Mumukshuppadi - 281-282

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Sri:

Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

 

Sri Pillai Lokacharya's Mumukshuppadi

 

Sutra:

281. ivan thAn ivai thannai nErAga vittilan.

282. karmam kainkaryaththilE pugum; njAnam svarUpa

prakAsaththilE pugum; bakthi prApya ruciyilE pugum;

prapaththi svarUpa yAythAthmya njAnaththilE pugum.

 

Sri PBA Swami's Sarartha Deepikai:

The chetana who gives up the other paths and adopts

this siddhOpaya, does not become one who has given

up the other paths completely. How is that?

 

The daily and special acts and rituals that he

performs, appropriate to his varNa and Ashrama, are

done not with the thought that they are the means.

Instead, they are done due to kindness toward others,

and therefore lead to His pleasure. Thus, they are

part of the service done to Him.

 

The acute knowledge is that which makes the chetana

realize the nature of the Supreme which then leads

to the realization of the nature of the self. This

knowledge, when not used as a means, belongs within

the true nature of the self.

 

Once the thought that it is a means is given up on

that bhakti which leads to the Lord, it becomes part

of the taste (the desire) that comes just prior to

service to the Lord, just as hunger precedes eating.

 

As mentioned in the 'Eka' term, prapatti (which is

acceting the Lord Himself as the means), if itself

is not thought of as the means, belongs to the true

knowledge of that self which has no other refuge

and is solely dependent on the Lord.

 

Therefore, it is right to say that the chetana has

not given them up completely.

 

 

Pillai Lokacharyar Thiruvadigale Sharanam

Azhvar Emperumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Sharanam

 

adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan

 

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