SrI:
Dear MahA Lakshmi BhakthAs:
In the Fourth slOkam of Naama Vaibhava sTaBakam , ArasANippAlai Kavi
instructs us that the sankeerthanam of our Divine Mother's naamAs will
banish our AasA-Paasams and mohams driven by manO vikArams ( Kaamams
caused by ManmathA's arrows) :
pachEshu-chApala-palAyana-siddha-manthram
gaNDA-visEsha-ninadham kuhanA-piSAchyA:
kOpAnala-praSama-sAnthva-vachO MurArE:
kE nAma nAma na japanthy tavABdhikanyE
The key words of this slOkam are: aBdhi KanyE ! Tava nAma kE nAma na Japanthy
?
The poet asks here a rhetorical question ( Oh Daughter of the Ocean ! who
indeed will not
meditate on Your divine names ?) and answers in the affirmative : Every one
does !
Your nAmAs are boon granting and wish yielding in many ways and hence there
would be
no one , who will stay away from reciting and reflecting on the vaibhavam of
Your nAmAs .
Anvaya Kramam: aBdhi kanyE ! Pancha ishu chApala palAyana siddha manthram ,
kuhanA piSAchyA: gaNDA visEsha ninadham MurArE: kOpa anala praSama
sAnthva vacha: Tava nAma kE naama na japanthy ?
ABdhi KanyE = Oh Daughter of the Ocean !
Pancha ishu chApala palAyana siddha mantram = Your nAmam is a siddha manthram
that
drives away the distortions to the mind caused by the five flower arrows of
Manmathan.
We would have to recall in this context the differences between siddha
manthram and
sAdhya manthram based on our understanding of siddhOpAyam and SaadhyOpAyam
dealt in detail in Swamy Desikan's Srimath Rahasya Thraya Saaram .
KuhanA piSAchyA: ganDA visEsha ninAdhm ( ninAdha mantram) = It is the
sunAdham from
the ringing of a special kind of bell that drives away the ghost of deception
( vanchanai)
that deludes and tricks the mind to travel in paths forbidden by the
Saasthrams of BhagavAn .
To relate to KuhanA piSAsu , we can think about PuthanA , who came to infant
KrishNA's
side to breast feed Him with her poisonous milk and she got destroyed in turn
. When the sound
of the bell in the form of Your divine names like PadhmA , IndhirA , LakshmI
are heard ,
the categories of ghouls and ghosts coming under the name of PiSAsu take
flight and never
return to their favorite places in the minds of SamsAris.This nAdham is an
unique kind of peeling of the bell.
It is the announcement of Dayaa Devi from the top of the hills of
ThiruvEnkatam declaring war on
these PisAsus and chasing them away from their special perches . This is
indeed a VisEsha
gaNDA ninadham . This could also be considered as the Powerful rakshaNa
manthram
arising from the AchAryan next to the Lord (MahA Lakshmi) in our Guru
Paramparai .
MurArE: kOpa anala praSama sAnthathva vacha: = The sound of this manthram (
Your naama
ucchAraNam) is extraordinarily effective in quenching the fires of anger that
the Lord has
over the many and repeated transgressions of the bhaddha Jeevans . The nAmAs
of Yours
gaNDA naadhams ) have the PurushAkAram effect and the Lord's anger is quelled
. The way
in which the intercession in favor of the offending jeevan is achieved by
MahA Lakshmi and
Her amsa bhUthais ( BhU , GodhA and NeeLA and Dayaa Devis) is described at
great length in
Sri Sthuthi , BhU Sthuthi and GodhA sthuthi . The bhakthAs are referred to
the e-books on Sri ,
BhU and GodhA sthuthis and Dayaa Sathakam at the Sundara Simham web site :
http://www.sundarasimham.org/ebooks/ebook1.htm (Sri Sthuthi)
http://www.sundarasimham.org/ebooks/ebook2.htm (BhU Sthuthi)
http://www.sundarasimham.org/ebooks/ebook3.htm ( GodhA Sthuthi)
http://www.sundarasimham.org/ebooks/ebook16.htm ( Dayaa Sathakam )
Tava nAma kE nAma na japanthy ? = who indeed would not recite
Your auspicious and powerful nAmAs to gain the soubhAgyams
and ultimately sath-gathi ? Engagement in the recitation of Your
dhivya Naamams will destroy the disaster yielding kAmams ,
Mohams and banish the anger of Your Lord over our daring
acts that defy His commands ( Aj~NA Ullanganam) .
( Addiitonal Commentary on the words and passages ):
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1. Pancha Ishu : Manmathan , the son of the Lord is the Pancha BhANan ( Five
flower arrows
that he uses to kindle kAmams). Even ANDAL prays to him to unite Her with Her
Lord in
the first decad of Her NaacchiyAr Thirumozhi .
2. Pancha chApa ishu chApalam = the longings between the lovers , the joy and
the sorrow caused from union and seperation ( samslEsham and vislEsham) , the
mental agony
to be reunited , the anxieties caused by seperation are grouped under the
word " ChApaLam".
These are chApala vikArams as long as they are not centered on the Lord to
seek His companionship.
3. Pancha ishu chApala palAyana siddha mantram= These destructive ChApalams
caused by
the five arrows of Manmanthan that keeps us away from the Lord are driven
away by
the siddha mantram of Your nAmAs.They are tAraka , pOshaka , ujjevana
mantrams.
Reciting them is equivalent to the efforts of ManthrOpAsakan , who is engaged
in dhyAnam of
His upAsanaa Murthy after performing purascharaNam with niyamams and
nishtais.On recitation
of Your nAmAs, the chapalams run away , the desires of a negative kind are
burnt to their roots.
The effect of " maRRai namm kAmangaL mARRElO yem paavai " is gained by the
reciter. It is
the sidhda Manthram that has existed forever ; it s a Prasiddha mantram . It
helps us to travel
in "gathi visEsham " of archirAdhi mArgam and enjoy the boon of ParipoorNa
BrahmAnandham
at the Supreme abode of the dhivya dampathis.
When one recites Her sahasra NaamAs like "Lakshmi , Padhmaa , Indhiraa " ,
Manmathan recognizes
that the reciter is eulogizing his own dear Mother and does not cause any
buddhi chApalyam to
the reciter. He creates the Saanthi rasam instead of SrungAra rasam in the
mind of the reciter.
4. Guhanaa = Vanchanai , deceptive acts causing delusion ( chittha bramai) :
Guhanaa is like
a hiding ghost( PisAsu, BhUtham , bad spirit , Mohini ) and can cause serious
damage leading all
the way upto untimely death . The recitation of Your names such as "SarOjaa ,
HariNee , ChandrA ,
Padhmini , SaarngiNee, VaishNavee et al " have the same effect as the ringing
of the GaNDA
during Bhagavath AarAdhanam , when all ill meaning spirits ( asura sakthis)
are chased away .
This is the GaNDA viSEsha nAdham . It is also equivalent to the Naadham
generated by
BhagavAn's Paadhuakais , which is nothing but the sound of AchAryAn. The
Naadha Paddhathi of
Sri Ranganatha PadhukA sahasram celebrates the glories of that naadham in 100
verses
(SlOkams381-480) :
http://www.sadagopan.org/srps/srps14.1.htm
5. MurArE: kOpa anala praSama sAnthathva vacha: = The sound of Your nAmAs
quench the raging fire of
the Lord's anger ( MurAri kOpa analam) . The just anger of Your Lord over our
many and unceasing trespasses
is in the form of nigraha krOdhAgni . That gets quenched by the potent fire
extinguisher represented by
the power of Your auspicious names.Your Lord's anugraha sakthi sprouts forth
and forgives the aparAdhis.
6. kE naama nAma: = Who indeed will not perform Your nAma japam ? Even
those , who do not have
the patience and discipline ( niyama nishtais) will recite Your dhivya nAmAs
since they constitute a siddha
manthram.The sinners , the punyasAlis , the powerful , the feeble minded ones
, all of them , recite Your
nAmAs to derive the benefits ( freedom from the anger of Your Lord ).
Sriman KaNNan Swamy's Tamil summary of this slOkam is beautiful to include
here:
Manmathan sey manacchapalam mARRividum mantiram
mOsadiyAm mOhini mEl mOthuhira mani oliyAm
Murararipuvin muLLsinatthai muRiyadikkum muthu mozhiyAm
muRikadalin mahaL peyarai mozhiyAthAr yevar uLarO ?
Srimathyai MahA Lakshmyai NamO nama:
Daasan , Oppiliapan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan
Sreemathyai MahA Lakshmyai Nama:
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan
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