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Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

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

698. shathamaKhamaNiBhangaIrunmayUKhaIrdhishanthI
sharaNamupagathAnAm ranganAThEna sAmyam
praThayasi jagathi thvam pAdhukE! haIthukAnAm
upaniShadhupagIthAm thathkrathunyAyavArthAm

Oh Paaduka! To those who surrender to You, You grant a blue colour 
very much like the Lord's. This You do by utilizing the radiance of 
the sapphires. In this manner, You propagate the Upanishadic 'rule of 
Tatkratu'-that a person contemplating on Brahman with certain 
characteristics becomes one with those traits themselves. 

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (V.S)

SlOakm 698

1) UtthamUr Sawmy's anubhavam: Here , Swamy Desikan focuses on 
a VedAnthic principle known as " Tath Krathu nyAyam". According to
this principle , jeevan attains the form that he used to worship 
the Lord . Tath means that and Krathu means the UpAsanA or mode of
worship of the Lord. "He becomes it" is the meaning of this aphorism.
Swamy Desikan says: "Oh PaadhukE! You make true the Upanishadic
statement of "tat krathu" through making the devotees of 
RanganAtha attain His bluish-black hue through the falling of 
the blue rays of Your sapphires . This way You prove to 
the unfaithful that the Upanishadic statement can not 
be falsified.

2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam:Oh PaadhukE! Sapphires are 
enmeshed on You. Their color is the same as that of the hue
of the Lord. Those who come near You have the contact with 
the blackish-blue lustre of Your rays from those IndhraneelA
stones and acquire as a result the same hue that Your Lord has.
This fits with the message of the proverb:" SamsargajA dhOshaguNA 
Bhavanthi" (Association leads to the acquirement of the guNas
with which one is in contact).This is in agreement with
the Upanishad vaakyam , which states that one becomes like
the object that he is deeply associated with.

3)Oh PaadhukE! Through the intense dark blue rays 
of Your pieces of sapphires (Thvam sathamakhamaNi 
bhangai: uth mayUkhai:) transform those , who approach
You seeking Your protection to resemble Your Lord in
hue ( SaraNam upagathAnAm RanganATEna sAmyam disanthi).
This is consistent with the tathkrathu nyAyam referred to
in the Upanishads ( Upanishath upageethAm tathkrathu-
nyAyavArthAm ) and fights off those who question 
the veracity of such a happening (Jagatheem haithukAnAm
Tathkrathu-nyAya-vArthAm praTayaseeva)..(V.S). 









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