Prapatti-verses found in website

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Dear BhagavatottamALs,

 

There is a web site which I visited and I wish to share with my vaiahnav

brethern.

It is "Sri Govinda Dham". In that link, I found myself reading a vast

collection of verses written by various saints (Even Yamunacarya,

Kulasekara, Bilvamangala-are all referred to here)- The entire collection

is on our favourite topic: Prapatti ; and the six angas (limbs) are also

individually decsribed- Perhaps you may like to visit the site at:

http://www.mandala.com.au/dham/prapanna/index.html

I have reproduced the last two verses of Chapter 2 for your ready

reference;

 

2.32

anukulyasya-sankalpah, pratikulya-vivarjjanam

raksisyatiti visvaso, goptrtve varanam tatha

atma-niksepa-karpanye, sad-vidha saranagatih

Six divisions of surrender - "Acceptance of the favorable, rejection of the

unfavorable, the faith that 'He will surely protect me,' embracing the

Lord's guardianship, complete dependence on Him, and the perception of

one's utter helplessness without Him - these six are the essential limbs of

exclusive surrender to the Lord (saranagati)."

2.33

tavasmiti vadan vaca, tathaiva manasa vidan

tat sthanam asritas tanva, modate saranagatah

Saranagati should be practised in thought, word, and deed -"By his power of

speech, the surrendered soul declares, 'I am Yours'; in his thoughts, he

knows the same; and in person, he takes refuge in the Lord's holy abode. In

this way the surrendered soul passes his life, his heart filled with joy."

(I know my reaction of such nature can be compared to that of a small

child's when it sees an elephant's picture; It immediately rushes to its

elder brother (or sister) and its parents and show the picture with wide

open wonderstruck beaming eyes and with happiness all over the face; The

elders would have of course seen the elephant's picture 100 times before;

 

Ram Ram

 

Thanjamadaindha nam Ramanujane Thanjam

 

madhava daasan