Suthra-4-yallabDHvA pumAn siddhObhavthi amrthObhavathi thrupthObhavathi
yath=that which(bhakthi); labDhvA=having gained;pumAn=man; bhavathi=becomes siddhah=perfect;amrthah=eternal;thrupthah= contented
Attaining bhakthi a devotee becomes perfect being, becomes immortal and contented.
Bhakthi is the only thing a devotee asks for, but the Lord gives him mukthi as well, which is denoted by the word amrtha.Bhakthi alone gives full satifaction to the devotee and hence he become thruptha, contented.The word siddha does not mean the ashtamAsiddhis, the occult powers which are eight in number, but it means that the devotee becomes perfect in all respects. When one is an aspirant he is a sadhaka and when he attains the goal he is siddha.It is in this sense the word siddha is used here. He feels a krthkrthya, one who has accomplished what has to be accomplished.
Shankara in his sivanandhalahari says in a beautiful sloka,
narathvam dhevathvam nagavanamrgathvam maSakathA
paSuthvam keetathvam bhavathu vihagathvAdhijananam
sadhA thvadpAdhAbjasmaraNparamAnandhalaharee
vihArAsaktham cheth hrdhayamiha kimthEna vapushA.
'Let me be born as a man or god, animal or a tree, a mosquito, a worm, a bird. If my heart is immersed in the waves of bliss of remembering your lotus feet what do I care for the kind of body I have?'
Kulasekhara in Mukundamala expresses the same idea in praying for bhakthi alone, irrespective of where he is , in heaven or in hell or on earth.'avismrtih tvaccharaNAravindhE bhavE bhavE mE asthu thava prasadhAth,may I have the remembrance of your lotus feet by Your grace, in all my lives to come.' And 'dhivi vA bhivi va mamAsthu vaso narakE vA , whether I am in heaven, earth or hell.'
In srimadbhagavatham
The word pumAn is significant in as much as the qualification for attaining devotion is being a pumAn or a man, which includes woman, as the word denotes a human being in general. It eliminates the necessity of being a brahmin or kshathriya or a srothriya, wellversed in vedas, to be a devotee and includes all who have faith in, and love for, the Lord.
Thruptha means one who is perfectly sarisfied and a devotee is so, with his devotion alone and does not seek anything else except the smaraNam, kirthanam and padhasevanam as the Azvar in Thirumalai puts it,
pacchaimamalai pol Eni pavazavAi kamalacchengaN
achuthA amarar ErE Ayar tham kozundhE ennum
icchuvai thavir yAn pOy indhirlokam ALum
acchuvaiperinum vEnDEn rangamAnagaruLAne
I do not want even the rulership of heaven except singing your glory, your form like the green mountain, coral lips, lotus like eyes, and your names Achyutha, Lord of devas, and the child of yadhavas, Oh the Lord of Srirangam.
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