archiradi margam

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Dear Sri Venkatesh,

> The beautifiers look at the beautified muktatma and enjoy along

>with him, his good luck in having been blessed with a place in

>paramapada.

 

In your recent Archiradi post, you have either quoted or said this. I am

confused by the term "good luck" in this context. Is this to be taken

literally as sheer luck? Please explain. Please don't misunderstand that I

am picking at this. But this term "good luck" can mean different things if

understood in unintended ways.

 

Thanks.

adiyEn,

chandrasekaran.

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> Chandrashekaran Venkataraman <VCHANDRA

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> Dear Sri Venkatesh,

>

> > The beautifiers look at the beautified muktatma and enjoy along

> >with him, his good luck in having been blessed with a place in

> >paramapada.

>

> In your recent Archiradi post, you have either quoted or said this.

I am

> confused by the term "good luck" in this context. Is this to be taken

> literally as sheer luck? Please explain. Please don't

misunderstandthat I

> am picking at this. But this term "good luck" can mean different

things if

> understood in unintended ways.

>

> Thanks.

> adiyEn,

> chandrasekaran.

 

Dear Sri Chandrasekaran,

 

Thanks for your query. I was a bit bussy at work and could not reply to

this email earlier.

 

Sri Pillai Lokacharya uses seried of quotes from Tiruvaymozhi when

describing the section on the alankara of the muktatma. One of the

quotes is based on TVM 8.9.5

 

'punaiyizhaikaLaNivum aadaiyudaiyum puthukkaNippum

nNinaiyum nNIrmaiyathanRu" enRu viSmitharaayk koNdaada

 

I am not 100% sure on the meaaning for the word viSmitharam, but i am

told it means amazement and it ispossible that Ms M. S. Ramesh might

have used the term 'good luck' as a loose translation.

 

There is one mistake I made when I started the sereis. I termed it as a

translation. Actually, it is more of a commentary than a translation.

 

thanks

 

 

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