assembly of many Bhakthi Yogis will not become
equivalent to even one part in hundred crores of
the glories of a Prapannan. Matchless indeed is
the Vaibhavam of a chEthanan , who has performed
Prapatthi at Your sacred feet !
Additional Comments:
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Swamy Desikan has blessed us with many SrI Sookthis
celebrating the power and superiority of Prapatthi yOgam
and the ease of the anushtAnam of Prapatthi over
the difficult to practise Bhakthi Yogam .Some of these
Sri Sookthis elaborating the angams of prapatthi,
the impediments for the realization of prapatthi
(anya dEvathA AarAdhanam , Bhaagavatha apachAram),
Prapatthi manthrams (Vaidhika and Taanthrika manthrams) are:
NyAsa dEsakam, NyAsa Vimsathy, NyAsa Tilakam ,
NikshEpa RakshA ,SaraNAgathy DhIpikA and Abaya
PrAdhana Saaram. One of the Swamy Desika Sahasra
Naamam salutes him as " NyAsa nishEdha navkAnthakar"
for his kaNDanam ( rejection thru Tarkam and Saasthram )
of objections about Prapatthi's inapproriatenes for
Moksham through nine Vaadhams. He has established that
Dhvaya manthram is the PradhAna manthram amonng Prapatthi
manthrams.He has established that Dhvayam is for one
and all ( SarvAdhikAram). He has demonstrated that
Dhvaya manthram alone glorifies PrApya-PrApaka
( UpAya-Phalan)visEshams to qualify as the PradhAna
Prapatthi manthram. Swamy Desikan has instructed that
one who chooses the difficult to practise upAyam of
Bhakthi yOgam should not undertake Prapatthi as
the MokshOpAyam.
He has established that Bhakthi yOgam as an upAyam
for Moksham is of the form of DhyAnam of Bhagavan without
interruption until one passes away.Hence Bhakthi yOgam
for gaining Moksham is thus difficult to practise .
Prapatthi yOgam on the other hand is an easy practise UpAyam ,
when accompanied by MahA VisvAsam . It takes few
minutes.That is all! Hence out of compassion for us,
Swamy Desikan recommended Prapatthi yOgam for us
and defended its superiority over the difficult Bhakthi yOgam.