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SrI sAra sAram â I (31)
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I â ThirumantrAdhikAram
--
The Significance of ânamahâ (continued)
---
SwAmi Desikan has shown that the jIva has no independence to act on his
own. He is totally dependent on the Supreme Lord under whose will power only he
exists and acts. Then, a question may arise in our minds: If it is so, then we
see people engaged in various activities using their organs of action. How is
it possible? This is a natural doubt that comes up in our minds. This will
disappear if we study what Swami Desikan explains now:
âlOka-drushTa-dAsAdi-kaLin padiyanRikkE jeevarkaLuDaiya kartrutvam
svArthamAka svatantra swAmi koDutthathAi avaniTTa vazhakkAyirukkaiyAlE keezhc
conna paraSeshatvatthODE kooDap para-Ayatta-kartrutvamum ingkE
anusandhEyamAyiRRu. kAraNatvam tattvatraya-sAdhAraNam. kartrutvam
jeeva-ISvara-sAdhAraNam. ithil para-adheena-kartrutvam
trividha-cEtana-sAdhAraNam. svAdheena-kartrutvam ISvaranukkE asAdhAraNam.
ippadiyirukkka, anAdi karma vasatthAlum pravrutti-SAstrangkaLil
ApAta-prateeti-yAlum piRantha nirapEksha-kartrutva-abhimAnatthai viDukaiyE
ingku nivrutti-SAstra-nishThai.â
First we must understand that it is natural for the jIva to engage
himself in activity. This nature is gifted by the Lord, so he should think.
SwAmi Desikan explains this in this way:
âlOka-drushTa-dAsAdi-kaLin padiyanRikkE jeevarkaLuDaiya kartrutvam
svArthamAka svatantra swAmi koDutthathAi avaniTTa vazhakkAyirukkaiyAlE keezhc
conna paraSEshatvatthODE kooDap para-Ayatta-kartrutvamum ingkE
anusandhEyamAyiRRu.â â
In the world, we see a servant serving his master. He does all the
works assigned to him by his master. But, his ability to work is not given by
the master. He does the work on his own. Unlike this worldly servant, the
capacity to work is gifted to the jIvas is gifted by the Supreme Lord, Who is
the Seshi, that too, for His own purpose (svArtham). Therefore, while the jIva
realizes that he is Sesha to the Lord, he should also think that the doer-ship
is too given by Him. In this respect, the Lord has the full freedom. The Lord
has the total right to enjoy the result of the work done by the jIva. The work
as well as the capacity to do it are also given to the jIva by the Lord. It is
therefore necessary that one should feel that the capacity to work too is
gifted by the Lord, along with the feeling of one being the Sesha (servant) to
the Lord as described earlier. This is stated by Swami Desikan in the above
sentence as: âparaSeshatvatthODE kooDap
para-Ayatta-kartrutvamum ingkE anusandhEyamAyiRRu.â
SwAmi Desikan now points out the subtle difference between the Lord on
the one hand and the sentient beings and non-sentient objects on the other:
âkAraNatvam tattvatraya-sAdhAraNam.â---
Being a cause for something is common to all the three tattvas. There is also a
common aspect between the Lord and the three types of jIvas:
âkartrutvam jeeva-ISvara-sAdhAraNam.â --- The ability to be active is
common to both the Lord as well as all the three types of jIvas â those in
samsAra, those who are liberated from the bondage (muktas) and those jIvas who
are ever-free (nityas).
But the difference between the Lord and these jIvas exists in the following
aspect:
âithil para-adheena-kartrutvam trividha-cEtana-sAdhAraNam.
svAdheena-kartrutvam ISvaranukkE asAdhAraNam.â --
This capacity to perform action being under the control of some one else, that
is, the Lord, is common to all the three types of jIvas. They cannot act on
their own without the Lordâs grace. But, as far as the Lord is concerned, He
has full freedom to act without depending on any one else. Such a freedom does
not exist in the case of the three types of jIvas.
While this is the fact, some jIvas think differently, says SwAmi
desikan:
âippadiyirukkka, anAdi karma vasatthAlum pravrutti-SAstrangkaLil
ApAta-prateeti-yAlum piRantha nirapEksha-kartrutva-abhimAnatthai viDukaiyE
ingku nivrutti-SAstra-nishThai.â---
While the true situation is that the jIvas can not do anything without
the Lordâs consent, some jIvas think that they can do things without
depending on any other person. The reason for this type of thought is their
past karmas. Moreover, they are misled by the scriptures which speak about
fruits enjoyable in this life. They do not study these scriptures in depth but
they are carried away by the superficial statements and wrongly think that they
can act independently. If a jIva gives up this thinking, he can be said to be
firmly rooted in the scriptures that teach about the benefits of mOksha.
(To continue)
dAsan
Anbil S.SrInivAsan
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