bhOgyAmrutam - vaShaTkAraha (continued)

[Guest guest]

Jai Srimannarayana!

4) You are sleeping on the AdiSESha. We have strained ourselves a lot :

We require our clothes to come out of this lake. You have kept our clothes with

you and have confined us to this world. You have to give us our clothes, for us

to come out. That day, you went and sat on a tree with our clothes. Today, you

are happily sleeping on the AdiSEShA in SriRangam. But here we are being

roubled by the cold water and the bites of the fish in the water. That day, you

sat on the tree just for a short period of time. Now, you have been sleeping for

ages happily in SriRangam. You have no trouble. We are immersed neck deep in

this water and are suffering.

 

Thus you have kept us all under your control. So, we are expressing our anguish

by calling you, 'vaShaTkAra'.

 

5) We will never come to this lake again :

We thought that we would be really happy in this lake. We were wrong. Forgive

us. We have fully realized our folly. Never shall we get back into this lake.

 

6) I along with my friend (fellow women) bow before you :

What else can we do other than this?. We pray to you - Om vaShaTkArAya namaha

 

7) Kindly grace us with our clothes :

Kindly grace us with our divine bodies, which are bhOgyam (enjoyable) to you.

There is nothing which we can give in return to you. We can only pray to you. We

have to suffer here, till we are graced by you. Our Anandam is in your control.

 

Before you give us our clothes, we are under your control. After we get our

clothes (divya dEhams) from you, we become bhOgyam (enjoyable) to you. A thing

which is bhOgyam to its owner is always under His control. Thus, we have been,

we are and we will continue to be under your control always.

 

Who else, other than you, can we call by the name 'vaShaTkAra'?..

 

Om vaShaTkArAya namaha

Jai Sriman Narayana