SrI: Dear BhakthAs: Today , adiyEn will cover the Fifty Fourth slOkam of Sri SaraNAgathi DhIpikai , where Swamy Desikan presses his case for protection by the Lord with powerful logic-based pleas : Rakshyas-ThvayA Tava bharOsmyaham ithyapoorvAn varNAn imAn ahrudhayAn-api vAchayithvaa maddhOsha-nirjitha-guNO MahishI-samaksham maa bhUs-Thvadhanya-iva mOga parisramas-Thvam SrI SaraNAgathi DhIpikai: SlOkam 54 Meaning: ******** Oh DhIpa PrakAsa PrabhO ! You have empowered me to say that " adiyEn is the object of Your protection. It is Your responsiblity to protect adiyEn ". adiyEn should have said these words on my own earlier .adiyEn did not do it. adiyEn said it for the first time after You prompted me . Even this statement of mine was not made with full conviction.adiyEn was decietful in this plea to You for my protection. Since You empowered me to say these words (Bhara SamarpaNam) it is now Your inescapable duty to protect me at all costs. It is still possible that my sins and blemishes might ovecome Your auspicious attributes like KaruNaa and result in myself being abandoned. If that happenss , then all the strenous effort that You took sofar on my behalf would have been utterly wasted. Your Divine Consort , SrI Devi will laugh at You and say that You tried heroically and yet lost the battle . That will make Her think that You are just an ordinary man and not the Omnipotent Parama Purushan that She knows You to be. Oh ViLakkoLi PerumAnE! You should not give room for such a calamity and save Yourself from such an indelicate situation by protecting adiyEn. Additional Comments ******************** The intensity of Swamy Desikan's appeal for protection (RakshaNam) by the Lord is clear here . Swamy Desikan locks in the Lord with unassailable logic : (1) " aham Thvayaa Rakshya: "( I am fit to be protected by You). (2)"Tava Bhara: asmi" ( I am under Your domain of protection as per Your charama slOkams). (3)" Thvam (Tava) MahishI samaksham , Thvadh anya-iva, mOga parisrama: maa bhU:" ( Please do not act like a stranger to adiyEn in front of Your Consort and become Her object of laughter). The Lord is addressed through many cases(vibhakthis ) here to reveal the intensity of Swamy Desikan's desperation and appeal in the confines of one slOkam : "ThvayA , Tava , Thvam , Thvadh ". adiyEn is after all Your property. Is it not logical to expect You as the owner of Your property to rush to protect adiyEn ? "aham ThvayA rakshya:"(adiyEn is therefore fit to be the object of Your rescue). In Your Charama slOkams during VarAha , Raama and KrishNa avathArams , You assured us that those who have perfomed Parapatthi at Your sacred feet even once have nothing to fear (sakruthEva , maa Sucha:, Vratham Mama, Aham nayAmi)and that You will protect us without fail.This is Your SanAdhana dharmam . "Tava Bhara: asmi" adiyEn has placed myself thus totally under Your protection for that reason."vidhinA prapadhya samitha-dhuritha: sankhA-aatanga-thyaja: sukham asmi". (adiyEn has performed prapatthi with Your anugraham and have gotten ridden of my sins , doubts and fear and am contented and happy ).That is why adiyEn says:" Tava Bhara: asmi". While performing the Prapatthi, adiyEn was empowered by You (vaachayithvaa)to say " aham ThvayA rakshya:, Tava bhara: asmi" .adiyEn has uttered these words for the first time (apoorvAn imaan varNAn )and these might have been stated half-heartedly and without conviction(ahrudhayAn api vaachayithvaa). There is always a battle between my innumerable and terrible sins ( Madh dhOsha:) and Your kalyANa guNams like karuNaa. If my sins become victorious in the battle due to Your carelessness and lack of effort ( Thvam madh dhOsha nirjitha guNa: ), then You will have a problem with Your Divine Consort , SrI Devi. She is standing next to You and is a witness to this drama . When You treat adiyEn as a stranger in front of Her and abandon me , then She will laugh at Your lack of power and consider You as One who talks a lot first but does not live up to Your tall talk. Oh My Lord ! Please do not expose Yourself to this apavAdham (slander) and ridicule ! Please save Your name as "SaraNAgatha vrathi" through protecting me, who has uttered the SaraNAgathi vaakyams in front of both of You ! Swamy Desikan's logic is unassailable indeed ! Our Kavi-Taarkika Simham's poetic powers and the logic skills are enmeshed so tightly that our Lord has very little room to wiggle out of His promise ! NamO NamO SrI VedAntha DesikAya , SrImath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam, RaamAnuja Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan
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