Mumookshapadi -Thirumantra Prakaranam Part-IX

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Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

Sri Venkata Gurave Nama:

 

Respected members of bakthi list,

 

In the last post we mentioned that seshatvam(servitude) to Lord becomes

Important , spontaneous and Natural to Chetanas.

 

We will proceed further:

 

 

55. Seshatvam is the Atma's basic svarupam. Since the Lord is creator and

protector of everyone and due to his Kalyana gunas,'

the realised one knows that the best course of being is to feel that he is

subservient to Him.

 

56-57. Till such time, the Atma does not realise this due to its ignorance and

prakrrti Sambandam(Due to attachment), the Atma thinks that it is

"Independent" of the Lord and hence "Svanthantaran" This thinking is detrimental

to the Atma. and such person is considered as "sinful"he does not get out of

samsaric cycle of birth/death.

 

58. 'Ukaram' in the Pranavam explains that we are all servants of the Lord.

(Here The author and vyakyartha give proofs from Sanskrit grammar to prove this

point.)

 

59. As we are servants of Lord, we are also not bound to any Samsarees or

Mundane people here.

 

60. It also means that we are servants of Piratti as well.

 

(once one of the acharyas named Somajiyandan, described a scene from Srimad

Ramayana where Sri Rama was followed by Sita devi and then by Sri Lakshmana like

"as if PRANAVAM was walking along'. The essence of pranavam is that the Lord is

Jagat Swamy and he is never separated by his Consort, Piratti and the all the

Jeevathmas are subservient to them.)

 

61-65 if one thinks that he is subservient to a mundane samsaree or a ordinary

earthy person, it is equivalent to offering

the ritual offerings of the yagna to a dog then to the devas. the Bagavat

seshatvam should evolve in to annanya seshatvam, that is servitude ONLY to

Lord and none else. (this includes Demi Gods, Mundane human beings) Here swami

refers to Thirumazhisai piran's Pasuram "thirmbenmin kanteer" where azwar

describes that to a perfect prapanna who does pray to any demi god even when he

is absent minded, such prapannas are feared even By Yama and his servants.Yama

would advice his servants to be very respectful and Humble towards such

prapannas.

 

Hence we can wind up discussion on"UkAram" saying that

 

1. Atma by nature is subservient to the Lord.

2.Such servitutde is ONLY towards the Lord and not to any worldly person or a

Demi God.

 

we will explore the meanings of "Makram" in the next post.

 

Azhwar, Emperumanar, Jeeyar thiruvadigale saranam

 

Dasan

 

 

K.M.Narayanan

 

 

 

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