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Sri:
SrimathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:
 
Dearest Srivaishnavas,
 
Earlier, akinchanan, ananyagathis SaraNya; dayAsidhO!
BandhO! ? were uttered by Alavandhaar. Now they are
being elaborated. 
 
pithA thvam; mathA thvam; dayithadhanayasthvam;
priyasuhruth
thvamEva, thvam bandhu: kururasi gathicchaasi
jagathaam
tvadheeyas thvad bruthya: thava parijanas
tvadgathiraham
prapannac cha yEvam sathyahamapi thavaivaami hi para:
[60] 
 
For all the worlds, You are everything; You are alone
are the Father; Mother; darling son; dearest friend;
close relation; the Acharya who dispels the darkness
of ignorance; - the end that we attain- everything is
thus You and You alone. I am Your eternal servant. 
Tvad bruthya: I need to be brought up by You; 
Tava parijana: Your servant- Your kinkaran. 
Tvad gathi: You are the end and Goal for me.
Prapanna cha: I am also the One who has performed
Saranagathi at Your Lotus Feet. 
When such is the case, I am also the goal for You- Am
I not? 
 
Had I left You for some other goal, some other
pleasures, some other objectives, some other pursuits,
then You can ignore me; Had I not surrendered at Your
Lotus Feet, You can ignore me and discard me. But I am
not so; hence I am Your goal now and You need to take
me. 

Ahamapi- api sabdham refers to even if I am full of
blemishes, as I have not other refuge, and no other
qualifications on myself, having surrendered
unconditionally at Your Lotus Feet, You need to bless
me and save me. OR api can also mean- I too (similar
to all my acharyas- ancestors). OR api may also mean-
the body in addition to my AthmA- and hence even after
dhEhaavasaanam, we are Your servants. Thus at all
times, I am your object of saving. 
 
In line with the sloka of vapuraadhishu yOPi kOpivaa-
whatever manner had I considered my athmA, please save
that.. So, it may also mean here that even if I
consider that body itself is AThmA wrongly, please
save the same. thEshaam vaicchinnathrushNAnAm
yOgakshEmavahO hari: also can be contemplated here. 

In Saranagathi Gadya, Sri Ramanujacharya also echoes
the same sentiment:

tvamEva mAtA pitA tvameva tvameva bandhuscha
gurustvamEv
tvamEva vidya dravinam tvamEva tvameva sarvam mama
dhEva devaa

You are my mother, father, relation, teacher, wisdom
and wealth; You are everything in this world to me, My
Lord!. 

Swami Desikan mentions in his Sri-Stuthi:

mAthA devi! tvamasi bhagavAn vasudeva-ha pithA may
jAtha-ha sOham janani yuvayOr-eka-lakshyam dayAya-hA"
You are my Mother and the Lord Vaasudeva my Father?.

Alavandhaar ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan


                
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