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if the king can get the priests married, the problem of the king will go away.
The king accordingly made efforts to get the priests married, and succeeded
in this effort. Once they got children, their materialistic needs increased, and
they voluntarily took temple prasAdam and started visiting the king, in
expectation of some material gift from him. So they automatically became
subservient to the king without his effort. So the lesson to take from this
nAma is that the key to being not subservient to another human being is to win
over oneself first - get control of one's own indriya-s and mind.
SrI PBA addresses the difference between the pATha-s used by SrI Samkara
and SrI BhaTTar, and observes that the version used by SrI BhaTTar is more
appealing to a devotee since it brings out the aspect of saulabhyam in perumAL
which is in favor of His devotees.
nAma 628. sTkIit> sat sat-kIrtih sat kIrtih
He of true renown.
sat-kIrtaye namah.
SrI BhaTTar associates bhagavAn's kIrti as resulting from His sauSIlya -
sauSIlya sattvena asya ati-mahatI kIrtih iti sat-kIrtih. SrI BhaTTar points
out that no matter how well we praise His kIrti, it is still only an understatement.
In addition, His kIrti is all truth and no exaggeration.
SrI v. v. rAmAnujan refers to nammAzhvAr: "nigar il pugazhAy" - He whose
kIrti has no comparison.
SrI Samkara emphasizes the "sat" in sat-kIrtih as referring to the true
nature of His kIrti - satI- avitathA kIrtih asya iti sat-kIrtih.
SrI cinmayAnanda associates the kIrti with His being the Consort of lakshmi.
The dharma cakram writer describes two kinds of fame - the fame that comes
from material wealth, official status, etc., and the fame that comes because
one follows the path of dharma. The former type of kIrti is temporary and
transient - one loses it as soon as the wealth or the position that brought the
fame are gone, and they go one day or the other anyway. But the followers of
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