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Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

176. manujathvathirOhithEna shakyE
vapuShaIkEna virODhinAm nirAsE
aBhajadh BharatAdhiBhEdhamIsha:
svayamArADhayithum padhAvani! thvAm

Oh Paaduka! the Lord could have achieved all he wished, with His one
form, that concealed 
His swaroopa; yet He took the forms of Bharata, Shatrughna etc., only
for the purpose of 
paying homage to You. (paying homage to You was so much cherished by
Rama.)

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan(V.S):
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(1) Sri UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Oh PaadhukE !
You are even superior to Your Lord ! VishNu Bhagavaan
took the human forms (incarnated) as RaamA, BharathA ,
LakshmaNA and SatrugnA . Although He was quite
capable of destroying RaavaNA single handedly ,
He took the form of BharathA to offer worship
to You ". Here , Swami Desikan points out that
RaavaNA's boons prevented him from being killed
by VishNu or other Gods. RaavaNA could only be
killed by humans for whom he had no fear .Therefore ,
Lord VishNu incarnated as a human being , the son
of DasarathA . He did not need to manifest Himself
as BharathA and other brothers to complete His
mission to destroy RaavaNA . Swami Desikan wonders
whether He manifested Himself as BharathA and brethern
so that He could worship the PaadhukAs during
his incarnation as the son of King DasarathA.
(2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: Oh PaadhukE !
Lord VishNu incarnated as the four brothers,
Raama, LakshmaNa , Bharatha, Satrugnan . It
would have been enough , had Lord VishNu
incarnated as RaamA alone.He had however the desire
to celebrate the Paadhukais . Hence , He took
on the form of Bharathan. The inner meaning is
that the Lord has a desire to celebrate His
BhathAs through performance of AarAdhanam for
them . He has such a depth of affection for
His BhakthAs. Those who worship the BhaagavathAs
of the Lord are themselves equal to perumAL .
(3) Here Swamy Desikan speculates on why
Lord VishNu incarnated as the four sons of
King DasarathA instead of just as RaamA .
Swamy describes this phenemenon of Lord VishNu
taking on the form of BharathA and others
( BharathAdhibhEdham ). Lord VishNu had already
hidden His supreme status by incarnating as
mere human beings . Lord VishNu could have easily
killed His enemies in the form of RaamA alone
(yEkEna vapushA virOdhinAm nirAsE sakyEpi ) and
yet He took on the form of four brothers. Why
did Eesan (PerumAl) took more than one human
form such as BharathA ? Swamy Desikan points
out that the Lord was so fond of SatAri Soori
that He wanted to offer His worship to him in
the form of BharathA ( ThvAm svayam aaradhayithum
BharathAdhi-bhEdham abhajath)....V.S




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