[Nirhetuka?Sahetuka Krupai

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Dear Srimathi Vaidhehi

 

This refers to your mail dated onthe above topicI didn't pose a question wrt

sEshatvam and pAratantryam in

the first place. I only asked wrt "making oneself ready". This

addresses the issue of sahEtukam/nirhEtukam and

freewill!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here ends my question

The point raised in your mail was as follows.

 

I figure out from "pAratantryam is making 'oneself' ready"

that jIvAtma has independence!!! Correct me if I'm wrong/misread

your post. I may think that I deserve the krpa of the Lord but the

Lord may think differently. How can I act in such a way that it only

gives pleasure to the Lord? Even if I give displeasure(according to

my eyes) He may lick it as a pleasure(according to His eyes). In

effect, my act shouldn't become a cause for Him to react(that's why

His grace is called "causeless/nirhEtuka grace/mercy/krpa")!

 

You have raised important questions of Sahetuka krupai and Nirhetuka krupai of

the Lord. It will merit a serious discussion from the learned disciples of the

Sampradayam.It is one of the doctrinairre differences between vadagalai and

thengalai sampradayams.

Ofcourse the differnces are only 'varthabetham' and not 'yojanabhedham'.

 

Nodoubt, the Lord is a swatantran and Krupai of the Lord cannot be taken as

granted.

It is his prerogative

In one of the earlier mails, it has been mentioned that paratantriyam is not

beining like 'achit'.

Bhagavat Ramanuja prays to the Lord in his Sharanagathi Gadyaam that he be

endowed with parabhakthi,paragnanam and paramabhakti which entails the grace of

the Lord.

 

He prays to the Lord in his mangala sloka of Sribhashyam that his knowledge take

the form of Bhakti .

 

It has been said In the commemtaries to Divya Prabhantam that the Lord has given

the vedas and Upanishads and then Bhagavat Gita so that people can follow

them.When He saw that only a few understood them and followed,He has sent

Azhwars and Acharyas so that people can easily emulate them being of their own

kind.

It is incumbent therefore that the prapannas follow the teaching of Purvacharyas

which pleses the Lord.

The Lord emphasises the importance of everyone performing his duties when he

says "Karmanyeva adhikaraste, ma paleshu kathachana' .

 

Any inadequacies in my language be excused.

Adiyen Ramanujadasan

Soundararajan.

 

AzwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam

 

 

 

 

ramanuja/

 

ramanuja