Guest guest Posted January 28, 2002 Report Share Posted January 28, 2002 pranams Iam sumithra varadarajan.I just want to put forth a few points about the topic under discussion.These are few things which have come to my small mind.please forgive if there are any mistakes. First think anthima smriti is absolutely essential.This is proved in our sasthram and sampradayam sastram In Bhagavat geetha sri parthasarathy says, Anthakale cha mameva smaran ukthva kalabharan(8-5) where he quotes that antimasmriti is absolute to attain the feet of lord or what ever is the anthima smriti the person attains the same in the next jenma. sampradhayam, sri kanchi devaperumals answer to sri ramanuja's doubts through sri thirukachi nambi(six words) Sri DEvadirajan says anthimasmriti varjanam here again it is proved that anthima smriti is absolutely essential. At the end any person will think of what ever he has liked or thought his life through so if we meditate on god always it is sure we will think of him only. In varaha puranam,sri varaha perumal gives a assurity to his bhakthas 'If ur my bhakthan in the end when u loose ur senses and are unable to think about me"Aham smarami math Bhaktham nayami paramam gathim".So this shows though anthimasmriti is essential if a bhakthan fails by chance to think of the god the god himself thinks of him and send him to nalla gathi.Again what if god thinks of him means?This can be explained with a incident in Ramayana. Rama and lakshmana come to the place where sugriva is.Both of them are in the same place but sugriva fails to see rama until rama says "lakshmana why dont u go to see sugriva maharaj"So even if we have to see the lord it happens only with his sangalpam.So if the lord thinks of u means u will remember him. that is antima smriti. Here perialwar's pasuram 'appodhaiku eppodae sollivaithene'comes to our memory.There he says when iam so healthy i do not do what i have to do how will i remember u when iam in my death bed when non of the senses are with me so I tell u now itself i will not remember u but u can remember me .In my death bed, so many people will surround me and say can u recognise me Iam ur daughter, son ,wife etc.Similarly oh my lord may u come in front of me and say Iam ur parama bandhu which will take me to paramapadam. Sri manavalamamunigal in his "Arthi prabhandam" says 'kanaga giri male karia mugil pol vinadhai siruvan merkondu thanuvidum podu arrar arangar ethirasarka enpal vara munnirpar magizhndu' Here he says lord ranganatha will come in front of him in garduaseva when his life goes. people asks him, Why should he come in front of u? He answers because Iam a shisya of sri ramanuja for the sake of ramanuja ranganatha is sure to give me the divyadarisanam in my death bed so that i reach the loka from where i will never return and will always be blessed withthe nithya kainkaryam of the lord. so from the above examples it is clear that antima smrithi is absolutely necessary for anyone but in the case of bhagavatals and bhakthas the god does it on their behalf as he says in geetha "Ananyath chinthayan thi mam ye jaya perupasathe thesham aham samurdhartha mruthu samsara sagarath' I will lift the people who always meditate on me from the ocean of life and death" adiyen sumithra ramanuja dasyai Great stuff seeking new owners in Auctions! http://auctions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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