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Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

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

752. padhmABhOgAth pAdhukE! rangaBharthu: pAdhasparshAdhBhOgamanyam 
prapithsO: shEShasyaIkAm BhUmikAmabravIth 
thvAmAchAryANAmagraNiryAmunEya: 

Oh Paaduka! The first among Acharyas, Alavandar, identifies You as an 
incarnation that Adisesha took in order that he can enjoy contact 
with the Lord's Feet, in a manner different from what is available to 
Mahalakshmi as her previlege.

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (V.S)

SlOkam 752

1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Oh PaadhukE! MahA Lakshmi
gets a great pleasure by pressing Her Lord's feet and enjoys
the contact of a small portion of her Lord's body during that
Kaimkaryam. AdhisEshA wants to derive a greater pleasure than
MahA Lakshmi and takes Your form to enjoy those sacred feet
of the Lord during every moment of His travel with You(Paadhukais).

2)SrImath Andavan's anubhavam: Swamy AlavanthAr reveals that
AdhisEshan wanted to gain the bhOgam superior to that
experienced by MahA Lakshmi by pressing Lord's sacred feet.
Therefore , Adhiseshan took the form of Paadhukais so that
the Lord's entire feet can have contact with him.The inner
meaning is that AzhwArs and AchAryAs experience sukham
that is more than that experienced by MahA Lakshmi Herself.

3)Swamy AlavanthAr has already attested to AdhisEshan
taking the form of PaadhukAs to serve the Lord through his
SthOthra Rathna slOkam :

nivAsa SayyA Aaasana paadhuka
upadhAna varshAt-apavAraNAdhibhi:
sarIra bhEdhais-tava sEshathAM gathai:
yaTOchitham Sesha ithIrithE janai:

AdhIsEshan serves as the abode (nivAsam) for the Lord;
His bed, Umbrella and PaadhukA as His ancient SEshan
(Aadhi Seshan).

AaLavanthAr is the loftiest among AchAryAs( AchAryANAm
agranee: YaamunEya:). He described that AdhisEshan took
the avathAram of PaadhukAs ( Seshasya yEkAm bhUmikAm
aBhraveeth). Why did AdhisEsha transform himself in to
PaadhukAs? He did so according to Swamy AlavanthAr for
reasons of enjoying a higher order of Sukham than that
enjoyed by MahA Lakshmi( Padhmaa BhOgAth anyam bhOgam
prapithsO:) . She only presses the soft feet of
Her Lord , where as AdhisEshan wants to be pressed by
the entire feet of His Lord...(V.S).





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