Hari OM
Application - that is what 'Workings-days' are about!
Today, we complete the text. The three remaining shlokas follow the traditional pattern; honouring the one has been the focus of the text, acknowledging the means by which we can best demonstrate our connection and the salutary verse to the author of the text.
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sartariktcaémUtRye
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AyaCym³eymyatyamm!
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imÇe iÖjNmvr pÒzravÉUtam!,
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ra}a k&ta k&itiry< kulzeore[.41.
Salutations to Maadhava, who is reclining on Adi Shesha, who is the slayer of the demon Madhu, and whose most beautiful form is like the blue sky, where the drops sprinkled upon His body by the waves of the milky ocean shine like stars.
I need not beg for it; I need not buy it; it does not become stale; it need not be cooked; it does not diminish; it is not difficult to carry. There is food that I have with me for my further journey from here. It is the nectarine name of Shri Krishna!
This composition was by king Kulashekhara who is the bee that hovers over the lotus feet of Shri Krishna of the lotus-eyes and who had two dear friends named Padma and Shara, who were best among braahmanas and were exalted poets with good memory.
Here, the description of the subject of this text, Lord Vishnu, is given. Not as a human form, but as the Universal Being. Slayer of ego and doership (demon Madhu), His form is that of the cosmos. The milky ocean is none other than our own galaxy as it appears in the night sky. How beautiful is this, the nature of "God".
When we make our appeal to the Higher for assistance and guidance, we are praying. It is the very food of spiritual nurture. Forget not to raise your hands, folded in supplication, and simply call the name dearest to you, your own 'pet name' for the Higher. If you do not have one, then take up the cry for Lord Krishna, or Yeshu, or Allah - know that 'HE' is but Higher Energy, waiting for you to tap into it.
Finally, let us thank our king-guru for presenting such lyrical descriptions and guidance of a practical nature.
OM. Shanti. Shanti. Shanti.
