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SrI  sAra  sAram â I (31)
-- 
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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