pramEya sEkaram-2

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

Srimad Vara Vara munayE Namaha

Sri vanAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

PRAMEYA SEKARAM

 

**On Surrendering to an acharya one realizes the wanted and the unwanted;

 

All along the jeevatma has been desiring to possess a lot of wealth and live happily in this world but now the acharya shows him a different treasure and now all his confusion is totally removed and he perfectly knows what is to be desired and that which has to be left.

 

**Further a vairakya towards prApyAntaram (the worldly affairs) and a deep involvement towards the paramaprApyam (bhagavan) is created;

 

There are number of gurus in the world today. Who is a perfect acharya? One who releases us from the clutches of samsara and one who shows us the divine feet of emperuman the paramaprApyam is a sadAcharyan. So on reaching a sadacharya and getting his advises one gradually starts to get a affinity towards bhagavan and a disregard for all the lowkika pleasures.

 

**The next step is the effort of the jeevatma to get away from the lowkika affairs and reach the divine goal by holding on to the siddhOpAyam

 

To attain the ultimate goal there are two ways, 1) siddhOpAyam (holding on to the readily available emperuman’s feet and reaching the divine abode-saranagathi unto the divine feet of the lord) 2) sAdhyOpAyam (reaching the divine abode by doing various sAdhanas (karma yoga, bhakthi yoga, jnana yoga etc) which requires a lot of effort)

If a thirsty person drinks water from a pond and quenches his thirst it is siddhOpAyam whereas if he has to quench his thirst by digging a well then it is like holding on to a sAdhyOpAyam.

 

**On holding on to the siddhOpAyam one wants to immediately reach the divine feet of the lord

 

Now the jeevatma slowly realizes the hardships in samsara and sweet anubhavams under the divine feet of emperuman and hence wants to reach the divine abode immediately.

 

(To be continued)

 

LokacharyAya guravE Krishna pAdasya soonavE I

SamsAra bhOgi sandhasta jeevajeevAtavE namaha II

 

vAzhi vulagAsiriyan vAzhiavan mannukulam

vAzhi mudumpai ennum mAnagaram-vAzhi

manan soozhindha pErinbha malgu migu nallAr

enansoozh indhirukkum eruppu”

 

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarjan