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Sri:

Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:

Dear Devotees,

All my contention in the previous posts regarding nirhEthuka

krpa is that AcArya Hrdhayam talks only about paragatha swIkAram.

 

swAgatha swIkAram - the individual trying to get hold of the Lord

 

paragatha swIkAram - the descent of Lord's unconditional grace on the

individual,at His volition.

 

AH 186 exhibits the Lord's one of the kalyANa guNAs namely

"swAmithvam" and not the greatness of the jIvAtmA/its efforts.

 

swAmithvam(sovereignity) - inspire necessary confidence in the

supplicants that they will be looked after well and all their desires

fulfilled by the Lord as the sovereign master.

 

NammAzhvAr did not think that he should sing like this on God and

sang the thousand. Bue the thousand hymns came from his mouth due to

the overflow of paramabhakthi. Swami Azhagiya MaNavALa PerumAL

NAyanAr says that everything boils down to His grace even from the

perspective of the Lord.

 

What matters in the final analysis is the Lord's will.

Example: SVB 142-145

 

SVB 142: ivan(jIvAtma) avanaip(paramAtmA) peRa ninaikkum pOdhu indha

prapaththiyum upAyam anRu.

 

SVB 143: avan(paramAtma) ivanaip(jIvAtma) peRa ninaikkum pOdhu

pAdhakamum(sin/undeserving) vilakkanRu.

 

SVB 144: ivai iraNdum SribharathAzhvAn pakkalilum Sriguhap perumAL

pakkalilum kANalAm.

 

SVB 145: SribharathAzhvAnukku nanmai thAnE thImaiyAyththu;Sriguhap

perumALukku thImai thAnE nanmaiyAyththu.

 

In the case of bharatha-Rama,the former sought out(swAgatha swIkAram)

SriRama in the forest and performed sharaNAgathi at the latter's

feet,begging Him to get back to ayODhyA and assume the kingdom. But

SriRama had different ideas and would not oblige bharatha although

latter's devotion is very pure and in this case,SriRama's thoughts

did not coincide with bharatha's trend of thinking. On the other

hand,the hunter guha was "voluntarily" courted by SriRama. The puNya

(merit)and pApa(demerit) are not absolute but relative to the Lord's

pleasure and displeasure respectively. Bharatha's thoughts were pure

yet it displeased the Lord.

 

Even prapatti,performed by the individual,when not in consonance with

the Lord's own inclination,becomes a transgression too. The evil

of "swAgatha swIkAram",that is,the individual trying to gain the

Lord,is illustrated in SVB 146 & 147. Sri Ramanuja,in his

sharaNAgathi gadhyam,implores the Lord to redeem him from all sins,in

particular,to forgive his cheekiness and audacity in seeking the

Lord's forgiveness(R does sharaNAgathi in the beginning through the

mediation of thAyAr) despite his massive sins. The prapanna belonging

to the school of "swAgatha swIkAram" stands in the plight of a woman

who had strayed away from her husband for long and one fine

day,without any qualms for her past sins/transgressions goes to him

and asks him to take her back.

 

After the overthrow of rAvaNA,SriRama sent for Sita,whom He wished to

see straight from her captivity but Sita presented herself before

Him,after a refreshing bath and SriRama literally frowned at her.

 

Cf. SVB 166: snAnam rOSha janakam engiRa vArththaiyai smarippadhu.

 

So again,what matters is the Lord's will,His pleasure/displeasure.

 

Kindly forgive all my wrong understandings.

AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam

NC Nappinnai

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