anAvrtti: SabdAt anAvrtti: SabdAt

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Dear BhagavatOttamas,

 

There is one brahmasUtra which says, there is no return from

paramapadham. Even Lord Himself promises that there is no return, in

Gita (yad gatvA na nivartantE taddhAma paramam mama). We believe in

this for our own confidence.

 

People will extend all this to performance of rituals etc., " SAstras

are Lord's own words, Lord will punish those who dont adhere to them "

etc, ignoring Lord's dOsha bhOgyatvam!

 

But even if Lord goes against His own words, who are we to question

Him? Also who are we to attribute " astyavAditvam " (state of being a

liar) to Him? Where can we challenge His actions?

 

This is explained by Parasara Bhattar in his interpretation of the

word " adhrta: "

 

There were sons of a vaidika in the city of dwAraka, who were dying

immediately after taking birth. Arjuna once comes to dwAraka and

pities the brahmin. He promises to save the next issue. He builds a

fortress of arrows around the place of delivery (if I am right) thru

which yama could not enter. But still the baby dies.

 

Arjuna feels very bad on his failure. Then KrshNa consoles him and

takes Him to paramapadam. There the kids were found with the Supreme

Personality of Godhead SrimannArAyaNa. nArAyaNa then tells KrshNa and

arjuna that He only brought those kids to Paramapadham, and returns

them to Partha-Parthasarathy duo.

 

These kids were " asiddha samAdhaya: " according to Bhattar, they never

had any Abhimukhaym or inclination for Him in their momentary life.

They reached paramapadham by His unconditional grace, which is His

nature.

 

Whether we believe in svaprayatnam (individual effort), or His

nirhEtuka krpA, by any yardstick, they should not have returned to

the earth. But still they returned, because He is not bound or held

by any rule (adhrta:).

 

adiyen ramanuja dasan

Vishnu