Kulasekara AzhwAr PerumAL Thirumozhi- 5.9- your eternal servant- this lowly self- would seek and desire You alone at all times!

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SRI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika Mahadesikaya nama:

 

Dearest All,

 

AzhwAr expresses in this 5th decad his ananyagatitvam

and (having none other as his refuge) Akinchanyam

(helplessness) which are closely tied to Saranagati.

 

Thus the angi- Athma nikshEpam- is the sixth i.e.

self-surrender - actually laying the burden at His

feet. This is an one-time event and constitutes the

heart of SaraNAgati- sum total of Prapatti path.

 

Like the oven, rice and water etc. readily kept in the

kitchen,(ready- siddha); The Lord is already there.

The materials would not themselves satisfy our hunger.

Food now has to be prepared. A procedure is relevant

here. That is saadhya upaya.

 

1. maam Ekam SaraNam vraja:- says Krishna in GiTA

18.66. Surrender to Me alone. Emphasis is here in

Ekam; it has the purport of asserting that Sriya:

Pathi is both Siddha (ready) and Saadhya upAyam. We

have to resport to Him in this Prapatti performance.

 

2. SaraNam vraja:- is a dictate, a mandate to us to

surrender unto Him. Then, how can anyone belittle or

negate the Prapatti – Path? No… we have to adopt such

a procedure. We can also adopt bhakti yoga (if we have

the capacity to do the same). The two are alternative

routes to please Him (as per his divine command) to

let Him grant mOksham. It is He who grants; He who is

mOksha pradhan- Mukundan.

 

It is also emphasized that Prapatti is a procedure

with a complete mental frame work with fullest

humility and our fullest implicit dependence on Sriya:

Pathi. Any extent of emphasis on the Lord being the

Siddhopaya can hardly rule out the need for a Sadhya

–upAya, a method, a technique, to be adopted by a

sentient being. May it be bhakti or better, Prapatti.

 

We can not and do not obviously content that a rite or

a ritual, such an insentient one at that, has won

mOksha for us! In our sampradaya and our estimate, it

is a mere pretext, with which Sriya: Pathi an ocean of

mercy and magnanimity, is pleased and He relents in

our favour. Who can then question Him?

 

An upaya (or means) such as this Prapatti is, however

easy and trivial it may appear, is then a pretext the

Lord has generously prescribed. He cannot – and will

not – concede moksha just that, to all, and

indiscriminately, irrespective of whether an upaya- so

simple and facile- had been performed or not. (says Dr

Sri VN Vedanta Desikan Swami)

 

ninnaiyE thaanvENdi neeLselvam vENdaathaan

thannaiyE thaanvENdum selvampOl maayaththaal

minnaiyE sEr_thigiri viRRuvakkOt tammaanE

ninnaiyE thaanvENdi niRpa NnatiyEnE 5.9

 

Oh Lord of VitthuvakkOttammaa! The One who has the

resplendent ChakrAyudhA that glitters and shines like

a lightning! The One who does not wish and desire for

any material or kind of wealth other than the Only

Wealth that is You, gets all material and other

prosperities rushing to him on their own accord;

Similar to such a wealth, due to Your mysterious

maaya, even if You do not bless me, Your eternal

servant - this lowly self- adiyEn- would seek and

desire for You alone.

 

ninnayE thAnn vENDi niRpan adiyEnE

 

For those seeking His anugraham, Our Lord does not

confer wealth in this world and takes it away from

them in favor of granting nithya sukham in the Supreme

abode (YasyAnugraham icchAmi dhanam tasya haraamyaham

). He appears as though He is not paying attention to

them.

 

He is testing their resolve. Here KulasEkarar reasons

that the Lord's indifference to him will not stand in

the way of his steadfast devotion to Him, the grantor

of the lasting wealth of Moksham.

 

AzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE saraNam

Regards

Namo narayana

dAsan

 

 

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