Digest 358(14): Qs on Prapatti & Position of Thayar

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SRIMATHE RAMANUJAYA NAMAHA

APPAN THIRUVADIGALE SARANAM

 

Dear Bhagavathas, Accept my pranam

 

Regarding question as message 14 in digest 358.

 

A lengthy posting has been contributed to this group on Prapatti. Adiyen would

request Geetha Rengarajan to go through it and ask for further clarifications.

Followers of Emperumanar dharsanam do not consider prapatti as an ;”Upaya” or

nobody else other than Emperuman .Their contention is Upaya and Upeya is

Emperuman only. We should have absolute faith in him and that is enough. Once

you have surrendered to one acharyan you have become a Srivaishnava and Acharya

will guide you. No more surrender is necessary.

 

2.Regarding the postion of Piratti. In Srivaishnava philosophy, there is room

for only one Brahmam or Easwara. There is no room for another Easvara thathva.

If it is desired to equate Piratti to the status of another Easvara or easvari

then, the entire edifice of our philosophy will be shaken. Nithyasooris have

the power of Emperuman; but, they cannot create the world. They are also fall

in the jiva groups.

 

Piratti occupies an unique position in our philosophy. She is the Acharyan for

all other Jivvas. Emperuman is her Acharya. Further she is inseparable from

Emperuman. If she is equated with an ordinary jeeva toiling in samsara, then

only it should be worried. Her dignity, position and importance are in NO way

affected by considering her as a jeeva.

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dasan, T.Parthasarathy.