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SrI:

Dear BhakthAs:

For some reason , the earlier postigns on
the above three slOakms in the series on
SrI GuNa Ratna Kosam never got archived in 
the Lists. Hence , I have written a new set of
commentaries . SrIman Krishnaswamy of California,
who is doing yeoman service in archiving this and other 
multipart postings ahs added them now to the other 
postings( SlOkam 1-55). The remaing three slOakms 
(59, 60 and 61) will be added soon and the site will 
be complete. I thank SrIman Krishnaswamy for his
great help. The URL is:

http://home.comcast.net/~ayyamkk/GunaRatnaKosam 

This SrI Sookthi of Swamy ParAsara Bhattar deals
with the unique role of SrI Devi in our SrI SampradhAyam.

May SrI RanganAyaki ThAyAr bless us all !

Daasan, V.Sadagopan 

SlOkam 56:

dhugdhArNavam Janana bhuvana preethyA BahumanyasE
Janani dayitha prEmNA pushNAsi tathparamam padham
udhathi parama vyOmnOr-vismruthya mAdhrusa-rakshaNa-
kshamamithi dhiyA bhUya:SrIranga dhAmani mOdhasE

Meaning according to Dr.V.N.Vedantha Desikan: 
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This shrine is called SREERANGAM in the sense that 
it is the court-hall for Your sport and dance , 
where in SHREE sabdham refers to You. Because You 
have chosen this dais for Your purpose of ensuring 
the well being of all creatures , which are but Your 
children , all like me , knowing nothing about
Your unmatched vaibhavam and yet deserving Your 
Motherly grace, You enjoy this location; evidently You 
have spurned Your birth-place ( the milky ocean)
and Your husband's perrenial abode(Sree Vaikuntam) 
in favour of Sreerangam to be near us.

Special Notes: Oh Sarva Loka MaathA! Your birth home 
(PiRantha aham) is the Milky Ocean and naturally You
are very much attached to it. Your husband's home 
(Puhuntha aham) is the famous location praised by 
the Vedams as "Tadh VishNO: Paramam Padham". 
As the bride joining Your husband's home , 
You are very fond of this home too , since You 
adore Your husband .

Your Janana Bhavana preethi (Fondness for
Your birth place ) makes You consider 
the Milky Ocean with great affection ;
because of Your love for Your husband
( Dayitha PrEmai), You adore Your Pukkaham
(Your husband's abode) celebrated in the Vedams
as "Tadh VishNO: Paramam padham".You have set 
aside those special and meaningful abodes and 
chosen however SREERANGAM as Your most preferred 
place of residence to save us helpless ones
(akinchana janams).Since You chose residence in SrIrangam
over the other two sites dear to You as the most 
auspicious place (Sree) for Your sport (Rangam)
of protecting us.This is Your Ranga BhUmi and Sriya:
Rangam and is not Sriyutham Rangam ( auspicious 
place , a term used for UpachAram purposes).Maadhrusa 
RakshaNam ( protection of helpless ones like us) is
Your motivation to minimize the importance of
Your birth place and SrI Vaikuntam as Pukkaham
and choose Sreerangam for the express purpose of
protecting us. SrIranga dhAmani mOdhasE ( You revel
at this abode of SrIrangam )now. This is the wonder
(adhisayathvam ) of the archAvathAram of SrI RanganAyaki
at Sreerangam according to Swamy ParAsara Bhattar.

SlOkam 57:

OudhArya KaaruNikathAsritha vathsalathva-
poorvEshu sarvamathisayithamathra Maatha:
SrIrangadhAmni yadhutAnyadh udhAharanthi
SeethAvathAramukham yEthath amushya yOgyam

(Meaning according to Dr.V.N.Vedanatha Desikan):
***********************************************
Oh Mother! all Your traits as bounteousness ,
mercy, sympathy for the surrendered one, and the like,
shine in Your station at SrIrangam, with great lustre.
Evidently, these qualities were also reckoned in
avathArAs such as SeethA, that You took;this is no wonder
since, as I percieve , all Your avathArAs were only rehearsal
acts for this final portrayal as Sree Ranga nAyaki.

Additional comments:
********************
Oh Mother SrIranga Naayaki! The boundless generosity,
the overflowing DayA towards Your children , affection
and concern for Your erring children are abundantly 
experienced at Your residence at SrIrangam as ArchA Moorthy.
All what IthihAsa-PurAnams salute about these auspicious
attributes of Yours displayed during Your Vibhava avathArAms
as SeethA PirAtti and the like appear to be rehearsals 
to gain perfection during Your archAvathAram as 
SrI Ranga Naayaki.All of these MangaLa guNams have
attained a state of perfection for the benefit of
the suffering samsAris.ArchAvathAram unlike
VibhaavathArams is for the benefit of all and is 
for enjoyment at all times .VibhavAthaaram is limited to 
a certain time and place. Therefore , whatever outstanding
attributes that You displayed as SeethA PirAtti during 
Your VibhavAvathAram seems to be a dress rehearsal 
for the full display during Your current archAvathAram
as SrI Ranga Naayaki.

OudhAryam is svArTa nairapEkshaNyam according to 
the VasurAsi commentary of SrI VeerarAghavAchArya.
It is not svayam prayOjanam. KaaruNyam is Para dukkha
sahishNuthvam ( empathy for the sufferings of others).
Aasritha Vaathsalyam is aasritha dhOsha BhOgyathvam
( Overlooking one's defects and yet having affection
for the one, who has sought refuge).These parama slAgya 
guNams displayed as KshamA (Forbearance ), DayA (Compassion
even towards those who offend) were displayed in Vibhava
avathArams such as the SeethAvathAram. All of those 
displays seem to be abhyAsam(rehearsals) for the ArchAvathAram 
as Sree Ranga Naayaki, when they reach their peak.

SlOkam 58:
***********
Isvaryam akshara gathim paramam padham vaa
kasmaichidh-anjalibharam vahathE vitheerya
asmai na kinchith-uchitham krutham-ithyaTAmBha
Thvam lajjasE kaTaya kOyam udhArabhAva: 

Meaning according to Dr.V.N.VedAntha Desikan:
*********************************************
Oh Mother! Let anyone supplicate his hands in
anjali form before You. Enough .You will in Your 
extreme kindliness agree to give him all affluence,
even Kaivalya and even (more)Vaikuntam in return for 
that anjali; what is more, You would later on feel 
a certain bashfulnes--that is indeed ever evidnet 
in Your smile even now!--that You had not done enough
for him, equal to the laborious exercise he had exerted 
himself in folding his palms in supplication!

What is this extreme bounteousness? Why? Please
explain (this) to me.

Additional Comments: 
********************
This slOkam is the one quoted by Swamy Desikan 
in the SiddhOpAya SOthanAdhikAram of SrImath
Rahasya Thraya Saaram to explain the meaning of 
the doctrine of "UdhAraam " associated with 
SrI DEvi. Dr.VedAntha Desikan refers to the passage
in SrI Sooktham's "DEvajushtAm UdhArAm" to salute 
the unique bounteousness and generosity of 
SrI Devi(SrI RanganAyaki). 

The very last manthram of IsAvAsyOpanishad 
ends with the passage: " bhUyishtAm tE NAMA
UKTHIM vidhEma". When one folds one's palms
and raise them in salutation with the utterance of 
the word , "Nama:" , it signifies self-surrender.
They become "nama ithyEva Vaadhina:". All the sins
are destroyed and SrI Devi's oudhAryan flows towards
the one, who performed anjali to the accompaniment of
Nama: sabdham. The unmatched oudhAryam and Vaathsalyam
induces Her to grant sakala soubhAgyams, Kaivalyam 
and even Vaikunta Vaasam .Even after granting all these
boons , She feels that She has not done enough for
Her devotee , who just performed nama ukthi with
anjali bhaddha hastham. Swamy NammAzhwAr refers to
this Bhara samarpaNam (laying down of the burden/Sumai)
as "athu sumanthArkatkkE " in ThiruvAimozhi III.3.6.

The Nama: sabdham destroys three kinds of VirOdhis:
sEshathva svaroopa VirOdhi, PurushArTa kaimkarya 
VirOdhi and UpAyAnushtAna VirOdhi.When that Powerful
Nama: sabdham is accompanied by the equally powerful
gesture (Mudhrai) of Anjali ,then there is no limit to
what it can achieve. The deepest springs of OudhAryam,
Vaathsalyam and DayA of SrI RanganAyaki are released 
and the chEthanan becomes the beneficiary of 
the ParamAnugraham of the Empress of SrIrangam.

The vaibhavam of Anjali Mudhrai is celebrated by 
Swamy Desikan in his chillaRai rahasyam of " Anjali
Vaibhavam ".When one folds one's palms and says "namAmi",
the Lord says "nayAmi" .I will lead that special one,
who has performed SaraNAgathy to Me in this manner
all the way to My Parama Padham (nayAmi ParamAm gathim).
That ParamAm gathi is not kshudhra Phalans like
Isvaryam , AathmAnubhavam et al but Parama PurushArTam
of Moksham.Both Our Lord and His Consort are "MukthAnAm
ParamA gathi". 

The power of anjali is summed up by Swamy AlavanthAr
in the 28th slOkam of His SthOthra rathanm.Swamy Desikan
has belessed us with a commentary for this SrI Sookthi.
In that commentary, Swamy Desikan points out that 
there are no time restrictions about performing 
Anjali, which melts the heart of the Lord . Anjali
is a common (pothu ) dharmaam and can be practised by
all.Anjali is known as the best among dharmAs relating to
the Lord.In contrast to other dharmAs , anjali gives
immediate results.It destroys the PuNyams and Paapams 
of a Jeevan. 

There have been legitimate questions/doubts about 
the power of Anjali to grant even Moksham. Here , 
AzhwArs, AchAryans based on Sruthi pramANam have
pointed out that anjali yielding these great boons
(up to Moksham ) is not the simple folding of one's
palms , but the elevated form of Anjali incorporating
SaranAgaty inside it: Prapatthi garbhathvam 
( BhUyishtAm nama ukthim vidhEma). Anjali is 
the chinham(adayALam/mark)of BharanyAsam.
If the ChEthanan's chinham is Anjali , the Lord's 
responding chinham is Abhaya Hastham.Anjali done 
by a prapannan yields boons at all levels and 
Lord assures that quick granting of the boons 
through His abhya hastham (anjali paramA mudhrA
kshipram dEva prasAdhini).

Anjali yields "satthva unmEsham " (birth and growth 
of Satthva guNam ) and Samyak Jn~Anam ( clear wisdom
about Tatthvams) , which lead on to Moksham .Once again,
this anjali has no restrictions of Kaalam, dEsam ,
VarNAsrama adhikAra niyamam, prakAra ( way of doing )
niyamam, aavrutthi ( number of repetitions) niyamam.

This anjali done by a Mumukshu with Prapatthi garbha,
prArTanA poorvaka anjali has many prabhAvams(glories)
as revealed to us by Swamy Desikan :

(1) aasu kaarithvam ( Quick to yield Phalans)
(2) asEsha dhOsha nivarthakathvam( destruction of all sins)
(3) asEsha kalyANa kAranathvam( harbinger of all auspiciousness)
(4) anubandhi rakshakathvam( protection of all linked to them)
(5) akshaya phala pradhathvam( yielding permanent phalans)

Such indeed is the anjali Vaibhavam that makes even
SrI RanganAyaki bless that She has not done enough for
one , who holds anjali mudhrA in front of Her.

SrI RanganAyaki ThAyAr ThiruvadigaLE Saranam
Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan 






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