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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

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