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SrI:
SrImathE Ramanujaya namah:

Dearest all,

People either do not know or fear that they would not
be capable of and be able to perform bhakti yogam and
end up dying in these samsaaric ills to be born again
and again. To those- Amudhanaar says: even if your
sareeram and the limbs are not capable of supporting
you to perform bhakti yogam, the Lord has granted this
sareeram and the organs not to get entrapped into this
Samsaaric afflictions ad be glued to it forever. They
are granted to us for prostrating at his feet; and to
have the determination to perform Saranagathi at His
Lotus Feet with unflinching unconditional faith. That
would enable to get rid of this. Like the Lord blesses
Dharma puthrar [Yudhishtirar], Sriya: Pathi would
bless everyone through Saranagati at His Feet-
EmperumAnAr thus advises everyone: says Amudhanaar.   
 

charaNam ataintha tharumanuk kaap,paNdu nooRRuarai
maraNam ataiviththa maayavan thannai vaNangavaiththa
karaNam ivaiyumak kanRenRi raamaa Nnuchanuyir_kat
karaNaNG kamaiththila NnEl,ara NaarmaRRiv vaaruyirkkE?
67

For the sake of Yudhishtirar -Dharma puthrar- The one
whose only thought was to serve Emperumaan alone and
surrendered to Him, SarvEshwaran performed most
wonderful acts and deeds during KuruskshEthra battle
and destroyed effortlessly and excellently the 100
Kauravaas, the personification of ahamkarams.
Emperumaanaar Sri Ramanujacharya blesses us saying
these bodies of ours, mind and AthmA are for Him and
it is our natural duty only for performing eternal
service to Emperumaan- Sriya:Pathi Sriman Narayanan,
and nothing and none else. And had he not advised us
(those who were running amuck after other things
materialistic) with such a grace, what would have
happened to us? Who could have saved our AthmA? (None
else)

paNdu SaraNam adaindha- That day [during
KrishNAvathAram] for the sake [of YudhishtrA] who had
performed Saranagathi to KrishNa [requesting Him to be
with him and save him] 
dharumanukku aa- for the sake of Dharma puthrar
nooRRuvarai maraNam adaivittha ? ensured that the
hundred kauravas are killed in the KurukshEthra battle
maayavan thannai- for a smallest deed of Saranagathi,
granting the biggest such fruits by this most wondrous
Lord Maayavan ? Ascharya bhoothan ? SaraNAgatha
vathsalan; 
vaNanga vaittha karuvigaLAm ivai- these hand, legs and
other limbs are the instruments only for performing
Saranagathi to such dayaaLu Bhagawaan; 
unakku anRu- these organs are not for you; and for
your enjoyment; 
enRu ? thus advised and instructed
uyirgatku- all jeevathmas
angu araN- placed the rakshA [protection of
themselves] at the Lotus Feet of Sriya: Pathi Sriman
Narayanan through the performance of bharanyAsam [on
their behalf] for them
Iraamaanusan amaitthilanEl- had Ramanuja not done that
ee aa uyirkku maRRu araN aar- for these dearest
jeevans, [athmAs] who else is the rakshakan? [none
else- It is only the most merciful EmperumAnAr.]

This verse is the result of people unable to
understand the purport of earlier verse [66] and
asking a question: When Sriya: Pathi Sriman Narayanan
preaches and advises people to perform Karma, jnana
and then bhakti yogam for them to attain mOksham or
surrender at His Feet instead completely, how can
Ramanujacharya effortlessly grant anyone moKsham who
takes refuge at his [Ramanujacharya?s] feet without
these performances? He may be parama dhayALu; but is
he qualified to grant mOksham. Mukundan alone can
grant mOksham. How can EmperumAnAr grant? Amudhanaar
explains here in this verse how. 

The answer: the Lord does not grant the human life
like he does to animals or birds, plants. That is to
enjoy and experience the karma phalan. While the birth
of human beings is the Lord?s extreme dayA and
infinite mercy on the jeevathma by giving them a
chance to get saved by utilizing the body parts to
sevicchufy Him; to enjoy seeing Him; to go to His
temple; to perform Saranagathi at His Feet; to talk in
praise of Him; etc.. 

mahathA puNyapaNyEna kreethEyam kaayanousthvayA |
prApthum du:khPdaDhE : pAram tvara yaavanna BhidhyathE
||

The human body is only for serving Him and to cross
the samsaaric ocean. It is not just to spend eating,
sleeping and mating like animals for our own selfish
desires and satisfactions. They are not for such
utilities. The Lord keeps waiting for us to make use
of them for what they are meant for [in human births]
and keep on expecting us to look at Him; sing Him and
go to Him; They are to be used for getting the mnost
enjoyable Goal of serving Him forever and ever at
SrivaikuNtam. He enables us to perform bhakti yogam
uninterruptedly by enjoying His form, His name and His
guNAs and makes us utilize these body, mind and buddhi
towards that. If the person is knowledgeable about the
difficulty of this bhakti yogam or is not able to wait
for the karmas to get dissolved after few births, and
he desires to serve Him immediately at the end of this
birth itself, with a complete distaste towards any
more future births in this samsaaric world knowing
fully well of its pains and sufferings and the karma
accruals, then He grants us an easier method of
attaining Him. 

That is the performance of Saranagthi in lieu of and
hence, you hold onto His Lotus Feet with an
unflinching and unconditional faith. But do not think
that these body limbs can not be utilized then for
serving Him and there is no need while and after
performing Saranagthi. One can sing in praise of Him;
clean His sannidhi; serve Him in very many ways in
this life itself completely. 

This is what Ramanuja kept advising and instructing
all his sishyas. This can not be considered equivalent
to Sage Viswamithras sending Thirsankhu and leave him
there in the lurch in between. Sri Ramanuja does as
per His command. He has got His permission and
acceptance for this granting. It is Acharya?s dayA on
us for taking pity on us to perform Saranagathi on our
behalf through Acharya nishtai and enables us to grant
mOksham- says Amudhanaar.  

Had Ramanuja not done the bharanyAsam at the feet of
the Lord for these jeevathmas, what would have
happened to them? Where is the protection for us? Who
else will save them?  
   
EmperumAnAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan



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