Chapter 1 - Connection to the Personal Account

[Note: This page represents a summary English translation of the Dvisāhasrī by Ṭembesvāmī, chapter 1.—The 1^st chapter the The Holy Master residing in the Gāṅgāpura [Gaṅgāpura?], offers his flash in the dream of Nāmadhāraka.]

H.H. Ṭembesvāmi while writing the auto commentary on his Dvisāhasri (the text of the present thesis) summarizes every chapter like Śridhara and other renowned commentators.

Here onwards the units are framed in consideration to the speakers principally and the narrations and the events secondarily.

01/01-10: The unit consists of the prayer to Lord dattatrey’s different forms as well as Divine Sports.

Due to ignorance about the Holy Maser who is formed of the Consciousness as well as Bliss, the whole world arises (01). He is the Ever Existing Supreme Reality(02). He presents Himself before one who remembers and uplifts many like Kārtavīrya, Yadu and so onand His two Incarnations are Śrīpādaśrīvallabha and Nṛsiṃhasarasvatī (03). Though desireless, He has created the world through His Divine Power comprising of three Qualities (04). He is the one worthy of Knowing (05). Though Unborn, He incarnates to liberate His devotees having the godly endowments (06). The Lord and the devotee are equally dearer to each other (07). He incarnates in every Era and leaves His body when the task is over, yet 28 Eras have passed in this Brahmā’s Day (08). He has incarnated in this Kali Era, because he saw even the gods have become less compassionate (09). He moved on the banks of rivers Kṛṣnā and Amarajā, and played Divine Sports (10).

01/11–17: This unit of seven verses describes 22 supernatural acts such as,

(01) The utterance of the sacred syllable Om at the time of His birth, (02) Changing iron into the gold by His touch and (03) Learnt Vedas without the help of any teacher (11),

(04) He (i.e. Nṛsiṃhasarasvatī) instructed His parents, (05) He wandered many places just in the childhood and (06) He established the path of devotion (12),

(07) Removing diseases with adverse treatment, (08), letting a dumb to speak and (09) removing the poverty (13),

(10) Visiting holy places within a friction of moment, (11) reviving the dead and (12) milking of a barren buffalo (14),

(13) Removal of the pride of the Vedic Brahmin, (15) Causing a low cast one to chant the Vedas, (16) giving life to the husband of a Brahmin widow and (17) propagating the path of the rituals (15).

(18) Causing the dry wood of the Udumber tree to bear leaves, bestowing children to a barren Brahmin woman and (20) removing encoderma of a Brahmin by mere sight (16)

(21) visiting to 08 villages on the same day at same time and (22) growing the reaped crop in abundance.

Such and other supernatural acts are performed by Him in the past and in present as well as will continue in future. (17)

01/18: His virtues are beyond the ability of the counting.

(01/19): Though Unborn and bereft of Qualities He enters into the heart through the course of hearing and removes the sin of the devotees.

01/20: Devotee with pure devotion and pure heart, becomes liberated while living.

01/21: A devotee attains Absolute Brahman at the end of his destined actions.^[1]

01/22: The liberation is not attainment by those deluded by infatuation and endowed with bad company.

01/23: The righteous one serving The Holy Master as the god, attains worldly pleasures as well as the liberation.

01/24: A certain twice-born (named Nāmadhāraka) hears the greatness (as mention in Śrīgurustuti 01-112 verses and in the 01/01-23) of Lord Dattātreya goes to the confluence of rivers Bhīmā and Amarajā.

01/25: Nāmadhāraka^[2] salutes to Lord Ganeśa, goddess Sarasvatī as well as the Holy Master and eulogizes the Holy Master in the form of H.H. Śri Nṛsiṃhasarasvatī.

01/26-40: Nāmadhāraka eulogizes with lamentation.

01/26: Though He is All-knower and the witness of all, He does not know him.

01/27: How can uneasiness, poverty and grief be in him when He knows him

01/28: Why does He, the Omniscient Lord avoid him? 01/29: Like a king He can not remain unknown to him.

01/30: It is not proper for Him to help the non-devotees, but not to him.

01/31: He solicits the desired object (i.e. liberation). 01/32: What can he offer to the master of all treasure?

01/33: When He is worshipped by his ancestors, He should not neglect him.

01/34: Like a mother ignoring the guilts of her son, He should ignore his guilts.

01/35: Lord is the parents for him.

01/36: All my faults are natural like a bird piercing a tree.

01/37-38: Like a cow running away by the sight of a tiger, the expiation would run away from him, as he has taken His name ‘Hari’ (i.e. a sin-destroyer)

01/39:There is no sinner like him and there is no sin-destroyer like Him.

01/40: Even a stone will melt by his lamentation, why does not He?

01/41-42: Nāmadhāraka gets a dream. Like a cow rushing to her calf, Lord Dattātreya in an attire of a monk rushes to him and makes him happy.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

The verse 01/21 is noted by H.H. Ṭembesvāmi himself as an interpolated one.

[2]:

The name Nāmadhāraka is given to Gaṅgādhara’s son Sarasvatī Pant.