Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:
Sri Pillai Lokacharya's Mumukshuppadi
Sutra:
281. ivan thAn ivai thannai nErAga vittilan.
282. karmam kainkaryaththilE pugum; njAnam svarUpa
prakAsaththilE pugum; bakthi prApya ruciyilE pugum;
prapaththi svarUpa yAythAthmya njAnaththilE pugum.
Sri PBA Swami's Sarartha Deepikai:
The chetana who gives up the other paths and adopts
this siddhOpaya, does not become one who has given
up the other paths completely. How is that?
The daily and special acts and rituals that he
performs, appropriate to his varNa and Ashrama, are
done not with the thought that they are the means.
Instead, they are done due to kindness toward others,
and therefore lead to His pleasure. Thus, they are
part of the service done to Him.
The acute knowledge is that which makes the chetana
realize the nature of the Supreme which then leads
to the realization of the nature of the self. This
knowledge, when not used as a means, belongs within
the true nature of the self.
Once the thought that it is a means is given up on
that bhakti which leads to the Lord, it becomes part
of the taste (the desire) that comes just prior to
service to the Lord, just as hunger precedes eating.
As mentioned in the 'Eka' term, prapatti (which is
acceting the Lord Himself as the means), if itself
is not thought of as the means, belongs to the true
knowledge of that self which has no other refuge
and is solely dependent on the Lord.
Therefore, it is right to say that the chetana has
not given them up completely.
Pillai Lokacharyar Thiruvadigale Sharanam
Azhvar Emperumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Sharanam
adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan
Mumukshuppadi Sarartha Deepikai Series:
http://www.acharya.org/vyakyanam/mumukshuppadi/index.html
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