On the panguni utthiram day, Lord RanganAtha (naMperumAL) appears along with our mAthA pirAtti Sri RanganAyaki thAyAr and on only this day, one can have this sEtthi sEvai (darshan of Divya dampathi together) in a year. Let us meditate on the Lotus feet of Sriya:pathi Sri Rangantha and surrender to Them and on this day, Our YathirAjar Sri Bhagawadh Ramanujamuni was self- lost in the all-auspicious ambience pervading the Mandapam and indicted the three prose prayers- SaraNAgatiGadyam, Sri Ranga Gadyam and Sri VaikunTa Gadyam, when he witnessed the Graceful Most Compassionate Divya Dampathi’s Serthi Sevai.
Ramanujacharya - the most unparalleled Acharya saarabhouman burst out with these emotional out pourings Gadya trayam (3 gadyas) on the day of Panguni Utthiram. Ramanjuacharya’s wonderful prose version of Saranagati (Self surrender) or Prapatti finds itself an ecstatic expression in his Saranagati gadyam. It is a dialogue of communion with God in which the soul of Ramanuja voices forth its innermost aspirations calling forth from the depths of his consciouslness a response from his Lord Sri Ranganathan an assurance to His devotee- an ardent most endearing devotee- Sri Ramanuja. For an eternal joy of kainkarya (service) and live with contentment and bliss (athasthvam thattvatthO majnAna prApthishu nissamSaya: sukhamAsva..)
This gadya gives us a sense of assurance, certainty. The intense love, plea, fervor of the human soul throbbing with deep love and surrender to the SarvEshwaran Sri Ranganathan (ParamAthmA) is not found elsewhere in our scriptures or in any other sreesukthis. The prose version adds beauty to this plea. The theme of the gadya is the consummation devoutly wished for by every true and sincere devotee.
In Saranagati Gadya Ramanuja pays homage to Lord Ranagnatha and prays to Him to accept him as one who has surrendered himself to His Lotus Feet completely to perform eternal service at His Lotus Feet. He praises the Lord as One who is entirely free of all imperfections (akhilahEya pratyaneeka); who is the abode of all that is auspiciousness (KalyANaikathAna); who is uniquely different from things that one sees around him (svetharasamasthavasthu vilakshaNa) and whose nature is constituted of knowledge and bliss (jnAnandhaika swaroopa). He has form - which is a treasure of qualities like unsurpassed efflugence, beauty, fragrance, softness, grace and youth (nithya, niravadhya, niradisaya, aujvalya, sowndharya, sowgandhya, sowkumArya, lAvaNya, yowvanAdhya anantha guNa niDhi dhivya rUpa).
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