Dear BhAgavatas, One of the key things that adiyEn has noticed in this issue is a tendency to stop at the level where a chEtanan performs Sarangati and discuss it there. I think we need to look at what happens beyond that. Once a chEtanan reaches the Lord's abode our pUrvacharyas have indicated that he/she is still not guaranteed a place in the nithya vibhUti. It is said that He might still reject the chEtanan and send him back. This is attributed to His svAtantraya kalyANa guNa. This guNa not only means that He is not held answerable to anyone for His actions; it also means that His actions are not tied to the actions of anyone else. Hence, to say that performance of Saranagati guarantees mOksha would be incorrect. It is here that our pirAtti's role becomes important. The Sri sabdham itself indicates that She is ever present with Him just so She does not miss an opportunity to intercede on behalf of a jIvan. She would intercede asking Him not to look at the jIvan's errors - Sri Pillai Lokacharyar says "maNal sORRil kal ArAyvAraip pOlE". He further goes to say that in the dvayam mantram the nArAyaNa sabdham represents the kalyANa guNas that arise after pirAtti intercedes - "svAtantryam thalai sAynthAl thalai edukkum guNankaLai sollukiRathu nArAyaNa padam". Svami Nammazhvar did Sarangati to Thiruvenkadamudaiyan through the agalakillEn pAsuram. This pasuram is the complete synthesis of the Saranagati thathvam held in the Dvayam. What follows in the next pasuram is critical. The first line of the following pasuram begins as "adikkIzh amarnthu pukunthu vAzhumin adiyiR! enRu aruL kodukkum". The steps are clear here. adi - His lotus feet are the upAyam and upEyam. amarnthu - The act of complete surrender. pukunthu - Reaching His thiruvadi. vAzhumin - Obtaining the kainkarya phalan in nithya vibhUti. adiyIr - All bhAgavatas. aruL - His grace is the cause for all of the above. kodukkum - All of the above made possible only by His action. By using adiyIr and kodukkum, Azvar has made this clear: irrespective of who they are (Azhvar, Acharya, Sishya, Bhakta) it is His action that gives the phalan of kainkaryam. Nothing else does. adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan TCA Venkatesan http://www.acharya.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
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