103. dhevasthriloka soubhaagyakasthooree thilakaankuraH
jeeyaath vrajaanganaa anangakelee lalithavibhramaH
Hail the Lord, who is the auspicious mark of all the three worlds and who is engaged in the love sports with the gopis.
The kasthuri thilaka on the forehead of Krishna is the sign of auspiciousness of the three worlds, thriloka soubhaagya, or he himself is the kasthuri thilaka of the three worlds because the residents of all the three worlds are blessed by hearing and meditating on the leelas of Krishna anangakelee lalithaa vibhrama, in brindavan with the gopis, vrajaanganaaH.
104. premadham cha me kaamadham cha me vedhanam cha me vaibhavam cha me
jeevanam cha me jeevitham cha me dhaivatham cha me dheva naaparam.
Oh Lord, there is no one else but you to give me love, fulfil my desire, give me knowledge, prosperity and you alone is my life and longevity and my God.
Leelasuka seems to have written a chamaka on
105.maaDhryeNa vijrmbhanthaam vaacho nah thava vaibhave
chaapalyena vivarDhanthaam chinthaa nah thava SaiSave
May our speech. Vaachah, flourish with sweetness, maaDhuryam vijjrmbhathaam, in speaking about your glory. May our thoughts be enriched, vivarDhathaam chinthaa, by thinking of your childhood activities, chaaplayena Saisave, as
Kulasekhara says in his Mukundamala,
Jihve keerthay kesavam muraripum chetho bhaja SreeDharam
paaNidhvandhva tham archaya achyutha kaThaah srothradhvaya thvam SrNu
krshNam lokaya lochandhvaya hareH gacChaanghriyugma aalayam
jighra ghraaNa mukundhapaadha thulseem moorDhan nama aDhokshajam
Oh tongue, sing about Kesava., the slayer of Mura. Oh mind, think of SreeDhara. Two hands, you worship Him , Two ears, you hear the stories about Achyutha. Oh eyes, look at
When all the senses are thus engaged in the service of the Lord they will cease to be attracted by the worldly sensual pleasures. This reminds one, of the KuraL of the famous Tamil sage Thiruvalluvar, who has given to the world maxims with deep meaning in short sentences.
Pattruga pattrattrAn pattrinai appattrai
pattruga pattru vidarku.
It means that in order to relinquish the attachment of the world one has to develop attachment towards the Lord. If we want to give up something it is easier to do so by shifting our attachment to something else which is more desirable.
This calls to the mind an episode in the life of Sri Ramanuja. There was a man in Srirangam who had a beautiful wife and he was much enamoured with her and use to spread an umbrella on her head to shield her from the Sun, much to the ridicule of others. Ramanuja saw him and took pity on him and asked him what is that he found so attractive in his wife. He replied that she had beautiful eyes. Ramanuja told him that if he finds a pair of eyes more attractive will he switch his devotion to that. When the man asked who has more beautiful eyes, Ramanuja took him inside the
106. yaani thvaccharithaamrhaani rasalehyaani Dhanyaathmanaam
ye vaa chaapalaSaisava vyathikaraaH raaDhaaparaaDhonmukhaah
yaa vaa bhaavitha veNugeetha gathayo leelaamukhaambhruhe
Dhaaraavaahikayaa vahanthu hrdhaye thaanyeva thannyeva me
May the heart of me enjoy the continuous flow of thoughts about your exoloits which taste delicious to the blessed, your naughtiness to radha that was contrary to your childhood form and the melody of the music that came from four lotus face playing the flute.
Srimadbhagavatham says,
NigamakalpatharOh galitham phalam
shukamukhAthadbhuthadhravasamyutham
pibatha bhAgavatham rasamAlayam
muhurahO rasikA bhuvi bhAvukAh(Srimadbhagavatham-1-1-3)
Oh connoisseurs of the world! you who understand the nuances of tastes, drink again and again, the nectar-like juice of this fruit from the wish-fulfilling tree called veda nigamakalpatharu, which fell, galitham from the mouth of the parrot ,shukamukhAth (shuka denotes a parrot as well as shukabrahma maharshi, who was supposed to have the face of a parrot)
It requires poorvajanma puNya to be able to have a taste for the nectarine stories of the Lord, charithaamrthaani. Hence leelasuka says `rasalehyaani Dhanyaanaam,' relished by the blessed. This is because the actions of
107. bhakthiH thvayi sThiratharaa bhagavan yadhi syaath
dhaivena nah phalitha dhivya kiSoraveshe
mukthiH svayam mukulithaanjalih sevathe asmaan
DharmaarTha kaamagathayaH samayapradheekshaaH
If the devotion on you, who has appeared to us in your child form, dhivyakiSoravesha due to our good fortune, is firm,sThiratharaa, then salvation will attend on us of its own accord wth folded hands,mukthaanjaliH sevathe, and the other three purusharThaas , dharma .artha and kama will wait their turn, samayapradheekshaaH, to serve us.
Bhakthi towards
108.jaya jaya jaya devadevadeva thribhuvanamangaladhivyanaamaDheya
jaya jya jaya baalakrishnadeva SravaNamanonayanaamtrthaavathaara
Victory to thee, oh Lord of devas, whose name purifies all the three worlds, who as the child
The name of the Lord when uttered purifies all the three worlds. His incarnation as
Kulasekhara azvar says,
badDhenaanjalinaa nathena Sirasaa gaathraissaromodhgamaiH
kanTena svaragadhgadhen nayanena udhb geernabaashpaambunaa
nithyam thvaccharaNaaravindhayugala Dhyaanaamrthaasvaadhinaa
asmaakam saraseeruhaaksha sahathm sampadhyathaam jeevitham
Oh lotus-eyed one, may our life reach its fulfillment always by drinking the nectar of meditation on you're your lotus feet, with folded hands, and bowed head experiencing the horipilation with choking voice and streaming eyes.This idea is carried on further in the next sloka.
109.thubhyam nirbhara harshavarsha vivaSaavesa sphutaavirbhavath
bhooyacchaapalabhooshitheshu sukrthaam bhaavaeshu nirbhaasathe
srimadgokulamandanaaya mahathe vaachaam vidhoorasphutan
maaDhuryaikarasaarnavaaya mahase kasmai chidhasmai namah
Salutations to you, the light that appears in front of me,the mighty ocean of nothing but sweetness, the ornament to the prosperous Gokula, who manifest himself in the meditation of the blessed souls, characterized by the manifold actions resulting in perfect shower of joy which pervades spontaneously and which is beyond description.
Leelasuka is overwhelmed with the luminous presence, mahase, of
110. eesaanadhevacharaNaabharaNena neevee
dhamodharasThirayasah sthabakodhbhavena
leelaaSukena rachitham thava dheva krishna-
karnaamrtham vahathu kalpasathaanthre api
Oh Lord, may this work,composed by Leelasuka ,who has the feet of Lord Siva as his head ornament, and which is like a bouquet of glory of Krishna , who was bound to the mortar, create a flow of nectar for ages.
Leelasuka belonged to a saivite family by tradition. But he became a devotee of Krishna.hence he refers to his tradional background by saying that he wears the feet of Lord Siva on his head. The word karnamrtha means nectar to the ears. Lelasuka compares that to a bouquet of glory of
Thus ends the first Asvaasa of Krishnakarnamrtham.
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