Sharanagati Deepika - 09

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Sri:Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

 

Shriman Nigamanta Mahadeshikai: anugrihitam

Sharanagati Deepika

 

Shloka 9:

dIpAvabhAsa dayayA vidhipUrvametat vishvam vidhAya nigamAnapi dattavantam |shiShyAyitA sharaNayanti mumukshuvastvAm Adyam gurum guruparamparayAdhigamyam ||

 

Meaning:

dIpa avabhAsa - O Deepa Prakasha!dayayA - Due to Your grace, vidhipUrvam - through Brahma as the firstvidhAya - You created etat vishvam - this world, dattavantam - and You preached the nigamAn api - Vedas as well. guru paramparayA - In the lineage of Acharyas, tvAm - You are Adhigamyam - the first acharya.mumukshuva: - Those who seek moksha sharaNayanti - surrender andsishyAyitA - become disciples (to You).

 

Vyakhyana Saram:

It was earlier mentioned that SriVachanaBhushanam says that"prapththikku dhEsa niyamamum kAla niyamamum prakAra niyamamum adhikAri niyamamum pala niyamamum illai. vishaya niyamamE uLLadhu." That is, for complete surrender, the only qualification is to whom it is performed. In the priorthree shlokas, Swami Desikan showed that such qualities arepresent only in Sriman Narayana and therefore sharanAgatimust be performed only to Him. In this shloka, he shows that mumukshus (those who seek Moksha) perform such asurrender to Him ("mumukshurvai sharaNamaham prapadye").He created all these worlds out of His grace. He had protected everything in His stomach during the praLaya - "perum pAzh kAlaththu" says Azhvar. After that, He takes pity on the jIvas that are in sUkshma form and through His sankalpa, He alone ("eko ha vai nArAyaNa AsIt| na brahmA neshAna:") creates the universe ('samashTi

srushTi'). Then, in order to create everything that occupies this universe ('vyashTi srushTi'), He creates Brahma first and through him He creates everything else. For the salvation of the jIvas, He not only gave them the stUla forms, but He also gave them the Vedas and the Sastras.Seeing that the jIvAs are getting lost in the variousSastras and Vedas, He further took pity on them and gave them the Rahasya Trayam which is the essence of the Vedas.In the lineage of acharyas, He is the first acharya.Acharyas teach us the Rahasya Trayam and set us in thepath to moksha. The Rahasya Trayam is the Thirumanthram,Dvayam and Charama Shlokam. Thirumanthram was given toNara by Narayana in Badrikashramam; Dvayam was given toMahalakshmi by Narayana in Vishnu Loka; Charama Shlokamwas taught to Arjuna by Geethacharya. Thus, He is thepratama acharya. This is why the Guru Parampara

thaniyangiven to us by Swami Kooraththazhvan says "lakshmInAthasamArambhAm" - the guru paramparai starts with SriyapathiLakshmi Narayana.And it is to Sriman Narayana, those who seek moksha surrender as said in Dvaya mahAmanthram, which is anusandheyam for mumukshus.

 

 

Azhvar Emberumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Sharanam