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Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:
SriRukmiNi samEtha SriVEnkataKrSNan parabrahmaNE nama:

Dear Kalai(akkAravadisil!)
Translation of RukmiNi's letter to your bhuvana sundara as 
per PrabhupAdA(Canto 10,Chapter 52,verses 37-43). Sorry for the delay.

37: SriRukmiNisaid(as read by the BrAhmaNa),O beauty of the 
worlds,having heard of Your qualities,which enter the ears of those 
who hear and remove their bodily distress and also heard of Your 
beauty which fulfils all the visual desires of those who see,I have 
fixed my shameless mind upon You,O KrSNa(RukmiNi says she would 
rather die than lose Him,she begs Him to come and take her away,and 
NammAzhwAr says the same)

38: O Mukunda, You are equal only to Yourself in 
lineage,character,beauty,knowledge,youthfulness,wealth and influence. 
O lion among men,You delight the minds of all mankind. What 
aristocratic sober-minded and marriageable girl of a good family 
would not choose You as her husband when the proper time has come?

39: Therefore my dear Lord,I have chosen You as my husband,and I 
surrender myself to You. Please come swiftly,O almighty one,and take 
me Your wife. My dear lotus-eyed Lord,let SisupAla never touch the 
hero's portion like a jackalstealing the property of a lion.

40: If I have sufficiently worshipped the Supreme by pious 
works,scarifices,charity,rituals and vows and also by worshipping the 
demigods,brAmaNas and gurus,then may GadAgraja come and take my hand 
and not DhamaghOsha's son or anyone else.

41: O unconquerable one,tomorrow when my marriage ceremony is about 
to begin,You should arrive unseen in Vidharbha and surround Yourself 
with the leaders of Your army,then crush teh forces of ChaiDhya and 
MagadhEdra and marry me in the rAkshasa style winning me with Your 
valor.

42: Since I will be staying within the inner chambers of the 
palace,You may wonder,"How can I carry you away without killing some 
of your relatives?" But I shall tell You a way: on the day before the 
marriage there is a grand procession to honor the royal family's 
deity and in the procession the new bride goes outside the city to 
visit Goddess GirijA.

43: O lotus-eyed one,great souls like Lord Siva hanker to bathe in 
the dust of Your lotus feet and thereby destroy their ignorance. If I 
can't obtain Your mercy,I shall simply give up my vital force which 
will have become weak from the severe penances I will perform, Then 
after hundreds of lifetimes of endeavor I may obtain Your mercy.

Blessings of RukmiNi ThAyAr and SriKrSNA be with you eternally.

AzhvAr EmperumAnAr Jeeyar TiruvadigaLE saraNam
nappinnai






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