Sri Pillai Lokacharya's Mumukshuppadi - 044

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Sri Pillai Lokacharya's Mumukshuppadi

 

Sutra 44:

In this world, when a man hires a servant to do work in his

house, he writes a contract that the servant will do his

bidding but does not explicitly note that the servant should

do the bidding of his wife. Nevertheless, we see that the

servant does the work as ordered by the wife. Similarly, we

are also enslaved to Sri Mahalakshmi.

 

Sri PBA Swami's Sarartha Deepikai:

Is it not said in the praNavam that the chetana is enslaved

to the Lord - so, how can one say that he is also enslaved

to Mahalaskshmi?

 

This is answered using an example from this world. When a

rich person hires some servants to do work at his home,

there will usually be a contract written. This contract is

called AvaNai Olai. When this contract is written, the man

would typically have it written in his name and not in his

wife's name. Nevertheless, it is very often seen that the

servant ends up doing mostly the bidding of the wife.

Similarly, while the akAram only mentions that we are

enslaved to Him, it does not preclude that we are also

enslaved to pirAtti.

 

Jai SrimanNarayana | adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan | TCA Venkatesan

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