pramEya sEkaram-2

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

 

Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

 

Srimad Vara Vara munayE Namaha

 

Sri vanAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

 

 

PRAMEYA SEKARAM

 

 

 

**On Surrendering to an acharya one realizes the wanted and the unwanted;

 

 

 

All along the jeevatma has been desiring to possess a lot of wealth and live

happily in this world but now the acharya shows him a different treasure and now

all his confusion is totally removed and he perfectly knows what is to be

desired and that which has to be left.

 

 

 

**Further a vairakya towards prApyAntaram (the worldly affairs) and a deep

involvement towards the paramaprApyam (bhagavan) is created;

 

 

 

There are number of gurus in the world today. Who is a perfect acharya? One who

releases us from the clutches of samsara and one who shows us the divine feet of

emperuman the paramaprApyam is a sadAcharyan. So on reaching a sadacharya and

getting his advises one gradually starts to get a affinity towards bhagavan and

a disregard for all the lowkika pleasures.

 

 

 

**The next step is the effort of the jeevatma to get away from the lowkika

affairs and reach the divine goal by holding on to the siddhOpAyam

 

 

 

To attain the ultimate goal there are two ways, 1) siddhOpAyam (holding on to

the readily available emperuman's feet and reaching the divine abode-saranagathi

unto the divine feet of the lord) 2) sAdhyOpAyam (reaching the divine abode by

doing various sAdhanas (karma yoga, bhakthi yoga, jnana yoga etc) which requires

a lot of effort)

 

If a thirsty person drinks water from a pond and quenches his thirst it is

siddhOpAyam whereas if he has to quench his thirst by digging a well then it is

like holding on to a sAdhyOpAyam.

 

 

 

**On holding on to the siddhOpAyam one wants to immediately reach the divine

feet of the lord

 

 

 

Now the jeevatma slowly realizes the hardships in samsara and sweet anubhavams

under the divine feet of emperuman and hence wants to reach the divine abode

immediately.

 

 

 

(To be continued)

 

 

 

LokacharyAya guravE Krishna pAdasya soonavE I

 

SamsAra bhOgi sandhasta jeevajeevAtavE namaha II

 

 

 

vAzhi vulagAsiriyan vAzhiavan mannukulam

 

vAzhi mudumpai ennum mAnagaram-vAzhi

 

manan soozhindha pErinbha malgu migu nallAr

 

enansoozh indhirukkum eruppu"

 

 

 

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

 

Sumithra Varadarjan