Sri Pillai Lokacharya's Mumukshuppadi - 154 & 155

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Sri: | Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

 

Sutra:

154. prapadhye - I attach myself to (I take refuge in).

 

155. It may be sufficient to pray with words or by folding

one's hands. However, since the Sastras say that liberation

is attained through knowledge, the attachment is taken as

being done through the mind.

 

Sri PBA Swami's Sarartha Deepikai:

Prapadhye means I attach myself to. If one were to pray

for protection with mere words alone or by folding one's

hands or other forms of worship, that itself might bear

fruit. However, as the Sastras say that moksha is obtained

through knowledge ("tatvanjAnAt mukti:"), here the

attachment is done through the mind. The essential bent

of the mind that accepts His protection is the knowledge

that is spoken of here.

 

Jai Sriman Narayana | adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan | TCA Venkatesan

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