Yathiraja Vimsathi - Sloka 6

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YATHIRAJA VIMSATI

 

Author: Sri S.Satyamurthi Iyengar

Yatiraja vimsati

 

 

 

Sloka 6

 

alpApi me na bhavadIyapadAbjabhaktiH *

shabdAdibhogaruciranvahamedhate hA |

matpApameva hi nidAnamamuShya nAnyat *

tadvArayArya yatirAja dayaikasindho || (6)

 

 

 

 

Sloka 6

 

Oh, gem of a preceptor and a veritable sea of compassion!

Unto your lotus feet there isn’t in me the slightest devotion

But, alas! My attachment to pleasures sensual grows intense;

Pray deliver me from the sole cause of all these, my sins.

 

Notes:

To a query whether the service prayed for in the preceding slokas does not

accrue to the Poet, as a matter of course, by virtue of his exemplary devotion

to the Great Master, the poet recounts, from this sloka onwards, his own

numerous short comings, which could preponderate as serious impediments to the

influx of his Master’s Grace. “Bhavadeeyapadabja” could be taken to mean “at

your lotus feet” invoking the samanadhikarana samasa or “at the lotus feet of

your devotees like Koorathazhvan, Mudaliandan etc.” calling into play the

vyatikarana samasa.

 

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Retyped from the book by Sri Kesavan Srinivasan of Chicago

(The Grandson of Sri U.Ve. Satyamurthi Iyyengar.)

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