SrI: Dear BhakthAs: Today , adiyEn will cover the Fourty Fourth slOkam of Sri SaraNAgathi DhIpikai , where Swamy Desikan continues to plead ardently with the Lord to assign His DayA DEvi (Embodiment of His KaruNai/DayA )to stand in the place of the fruit-granting upAyam : karthavyam ithi anukalam kalayAmi akruthyam Swamin! akruthyam ithi kruthyamapi thyajAmi anyath vyathikramaNa jaatham anantham arTa- sTAnE DayA bhavathu tE mayi SaarvabhoumI SrI SaraNAgathi DhIpikai: SlOkam 44 Meaning: ******** Oh ViLakkoLi PerumALE ! adiyEn continues to perform acts , which have been prohibited by Your SaasthrAs as though they must be done without fail. adiyEn abandons those acts that have been prescribed by Your SaasthrAs as "must-to-do" and think that they do not need to be done. My trespasses and irrational acts do not stop with just the nonobservance of prescribed deeds and the performance of prohibited acts . There are indeed no limits to my trespasses (aparAdhams). Oh Lord of ThirutthaNkA ! Who is there except you to come to my rescue and save me from this deplorable and self-destructive state? It is You alone with Your limitles auspicious guNams that can save me . Among all of Your guNAs , if the Veeryam and Sakthi guNams rush to save me , adiyEn has no hope of being saved . adiyEn will be done for. adiyEn appeals to You therefore to send the Empress of Your auspicious guNAs , DayA GuNam and assign Her the responsibility of standing in the place of Boon Grantor (arTa sthAnE thishtvA ) to pull me out of my self-imposed miseries and rescue me from the horrors of SamsAric afflictions. Your DayA Devi is known for seeking Parama hitham for the suffering chEthanams like adiyEn. Please grant me my request ! Additional Comments (V.S): ************************** In the previous slOkam , Swamy Desikan invited the Lord to witness his samsAra Naatyam in the hope that He will take pity on his sufferings and come to his rescue. The Lord was not paying attention .Swamy Desikan concluded that the Lord was angry at the aparAdhams committed by him against His sAsthrAs. Swamy Desikan strategized quickly and appealed now to the Empress of the Lord's GuNAs, DayA GuNam to stand in the purushArTa sTaanam and rescue him from the horrors of samsAra nAtyam. He begs the Lord in this slOkam to depute His DayA Devi as His Prathinidhi to provide the rakshaNam . DayA Sathakam and the subject matter of this slOkam **************************************************** Swamy Desikan has blessed us with 108 slOkams celebrating the DayA GuNam of the Lord (DayA sathakam). There , Swamy Desikan extolled the supermacy of DayA GuNam among all of the Lord's kalyANa guNams and recognized DayA as one of the Five Devis (Consorts) of the Lord. Passages from the incomparable DayA Sathakam would be most appropriate to comprehend the references that Swamy Desikan makes in this slOkam about DayA Devi's status as Empress among the Lord's GuNams and her special power to stand in the arTa sthAnam of UpAyam to release us from the hopeles SamsAra-Naatyam. 1. Ranking of Sakthi , Veryam in status compared to DayA DEvi: ************************************************************** anuchara sakthyAdhi-guNAm agrEsara-BhOdha-virachitha-aalOkAm SvAdhIna-VrushagirIsaam Svayam prabhUthAm pramANayAmi DayAm --Daya Sathakam : Verse 11 (meaning): ThiruvengadamudayAn's DayA Devi is the Supreme Empress. As such She is accompanied by Her Lord ,wherever She goes. Our Lord is under Her influence(Svadhina VrushagirIsAm) . She is accompanied in Her SanchArams by other guNams like Sakthi, Veeryam , Balam, Tejas et al as part of the anu-yAthrA ghOshti. They follow Her. She goes ahead of of all of them as SaarvabhouminI (Empress) with the radiance of Her Jn~Anam (BhOdha Virachitha aalOkAM ) making Her self-effulgent. adiyEn invokes DayA Devi as my foundation of hope (DayAm pramANayAmi).(When Lord SrinivAsan protects the ChEthanams with His DayA GuNam , He recognizes their sufferings with compassion (DayA ) and then uses His Sakthi, Veeryam and Bhalam (GuNAs) to protect them). Reference 2: DayA DEvi's status as Saviour : SlOkam 14 ******************************************************* KrupaNa-Jana-KalpalathikAm kruthAparAdhasya nishkriyAm aadhyAm VrushagirinATa dayE ThvAm vidanthi SamsAra-tAriNIm vibhudha: Oh Dayaa Devi of ThiruvEngadamudayAn! You are the boon-granting kalpaka creeper to the helpless samsAris.You are the First prAyascchittham to remove the sins of those , who trespass Your Lord's saasthrAs. The wise ones recognize You as the One, who gets the aparAdhis safely across the ocean of SamsAram. Reference 3: DhOshams of Other GuNams : SlOkam 15 ************************************************** Vrushagiri-gruhamEdhi-guNA: BhOdha-Bala-Isvarya-Veerya-sakthi-mukhA: DHOSHAA bhavEyurEthE yadhi naama DayE ThvayA vinAbhUthaa: (meaning):Oh DayA Devi! For the Lord observing gruhasthAsramam at Thirumalai , His guNAs like Jn~Anam, Bhalam , Isvaryam , Veeryam and Sakthi et al will be only dhOshams (blemishes) , when they are not accompanied by You . Reference 4: Passage from SlOkam 20 ************************************ "KaruNE!-- ThvayA yEva dhrushta: janimAn apavargam akrushutapacchyam anubhavathi " ( Oh DayA Devi! when a chEthanam is seen by You at the time of birth , he enjoys Moksha Sukham effortlessly . He is blessed with MokshAnugraham.) Reference 5: The Lord becomes DayALu through DayA Devi ******************************************************* SlOkam 26: KaruNE! KamalA Nilaya: Thvyaa DayALu: ( Oh DayA Devi! Lord SrInivAsan becomes imbued with DayA (DayALu:) through Your sambhandham). Reference 6: SlOkam 27: Reduction of the Lord's anger ****************************************************** Your Lord gets enraged at the repeated trespasses of the chEthanams , which transgress His saastraic injunctions ( DayE ! abhIkshNam adhilangitha- sAsanEshu vijrumbhitha UshmA Vrushasaila adhipathi); He wants to punish them . At that time , You goad the offenders to perform appropriate prAyascchitthams to banish the anger of the Lord and keep Him under Your control . Your Lord blesses thus the chEthanams through Your timely intervention . Reference 7: SlOkam 30 ********************** aham asmi aparAdha chakravarthI KaruNE Thvam cha GuNEshu SaarvabhoumI vidhushI sTithim IdhrisIm svayam VrushasailEswara pAdasAth kuru Thvam Oh DayA Devi! I am the Emperor of Sins .You are the Empress of all auspicious GuNAs .You who understand my pitiable state should enable me to be seated at the sacred feet of Your Lord . Reference 8: Standing in UpAya sTanam of Fruits ************************************************ anubhavithu agha Ogam nAlam aagAmi kaala: prasamayithum asEsham nishkriyAbhir-na sakyam svyamithihi DayE Thvam SvIkritha-SrInivAsA siTilitha-bhava-bhIthi: SrEyasE jAyasE na: --DayA sathakam: SlOkam 34 Oh DayA Devi! For experiencing the mountains of Sins accumulated by me, the future times wont be sufficient . The prAyascchitthams wont be able to destroy all of those abubdant sins. Recognizing the magnitude of this problem , You have endeared Lord SrinivAsan and brought Him under Your control. You thus become the destroyer of all of our aparAdhams and bless us with sarva mangaLams through Him . Summary: ******** All of these thoughts flash through Swamy Desikan's mind , when he seeks the intervention of DayA Devi in the 44th SlOkam of SaraNaagathi DhIpikai and requests Her to stand in the place of arTa sthAnam to yield the fruit of UpAyam (SaraNAgathi ). NamO NamO SrI VedAntha DesikAya , SrImath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam, RaamAnuja Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan P.S: Please do not forget to support the NithyArAdhana Kaimkaryam for Swamy Desikan and SrI Maragathavalli samEtha Sri ViLakkoLi perumAL at the ThUppul/ThirutthaNkA dhivya Desam. Please contact adiyEn , if you wish to take part in this Kaimkaryam. We are close to 12 Laks of Rupees and need just 8 more laks to reach the finish line. Thank You .
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