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Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

991. haricharaNasarOjE BhakthiBhAjAm janAnA-
     manukaraNavishEShaIrAthmanaIvOpahAsyam
     pariNamaya dhayArdhrA pAdhukE! thAdhrusham mAm
     BharathapariShadhantharvarthiBhi: prEkshaNIyam

Oh Paaduka! I have been imitating the great devotees of the Lord's 
Feet, in the matter of showing Bhakthi, performing duties, speaking 
in self-criticism,-all in mere cheating spirit. May You, in Your 
grace, transform me into one of the people of true devotion and 
sincere humility, so that I can join the band, Bharata-troupe!

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (V.S): 
 
SlOkam 991
 
1) UtthamUr  Swamy's anubhavam: Oh PaadhukE! adiyEn imitates the acts 
of those righteous ones, who are deeply devoted to the Lord's holy  
feet. These evolved souls have attained the purpose of their births 
through such exemplary devotion to the Lord's lotus feet. I laugh 
however at myself over my audacious imitation of the ways of these 
devotees of the Lord and feel sinful. Oh PaadhukE! Please make me a 
member of this true group of servants of the Lord out of Your immense 
compassion for sinners like me.   
 
2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam: Here, Swamy  Desikan develops the 
theme that the auspicious glances of  BhagavathAs of the Lord are 
even more powerful (darsanAdhEva Saadhava:) than that of the Lord 
Himself. He prays for the blessings of the Paadhukais to generate 
true bhakthi for the BhAgavathAs of the Lord. Swamy 
Desikan laments over the lost days, when he pretended to act like a 
true devotee of the Lord's BhagavathAs. He prays to the Paadhukais to 
join him in the Bharatha GhOshti.
 
3) Oh PaadhukE! There are the true BhagavathAs of the Lord , who have 
the highest level of Bhakthi for the Lord's lotus feet (Oh PaadhukE! 
Hari charaNa sarOjE bhakthi bhAjAm Janaa:). I tried to act like them 
and became a laughing matter to myself (Bhakthi bhAjam JanAnAm 
anukaraNa visEshai: aathmanaiva upahAsyam). Oh most Compassionate 
PaadhukE ! You must bless this egotistic and decietful jeevan 
(myself) to become the object of glance of the Saadhus, who belong to
the Bharatha GhOshti ( ThAdhrusam maam Thvam dayArshrA Bharatha 
Parishath antharvarthibhi: prEkshaNeeyam pariNamaya) ... (V.S).



Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

992. dhurithamapanayanthI dhUratha: pAdhukE! thvam 
     dhanujamaThanalIlAm dhEvathAmAnayanthI
     anitharasharaNAnAmagrimasyAsya janthO-
     ravashakaraNavrutthEragratha: sanniDhEyA:

Oh Paaduka! Please drive out my sin to a long distance away. Please 
bring me to the one great Lord, who achieves the quelling of asuras 
as mere sport. I am Destitute No.1. All my senses are non-obedient to 
me, I have no control over them. Before such a pathetic, suffering 
creature that I am, please show the Lord's vision!

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (V.S):
 
SlOkam 992
 
1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Oh PaadhukE! You are going to banish 
my sins by Your presence at the time of my death and bring Your Lord 
from a great distance to me and help me, who is standing in the front 
row  of helpless and with no control over my faculty of senses . Your 
Lord said that He will think of His devotees and come to their rescue 
at the time of their departure from this world. You are going to 
bring Him to me during my last moments on this earth even if adiyEn 
is not highly qualified to recieve His blessings.
 
2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam: The inner meaning is that for those 
who rely totally on their SadAchAryAs, all enemies for Bhakthi 
anubhavam will be chased away through the mere glances of their 
SadaachAryAs until their last moments on earth; further , the 
visualization of Bhagavan (Bhagavath SaakshAthkAram) will also
result during their last moments here . These are some of the 
UpakArams of the SadAchAryAs.  
 
3) Oh PaadhukE ! For adiyEn, You serve as the enemy of all obstacles 
that stand in the way of practising Bhakthi yOgam and Bhakthi 
anubhavam in this earth. (PaadhukE ! Thvam dhuritham dhooratha: 
apanayanthee). Oh PaadhukE ! May Thou be present before me ( 
SannidhEyA: ) with Your Lord , who sports in destroying Bhagavath 
anubhava virOdhis during my last moments ( asya jantho:
agratha:, dhanuja maTana leelA DevathAm aanayanthee sannidhEyA:). 
adiyEn is in the front end of all who have no recourse except You and 
I have no success in controlling my Indhriyams ( anithasaraNAnAm 
agrimasya , avasa karaNa-vrutthE; asya JanthO: purasthAth DEvathAm 
aanayanthee sannidhEyA: )...(V.S). 
 










Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

993. charamanigamagIthE sapthathanthoU samApthE
        nijasadhanasamIpE prApyiShyan vihAram
        jvalanamiva BhavathyO: samyagArOpayEnmAm
        praThamavaraNavashya: pAdhukE! RanganATha:

Oh Twin-Paaduka! When I first uttered the appeal to the Lord, "You 
will please act as my protector", in Prapatti, the Lord Ranganatha 
became won over by me. When my life ends, a yajna He was performing 
by utilizing me in His services through the whole post-prapatti 
period becomes completed. Hence, He will have to place the Fire 
(that is my jeevatma) in His sandals, Yourselves, (a replica of 
Arani wood) to place me in His Abode. May He do it!

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (V.S):
 
SlOkam 993
 
1) UtthamUr  Swamy's anubhavam: In the previous verse, Swamy Desikan
described the approaching of the Paadhukais during his last moments 
on this earth. Here, he describes  how they take him to the Supreme 
abode of the Lord. He says: " Oh PaadhukE! RanganAtha empathizes 
with Your role as my protector and at the time of my death, He acts 
as the priest at the Yaagams known as adhvaryu to bring me over to 
His sanctum in SrI Vaikuntam. He brings me over as an adhvaryu 
priest would bring the sacred fire from the place of the sacred 
ritual and unite it with the sacred fire at home at the conclusion 
of such Yag~nams. He places me as the Agni between You both (the 
Paadhukais) serving as the fire producing sticks".   
 
At the end of the SomaYaagAs, the Master of the Yaaga (YajamAna) 
requests the adhvaryu priest to bring the sacred Agni of the Yaaga 
back to his house to unite it with the Agni at home used for 
sacrificial rites of the house. RanganAtha acts here as the adhvaryu 
priest and brings the aathmA of Swamy Desikan (Agni) to His sanctum 
out of respect for the PaadhukAs' role as the protector. He places 
that Agni between the two Paadhukais serving as the two aaraNi 
Kattai (fire generating sticks ) used for kindling the fire.  
 
2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam: Lord RanganAthA at he end of the 
life of PrapannAs in His leelA VIbhUthi removes His property (the 
aathmA inside my physical body) and places it in Your hand for 
assistance in its travel to His permanent abode. That act of the 
Lord is equivalent to the Adhvaryu priest being given the 
responsibility for transporting the DhAryAgni from the Yaaga SaalA  
to be united with the Gaarhapathya Agni for use in the daily 
(Nithya, naimmitthika ) Karamas  at the end of  the avabrutha snAnam 
relating to the completion of the Soma Yaagam  by the YajamAnan. 
The DhAryAgni is invoked in the two special fire kindling 
sticks /araNi KattaikaL ( Utthara araNi and athara araNi). That 
Parama purushArTam (Not only being protected in LeelA VIbhUthi but 
also being transportred to SrI Vaikuntam with the guidance of 
AadhivAhikAs ) is going to come my way through Your benovolence. The 
Lord is going to entrust His property (my aathmA) to You.
 
3) Oh PaadhukE ! adiyEn is PraTama varaNa vasyan ( SaraNAgathan ,
who has been inducted in to the nYAsa yajnam at the outset itself).
Lord RanganAthan is the adhvaryu in that NyAsa Yaj~nam. He grants me
permanent residence at His SrI Vaikuntam at the end of my life as 
a Prapannan here as revealed in the Upanishads ( RanganATa :
Charama nigama geethE sapthatanthou samApthE sathi , nija sadhana
sameepE vihAram prApayishyan) . During that occasion , He is going to
entrust adiyEn's aathmA , His property , to You like the adhvaryu 
priest entrusts Yaaga Kunta Agni to the two araNikkattaikaL for 
transport to home for link with the household agni ( Maam 
jwalanamiva BhavathyO: samyak aarOpayEth) ... (V.S).
 






Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

994. punarudharanivAsacChEdhanam sahyasinDhO:
     pulinamaDhivasEyam puNyamAbrahmalABhAth
     pariNamathi sharIrE pAdhukE! yathra pumsAm
     thvamasi nigamagIthA shAshvatham moULirathnam

Oh Paaduka! May I ever be enabled to live on the sands of Kaveri, a 
pure and beautiful place! For, You will bless us by being a head-
ornament to us. You are the praise-theme for the Vedas. Your contact 
with us is sure to cut off our links with the continuously revolving 
Samsara.

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (V.S):
 
SlOkam 994
 
1) UtthamUr  Swamy's anubhavam: In the previous verse, Swamy  
Desikan expressed the wish that his soul join the Paadhukais for 
its  journey to the Supreme Abode of the Lord. Here, he prays for 
his subtle (Sookshma) body to be crowned with the PaadhukAs until it 
reaches the Parama Padham of the Lord. He says: "Oh PaadhukE ! At 
Srirangam on the banks of Cauvery, my earthly body will fall and the 
subtle body will join You. At that time, You who is celebrated by 
the VedAs will become my crown jewel. That auspicious event
will destroy future births for me. May I stay with You at the banks 
of Cauvery in my earthly life until I reach the Lord's abode 
following my dEhAvasAnam ?  
 
2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam: In the previous slOkam , Swamy 
Desikan dwelt on the happenings at the end of his life on earth as a 
Prapannan. Through this ( 994th) and two subsequent slOkams ( 995 
and 996th), Swamy  Desikan dwells on the aanandhaanubhavam as a 
Prapannan right here on earth at Srirangam in a manner developed by 
him in the 989th and the 990th SlOkams. He praises the glories of 
life at Srirangam worshipping Lord RanganAtha. 
 
Swamy Says: "Oh PaadhukE! Your place of residence, SrIrangam, is the 
most sacred dhivya dEsam located on the banks of the holy Cauvery 
river. It removes all sins that lead to the sufferings in SamsAram. 
For those, who are blessed to live here, You rest on their heads 
form birth to the last moments as SirObhUshaNam. Is there a Parama 
PurushArTam bigger than birth and residence at the dhivya dEsam of 
SrIrangam? adiyEn's prayer is to enjoy You without interruption
(vichyuthi) at Srirangam from the moment of birth to the last moment 
as a Prapannan. Please grant me that boon ! 
 
 3) Samicheena Saasthrams states that dhivya dEsa Vaasam and 
death( PrAkrutha sareera viyOgam ) in a dhivya dEsam in
the manner of "aabrahma lAbhAth adhivasEyam "(/ living from birth
onwards at Dhivya dEsam) will lead to Moksha PrApthi. 
 
Oh PaadhukE! The dhivya Desam where You reside besides Cauvery dunes 
is sacred ( Paavanam) to remove  punar janmam  ( Puna: udhara-nivAsa 
chEdhanam SahyasindhO: puLinam ). This is the sandy island between 
the two cauverys , Srirangam . May I be blessed to live here until I 
reach Parama padham ( aabrahmalAbhAth adhivasEyam ).  In these sandy 
dunes, the prapannAs have the bhAgyam of adorning You celebrated by 
the VedAs on their heads as aabharaNam during their different stages 
of life as an infant, youth, adult old man and upto the last moment 
of their lives (Yathra SrirangE, pumsAm sareerE pariNamathy sathy , 
NigamageethA Thvam Saasvatham mouLi-rathnam asi)....(V.S). 








Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

995. bahuviDhapuruShArThagrAmasImAntharEvAm
        haricharaNasarOjanyAsaDhanyAmananya:
BharathasamayasiDdhAm pAdhukE! BhavayamsthvAm
Shathamiha sharadhasthE shrAvayEyam samruDdhim

May I ever live-may be hundreds of years-in this Srirangam, singing 
Your praise, ever meditating on You without any other thought, 
realizing that this cult of Bharata is most potent, this worship 
being regarded as the ultimate in the human goals. Your continuous 
contact with the Lord's Feet being the cause of such elevated status.

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan(V.S):
 
SlOkam 995
 
1) UtthamUr  Swamy's anubhavam: Oh PaadhukA DEvi! There is nothing 
more to obtain besides You .Even then , from the example set by 
Bharatha, I realize that you can not be seperated form the Lord's 
feet. Therefore, I want to sing about Your glories throughout
the earth during my alloted life span of one hundred years. I will 
spread the story of your glory among the people of Srirangam among 
the villages and cities around and among the rest of the earth 
through the verses of SrI RanganAtha PadhukA Sahasram. 
 
2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam: The descriptions/salutations  of the 
PaadhukAs in this slOkam can be intrepreted either with focus on the 
BhUmi or the SadAchAryAs. The commonality is that the samrutthi ( 
Iswaryam/Prosperity ) of a floursihing nation and the vaibhavam of 
the auspicious PaadhukAs. Swamy  Desikan prays here to the 
Paadhukais to be blessed with  long and happy life as a PaadhukA 
sEvakan at Srirangam worshipping the Paadhukais  and singing about 
the glories of the Paadhukais. Swamy  Desikan wants all the others 
to have the same aanandha anubhavam that he has in enjoying the 
Paadhukais and for that purpose, he wants to stay at Srirangam for a 
long time and sing about  the unique glories of  the Paadhukais. 
 
3) Oh PaadhukE ! May I be fortunate to live at Srirangam for many 
years meditating on You and propagating Your limitless glories 
revealed in Bharatha  SiddhAntham (Bharatha samaya siddhAm ThvAm 
ananya: iha tE samruddhi, satham saradha: srAvayEyam )! What are 
three of these Samruddhis or auspicious features ? They are: (a) The 
Paadhukais are the limits of the four kinds of PurushArTams ( 
Dharma, arTa, Kaamam and Moksham) and their subdivisions (Bahuvidha 
PurushArTa grAma seema antharEkhAm),  (b) Blessings to have the 
association with the lotus feet of the Lord (Hari CharaNa sarOja 
nyAsa dhanyAm), (c) establishment by Bharathan that the AarAdhanam 
of the Lord's Paadhukais are as sacred as that performed for the 
Lord Himself ( Bharatha samaya siddhAm ThvAm bhAvayan tE samruddhim 
srAvayEyam) ....(V.S).








Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

996. thilakayasi shirO mE shoUripAdhAvani! Thvam 
        Bhajasi manasi nithyam BhUmikAm BhavanAKhyAm
        Vachasi cha vaIBhavaI:svaIrvyakthimitTham prayAthA
        Thadhiha pariNatham mE thAdhrusham BhAgaDhEyam

Oh Paaduka of the Lord! You sit on my head, even as an ornament to 
be cherished. You are in my heart, by my constant meditation, 
through which I envision You. You havenow established a contact with 
my tongue through this work in Your praise. I have thus secured a 
great privilege to hover around You in all three ways-physical, 
mental or verbal.

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (V.S):
 
SlOkam 996
 
1) UtthamUr  Swamy's anubhavam: Oh Lord's PaadhukE! You adorn my 
head. You are forever enshrined in my heart. You sanctify my speech 
with recitation of Your glories. You are thus worshipped by me at 
the three levels: Bodily ( KaayikA ), mental ( Maanasa) and speech ( 
VaachikA ). As a  result of this total devotion to You, I have 
attained a status here at Srirangam equal to that of BharathA , 
Valmiki and the eternal residents of Srivaikuntam. 
 
2) SrImath Andaban's anubhavam: Here Swamy Desikan celebrates his
good fortune conferred on him by the Padhukais to enjoy them with 
his thrikaraNams(Body, mind and speech). This was realized through 
the Prapatthi to Your Lord that You motivated. These auspicious 
samruddhis resulted from that powerful poorNa prapatthi engineed by 
You.  
 
3) Oh Souri PaadhAvani ! You are  adorning my head ( mE sira: 
tilakayasi). You achieve a distinct and permanent presence in my 
mind (mE manasi nithyam bhAvanAkhyAm bhUmikAm bhajasi). You shine in 
my walk through these thousand slOkams celebrating You ( mE vachasi 
cha svai: vibhavai: ittham vyakthim prayAthA asi). Thus in the 
matter of Yourself , my prapatthi has been fulfilled in a trimodal 
way (tath iha mE thAdhrusam bhAgadhEyam pariNatham)...(V.S). 





Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

997 ajaniShi chiramAdhoU hantha dhEhEndhriyAdhi-
       sthadhanu thadhaDhikassannIshvarOham baBhUva
       aTha Bhagavatha evABhUvamarThAdhidhAnIm
       thava punarahamAsam pAdhukE Dhanyajanma

Oh Paaduka! At first, I lived for a long time in total disregard of 
the Atma, imagining that I have to please my body only. Then I 
learnt and realized that I had a soul different from the physical 
body but that too did not give the correct status for me, since I 
assumed an independence of will and action, negating the all-
controlling Lord. Then by an accident, I realized that my soul is 
for the service and pleasure of the Lord. That marked my reformation 
into a treatment of my soul as the Lord's, that is Seshatva, a great 
blessing indeed!

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (V.S):
 
SlOkam 997
 
1) UtthamUr  Swamy's anubhavam: From early times , I regret that I 
did not become Your servant. In the beginning  , I thought that the 
body, faculty of senses, mind and knowledge snared me and held me in 
their grips. During those times, I thought that I was the body or 
the faculty of senses or the mind. After spending a long
time in this fashion, I recognized that they are not the Aathma and 
that  became clear in my thinking. Then I thought that I was 
independent aathmA ( Jeevan), who is equal to the Lord and suffered 
from wrong identification ( like HiraNyakasipu). Finally,  I realized
that I am the unconditional servant of SrIman Narayana alone. Now I 
recognize that service to the Lord's BhagavathAs is greater than 
even the direct service to the Lord Himself. Hence, I have become 
Your ( PaadhukA's) servant. I have reached the highest status as a 
result of being Your servant ( PaadhukA sEvakan).  
 
2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: Here, Swamy  Desikan thinks about 
the bhAgyam conferred by the Paadhukais on him with utter 
gratefulness. He compares his earlier sad lot and how the Paadhukais 
changed all that and becomes intensely grateful.
 
Swamy  Desikan muses aloud : "Oh PaadhukE ! When I think of all
the anugrahms that have come my way thanks to Your benovelence,
I can not but feel grateful. I used to consider my Sareeram as the 
aathmA and sought solely the nurture of my body. I led an animal 
edition of human existence and entered many yonis as bird , beast 
and insect. I spent aeons without knowing an iota of Bhagavath 
Saasthrams. When I think of those terribly  wasted days, my heart 
pounds with grief. Finally due to some ancient good fortune 
(sukritha lEsam ), Bhagavath kaDAksham fell on me and I entered 
human janmAs and developed the knowledge that the AathmA is 
different than the body in which it resides and that seeking the 
four purushArTams through Vedic karmAs is the right thing to do. 
Bhagaavth KatAksham led to SadAchArya sambhandham and Tatthva 
Jn~Anam. I became SeshabhUthan to the Lord and sought Your refuge. 
Bhagavath Seshathvam pushed me further to its limit, BhAgavatha 
Seshathvam.My life became fruitful (Saphalam ).  I recognized that 
there is nothing loftier than Kaimkaryam to You for gaining all 
PurushArTams. Grand indeed is the power of Your anugraham ! ". 
 
3) Oh PaadhukE ! For a long time, I stayed in a state of total 
ignorance about my svaroopam  and had SareerAthma Bramam as well as 
Svatantrathma Bramam and was lost(aham chiram dEha indhriya aadhi: 
svaroopam ithi mathvA ajanishi . Hantha ! ). Later due to the 
JaayamAna KatAksham of Your Lord , I was blessed with SadAchArya 
Sambhandham and VedAntha Jn~Anam form the AchAryan ; I understood 
that the Lord is the karthA of KarmAs and is the Jn~Ana Svaroopi , 
who is the Master/ Sarva Swamy (Tadhanu tadhikassan Isvara: 
BhabhUva).  I developed clear Jn~Anam about my svaroopam as Daasa 
BhUthan for the ParamAthma ( DaasabhUthA: svathassarvE hyAthmana: 
ParamAthmana:). I became the property of the Lord (Bhagavatha yEva 
abhUvam). From there ( Bhagavath sEshathvam ), I reached the 
boundary of that state and have arrived now at BhAgavatha 
sEshathvam, which transformed me to become your intimate sEsha 
bhUthan (idhAnim  puna: arTAth Tava aasam . I am truly blessed ( 
aham dhanya Janmaa aasam )....(V.S). 





Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

998. thvayyAyatthoU Bhagavathi shilABhasmanO: prANadhAnA
        dhAsthrIbAlam praThithaviBhavoU pAdhapadhmoU murArE:
        thAmEvAham shirasi nihithAmadhya pashyAmi dhEvA-
        dhAthmADhArAm janani! BhavathImAthmalABhaprasUthim

Oh Goddess Paaduka Mother! Even a child or womenfolk would know of 
Your achievements in that You helped revivification of a stone or 
burnt log of wood. My assigning them to Your credit cannot be 
questioned by anybody. The Feet depend on You. While You are 
Yourself the basis for Yourself, the feet depend on You. It is You 
which inculcated the right spirit of the seld as subordinate to You. 
And I feel honoured by Your being placed on my head.

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (V.S):
 
SlOkam 998
 
1) UtthamUr  Swamy's anubhavam: Oh Worshipful Mother! the Stone at 
the roadside became AhalyA, the wife of Sage Gouthama. The piece of
charcoal became King Parikshith. People say that these 
transformations took place through the intervention of Your Lord's 
holy feet. Those sacred feet are accomodated by You and supported by 
You. Oh PaadhukE! Unlike the Lord's feet, You do not need any 
support base and are responsible for the jeevan to attain its 
svaroopa Jn~Anam. I consider myself fortunate in adorning You on my 
head inview of the great vaibhavam that you are associated with.( 
Swamy  Desikan bases this verse on what is known as Kaimudhika 
NyAyam according to which PaadhukAs can be understood as giving new 
life to the jeevans at the end of their earthly life inside the 
body).
 
2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam:In this slOkam, Swamy  Desikan
points out that the auspiciousness arising from being the servant of
the Lord's Paadhukais is unsurpassed in its vaibhavam and it is 
something that is not easy to gain. It is indeed the Vaathsalya 
guNam of the Paadhukais that makes it possible and not any planned 
striving(prayathnam)  on our part. It is  PadhukA's motherly 
affection for us and your their anugraha paramparais that lead upto 
this Parama srEyas. 
 
3) Oh Mother PaadhukE ( Bhagavthee Janani)! Your Lord's lotus feet 
have the glories of blessing AhalyA, who was staying as a stone 
(SilA) due to her husband's curse; those sacred feet  saved the 
embryo ParIkshith from apANDava asthram and  transformed him form a 
cinder block to a living infant (m basmAnO: PrANa dhAnAth); those 
same sacred feet destroyed MurAsuran. Such feet with all these 
vaibhavams are under Your control (MurArE: Paadha Padhmou 
ThvayyAyatthou). Your Lord is the antharAthmA for all the world ( 
aathmAdharAm) and You are the bearer of that ParamAthmA. You are 
worshipped by all the world ( SarvalOka Poojyai ); You have unique
and matchless vaibhavam ( nirathisaya prabhAvasaali ). You are the 
cause for the Moksha sukham for the jeevans (Thvam aathma-lAbha 
prasUthi). It is only through good fortune I am having You now on my 
head without any special prayathnam ( aham dhaivAth sirasi nihithAm 
adhya pasyAmi)...(V.S)









Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

999. kaThankAram lakshmIkarakamalayOgyam nijapadham
        nidhaDhyAdhrangEsha: kulishakaTinEsminmanasi na:
        na chEdhEvam maDhyE vishathi dhayayA dhEvi! BhavathI
        nijAkrAnthikshuNNasmarasharashiKhAkaNtakathathi:

Oh Paaduka Devi! The hearts of people have been subject to the 
arrows of Cupid, which continue to remain as thorns therein. Had You 
not first entered and pulverized these thorns, by Your grace, how 
can one expect Lord Ranganatha to step in into these hearts, with 
His Feet so very delicate as to be caressed very carefully by the 
hands of Mahalakshmi.

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan ( V.S):
 
SlOkam 999
 
1) UtthamUr  Swamy's anubhavam: Oh DEvi! If You through Your steps 
do not pulverize the tips of the  thorns of the arrows of Manmatha 
and prepare my heart as a soft spot fit for housing the tender , 
lotus feet of Your Lord, How could He (SrI RanganAtha)  place His 
soft feet on my adamantine hard heart? 
 
2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: In this slOkam, Swamy Desikan 
describes the fruits of worshipping the Lord's Paadhukais. Oh 
victorious PaadhukE resting in my mind after defeating that  mind, 
which roamed fiercely chasing all material and sensory pleasuers! Oh 
PaadhukE with that Vijya SrI! You pulverized all the fierce thorns 
present in my mind through Your fervent sanchArams there and made it 
a safe and soft place for Your Lord to reside. If You had not done
that, there was no chance for the Lord to enter my dangerous  mind. 
Thanks to Your help, both of You have settled down in my mind. The 
inner meaning is that the intimate association with SadAchAryAs and 
the auspicious benefits of their upadEsa anugrahams produce vivEkam 
in us, cleanses our minds and results in Bhagavath dhyAnam and 
anubhavam .   
 
3) Oh Devi PaadhukE! My mind (manas) is dense with sharp thorn-like 
features resembling  the adamantaine weapon (kulisakaDini 
/vajrAyudham). It is a place that is not most comfortable to enter ( 
dushpravEsam). Lord RanganAtha's sacred feet are soft like  the 
lotus petals and are easily bruised even from pressings by the soft 
hands of His divine consort , SrI RanganAyaki ( Lakshmi 
karatala yOgyam ). In to that hard and lowly place of my mind, the 
Lord enters and places His Thiruvadi and feels comfortable. How is 
that possible? (kaTankAram RanganATa : nija padham nidhadhyAth ). It 
is only because of Your valour to enter my mind and with your 
intense crushing of those sharp thorn-like entities and pulverizing 
them through many sanchArams over them (Bhavathee nija aakrAnthy 
kshuNNa Smara sara sikhA kaNDaka tathi: ). Out of Your compassion
for me, You get in between the Lord's tender feet and the field of 
crushed thorns(manas) so that He does not feel those sharp objects ( 
dayayA  yEvam madhyE visathi)...(V.S). 
 





Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

1000. krIdAloUlyam kimapi samayE pAdhukE! varjayanthI
          nirvEsham svam dhishasi BhavathInAThayO: shrIDharaNyO:
          mAmapyEvam janaya maDhujithpAdhayOrantharangam
          rangam yAsoU janayasi guNaIrBhArathInruttharangam

Oh Paaduka! You are wont to concede the opportunity, to the consorts 
Sri and Bhoomi, who feel they are subservient to You, of privately 
serving the Lord's Feet, by subjugating Your own desire to serve the 
Lord, say in a stroll, to their longing. I am Your subservient. You 
ought to grant me too, the opportunity of privately rendering 
service to those Holy Feet! You will do it, I know. You have enabled 
me to complete this work and become the instrument of making this 
Ranga a stage for Saraswati to dance in delight on hearing this 
work. 

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (V.S):
 
SlOkam 1000
 
1) UtthamUr  Swamy's anubhavam: When Swamy Desikan began to compose 
the thousandth  verse, Sarasvathy Devi was happy to know that the 
poet (SrI VenkatEsan) had completed his pledge to create one 
thousand verses in a single night in praise of the Paadhukais of the 
Lord. The aasthika janams of Srirangam assembled in front of Lord 
RanganAtha also appalauded his (Swamy  Desikan's) extraordinary 
success. Swamy Desikan was also very pleased and grateful that such 
an effort was concluded and sought a boon of closeness to the holy 
feet of the Lord and sing about their glories. He says: "Oh PadhukE! 
When Lord RanganAtha wants to give His DEvis the pleasure of 
pressing His feet, You cast aside Your desire to roam outside 
carrying Your Lord's Thiruvadis. You defer those duties  in favor of 
the Lord's consorts. Similarly, May Thou bless me to become close to 
Your Lord's Thiruvadis ! Your powers are such that You have made 
Srirangam, the  dance theatre for Sarasvathy DEvi".   
 
2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: Swamy  Desikan has now reached the 
stage of completion of the 1000 slOkams to eulogize the vaibhavam of 
the Paadhukais (Sankalpitha sahasram sampoorNam) .He has been 
blessed with Bhagavath prApthi through the upAyam of PaadhukA 
prApthi. He is joyous and concludes the Kaavyam from the subject 
matter point of view. The remaining 8 slOkams are epilogues . 
 
The inner meaning of this thousandth slOkam is to instruct us that 
the SadAchAryAs of the Lord are dearer to the Lord even more than 
His divine consorts. Those SadAchAryAs are celebrated as well by the 
Divine consorts of the Lord. SadAchAryyAs are capable of blessing 
their sishyAs with Bhagavathanubhavam similar to the one that they 
enjoy. Swamy  Desikan hints that AchArya Saayujyam is better than 
Bhagavath Saayujyam. The glories of such AchAryAs fill all the 
world. 
 
Swamy  Desikan asks a rhetorical question in this  concluding 
slOkam: Oh Paadhuke! What else do I need here, now that You have 
blessed me to enjoy SrI RanganAthan with my body, speech and mind 
and prepared me to be fit to perform kaimkaryams for Him ? There 
seems to be one more thing that You can bless me with so that I can 
become complete (PoorNan). You are known for Your total devotion to 
Your Lord and for Your assembly of auspicious aathma guNams tuned to 
serve Your Lord without interruption . Recognizing these splendid 
set of attributes, even the Devis of the Lord pay their respects to 
You. They recognize that Bhagavath anubhava roopa PurushArTam is 
also under Your control. They are thankful to You for stopping the 
Lord's sanchAram and returning Him to His inner chambers
for union with them ( the Devis). Thus You confer the bhOgam of the 
Lord's lotus feet for the Devis instead of monopolizing them by 
going on long sanchArams with Your and Their Lord. My prayer to You 
is to bless me further with the Bhagavath PadhAravindha anubhava 
bhOgam just like You facilitated such anubhavams for the Lord's 
divine consorts. You may ask how I came to know of Your generosity 
to share the Lord's divine feet with His dear consorts. Oh PaadhukE! 
Your vaibhavam is so well known (lOka prasiddham) in this world 
through the joyous efforts of Saraswathi Devi to bless the poets to 
sing about Your vaibhavam through their SrI Sookthis. Therefore, 
Your generosity, KaaruNyam and othe subha guNams are no
secret to the people of the world. Therefore, You must bless me with 
the additional boon of the closest presence(Parama saamyam )  to 
You. That enjoyment would even be greater in my estimate to what 
adiyEn will enjoy  in the Muktha dasai (Bhagavath Saamyam ). Thus , 
Swamy Desikan concludes this Sankalpitha Sahasram (SrI RanganAtha 
PaadhukA Sahasram) with the statement that the ultimate enjoyment of 
PaadhukAnubhavam is the Lord adorning His Paadhukais ( Swamy 
NammAzhwAr) at SrIrangam, the BhUlOka Vaikuntam . Here at Srirangam, 
the Paadukai blesses aasrithALs with the sacred feet of the Lord, 
which is its Sarvaswam ( Sarva savadhAnam gift ).       
 
3)  Oh PaadhukE ! On special occasions , You stop Your delectable 
sanchArams with Your Lord and bring the Lord back to His antha: 
puram so that His devis can enjoy the same pleasure that You enjoy 
through  Bhagavath Padha parcicharaNa sukham ( samayE kimapi 
kreeDAloulyam varjayanthee sathi, Bhavathee NaaTayO: SrIdharaNyO: 
svam nirvEsam disasi). May I request You to confer the boon of 
qualifications for such antharanga kaimkaryams to Your Lord's
Thiruvadi? (yEvam maamapi Madhujith paadhayO: antharangam janaya). 
You of such sarvasvAdhanam glory  and  auspicious guNams have made 
Sriranga KshEthram, the dancing stage for Saraswathi Devi ( Yaasou 
Rangam GuNai: BhArathee nruttha rangam janayasi)...(V.S).