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Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

Sri Pillai Lokacharya's
Mumukshuppadi

Sutra:
154. prapadhyE - paRRugiREn.

155. vAsikamAgavum kAyikamAgavum paRRinAlum paRRukku 
izhavillai; njAnAth mOkshamAgaiyAlE mAnaSamAgak kadavadhu.

Meaning:
154. prapadhye - I attach myself to (I take refuge in).

155. It may be sufficient to pray with words or by folding
one's hands. However, since the Sastras say that liberation
is attained through knowledge, the attachment is taken as 
being done through the mind.

Sri PBA Swami's Sarartha Deepikai:
Prapadhye means I attach myself to. If one were to pray
for protection with mere words alone or by folding one's
hands or other forms of worship, that itself might bear
fruit. However, as the Sastras say that moksha is obtained 
through knowledge ("tatvanjAnAt mukti:"), here the 
attachment is done through the mind. The essential bent
of the mind that accepts His protection is the knowledge
that is spoken of here.

Pillai Lokacharyar Thiruvadigale Saranam
Azhvar Emperumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam

adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan
TCA Venkatesan

Mumukshuppadi Sarartha Deepikai Series:
http://www.acharya.org/vyakyanam/mumukshuppadi/index.html




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