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Dhyana-ascent.
The devotee had journeyed long
on an ascending excursion. Should he not be
refreshed by the cool moonlight of the smile ?
Sloka 101: Can the lotus, lovely though, com-
pare with the incomparable beauty of your eyes?
How does the all-knowing Veda compare your eyes
with the Lotus? How can it be helped? Is not the
Veda constrained to compare the unlimited with
the comparatively limited Ether to give us poor
mortals an idea of the greatness of the Infinite?
Sloka 105: The idea here is very lovely. The
finest black gems on the Lord's crown filled with
priceless gems of all colours are not precious stones
really; but they are the bees, which breathing the
sweet fragrance of your dishevelled hairs, absorb
themselves there.
Sloka 100: The last sloka in the peroration is
distinctly after the manner of Sri Sankara's pero-
ration on a similar theme,
आपादादा च शीर्णो वपुरिदमनघं वैष्णवं यः स्वचित्ते
भत्ते नित्यं निरस्ताखिलकलिकलुषे संततान्तःप्रमोदः ।
The 3rd Pada reminds us of Desikar's appeals to
Varada at the end of his Stavam.
Dhyana-ascent.
The devotee had journeyed long
on an ascending excursion. Should he not be
refreshed by the cool moonlight of the smile ?
Sloka 101: Can the lotus, lovely though, com-
pare with the incomparable beauty of your eyes?
How does the all-knowing Veda compare your eyes
with the Lotus? How can it be helped? Is not the
Veda constrained to compare the unlimited with
the comparatively limited Ether to give us poor
mortals an idea of the greatness of the Infinite?
Sloka 105: The idea here is very lovely. The
finest black gems on the Lord's crown filled with
priceless gems of all colours are not precious stones
really; but they are the bees, which breathing the
sweet fragrance of your dishevelled hairs, absorb
themselves there.
Sloka 100: The last sloka in the peroration is
distinctly after the manner of Sri Sankara's pero-
ration on a similar theme,
आपादादा च शीर्णो वपुरिदमनघं वैष्णवं यः स्वचित्ते
भत्ते नित्यं निरस्ताखिलकलिकलुषे संततान्तःप्रमोदः ।
The 3rd Pada reminds us of Desikar's appeals to
Varada at the end of his Stavam.