Tuesday, May 12, 2009

ఎంత మాత్రమున ఎవ్వరు తలచిన అంత మాత్రమే..

ఎంత మాత్రమున ఎవ్వరు తలచిన అంత మాత్రమే నీవు
అంతరాంతరములెంచి చూడ పిండంటే నిప్పటే అన్నట్లు

కొలుతురు మిము వైష్ణవులు కూరిమితో విష్ణుడని
పలుకుదురూ మిము వేదాంతులు పరబ్రహ్మంబనుచూ
తలుతురు మిము శైవులూ, తగిన భక్తులునూ శివుడనుచూ
అలరి పొగడుదురూ కాపాలికులూ ఆది భైరవుండనుచూ

సరి నెన్నుదురు శాక్తేయులు శక్తి రూపు నీవనుచూ
దర్శనములు మిము నానా విధులను తలపుల కొలదుల భజింతురూ
సిరుల మిమునే అల్ప బుద్ధి తలచిన వారికి అల్పంబగుదువు
గరిమల మిమునే ఘనమని తలచిన ఘన బుద్ధులకు ఘనుడవూ
నీవలన కొరతే లేదు మరి నీరు కొలది తామెరవూ
ఆవల భాగీరథి దరి బావుల ఆ జలమే ఊరిన యట్లు
శ్రీ వేంకట పతి నీవైతే మము చేకొని ఉన్న దైవమని
ఈవలనే నీ శరణనెదను, ఇదియే పర తత్త్వము నాకు



This is beautiful song with unfathomable philosophical depth. The ending of the song suggests that annamayya composed this song well after he embraced shree vaishnavism, we will discuss it at the end.

Meaning:

1. whoever
imagines you, in whatever form or nature, you are only that much.
2. as if one says
(when examined carefully) the flour is nothing but bread (saying so is non-sense! because flour is the base material for bread. But, those make no-sense if they conclude flour from the bread)

3. vaishanavites worship you as Vishnu (hence vaishnavites think of you as Vishnu)
4. vedantins say you are the supreme being (parabrahman)
5. shaivaites and so think of you as Shiva (you are Shiva now)
6. and then kaapalikas (practitioner of tantra) praise you as Kalabhairava (Kalabhirava is the bread in that house)

7. shakteyas (worshippers of Shakthi, the feminine principle of divinity) precisely identify you as as Shakthi (and so you are seen as Shakthi)
8. the six philosophies (darshanas) describe you in various ways according to their philosophy (in no apparent agreement)
9. for those silly-minded who associate you with wealth, you become that sillyness (for those who associate you with material things, you are that material thing)
10. but for those who see you as greater than the greatest you become that greatness
11. there is no scarcity in you, but you are the lotus by the water (nothing that is small and scarce in you, but you are made by the maker, as lotus grows according to the water in which it lives)
12. just like the wells on the banks of Ganges spring up the same Ganges water (the concept we have is likened to a well. the ideas that spring in that well are not different from the philosophy that flows in us)
13. O Lord Venkateswara, I would say you are the God holding us
14. I surrender to Thee, right here (in this realm itself), and you are the ultimate and everything for me (whatever could be the other imaginations and explanations). (this is the ultimate sharanagathi - complete surrender, the central principle of Shree Visisthadvaitha)

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