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YOUR NEXT DATE (SWATHI) is on 28th September 2003!
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		Govardhanadhara Moorthey... (Sri Swamiji's Song)
		The Paduka

Sri Swamiji -

• There is no need for Mahatmãs to look at us or speak to us. It is enough even if we just stand in their ‘sannidhi’ (Presence). All auspiciousness is acquired by their very darshan.

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.

Dãtum arhasi tadã mama shrutou
   Devi! Rangapatiratna Pãduke! |
Vihvalasya bhavadiiya shinjjitam
   Swãdu karnna rasanã rasãyanam || (396)

Oh! Pãduke!
  at the final hour
  my senses would be bewildered!
  the jiva would attain to Bhagavãn
  if only he would think of HIM!
  (Then)
  Should Your sweet sound
  fall into my ears
  And
  I (should) remember HIM!

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