SABDA CHITRAM

Subhashitham : 024

जामाता  जठरं जाया जातवेदो जलाशय : I

पूरिता नैव पूर्यन्ते जकारा: पञ्च दुर्भरा:  II

Son-in-law, stomach, Wife, Fire (Agni ), Water bodies all these five starting “jha” (in Sanskrit ) can never be pleased completely.

गीता गङ्गा च गायत्री गोविन्देति ह्रुदिस्स्तिते

चतुर्गकार संयुक्ता पुनर्जन्म न विद्यते  II

 'Geeta Ganga cha gayatri govindeti hrudi sthite chaturgakaara samyukta punarjanma na vidyate'...This means that one who recites these four names and bears these four names begining with 'Ga' will never fall in birth and death cycle

We have many great slokas in Vedanta Desika’s “paduka sahasram “ where using letters repetitively , he paints ‘ subdha chithram ‘  ( They are considered as Manthras ). Here is one such example where a single letter “ YA” kara is used:

936. yAyAyAyAyAyAyAyA yAyAyAyAyAyAyAyA

     yAyAyAyAyAyAyAyA yA yA yA yA yA yA yA yA

SlOkam 936: This sabdha chithram is known as

Ekaswara Vyanjanam or that which is revealed by

one intonation (Swaram). The split of the slOkam

into individual words to bring out  the meaning are:

" Yaayaayaayaa , aaya , aayAya , ayAya , ayAya ,

ayAya , ayAya , ayAya , yAyAya , aayAyAya ,

aayAyA; yaa, yaa, yaa, yaa, yaa , yaa, yaa, yaa ".

That Paaduka, which collected revenue, being in the throne, which

ensures auspices for the devotees, which is the benefactor of True

Wisdom on devotees, which kindles a yearning for the good things of

life (which makes the devotee look to itself as the Supreme Deity),

which wipes out enemies (also the sins of the devotees), which after

attaining the Lord's Feet is for His travels, which helps bring the

Lord to us, and which is the Supreme Aid for the jivas reaching the

Highest Goal, that Paaduka has the distinction of solely being for

the Lord.

 ( Readers are advised to approach a guru to understand  the meaning of this sloka )

Sri Krishnaya thubyam nama: