Can a baddha jIvAtma visit SrI-VaikuNTham and return back ?

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SrI:

SrImatE rAmAnujAya namaH

 

namO nArAyaNa!

 

Dear devotees,

 

Its really a very nice question from a devotee, involving a

very subtle issue not known generally to many.

 

> In SRimad Bhagavadham last chapter, Sri Krishna takes

> Arjuna and a brahmin (his children are lost) to

> Vaikuntam and a conversation takes place between

> Krishna and Lord Narayana . Is this place refered

> " Karyalaya vaikuntam (vuham) or Vaikuntam (parama

> padham)? How did a bhanda jeevan enters those world?

 

I think that you have heard a good upanyAsakar knowledged

in Divya-Prabandhams of AzhwArs. In SrImad BhAgavatham, its

only mentioned about Lord KrishNa and Arjuna going for

SrI-VaikuNTham ie.Parama-Padam. But AzhwAr adds that

the brAhmaNa also went along with them - probably a special

divine vision of the AzhwAr Or incident of some other kalpa

is being described by the AzhwAr.

 

Yes, they went to Nitya-VibhUti ie.Parama-Padam only. But, the

question does not end there. All the lost children {baddha

jIvAtmas} of this brAhmaNa were with the PirAttis' {SrI, BhU

and NILA} at Parama-Padam. It was only a leelA of thAyArs' to

make the Lord appear in His KrishNa avatAra rUpam in front of

them. PramANas are also there that Para-VAsudEvan wanted that

way. Anyway its Divya-Dampatis' leela. They immedietly gave away

those children and Lord KrishNa gave them back to the BrAhmaNa.

 

This gives rise to very serious questions obviously : How did

those baddha jIvAtmas attain moksham ie.attain Parama-Padam

without performing any upAyam {Either bhakti Or Prapatti}?

Taking for granted that they somehow attained moksham {By

Divya-Dampati's exeptional over-ruling of SAstras !!}, why did

these jIvAtmas were again pushed back into samsAra and be made

as a baddha-jIvAtma again ?? {This again contradicts SAstras

<ref: Last SUtra of Brahma SUtras> which establish that a mukta

never attains karma again ie. never again becomes a baddha

JIvAtma ; Does Divya-Dampati keeps over-ruling SAstras like this

and violate their own previous Sa~nkalpams as per SAstras ? }

 

As usual, our most beloved " Sarvatantra-Svatantra " and

" KavitArkika-Simha " SrI VEdAnta DESika comes to our rescue.

In the chillarai Rahasya " Paramapada-SOpAnam " , SwAmi DESikan's

one-liner answers these questions :

 

" vaidikan putrAdigaL iv-arcirAdi gati-AalE dESa-viSEsha prApti

pe(t)RRavargaL allamayAlE avargaLai meettadu viruddham-anRu "

{arcirAdi-parvam}.

 

Though the children went to Parama-padam, they didn't enter

it through the arcirAdi gati {a special route till SrI-VaikuNTham

described in scriptures for those attaining moksha}. Only those

who enter SrI-VaikuNTham through the arcirAdi gati attains moksha.

Hence, those children {who were abducted through some back-door

entry :-)} were not muktas and were baddha jIvAtmas only. Its

due very special sukrudams that they had a stay at Parama-Padam

when they were babies and brought up by Divya-Dampati out there!

Hence, returning those children back to the earth does not

violate SAstras. Similarly, Lord KrishNa drove the chariot to

SrI-VaikuNTham in a route which is different from the arci-rAdi

path.

 

Divya-Dampati's sa~nkalpam is satya-sa~nkalpam. They will not

suddenly change/violate SAstras which are their own previous

sa~nkalpams.

 

Final Essence : Mere attainment of Parama-Padam is not moksham;

But its attainment through the arci-rAdi route

is moksham.

 

Note :

 

1. aDiyEn has already mentioned this siddhAnta in couple of my

earlier postings ...couldn't remember those exact articles.

 

2. The arci-rAdi route is discussed in Brahma-SUtras => Bhagavad

RAmAnuja elaborates upon it in SrI-BhAshyam. SwAmi DESikan

gives the route in SrImad Rahasya-Traya-SAram and in Paramapada

SOpAnam also. Its in the archives if aDiyEn remembers well.

 

SwAmi DESikan thiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

 

aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

anantapadmanAbhan.