Yathiraja Vimsathi - Sloka 8

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YATHIRAJA VIMSATI

 

Author: Sri S.Satyamurthi Iyengar

Yatiraja vimsati

 

 

 

Sloka 8

 

duHkhAvahohamanishaM tava duShTaceShTash *

shabdAdibhoganiratashsharaNAgatAkhyaH |

tvatpAdabhakta hava shiShTajanaughamadhye *

mithyA carAmi yatirAja tatosmi mUrkhaH || (8)

 

 

 

 

Sloka 8

 

Oh, Yatiraja! I am indeed rash and impetuous,

Committing base deeds, steeped in sensual pleasures,

Yet pretending to be a prapanna (*1), and amidst the righteous,

Masquerading boldly as a great devotees of yours.

 

(*1) One who pursues the path of loving surrender unto the Lord’s Grace and

protection?

 

Notes:

My Lord, Yatiraja, is it not the height of rashness on my part to keep on

wounding your heart by my paradoxical behavior outwardly professing all love for

you and playing the imposter(as a great Prapanna) but actually given to bad

ways, steeped in sensual pleasures?

 

“Dukkavahoham” would mean “I am inflicting pain in your mind”. Actually, this

pain, in so far as Sri Ramanuja is concerned, is “para dukkha dukkhitvam”,

feeling grieved over the sad plight of others and is tantamount to ‘Daya’ or

commiseration. The poet thus becomes the object of Ramanuja’s Daya.

 

 

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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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