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SrI NaarAyaNa Yatheendhra MahA DesikAya Nama:

Dear BhakthAs :

Today , we will cover slOkmas 2 to 5 , which are expressions
of self-doubt about His (Swamy Desikan's) fitness to undertake
the immense and almost impossible task of composing a Sthuthi
to describe adequately  the glory of Achyuthan of Thiruvayinthai .
It is an expression of NaicchyAnusandhAnam by Swamy Desikan .

SlOkam 2 
*************
Kimkara-sathya sthuthis-Tava svayambhU gEhini vilAsa vyAhrudha mayee
phaNithA bhAlEna mayaa panjara Suka jalpithamiva karOthu prasAdham 

(Meaning according to Sri D.R.Swamy ) : " Lord ever true to Thy devotees ! 
May this sthOthrA composed by me as a boy (of immature intellect) adopting
the language spoken by the consort of BrahmA in Her infantine playful mood ,
beget pleasures to Thee  , like listening to the prattlings of a parrot in the 
cage .

(Comments) : Oh Achyutha ! Adiyavarkku MeyyavanE ! It is said that the Mazhalai
(prattlings of a child) speech of DEvi Saraswathi during Her days as an infant 
became the delectable language of Praakrutham .  adiyEn is not a man of 
abundant intellect . Hence , adiyEn is prattling in my Mazhalai (Praakrutham ) 
a sthuthi that attempts to eulogize You and Your vaibhavam . 

adiyEn knows  it is a  tall order even for an intellectual giant to create 
successfully
a sthOthram that does justice to Your anantha KalyANa guNams and dhivya
charithram as the unfailing SaraNAgatha Rakshakan . adiyEn's inappropriate
effort to compose this Sathakam about You is like the efforts of a parrott
in cage that prattles away . Human beings are amused by these prattlings
of the parrot in the cage . Similarly , adiyEn prays that You be pleased with
my Mazhalai speech taking the form of sthuthi about You and be pleased 
to accept it and enjoy it .

The key words are : " Mayaa PhaNithA (iyam ) sthuthi: Tava PrasAdham karOthu"
( May this sthuthi constructed by adiyEn gladden Your heart ) . It is not the 
best
in terms of intellectual vigor  or VedAnthic insight . It is a child's feeble 
attempt ;
adiyEn begs You however to listen to it and amuse Yourself . Swamy Desikan 
compares his sthuthi to that of the sweet words of the young child Saraswathi 
( Svayambhu gEhini vilAsa VyAhruthamayee ) in the form of Mazhalai 
( incoherent , sporadic and yet delectable ) utterances .  Swamy Desikan 
claims that he is also a child and his speech is in the mazhalai form 
as in the case of the child Saraswathy . That Mazhalai speech of mine 
housed in the form of this sthuthi in PrAkrutham about You 
should please You just as the humans delight in hearing the prattlings of 
the caged parrot ( Panjara Suka jalpitham iva Tava prasAdham karOthu) . 

SlOkam 3
**************
malinamapi bhAshitham mama Kinkara sathya  Tava jyOthsnA prasarE
lagnam labhathAm visuddhim raTyA salilamiva thripaTagaa srOthOgatham

(Meaning according to D.R.Swamy) : Kinkara Sathya ! Though my words are dirty , 
yet by getting blended with the moonlight of Thy glory , let them obtain purity 
(by mixing therewith) like street-drainage water falling into the triple 
stream-Ganga.

(Commnets) : The key passage in this slOkam of Naicchiam ( declaration of 
unfitness) is : " Mama bhAshitham malinamapi Tava keerthi jyOthsnA lagnam
visuddhim labathAm "  ( Oh Adiyavarkku MeyyanE ! My speech has blemishes ;
inspite of that , may that attain purity by admixture with the cool Moon rays 
of 
Your keerthi ) .  

Oh Lord who is true to Your devotees ! I have incomplete Jn~Anam ; therefore 
my speech will be full of blemishes ( mama bhAshitham malinam ) . What if 
it would be so ? Your glory (keerthi) has spread all over the world as cool 
rays of
the Moon ( jyOthsnA prasaram) . My tongue will be praising only that glory 
and through that sambhandham (connection) will become sanctified and
gain fame. This is how it will happen . Near GangA pravAham , there is dirty 
water from street  drainage ( saakkadai taNNeer ) . That dirty water flows into
Ganga ( ThripaTagaa, the river that traverses three universes: Sathya lOkam ,
Bhumi and PaathALam ) and becomes purified by the sambhandham 
with waters of that sacred river . There is no more differentiation between the 
pure
GangA river and the erstwhile drainage water now . Similarly , the exercise of
singing about Your matchless glory will remove all the blemishes from 
my speech .

SlOkam 4 
**************
thrastari nayEna sTApitha SObhathAm ThridhasAnAm NaaTa Tava SamAjE
vandhithva mahithAnAm madhyE SrutheenAm BhAliSA mama sthuthi:

(Meaning  according to D.R.Swamy ): Lord of the DevAs ! In the midst of the 
VedAs , 
which have attained renown in Thy assembly by singing Thy glory , let my small
mass of praise stay as the words of a clown ( in the assembly of Kings) .

(Comments) : The key words here are : " BhAlisA mama sthuthi: SrutheenAm
madhyE trastari nayEna sTApithA SobhathAm " ( May adiyEn's lowly speech 
shine as a clown's speech in the middle of the eulogies of the sacred VedAs
in Your sabhA ). 

Oh Lord of the celestials ! In the ghOshti ( assembly) at Your sacred abode of 
Sri Vaikuntam with  Nithya Sooris ( eternally liberated ) and MukthAs ( 
liberated jeevans), 
VedAs sing Your keerthi . adiyEn joins this distinguished assembly and attempt 
to
praise You with feeble  words without sabdhAlankAram or arTAlankAram .  This 
ofcourse is a matter for laughter . In the great courts of Kings populated by 
famous scholars , the kings some times amuse themselves listening to 
the nonsensical (puerile) witticisms of their clowns . Similarly , Oh AchyuthA 
, 
You must listen to my eulogy about Your vaibhavam although You are 
used to listening to the lofty praises by the sacred VedAs . Swamy Desikan
says: " vandhithva mahithAnAm SrutheenAm madhyE , BhAlisA mama 
sthuthi: SobhathAm " . There are the Vedams , who gained their fame by 
singing about Your glories . Amidst those Veda ghOshams , adiyEn is also
making my feeble sthOthram . May my sthuthi shine however like the speech of
a clown in the assembly of established scholars !   

D.R. Swamy says this about the analogy used by Sri VedAntha Desikan:
" Desika is adept in every art , even in the art of belittling himself ". Swamy
Desikan relates his efforts to praise the Lord as the act of a buffoon (clown) ,
who tries to gain the attention of the King through funny and meaningless 
words in the middle of an assembly of renowned  scholars . 

SLOKAM 5
***************
asmath gurUNAm Achyutha jihvA simhAsanE labdha-prathishta:
prathipAdhitha paramArTO vaarayasi apaNDithatvam asmAkam 

(Meaning according to D.R.Swamy ) : AchyuthA ! Taking Your firm 
seat on the throne of our AchAryA's tongues , Thou does teach us
about the great truths and remove our ignorance .

(Comments) :  The key words here are : " (Thvam) asmAkam apaNDithathvam
vaarayasi" . Thou removeth our ignorance and make us learn the great truths
(about Tatthva Thrayam/ ParamArTam  ) through our AchAryAs on whose tongues 
you have a firm seat ( asmath gurUNAm jihvA simhAsanE labdha prathishta: ) .    

AchAryAs are extolled in this slOkam and their relationship to the Lord 
is revealed . Our Lord has "JihvAgra simhAsanam "  ; He seats Himself
on the front portion of the tongue of AchAryAs to instruct us on the Supreme
Truths about Tatthva Thrayams , artha Panchakam  and the rahasya thrayams.
This way , He functions thru His AchAryAs to perform upadEsam for us on
His divine doctrines and to remove our nescience and viparItha Jn~Anam
( apaNDithathvam) . Our Lord , Achyuthan , instructs us about His Svaroopam
and SvabhAvams through His AchAryAs . In our sampradhAyam , the AchAryAs
alone can teach us about the Lord's doctrines ; these AchAryAs are special
beneficaries of the Lord's grace . He sits on the tongues of His blessed
AchAryAs to enable them to teach us about the Sath SampradhAyam
leading upto upAya anushtAnam to gain moksha siddhi .       

Srimath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan 



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