Arthi Prabhandham-7(Part-1)

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Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha | Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha

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Everything in this world is a part of God. Then why are vaishnavas special and

why should they be respected? Let us see why.

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Anything in this world is surely a part of God so everyone can be called

vaishnava. Then one may ask why should we then worship Sri Rama and Sri Krishna

alone and not ravana and sisupala? Surely you can worship ravana and sisupala

if they accept that they are part of perumal, is the answer.

 

A man is lying down worried about his next meal. Underneath his bed, under the

ground there is a bag full of gold coins, which can make him one of the richest

men in the world. But he can become rich only if he realizes that there is so

much wealth underneath his bed and take it into his possession. So the

realization, the knowledge is very important. Similarly all of us are part of

God’s body only but then we become srivaishnavas only when we realize the same.

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How do we get the knowledge?

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We can attain this realization only due to acharya kataksham (divine grace of

our acharyas)

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But why that only a few are blessed with such acharya kataksham?

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Sri Manavala Mahamuni says that is because “THENNARANGAR SEER ARULUKKU ELAKKAGAP

PETTROM”, we have all been blessed by Sri Ranganatha with such acharyas.

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Then is Sri Ranganatha himself partial to bless one, with good acharya and hence

knowledge and realization but leave the others?

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No. God has a samadrishti (view of equality) towards all. He showers his

blessings equally on everyone. Let us see how. Initially all the jeevatmas lay

dormant. God due to his nirhetuka krupa gave all the jeevatmas chaitanyam and

sends them to this world. He gave them the choice of either selecting the path

of jnana, bhakthi, vyrAgyam and attaining his divine feet or getting involved in

the worldly affairs. People were more attracted by the colorful attractive

world and hence they totally forgot about God and their relationship with him.

So now bhagavan, again due to his krupa, gave the Vedas to make people aware,

that the wordly pleasures are temporary and only the divine kainkaryam to God is

always permanent.

 

(To be continued)

Jai SrimanNarayana | Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai, Sumithra Varadarajan

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