SrI:
Dear Sri MahA Lakshmi BhakthAs:
In the second slOkam of the Naama Vaibhava sthaBakam of
Sri Lakshmi Sahasram , Sri VenkadAdhri Kavi instructs us that
the NaamAs of our Mother are extraordinarily efficent in quenching
the unbearable heat of the Taapams :
arNavEndhratanayE athidussahE: dhurnarEndhra-guNa-varNanAtapai:
Aartayaa rasanayA adhya Seethalam keerthayAmi Tava nAma kOmaLam
arNavEnhdra tanayE = Oh Daughter of the king of the Oceans !
( the reference here is to the birth of MahA Lakshmi from the Milky
Ocean as the daughter of the Samudhra Raajan during the churning
of the Milky Ocean by the Lord to gain Her as " PeNNamudhu" ).
Tava Naama kOmaLam SeethaLam keerthayAmi = adiyEn is now engaged in
the sankeerthanam of Your most beautiful and cool Sahasra naamams .
What is the effect of such keerthanam on adiyEn's tongue that has until now
been parched by
the singing of the praise of the inauspicious and insignificant kings of this
world ? The recitation
of Your cool and beautiful NaamAs has brought immense comfort to my tongue and
has immersed me in the cool and rejuvenating amrutha pravAham of Yours .
My tongue until now was experiencing intolerable sufferings ( Aarthi) from the
relentless
heat associated with my effort in singing about the nonexistent ( imaginary)
attributes of
the inauspicious kings . This attempt at the guNa varNanam of these evil kings
( dhur-narEndhrA guNa varNanam ) for eking out a livelihood was like being
baked
in the midday heat of the Sun . The sufferings experienced by adiyEn's
tongue
( VarNanAthapai: aarthayA rasanayA ) through abuse of the poetic skills blessed
by You
was terrifying . adiyEn was used to invent auspicious and lofty guNams in these
haughty ,
wealthy kings and lied through my efforts to praise them . The consequence was
terrible
for my tongue . It experienced immense sufferings.
By switching now to sing about Your seethaLa , kOmala dhivya nAmams , adiyEn
has brought joy and comfort to my parched tongue ( rasanayA adhya SeethaLam
kOmalam
Tava Naamaani keerthayAmi). The Aarthi ( suffering) of my tongue(rasanA ) is
now gone.
The VairAgyam of Swamy Desikan expressed through His powerful pentad of slOkams
in the Sri Sookthi of VairAgya panchakam under similar circumstances has to be
recalled here .
The commentary on Sri VairAgya panchakam can be accessed at the Sundara Simham
Web site in the form of an e-book :
http://www.sundrasimham.org/ebooks/ebook14.htm
Sri KaNNan Swamy's beautiful Summary in Tamizh of this slOkam is :
dhUrttharai puhazhntha tApam
theertthiDa nAvil taNmai
sErtthiDa unn nAmatthaik-
keerthanam paNNUhinrEn
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradaachAri Sadagopan
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