2008

DARSANAM

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SWAMI DESIKAN, TARAMANI

SERIES OF ARTICLES PUBLISHED

BY SRI SRAVANA SAMITHI, MUSCAT
ARANA DESIKAN, 4/30 SARVADHARI PURATTASI 04 – 19-09-2008
 Following is the english translation of a verse composed on our mighty
Desikan by one of the poorvacharyas. This verse extols Swamy Desika on the
same lines as extoling the Supreme Para Vasudeva.
He whose eyes shine like the Sun and the Moon
Adorn him we do, on the preceptoral lotus throne
At his divine lotus feet, while we supplicate
Pray we for nothing, but, a glance with his eye on left
The two beautiful eyes of Our Swamy are compared to the Sun and the
Moon. They are indeed bright and shine forth with luster due
to his immense Brahma jnanam. His eyes are indeed
powerful as they have the capacity to free one of all his sins
and to make him adopt the path of self-surrender. One
benevolent glance with his eyes stand no match even for
glances with three eyes of Rudra, eight eyes of Brahma or
even a thousand eyes of Indra (Ref. Subhashitaneevi of
Swamy Desika).
Our adorable Swamy, this great an Acharya of ours
is seated on the lotus throne of Sri Ramanuja Siddhantam.
The Thirukai on the left holds the Srikosham and the strong
right hand is the jnanamudra. When we supplicate at his
Tiruvadi in an act of self surrender we can really feel his benevolent glance on us. We
pray that Our Swamy should glance with his left eye. In Purushasuktam Vedas
while describing the ParaBrahmam says that the left eye and the right eye are moon
and the sun respectively. Our Swamy’s eyes are also compared to the sun and the
moon. After all is not Our Swamy Tiruvenkatamudayan Himself. A mere glance
with the left eye from Our Swamy would mean that the moon’s cool glances are being
shed. The right eye for the ParaBrahman is Sun .Even Sudi Kuddutha Naachiyar

ARANA DESIKAN, ARTICLE 4/30 pg. 2

Goda Devi says – Thingalum Aadityannum ezhuntriarpol…The Sun’s rays are
strong and they have the quality of burning our paapams.
On the other hand the moon’s rays are cool and soft
expressing anugraham of Our Swamy. More than we
seeing Our Swamy ,He should spread his anugraha
kataksham on us so that we can redeem ourselves .

vAzhi vyAkhyAmuddirak kai !!!

vEdAntasUri charaNau sharaNam prapadye !!!
vedAnthasUri charaNau sharaNam prapadye !!!

based on article in Sri Ranga Sri

dasan
Nangainallur Venkatesan

ARANA DESIKAN, ARTICLE 4/30 pg. 3