Sri Pillai Lokacharya's Mumukshuppadi - 096 & 097

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Sri: | Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

 

Sutra:

96. What are the nAras? The community of those that are there forever.

97. They are: the countless knowledge, joy and pure dharmas of the Lord, His

defined qualities such as knowledge and power, His auspicious qualities such as

love for all, simplicity and Lordship, His uncommon divine form, the many forms

that He takes by His wish, the qualities of those forms such as beauty and

youth, the many jewels that bedeck those forms, His divine weapons that add to

His beauty and destroy His devotees' enemies, His consorts starting with Sri,

the nithysUris such as Garuda and Vishvaksena, the items such as umbrella, fan

and vessels that are used in His service, the guards at the gate of His abode

such as Jaya and Vijaya, the gaNAtipatis such as Kumuda and Kumudaksha, the

muktas that have crossed the samsaric ocean, Sri Vaikuntam, the prakruti, the

Atmas that are trapped in samsara inside the prakruti, time, the twenty three

tattvas, the universe and the devas, men, directions that are within the

universe.

 

Sri PBA Swami's Sarartha Deepikai:

It was said that the nAras are the community of those that last forever. In

listing those things, it appears that some ephemeral things have also been

included. It is not so. The nithya objects are of two kinds: SvarUpatho nithyam

and pravAhatho nithyam. In the above list everything up to time are SvarUpa

nithyas; the rest are pravAha nithyas. Those whose creation never changes are

SvarUpa nithyas; those whose creation may be stopped (and re-created) but

do not lose their name, nature or characteristics are pravAha nithyas.

 

Thus the nAra term is explained.

 

Jai Sriman Narayana | adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan | TCA Venkatesan

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