Visishtadvaita has the distinction of showing the world that the way to moksha is through Saranagati or prapatti. This means that total surrender to Lord Narayana is the assured way of reaching His feet. Vedanta Desika, through his works in Tamil, Sanskrit and Manipravala, shows us this path, said T.N. Aravamudachariar, in a discourse. In Tattva Mukta Kalapa, Desika acknowledges the role played by his predecessors in highlighting the prapatti marga. Nathamuni, and later his grandson Alavandar and Ramanujacharya — all of them made significant contributions in establishing the Visishtadvaita philosophy, which stresses prapatti as the way to reach Sri Vaikuntha..
Desika’s Tamil verses are honoured by referring to them as Desika Prabandham, for they are considered to be as full of meaning as the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, which is a collection of all the verses of the Azhvars. These Tamil verses talk about the greatness of saranagati and also about divya desas like Srirangam, Kancheepuram etc. Desika was the avatara of the bell of the Tirumala temple. He grew up in Kancheepuram. He was blessed by Lord Deivanayaka of Thiruvaheendrapuram. He attained moksha in Srirangam. Thus his association is with many sacred temples and pilgrim centres. But Desika had a special fondness for Lord Varadaraja of Kancheepuram. This is evident from his works. In the Tamil work Adaikkalappathu, Desika says that he surrenders at the feet of Lord Varadaraja. There are five concepts that we must fully comprehend. They are the Supreme One; the jivatma; the ultimate goal, which is moksha; the means to attain this goal and the hurdles that stand in our way. Desika wrote the Artha Panchakam, explaining these concepts. And in Artha Panchakam, we can see him praising Lord Varadaraja throughout.
Ellaru Maduvudu Hottegaagi Lyrics: Ellaru Maduvudu Hottegaagi is a song from the 1988 Kannada movie Shiva Mecchida Kannappa, directed by Vijay. The film was produced by S A Govindaraj and Raghavendra Rajkumar under the banner Bhagavathi Combines. This film was inspired from the 1959 Kannada film Bedara Kannappa, which marked the debut of Dr. Rajkumar.
Shiva Mecchida Kannappa features Shivarajkumar, Dr. Rajkumar, Puneeth Rajkumar, Geetha, C. R. Simha, Balaraj, Saraladevi, Doddanna, Shankar Patil, Honnavalli Krishna, Sathyajith, Bhatti Mahadevappa, Seetharam, Padma Kumata, Sangeetha, Priya, Srishailan, Kamalashree, Shyamala and others. Lahari Music is the music label of this movie. This song was composed by T. G. Lingappa using the one of the poem of Kanakadasa. Ellaru Maduvudu Hottegaagi was rendered by Rajkumar.
Ellaru Maduvudu Hottegaagi is a very famous Kanakadasa song. It is very meaningful song about life. What ever we do, we do for our survival. to fulfill the basic needs of life like food and cloth. we choose different occupation but our main purpose is to get food and cloth to lead our daily life. that is what the song is all about. all of us us doing whatever we do to earn our bread and butter. udhara nimittham bahukrutha vesham.
An allegory where the pot is bodythat is useless until you fill it with Rama rasa and ensure it has been updated to Krishna bhakti to be able to do abhisheka to purandara vittala.
Song: taaraka bindige
Composer: Purandara Daasa
Language: Kannada
pallavi
tArakka bindige nA nIrighOguve tArE bindigeye bindige oDedare ondE kAsu tArE bindigeye
Purandara dasa asks akka to take the Bindige and fetch water.here the Bindige represents the human body and the water is consciousness. He asks akka to take the pot to bring water because the essence of Bindige is not the Bindige itself. The Bindige is something which is transient and temporary and we keep discarding it but the essence that is the water remains the same and it is invaluable.
Then Purandara Dasa asks tarakka to bring a pot which has the nama Rama rasa which is the consciousness or the true essence. Then he says I am surrounded by kaminis meaning to say kamanas I.e the desires and to raise above the desires he asks akka to go and bring the pot which has the gunas of Govinda. The aim of Govinda nama smarana is ultimately to reach the divinity or get moksha and to get the same get the water with the Govinda name which has the qualities of amrita.
Purandara dasa next says bring the pot and we will go to the Bindu Madhav Ghatta.he refers to Bindu Madhava ghatta in particular. Bindu means centre point and Madhava is the central point of everything. Madhav is the centre of universe so going to ghatta is committing your consciousness to be centered around Madhava.
And then purandara asks to get the Bindige with water to perform abhisheka implying that your body is n the service of divine rather than for worldly pleasures.
If the pot breaks it will cost only one paisa but it is capable of fetching the amrita of Rama nama govinda madhava and what you can use the pot meaning bodyfor service to the Lord.