Sri:
Dear SrI Ranganatha BhakthAs
:
As indicated in the previous posting ,
detailed and
profound commentaries
on the First 14 slOkams of the First
JitanthE has been translated into
English
by Dr. M.N.Ramanujam of Bangalore
:
The readers are requested to study the
above
text as background as
adiyEn prays to vyAkyAna
Chakravarthy to bless adiyEn to engage in
this
Kaimkaryam to raise funds for Sri
Ranganatha ,
the PuNDareekAkshan .
adiyEn will now commence with the coverage
of
the Meanings and Commentaries on the
remaining
slOkams of all the six JitantEs within the
limit of
adiyEn's mandha mathi .
SlOkam 15
*************
SarvEshu dEsa-kaalEshu
sarvAvasTAsu chAchyutha
kimkarOsmi HrushikEsa
bhUyO-bhUyOasmi kimkara:
(Meaning) : Oh Lord with the
Achyutha nAmam to remind
us of Your resolve to come to
the rescue of everyone ,
who has sought Your sacred
feet as their sole refuge !
Oh Prabhu with the
HrushIkEsa nAmam to remind us
that You are the Isan (Lord)
of our Hrisheekams ( sense
organs) and the
Controller of our Hrusheekams to direct
them towards immersion in the
enjoyment of Your limitless
auspicious attributes and
dhivya soundharyam !
adiyEn's firm resolve is to
perform kaimkaryams for
You again and again at all
times , places and states .
Please bless adiyEn with such
soubhAgyams to have
nithya kaimkarya prApthi and
engagement in Your
Kaimkaraym again and
again at all times , places
and states
!
Comment ary on slOkam
passages :
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Achyutha Naamam:
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Sounaka
Rishi chooses the Achytha Naamam
to remind us that He is the
One who never lets
His PrapannAs down .
In SrI VishNu Sahasra Naamam ,
the name of
Achyuthan
is invoked thrice by VyAsa BhagavAn
( 101st , 320th and
557th NaamAs) .
Bhagavan says that " He is never away from
those
who have sought refuge in Him " . In Srimad
RaamAyaNam ,
He asserts that " I have never abandoned
(My BhakthAs
);
because of this act of Mine , I am known as
Achyutha ".
He declares that this Karma of His has led
to His name
as Achyuthan ( " YasmAth na
chyutha-poorvOham
Achyutha: tEna KarmaNaa" ) . His name has
also been
linked to the fact that He never loses His
Overlordship
(SarvEswarathvam) at any time ( "YasmAnna
chyavathE
sTAnAth , tasmAth sankeerthyathE Achyutha:"
). Brahma ,
Indhra do slip down from their positions (
sTanam) ,
when their acquired PuNyams are exhausted
but
BhagavAn SrImann NaarAyaNan never slips
down
and hence He is saluted as "Achyuthan"
.
Swamy Desikan composed 100 slOkams in
PrAkrutham
known as Achyutha Sathakam to reveal to us
the Achyutha Tatthvam .The naamAs
that Swamy
Desikan chose to salute Achyuthan of
Thiruvaheendhrapuram
are self-revelatory : Daasa Sathyan ( True
to His BhakthAs
who surrender to Him ) ; Kimkara Sathyan (
adiyavarkku
Meyyan/ True to those , who engage in
Kaimkaryams
for Him ). He does not abandon
them ever and inquires
always about their yOga KshEmam);He is the
SaraNAgatha
Sathyan ( True to those , who sought Him as their sole
refuge).
Since this slOkam seeks uninterrupted Kaimkaryam to
BhagavAn
at all times , places and states , the focus on
BhagavAn as
Kimkara sathya Achyuthan is very appropriate
.
HrusheekEsa Naamam :
*****************************
For
performing uninterrupted Kaimkaryam to
BhagavAn , one's sense organs have to
be
kept fully under control so that they do
not stray to
VishayAntharams . Our Lord is the
Niyanthaa(controller)
of the HrusheekAs ( sense organs) as
their Lord ( "Tath
KaraNAnAmapi niyAmakathvAth HrusheekEsa
ithi " ).
By controlling the sensory organs of the
Jeevans ,
our Lord directs them to stay focussed on
Him
and presents Himself to them and confers
on
them the strength of mind not to stray away
from Him ( Yajur Vedam KaaDakam : "
Ya AathmadhA
PhaladhA ") .
The BruhadhAraNyaka Upanishad
(5.7.22) salutes the Lord
in this context as the Isan of
Hrusheekams (Sensory Organs) :
"
HrushekANeendhindhriyANyAhu: tEshAm IsO
YaTA BhavAn
HrusheekEsa ithi khyAtha: ".
SarvEshu dEsa kaalEshu
sarvAvasthAsu kimkarOsmi(1):
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This is the noble statement of one who has
done
the Aathma samarpaNa Yaagam (SaraNAgathy
at
the sacred feet of the Lord in the
spirit of two mantrams
of Yajur BrAhmaNam : " yOhamasmi sa sann
yajE "
and "YasyAsmi na tamantharEmi " . The first
mantram
states that the jeevan performs the
Aathma SamarpaNa
Yaagam in its true form as the bonded
servant of the Lord
and as His property . The second mantram
asserts that
adiyEn is the unconditional Daasan of the
Lord and
will therefore not stray away from Him (
the True
Master). Ananyagathithvam and
ananya-sEshathvam
aspects of Prapannan engaged in
Kaimkaryam
to the Sarva Seshi is referred to here .
This unalterable
relationship between the JeevAathmA and
ParamAthmA
is defined also by a slOkam from VishNu
Tatthvam :
" Aathma dhAsyam HarE:
SwAmyam
SvabhAvam cha sadhA smara
"
It is the inherent nature of the AathmA to
be the servant
( Kimkaran) of its Swami . For those ,
who engage in true
Kaimkaryam , the Lord takes them by
His hand to
His supreme abode ( aham smarAmi madh
bhaktham
nayaami paramAm gathim --VarAha PerumAL in
His
charama slOkam ).
To these noble Kimkaraas
resulting in the accumulation
of Kaimkarya Sree ,
He is the Kimkara
Sathya Achyutha Swami .
SarvEshu dEsEshu KaalEshu
sarvAvasthAsu KimkarOsmi(2)
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AzhwArs and AchAryas seek
this Kaimkarya PrApthi
to Sriman Narayana in this
and the other world in all
states and at all times .They
pray that the desa-Kaala-
avasthaa do not interfere
with their Kaimkaryams
to Him and beg Him as
NirupAdhika dEvan
to chase away all obstacles
to such
Kaimkaryams .
Some
examples of prayer for such Kaimkaryam are:
" unakkE
NaamAtccheyvOm , MaRRai namm KaamangaL
MaaRRu " ---ThiruppAvai : Paasuram
29
"Thvaddh
DaasyamEva hi vidhushAm mattam tath " ---
KurEsar
in Sri Vaikunta Sthavam ( SlOkam 65) . Here ,
KurEsar
says: " The Knowledgable people know that
Vaikunta BhOgam is nothing but performing
Kaimkaryam
to You as Your Kinkaran . This is their
darsanam ".
SrI VaishNava Sarvaswam has been identified
as
the Nama: sabdhArTam of Dhvaya Mantram
elaborated in
ThiruvAimozhi (TVM
2.5):
" Yaanum PiRappil pall
PiRavip-PerumAnai
MaRapponRinRi yenRum
mahizhvEnE "
(Meaning): It is immaterial to me
whether I take the lowest
of births or be blessed with the
highest PurushArTams
(Moksham ) . " I will for my part ,
ever meditate , with intense
joy , the Lord with His infinite auspicious
qualities and admirable
exploits , without any intermission , at
all times ( places and states) ;
the Lord who takes many births out of free
will , though He is birthless .
What is most important is that I will
subordinate my everything ,
including my happiness , to His
satisfaction . I will remember that
I am not an independent force but only a
dependent( Paratantran) ,
subservient to my dear Lord "
.
NamO SrI Ranganathaya
,
Oppiliappan Koil V.Sadagopan
P.S: Dear SrI Ranganatha
BhakthAs : We have started to find
living quaters for our Temple
staff ( 5 Priests and one Cook)
and unite them with their
families as soon as Possible .
We need all of Your help to
realize this goal . Please go to
our temple web site and send
your contributions online :
Thank You all
.
Oppiliappan Koil Varadachari Sadagopan http://www.sadagopan.org
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