SrI UpakAra Sangraham Part - 27

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SrI upakAra sangraham – 27

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adikAram – 1

poorva upakAra paramparai

(The Foremost Series of Favours)

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SECTION – 4 (Conclusion)

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Before taking up the next Section, it would be useful

if we concretize what we learnt from the 4th Section.

 

The Fourth Section had two parts. The first one dealt

with how the Lord does His favour to a jIvA whom He

discovered through a minute virtuous act he did even

un-knowingly. The Lord then refines the jIvA by

correcting him wherever he goes wrong as a class

teacher does to his students by giving them

impositions, so that he comes to the right path. This

SwAmi Desikan calls it 'daNda-roopa shikShA upakAram'.

 

 

The jIvA also realizes the greatness of the Lord's

compassion as he wonders that himself having been

astray in the world of sensual enjoyments with selfish

interest all through his innumerable births, how he

has been chosen by the Lord to turn towards Him. The

Lord actually intervenes to take care of the erring

jIvA. This, the jIvA realized not at the beginning,

but later either on his own or through another,

probably through his guru.

 

In the Second part, SwAmi Desikan shows us the two

sides of the fortunate jIvA. On the one side, the jIvA

sees those already liberated before him, the muktA-s,

who are enjoying the Bliss of being with the Lord in

SrI VaikuNtam. The jIvA congratulates himself for not

remaining different to the Lord's gestures. On the

other side, he sees the jIvA-s still stuck in the mire

of samsAra where he had been just before. He wonders

how the Lord Who is the greater than the greatest,

picked up him who is on the other extreme. He realizes

that as scriptures could not find the extent of he

Lord's glory, his own meanness has been un-fathomable.

SwAmi Desikan recalls nammaAzhvAr's statement, " en

mudivu kANatE ennuL kalantAnai " (He mingled in me

without looking at my fathomless meanness).

 

SwAmi Desikan says that once this is realized by the

lucky jIva, he will go in for appropriate service for

the Lord. " ucita-shESha vrutti-yai apEkShikkumatu

nipuNa-krutyam. " (Choosing the right service for the

Lord is the only thing the shrewd jIvA has to do

next). He quotes AzhvAr's saying to this effect:-

" uRREn ukantu paNi ceytu " -- (I attained {You} through

loving service).

 

Now, SwAmi Desikan takes up the favours the Lord does

thereafter.

 

(To continue)

dAsan

Anbil S.SrInivAsan

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