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>Sri:SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,
>Translation of Paaduka Sahasram by U.Ve. Sri V.N. Vedanta Desikan
>Swamin: 
>
>95. parasya DhAmana: prathipAdhanArhAm
> vadanthi vidhyAm maNipAdhukE! thvAm
> yathasthavaIvADhigamE prajAnAm 
> dhurIBhavathyuttharapUrvamamha:
>
>Oh Paaduka! Discerning ones declare that You are Brahma-vidya that 
>secures Paramapada. It is quite fitting, because when You are resorted
>to, sins, of the past and the future varieties, both depart. 
>(Strictly the past sins are destroyed; sins of future do not attach) 
> 
>Namo Narayana,Adiyen,
>SriMuralidhara Dasan

NOTES BY V.SADAGOPAN(V.S)
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(1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam :Para VidhyA or 
the knowledge about our Lord is attainable to
a very few blessed ones. Oh RanganAtha PaadhukhE !
You however make that difficult-to-attain Para VidhyA
easily reachable through Your ability to present quickly
Your Lord's sacred feet standing on You . Those holy feet
are the goal of the PrapannAs , who take refuge in the Lord
for their Moksham . Through their worship of You ,Oh PaadhukhE,
You remove their sins to enable the Mumukshus to receive
the blessings of the vision of the Lord's lotus feet and
thereby become well versed in the Para VidhyA .

(2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam :
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Oh MaNi PaadhukE ! Lord RanganAthA destroys the sins of 
any one , who performs Prapatthi or practises Bhakthi Yogam .
Your Lord not only banishes sins accumulated until the time
of Prapatthi but also makes sure that the sins accumulated 
unconsciously do not stick to that noble soul .Similarly ,
Lord RanganAthA acts to remove the sins of those , who adorn
You ( His Paadhukai ) on their heads with devotion .Therefore 
the learned ones recognize You as the embodiment of Bhakthi 
and Prapatthi. The inner meaning here is that those , who 
seek the refuge of a SadAchAryan receive the anugraham 
of the Lord ,(viz)., Sarva Paapa VimOchanan .

(3) Swami Desikan addresses Lord RanganAthA as 
"Parasya DhAmna:" in this slOkam (i.e).,He is the supreme 
tEjas or ParandhAman . The word DhAman has two meanings :
(1) the abode or the place of dwelling (2) Lustre .
That Lord ParandhAman residing in BhUlOka Vaikuntam 
(parama padham on this earth ,His LeelA VibhUthi ) 
is saluted here as the Param-Chudar or Param-JyOthi 
as visualized by Swami NammAzhwAr (SatAri Soori )below :

paramsudar udampAi Azhukku Pathittha UdampAi
karanthum thOnRiyum ninRum kaitthavangaL seythum 
ViNNOr SirangaLAl VaNangum THIRUVINNAGAR sErntha PIRAAN 
VARAM KOLL PADHAM ALLAL ILLAI YAAVARKKUM VANSARANE 
......ThiruvAimozhi: 6.3.7

It is so delightful to see how the Param-JyOthi
of ThiruviNNagar at His Abhaya Sthalam is connected 
by Swami Desikan through NammAzhwAr's ThiruvAimozhi
in the context of the above slOkam .One is also
reminded of the JithanthE Sthothra Vaakhyam :
" dEvAnAm dhanavAnAm cha saamAnyam Adhidhaivatham ".

The meaning of the ThiruviNNagar paasuram of SatAri
Soori has been given by U.Ve.VedAntha Desikan Swamy
of ThiruviNNagar this way :

" The Lord has a fine , finite , visible , supremely 
effulgent Form, a Sui generis experience for His BhakthAs;
He is also the soul of the dirt-and- filth filled world
that is visible to all, which world is His body , this form
of His being understood and even believed by the non-devoted;
in this latter form , too, no stigma of the body will attach to
the soul ( contrary to the ordinary rules: If one does a bad 
deed , one's soul becomes sinful and has to suffer!). 
The non-devoted ones could even disbelieve the soul-nature of 
the Lord , because they do not see Him. He conceals Himself 
from the non-devoted. Bur to the devoted ones , He is ever
present in BOTH ways.

ADIYEN WOULD ASSERT THAT FOR ANYONE TO SEEK SALVATION ,
THERE IS NO OTHER PATH, NO OTHER REFUGE EXCEPT 
THE FIRMLY HELPING FEET OF THE LORD OF THIRUVINNAGAR , 
WHOM ( AND WHICH PLACE ITSELF ) THE NITHYASOORIS 
THMSELVES (NOT TO SPEAK OF DEVAAS AND OTHER DEMI-GODS)
RESPECTFULLY WORSHIP WITH BENT HEADS."......V.S

Swami Desikan captured the essence of the power
of the sacred feet (and the Paadhukais seen there)
of the Spreme Effulgence ( ParamjyOthi) at 
ThiruviNNagar dhivya Desam . Swami reminds us 
of the sadhupadEsam of SatAri Soori in Tamizh 
Vedam of ThiruvAimozhi that there is no other 
path , no other refuge for one seeking Moksham ,
(Naanya: panthA ayanAya VidhyathE )except the firmly
helping feet of the Parama Padha Naathan ...V.S 








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