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YOUR NEXT DATE (SWATHI) is on, 18st September 2004!
		The Master's Mantra
		Sri Swamiji's Kirtan
		The Paduka

Sri Swamiji -

• “Srimad Bhãgavatam is ‘svayam’ (in ‘Itself’) Bhagavãn. Srimad Bhãgavatam is greater than the Ramayana, the Bhagavad Gita or any other great Epic because mere listening to the Bhãgavatam takes one to Moksha."

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.

“Vande Gãrutmateem vrutyã mannistomaiccha Pãdukãm |
yayã nityam tullasyeva Hartatvam prakãshyate || (661)

The Pãduka and the Garuda carry out similar duty –
– both carry the Lord!
I bow down to the Pãduka inset with emeralds whose
Devata is the Garuda!
The Pãduka is akin to the Tulasi, too!
Like the Garuda
The Pãduka illumines Hari-tatva (the Hari principle)
while the Tulasi is Harita-tva (greenness)!

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