Guest guest Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Sri: Srimathe Ramanujaya nama: Dear All, Whoever has doubts regarding swatantryam,listen to Swami Velukkudi Krishnan's upanyAsam on tirumantram(Class 7)in radioramanuuja.com. Hope people will get cleared. If not that's also His grace! For those who can't listen, Swami Krishnan says "when the jIvAtmA thinks it is swatantran, it loses its swarUpam/adimaithanam. It only brings destruction to the jIvAtmA". AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam dAsAnu dAsI NC Nappinnai ramanuja, Vishnu <vsmvishnu> wrote: > > Dear Sriman Raghavan, > > Then I go by your other mails. It is not swAtantryam in its real sense but ignorance or thinking that we are swatantram. This kind of thought that we are indepenent is called ahankAram in pUrvAchArya texts. Lord will allow our acts to be accordingly, with full control on them. He will give us bhakti whenever He wishes and not by mechanically browsing vEdas etc., as explained by krshNa and interpreted by rAmAnuja. > > Nice to see your analysis. > > Dasan > Vishnu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 ramanuja, rajan s <rajan_ramaswamy> wrote: > > Dear All > > The concept of paratantriam is expalined by Thondar adipodi Azhwar in his Thirumalai, 38th pasuram which is as follows.This is the core pasuram of Thirumalai. > > > > Memporul pogavittu--Keeping aside concept of moksha and all that( Memporul-moksham) > > Meymaiyai migavunarndhu---understanding the nature of Sriman Narayana(meymai- The Lord) > > Ambarisu arindhukondu---knowing the real aim of life (ambarisu- kainkaryam) > > Aimbulan agathatakki---controlling the five senses > > Kambara Thalai siraithu---giving up all ego > > Un kadaitalai irunthu ---residing in your vicinity > > Vazum sombarai--- the real paratantrins( sombar- people of such nature) The real lazy people, who do not make any efforts, but reside close to you, by realizing their SEshatvam with the thought that it is by your grace (hence no ego). What a wonderful pASuram? I missed reading it when I replied to you previously. Dear Sriman Rajan, all these pASurams are wonderful examples of SEshtvam, pAratantryam etc. They have to be learnt only from the learned. Perhaps that is why maNavALa mAmunigaL stresses on AchArya sambandham,as AchArya makes us realize our natural SEsha-SEshi sambadnham. Dasanudasan Vishnu > Ugathi polum----you seem to like these people > > Soozh punal arangathane---- God Ranganatha > > The free will or the swatantriam of the soul is thus surrendered as sung by the Azhwar. > > The paratantriam is a state of mind. > > > Adiyen Ramanujadasan > > Soundararajan > > Azhwar Emberumanar Jeeyar thiruvadigale sharanam. > > > > > > Lakshmi Narasimhan <nrusimhann> wrote: > > > Well, > We have independence(swa). Using that independence(swa), if we give > up that very independence then that is pAratantryam(dependencde). > adiyen, > rAmAnuja dAsan > > > Sponsor > > > > Links > > > ramanuja/ > > > ramanuja > > Terms of Service. > > > vote. - Register online to vote today! > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Srimathe Ramanujaya namaha; Swamin, The subtle soul which consist of our mind ,intelligence and ego carries our soul to one body to another and carries our karmas also. according to that we have to act in this life due to our past karmas which we did in our previous countless lives.The soul is encaged in this body. It has only minute independence.so one cannot become like Ramanuja even if he wishes, if he had done bad karmas in his past births.If one goes behind women and wine it is because of his desire and because of his karma only and it is not because of God's will also. God only sanctions our desire. If we want to be a good person he sanctions so we take effort to become a good person. If we want to be a bad person He sanctions that also. one cannot suddenly become a good devottee in a single birth.Unless he acquired good pious Karmas in his previous births it is impossible.Even if one had done bad karma, by his devotional activities one can wash away his previous karma.We should only have our willingness and take efforts to advance in bhakthi and we get God's mercy.Our willing to serve god or not is because of our minute independence and because of our Past Karmas also.. our suffering and happiness is our own making., Krishna dasee Vedavalli Ranganathan > > We need not worry, what the lesser developed souls > will do. We cannot be thinking > what will happen if they will take advantage of this > arguement. > > See it is very clear that Paramatma is everything. > We are born as willed by him. We donot have the > choice of parents. It is only the subtle soul that > controls this entire > drama called life. > > By sadana the jivatma, gets the knowledge. Now > people may ask, I want to be Ramanuja > why am i not able to be? Why is it that I go behind > women and wine though I want to > lead a pious life? Now where is SWATANTRYAM? The > swatantryam of the Jiva is also > able to act only with the will of GOD and > paratantryam. > > Hope this clarifies. > > Dasan/raghavan > > vtca <vtca wrote: > > Dear Sriman Vishnu, > > I get the feeling that you are driving toward the > idea > that shedding free will or accepting sEshatvam is > also > His act and not ours. > > In which case, here's my question: if a soul does > not > accept its sEshatva nature or claims it is a > swatantra > (and most of us qualify for this) - is that act one > of > free will of the jIvAtma or not? I am sure you see > my > concern here. Everyone will then justify every act > of > their's as that of the paramAtma's. > > adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan > > > ramanuja, "Vishnu" > <vsmvishnu> wrote: > > Now I will ask you one question. The free will or > swAtantyram is > shed > > out of our free will or not? > > > > Dasan > > Vishnu > > azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam > > > > Sponsor > > > > Links > > > ramanuja/ > > > ramanuja > > Your use of is subject to the > > > > > > > Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download > now. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Dear Vishnuswami you have asked Now I will ask you one question. The free will or swAtantyram is shed out of our free will or not? The question can be answered in two ways according to the different view points of vadakalai acharyas and thenkalai acharyas. The Lord wold need a reason to shower His Grace. Otherwise He can be accused of partiality to certain souls.Invariably, the jivas have to suffer the cosequences of prarabdha and sanchita Karmas. The Lord ,out of grace has given the ways of Bhakthi and Prapathi to cut short the cycle of births and deaths. Bhakthi and prapathi have the effect of mitigating the prarabdda Karmas which have anyhow to be suffered and removing the sanchita Karmas. The Jivatmas either due to previous good deeds or the Lord's nirhetuka krupai resort to Bhakthi and prapathi.They surrender their free will to the will of the Lord. Bhakthi and prapathi are desirable goals either way. I stand to correction by learned members of the group, Adiyen Ramanujadasan Soundararajan. AzwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE sharanam Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha Dear Bhagavatas, Amidst the deep discussion about a very strong subject by many great bhagavatas let adiyen put forth some clues that might be of some help to the discussions, Sri Pillai ulagariyan in his tattvatrayam says, "sAmsArika pravruththigalil karthruthvam svaroopa prayukthamandru" (33) "guNasamsarkakrutham" (34) "karthruthvam thAn ishvarAdheenam" (35) "seshamAgaiyAvadhu- sandhana kusuma thAmbhoolAdhigalai pOlE avanukku eshta viniyOgArhamAyirukkai" (40) "eppOdu evargalukku lakshanam seshatvaththOdE koodina jnAthruthvam" (61) If one goes through the chit prakaranam in the great work of Sri pillailokacharya Tattvatrayam along with the vyakhyanam then a great clarity can be obtained in this subject. Seshatvam is the svaroopam of a jeevatma ("seshatvamE svaroopa" says Sri PL). But only when the jnanam that has been covered by avidhya glows, one understands his true nature. " jalaththukku agnisamsrushta stAlee samsargaththAlE owshNyasabdhAdhigalundAgirApOlE, AthmAvukku achit sambhandhaththAlE avidya karma vAsanA ruchigal vundAginrana" (46) "achit kazhindhavArE avidhyAdhigal kazhiyum enbargal" So if one accepts his seshatva/paratantriya svaroopam it is nothing but removal of the dirt (avidya/agyanam) that as covered his jnanam all along and made him think that he is svathantran. It is only the realisation and not something that is cultivated. This realisation of our true nature can be obtained only due to the nirheduka krupai of emperuman who does a lot of krushi (paththi uzhavan) to cultivate that "bhakthi roopApanna jnanam" in all of us and credits us all with the profit of the yield, the moksha. We enjoy the ultimate joy without doing anything but just accepting what that lord after so much efforts grants us happily. Like a mother holding the hands of a kid and writing a letter on the paper and then praising the kid for writing correctly emperuman does everything and grants us moksha. But if the kid refuses to write at all then the mother either scolds, advices or sometimes even beats to make the kid write. That is what emperuman also does. The kid has no free will it is governed by the mother similar is the case of all jeevatmas who are none other than the kids of the divine supreme lord. Adiyen apologises for any unknowingly committed mistakes purely due to adiyen's ignorance. Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam Adiyen ramanuja dAsee Sumithra Varadarajan - vaidhehi_nc ramanuja Wednesday, October 20, 2004 8:37 PM [ramanuja] Re: Seshatvam and paratantriyam Sri: Srimathe Ramanujaya nama: This post reminded me of the Physicist Einstein's quote: Either you consider everything as God's miracle or human effort(One can't have both as it sounds ridiculous). Which category an individual belongs to is upto the the individual's mental status/growth! > TCA writes:Everyone will then justify every act of their's as that > of the paramAtma's. Dear TCA,How do you explain AzhvArs stance,that is, attributing everything to emperumAn? AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam dAsAnu dAsI NC Nappinnai ramanuja, Vijaya Raghavan <svrvan> wrote: > > Swamin, > > We need not worry, what the lesser developed souls will do. We cannot be thinking > what will happen if they will take advantage of this arguement. > > See it is very clear that Paramatma is everything. We are born as willed by him. We donot have the choice of parents. It is only the subtle soul that controls this entire > drama called life. > > By sadana the jivatma, gets the knowledge. Now people may ask, I want to be Ramanuja > why am i not able to be? Why is it that I go behind women and wine though I want to > lead a pious life? Now where is SWATANTRYAM? The swatantryam of the Jiva is also > able to act only with the will of GOD and paratantryam. > > Hope this clarifies. > > Dasan/raghavan > > vtca <vtca> wrote: > > Dear Sriman Vishnu, > > I get the feeling that you are driving toward the idea > that shedding free will or accepting sEshatvam is also > His act and not ours. > > In which case, here's my question: if a soul does not > accept its sEshatva nature or claims it is a swatantra > (and most of us qualify for this) - is that act one of > free will of the jIvAtma or not? I am sure you see my > concern here. Everyone will then justify every act of > their's as that of the paramAtma's. > > adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan > > > ramanuja, "Vishnu" <vsmvishnu> wrote: > > Now I will ask you one question. The free will or swAtantyram is > shed > > out of our free will or not? > > > > Dasan > > Vishnu > > azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam ramanuja/ b.. ramanuja c.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Dear Nappinnai, This gets us right back to what to the question of what exactly is nirhetuka krupa. Let me pose you a question. Why does Azhvar say iruththinEn in "en uNarvinuLLE iruththinEn adhuvum avanadhu innaruLE" instead of "en uNarvinuLLe vandhu irundhAn"? Azhvars do attribute all their good deeds to the Lord. But do they attribute their bad deeds to the Lord too? Why does Thirumangai Azhvar say "vAdinEn" instead of "vAttinAy"? adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan --- vaidhehi_nc <nappinnai_nc wrote: > > TCA writes:Everyone will then justify every act of > their's as that > > of the paramAtma's. > > Dear TCA,How do you explain AzhvArs stance,that is, > attributing > everything to emperumAn? > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 Swamin, Yes all is as willed by HIM. The rest swatantryam and self and all nothing but illusions. But, let me put my view on reading vedas and leading a life of righteousness. All these help one concentrate on HIM. He is showing the way, do this properly, make your mind rest on ME and ME ALONE, try and try, that is how you got this Manhood, and that is the only way to reach higher states. Dasan/raghavan Vishnu <vsmvishnu wrote: Dear Sriman Raghavan, Then I go by your other mails. It is not swAtantryam in its real sense but ignorance or thinking that we are swatantram. This kind of thought that we are indepenent is called ahankAram in pUrvAchArya texts. Lord will allow our acts to be accordingly, with full control on them. He will give us bhakti whenever He wishes and not by mechanically browsing vEdas etc., as explained by krshNa and interpreted by rAmAnuja. Nice to see your analysis. Dasan Vishnu Vijaya Raghavan <svrvan wrote: Swamin, Swtantryam will aim for paratantryam only if emperuman's swatantryam decides so. Dasan/raghvan Vishnu wrote: ramanuja, rajan s wrote: > > Dear All > > > The free will or the swatantriam of the soul is thus surrendered as sung by the Azhwar. Dear Sriman Soundararajan, To be very frank, I do not know whether we have swAtantryam or pAratantryam except for going by some concepts. Now I will ask you one question. The free will or swAtantyram is shed out of our free will or not? Dasan Vishnu > The paratantriam is a state of mind. > > Azhwar Emberumanar Jeeyar thiruvadigale sharanam. > > > > > > Lakshmi Narasimhan wrote: > > > Well, > We have independence(swa). Using that independence(swa), if we give > up that very independence then that is pAratantryam(dependencde). > adiyen, > rAmAnuja dAsan > > > Sponsor > > > > Links > > > ramanuja/ > > > ramanuja > > Terms of Service. > > > vote. - Register online to vote today! > > azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam ramanuja/ ramanuja azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam vote. - Register online to vote today! azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam ramanuja/ ramanuja vote. - Register online to vote today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 Dear Bhagavathas Another rejoinder on the subject from my father that i thought would be helpful to the group in understanding this complex concept. Adiyen Aravindan -------------- I read your latest mails on Sand P, The rejoinder to your FIL’s Thirumaalai quote is very clever and not answerable satisfactorily. It is like Parasara Bhattar asking the Buddhists whether their statement ’Sarvam Sunyam’ includes the statement also! If they say yes, the statement disappears and there is thus nothing to argue about. If they say no, then the statement exists and its existence goes against what is stated by them, namely their Sunyavada. This is something like Russell’s paradox.-the liar saying ’everything I assert is false’! Russell can startle you with such puzzles as this-the even numbers are but half of all numbers and yet there are just as many of them as there are numbers, since for every number there is its even double!. >From the limited knowledge that I have I will try to tell you about my thinking on this complex subject. I find Ramanuja’s concept of the soul having limited autonomy- freedom for the first action, difficult to accept. ,purely on the philosophical plane. Let me elaborate on this. B S 2 3 18 says Na atma sruthear nithyatvacha thapyaha. Atma- soul Na- is not created Sruthear-Since Vedas tell so. Tapyaha-from the same Vedas Nithyatva Cha –Atma is eternal (Is what we understand) This is a very important Sutra which says Soul is eternal and not created. Linking this up with another Mahavakya of the Upanishad Agre…..Ekamaivam adweethiyam we have to say that the Soul is but Brahmam itself. I will now give you briefly how Ramanuja interprets this Sutra. In the beginning Brahmam was One containing Soul and inanimate things in their Atomic or Shukshma form. It willed Let Me become Many . It let out or brought forth the Universe of names and forms of Souls and inanimate things in their Sthula form. This manifestation of B from the shukshma to sthula form is creation In the sthula form, B permeates all souls and inanimate things and acts as the Niyantha or Director or inner Controller. Thus at the time of creation, B is the clay(Ubadhana karanam), Potter ( nimittha karanam) wheel, stick etc( sahakari karanam) and the pot itself( karium) Now coming to this Sutra, Soul indeed is not created if we mean by creation ‘one thing becoming another’. That creation is called swaroopa change. In the case of inanimate things that is what happens at the time of creation-Swaroopa changes. But in the case of Soul its swaroopa does not change but only its swabhava. Creation for soul means expansion of its knowledge from the contracted state of its knowledge. Only soul’s knowledge expands by linking itself with body and senses. Since Soul’s swaroopa does not change ,the Sutra says that Soul is not created and that it is eternal In the Sthula state, Inanimate things which are not provided with senses are called Bhogyam- those that are enjoyed Soul with its expanded dharmabutha knowledge given by the senses is the Bhogtha.- that which enjoys Eswara is the controller or Niyantha. B forever has a vishista state. In the Karana state it is having as its Sarira, souls and inanimate things in their atomic or shukshma state. In the kariya state it has as sarira , souls and inanimate things in the changed nama, rupa form – in the sthula state. Eswara always has soul and inanimate as its prahara- prahara is that which cannot be separated from something. Eswara is prahari. Prahara and prahari cannot be separated and together it is called B. The change that happens- the vikharam- at the time of creation ,is applicable to all the three, namely chit, achit and eswaran. This is difficult to understand-since Niyantha now has ‘changed Chit and Achit.’as its Sarira. The chit and achit are parts, ‘as it were’ of Brahmam- since it is said B is one only, non differentiated. Let me now introduce the relevant B S that talk about Soul and its characteristics as explained in Sri bhashya. There are a total of 35 sutras relating to the soul in BS. They are put in 5 Adhikaranas by Ramanuja in his Sribhashyam.. The adhikaranas are named Atmadhikaranam(1),Gnathikaranam(14),Kartruthadhikaranam(7),Paraayaththadhikarana\ m(2), and Amsadhikaranam(11). The numbers in brackets indicate the number of sutras in those Adhikaranas.. The sutras are from 2 3 18 to 2 3 52. Apart from this BS talks briefly about Soul’s autonomy in sutras 2 1 34 and 35. Let us see some of the sutras. 2 1 34 B does not have partiality and unkindness since it expects or waits. The explanation goes something like this. B does not drive the soul to act in a particular way. If that is so B can be faulted to be partial and unkind. , since B makes someone to do good and some other to do bad B gives us freedom to take the first step and then directs us to take further steps accordingly. This is the limited autonomy concept. We can also say that our Karma determines our first step, making every action predetermined. If we think like that, we have to say that B expects our Karmic first step before directing us further. Karma thus removes our free will. If we see the next sutra it seems Ramanuja’s concept of limited autonomy or free will for the soul appears not correct. 2 1 35 If you say there no karma in the first birth ,it is not correct, since there is no beginning for the soul. It appears to indicate that the first step we take is onaccount of our Karma- other wise what is the need for mentioning Karma here?Taking the two sutras together,we can say that there is no Free will even in our first step . Soul and karma are eternal and so there is no first sin. This sutra seems to knock down the free will theory. 2 3 40 says that the krittrtvam of Jeeva or soul is a delegated power, delegated by B. 2 3 41 says that B directs the soul depending upon the efforts of the soul, in order to ensure that the Vedic injunctions of dos and donts do not go waste. This seems to indicate granting of free will. If B directs every thing, to whom does the Vedas say Follow Dharma, do not steal, do not lie etc?. God cannot direct Himself Now you can see the confusion. If one gives total directing power to B then there is no free will. There is no question of doing saranagathi to God. But from a practical point it is preferable to assume that we have free will to make sure the dos and donts of Vedas etc are made valid Free will gives a boost to our ego and makes us ambitious to achieve goals in life. Perhaps your FIL can ask the swami who has asked if the act of surrender is on account of our free will or on account of His direction, the question that if every happening is as per His will, why are the Vedas command us to be truthful etc- for whom are those commands? However, I am a ‘Deterministic’ fellow in the purely philosophical plane . Affly, Appa. --- Vijaya Raghavan <svrvan wrote: > > Swamin, > > Yes all is as willed by HIM. The rest swatantryam > and self and all nothing but illusions. > > But, let me put my view on reading vedas and leading > a life of righteousness. > > All these help one concentrate on HIM. He is showing > the way, do this properly, make your mind rest on ME > and ME ALONE, try and try, that is how you got this > Manhood, > and that is the only way to reach higher states. > > Dasan/raghavan > > Vishnu <vsmvishnu wrote: > > Dear Sriman Raghavan, > > Then I go by your other mails. It is not swAtantryam > in its real sense but ignorance or thinking that we > are swatantram. This kind of thought that we are > indepenent is called ahankAram in pUrvAchArya texts. > Lord will allow our acts to be accordingly, with > full control on them. He will give us bhakti > whenever He wishes and not by mechanically browsing > vEdas etc., as explained by krshNa and interpreted > by rAmAnuja. > > Nice to see your analysis. > > Dasan > Vishnu > > Vijaya Raghavan <svrvan wrote: > > > Swamin, > > Swtantryam will aim for paratantryam only if > emperuman's swatantryam decides so. > > Dasan/raghvan > > Vishnu wrote: > > ramanuja, rajan s wrote: > > > > Dear All > > > > > > The free will or the swatantriam of the soul is > thus surrendered as > sung by the Azhwar. > > Dear Sriman Soundararajan, > > To be very frank, I do not know whether we have > swAtantryam or > pAratantryam except for going by some concepts. > > Now I will ask you one question. The free will or > swAtantyram is shed > out of our free will or not? > > Dasan > Vishnu > > > The paratantriam is a state of mind. > > > > > > Azhwar Emberumanar Jeeyar thiruvadigale sharanam. > > > > > > > > > > > > Lakshmi Narasimhan wrote: > > > > > > Well, > > We have independence(swa). 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Guest guest Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 Sri: Srimathe Ramanujaya nama: Dear Sriman Soundararajan, > The Lord wold need a reason to shower His Grace. Otherwise He can > be accused of partiality to certain souls. Humble praNAms to you. I don't think one needs to belong to certain kalai as BG is for everybody. We accuse God(being partial) b'coz of our limited knowledge as we don't know our past sins and for that matter even in the present birth how many apacArams we do unconsciously,only He knows. He has all the records. So He knows when to liberate us. Lord needing a reason to shower His grace has no place in TK school of thought if my understanding is right! When Lord gave so many procedures, there should be one method which says you don't have to follow any procedure also(like null set,or be like acit). B'coz there are jIvAtmAs which are totally incapable of even following the simplest procedures. If we go by strict procedures, we need to ask "how many brahmins learn and preach vedas or spend time in DDs instead of sitting abroad(within the home country as well as outside)?" Devotees,please don't get mad/misunderstand that I'm offending veda shastras! We can refer to BG 7.14-20 slokas. All this realization happens after many cycles and that too b'coz of His grace. AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam dAsAnu dAsI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha One interesting thing is told by our acharyas regarding this paasuram. Azhvar says "vAzhum sOmbar" that indirectly indicates that there is one another category of "thAzhum sOmbar". 'thAzhum sombar' is one who doesnt do anything due to tamo gunam. But 'vAzhum sOmbar' is one who doesnt do anything being a prapanna ("mArbilE kai vaiththu vuranga prApthi") who has realised that everything is done only by emperuman. What a great paasuram and really great vyakhyanams by our acharyas. Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigale sharanam Adiyen ramanuja dAsee Sumithra Varadarajan - Vishnu ramanuja Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:08 PM [ramanuja] Re: Seshatvam and paratantriyam ramanuja, rajan s <rajan_ramaswamy> wrote: > > Dear All > > The concept of paratantriam is expalined by Thondar adipodi Azhwar in his Thirumalai, 38th pasuram which is as follows.This is the core pasuram of Thirumalai. > > > > Memporul pogavittu--Keeping aside concept of moksha and all that( Memporul-moksham) > > Meymaiyai migavunarndhu---understanding the nature of Sriman Narayana(meymai- The Lord) > > Ambarisu arindhukondu---knowing the real aim of life (ambarisu- kainkaryam) > > Aimbulan agathatakki---controlling the five senses > > Kambara Thalai siraithu---giving up all ego > > Un kadaitalai irunthu ---residing in your vicinity > > Vazum sombarai--- the real paratantrins( sombar- people of such nature) The real lazy people, who do not make any efforts, but reside close to you, by realizing their SEshatvam with the thought that it is by your grace (hence no ego). What a wonderful pASuram? I missed reading it when I replied to you previously. Dear Sriman Rajan, all these pASurams are wonderful examples of SEshtvam, pAratantryam etc. They have to be learnt only from the learned. Perhaps that is why maNavALa mAmunigaL stresses on AchArya sambandham,as AchArya makes us realize our natural SEsha-SEshi sambadnham. Dasanudasan Vishnu > Ugathi polum----you seem to like these people > > Soozh punal arangathane---- God Ranganatha > > The free will or the swatantriam of the soul is thus surrendered as sung by the Azhwar. > > The paratantriam is a state of mind. > > > Adiyen Ramanujadasan > > Soundararajan > > Azhwar Emberumanar Jeeyar thiruvadigale sharanam. > > > > > > Lakshmi Narasimhan <nrusimhann> wrote: > > > Well, > We have independence(swa). Using that independence(swa), if we give > up that very independence then that is pAratantryam(dependencde). > adiyen, > rAmAnuja dAsan > > > Sponsor > > > > Links > > > ramanuja/ > > > ramanuja > > Terms of Service. > > > > > > > > > > vote. - Register online to vote today! > > azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam ramanuja/ b.. ramanuja c.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 22, 2004 Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 Dear Ms Nappinnai, Thank you for informing me about swAmI's upanyAsam. We all should listen, read with motivation to learn and not to earn puNya. I disagree with you on one point. If we understand our pAratantryam, we attribute it to His grace. If we still dont understand even after listening to the learned, that is due to His mAyA (wonderful will, not illusion)! We have a will that is different from His. That continues even after we think we have performed all those things prescribed. This does not mean our will is free. Our will, which is different from His (may be not so for nityas and muktas), is under His full control. dAsAnudAsan Vishnu vaidhehi_nc <nappinnai_nc wrote: Sri: Srimathe Ramanujaya nama: Dear All, Whoever has doubts regarding swatantryam,listen to Swami Velukkudi Krishnan's upanyAsam on tirumantram(Class 7)in radioramanuuja.com. Hope people will get cleared. If not that's also His grace! For those who can't listen, Swami Krishnan says "when the jIvAtmA thinks it is swatantran, it loses its swarUpam/adimaithanam. It only brings destruction to the jIvAtmA". AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam dAsAnu dAsI NC Nappinnai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 22, 2004 Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 ramanuja, "Sumithra Varadarajan" <Sumivaradan@h...> wrote: > > Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha > > Dear Bhagavatas, > > > This realisation of our true nature can be obtained only due to > the nirheduka krupai of emperuman who does a lot of krushi (paththi > uzhavan) to cultivate that "bhakthi roopApanna jnanam" in all of us > and credits us all with the profit of the yield, the moksha. Dear Smt Sumithra, Exactly that is what yAmunAchArya says is stOtra ratnam: avabOdhitavAn imAm yathA mayi nityAm bhavadIyatAm svayam krpayaitadananya bhOgyatAm bhgavan! bhaktimapi prayaccha mE Give me Bhakti (SEshatva buddhi = ananya bhOgyatA), out of Your krpA, to me who is made to realize I am eternally Yours. In the preceding verse, He also established that self-surrender is not an upAya (athavA kinnu samrpayAmi tE?), since myself and all that is called mine are Yours. dAsAnudAsan Vishnu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 22, 2004 Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 ramanuja, TCA Venkatesan <vtca> wrote: > Dear Sriman Venkatesan, Does meter allow it in the former case? (I have no clue). How do pUrvAchAryas interpret in either case? dAsan Vishnu > > Let me pose you a question. Why does Azhvar say > iruththinEn in "en uNarvinuLLE iruththinEn adhuvum > avanadhu innaruLE" instead of "en uNarvinuLLe > vandhu irundhAn"? > > Azhvars do attribute all their good deeds to the > Lord. But do they attribute their bad deeds to the > Lord too? Why does Thirumangai Azhvar say "vAdinEn" > instead of "vAttinAy"? > > adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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