SrI: Dear Devotee " Ramchellam" :
Here is a translation of the ThiruvAimozhi
of interest to you , which is the essence of
Aathma SamarpaNam based on gaining Svaroopa
Jn~Anam by the Bhaddha Jeevan to become Mukta Jeevan :
yenathAvuL kalanta
perunalludhavik-kaimmARu
yeantAvitantozhintEn ini meeLvatenpatuNDE
yeantAvi yaaviyum
Nee pozhilEzhunDa YenthAi
yenathAvi yArr? yaanAr ? tantaNee
koNDAkkinayE
ThiruvAimozhi: 2.3.4
(Meaning according to
Dr.V.N.VedAntha Sesikan Swamy):
" I said " Oh Lord, Saviour of all the worlds ! You blended Yourself with my Inner Soul . The resulting experience was all bliss.It is indeed a very great favour . What is the way of my repaying my gratitude ? Yes, I shall surrender my soul to You Yourself . It is hence Yours. I will never recall it ". I then had further thought .It struck me that I did an improper thing. Because I and my soul are His already , for a long time , how can I now surrender to Him something that has been long His ? In fact it is a sin to have thought of my soul as mine to surrender it to Him now. I am now clear on the issue. But then I have a regret . How am I to repay my debt to the Lord for what he has done to me ? Notes:
1) Swamy AlavanthAr echos these thoughts in His
magnum opus of StOtra Ratnam;SlOkams 52-53:
http://www.sundarasimham.org ( Book 49)
2) For SaraNAgathy tattvams , please also see Book
57 on SaraNAgathy Dheepikai in the same series .
3) PerumAl seytha " perunalludhavi" is His blending
Himsef with AzhwAr's inner soul , which is His property anyway . PeruMAL's great
upakAram is the blessing of Seshatva Jn~Anam and Kalavi
with " AzhwAr's soul " , which is eternally
His anyway .
4) PeriyavAcchAn PiLLai's commentary is quoted here
: " SamsAra BheethiyAlE AatmAvai samarppikkayum ,
svaroopatthin uNmai nilai aRinta Jn~AnattAlE anusayikkayum ,
iraNDumE Moksham pOhum varai nadattha vENDiyathu" (
Untill the time of ascent to Sri VaikunTham by a Prapannan , it is essential to perform these two acts: (1) Aatma
SamarpaNam from fear of SamsAric terror and (2) reflection on the Soul
being always the Lord's Iswaryam as a result of gaining Svaroopa Jn~Anam from a clear undertanding of the
Moola antram . PerumAL blessed the AzhwAr with Seshatva Jn~Anam (
tanthu Nee KoNDAkkinayE) .
5) " (samsAra)
brAntiyil ( fear) AatmAvai samarpikkayum , pinn pacchAtApappadavum seyya
vENum " Yeedu SrI Sookthi .
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