![]() ![]() (Meaning ): Oh My Mind ! When the great poet and logician , Yamm kanchith purusham hyAupAsithumayE mAgA mana: svasthi tE Tasmin thishtathi VenkatEswara-kavou SrIbhAshyakArOpamE SarIrArNava-rathnajAtham-iha ya: prAchIkasath sarvasa: VyAjikruthya vimukthi-soudha-padahvaI - sOpAna-sadhvarNanam There are two Sanskrit Taniyans and one Tamil Taniyanįor this Desika Prabhandham. The ninth and concluding step is ParApthi, where the Jeevan that has been transformed to Suddha Satthva Mayam meets the Supreme Brahman, Sriman NaarAyaNan, converses with Him and enjoys Him as the sarvalOka SaraNyan ![]() Here, the Jeevan arrives at the end station of Sri Vaikuntam, which is beyond the prakruthi mandalam. The Eighth step is the Prakruthi-athikrAntha -padha -adhirOhaNam. The seventh step is ArchirAdhi maarga prayANam, where the journeying jeevan is greeted and sped on its way by the different adhikAris lining the way to Sri Vaikuntam The sixth step is uthkramaNam, where the Jeevan leaves the bodily cage through he special naadi ( nerve center in the head ) The fifth step is PrasAdha Hethu :, where the chEthanA practises one or the other UpAyams ( Prapatthi or Bhakthi ) The fourth step is Bheethi or fear, nay terror over the thought that this samsAra anubhavam may recur. One turns away from the chasing of svarUpa Viruddha BhOgams. The third step is virakthi, where one develops VairAghyam. The second step is NirvEdham, one develops a sense of self-depreciation due to the awareness of having lost so much time chasing sensory pleasures and performing activities that are svarUpa Viruddham ( activiites at variance with the natural disposition of the Jeevan ) VivEka nirvEdha virakthi bheethaya: prasAdhahEthUthkramaNaarchirAdhaya : | prakruthyathikrAntha padhAdhirOhaNam parApthirithyathra thu parvaNAm krama : ||The first step is VivEkam is the discriminatory knowledge that one has to attain regarding Chith ( Sentients), Achith (insentients) and Isvaran ( the supreme Lord ). The order among the nine steps leading to the side of Sri VaikuntanAthan is summarized in another slOkam : These steps have to be ascended one by one ( kramENa ) and there is no way to jump over them in a nonsequential manner. SEyam sOpAna padhavee SrimathA vihithA svayam | suddha sathva mayam bhruthyAn svasoudham nEthumicchathA ||( Meaning ) : Our Lord desirous of inviting His adiyArs to His upper chambers ( Sri Vaikuntam ), constituted entirely of Suddha Satthvam has constructed out of His own sankalpam, the nine-stepped path to get His adiyArs there. Swami Desikan states at the outset that these nine steps have been designed by SaraNyan Himself for leading one to His divine abode in a step-wise manner : ![]() The nine steps in the ladder to reach Parama Padham, the divine abode of Sriman NaarAyaNA ( Sri Vaikuntam ), is covered here through nine chapters : At this time, when Sri Vaikunta EkAdasi is approaching, it is an appropriate grantham to meditate upon in conjunction with Sri Vaikunta Gadhyam of our ParamAchAryA, Sri RaamAnujA. This is one of the rahasya granthAs given to us by our AchAryA, Swami Desikan. Parama Padha sOpAnanam of Swami Desikan - Part - 1 Paramapada sopanam You are here: SriPedia - ebooks - Vedanta Desikan - Works
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