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YOUR NEXT DATE (SWATHI) is on 14th May 2003!
		The Master's Mantra
		Jaya jaya mangalam Sri Rangey! Jaya mangalam Sri Godey! (Sri Swamiji's Song)
		The Paduka

Sri Swamiji -

• Control of the tongue does not mean reducing food intake alone. Avoiding talking all matters other than Bhagavãn is truly the control of the tongue.

• Sadhus, though possessing innumerable merits may have one or two ‘doshãs’ (faults) in them. But, they think only of these and deem themselves to be low! The wicked, however, have innumerable faults and just one or two merits. But, they think only of these one or two merits always and deem themselves to be great!

Sriman Nigamantha Desikan, a great Vaishnava Saint lived from mid-thirteenth to mid-fourteenth century- 1268-1369. Of the innumerable 'Granthas' (texts) written by Him the highly revered and considered as the most extraordinary piece is His "Paduka Sahasram" - a thousand verses on the 'Paduka' of Lord Ranganatha. The Saint has in all composed 1008 verses, the last eight apologizing in all humility for daring to compose these 1000 verses on the Paduka!

Sri Desikan's contemporary Sri Appayya Dikshitar had written a commentary on the "Paduka Sahasram" but unfortunately it has been lost.

Rãmapãdasahadharmachãrinniim Pãduke! Nikhilapãtakacchidam |
Tvãmasheshajagatãmadhiishwariim bhãvayãmi bharatãdhidevatãm || (79)

Oh! Pãduke!
I meditate on Thee!
  The righteous wife attached to Rama’s feet!
  The destroyer of all sins
  The Queen of all worlds like the
  Goddess Mahalakshmi who blesses those who seek her
  And
  The goddess of Bharata!

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