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Vol 01.019 Pre-SaraNAgati Issues
30 October, 1996

In this Issue:
1. NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
2. NOTES for the postings on PRAPATTI
3. Bhagavad Ramanuja - Sampath Rengarajan

1. NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

Dear Bhagavatas,

The notes relating to our postings on Prapatti was left behind while mailing the last posting. It is now sent for your reference.

The numbering of the last issue was noted as 19 instead of 18 by mistake. Please make necessary corrections . Actually, this posting is to be numbered 19. Sorry for the inconvenience.


2. NOTES FOR THE POSTINGS ON PRAPATTI

  1. BG 18 /66
  2. Ramanujan,p.142 3.Carman,p.244-248
  3. TPV, verse 5

  4. "Poya pizhaiyum pugu taruvan ninranavum
    Theeyinil thoosagum cheppelor embavai"
  5. Walker Benjamin in 3 Ms, Vol. 6, p. 1560
  6. TPV, Verse 15 7 Mehta Narsi ,Gujarati Poet 8..Newman, Cardinal in his essay on ' The true Gentleman" 9.BG 18/ 67

  7. Idam te na tapaskaya na bhaktaya kadachana
    Na cha asushrushave vachyam na cha maam yopi asuyati

  8. BG 18 / 68

  9. Ya idam paramam guhyam mad bhakteshu
    abidasyati Bhaktim mayi paraam kritva maam eva yeshyati asamsayah
  10. BG 2 / 7 Yat sreyah syath nischitam bruhi tad mey

  11. Sishyasthe aham saadi maam tvaam prapannam
  12. Bhattar Sloka Tvam Me! Aham Me! Kutastat- Tadapi Kuta Idam?

  13. Vedamula Pramanath
    Etas Cha Anadhi Siddhath Anubhava Vibhavat
    Tarhi Sakrosa Eva
    Kva Krosah? Kasya Gitadhishu Mama Vaditah, Ko Atra Sakshi Sudhee Syat?
    Hanta! Tvat Pakshapadhi Sa ! Iti Nru Kalahe Mrigya Madhyastavat Tvam
  14. Manu Dharma Sastra

  15. Rajno rashtra kritam papam raja papam purodasah Barthru bharya kritam papam sishya papam gurorapi

3. BHAGAVAD RAMANUJA
Sampath Rengarajan

As per the Acharya vaibavam (Ahobila mutt publication), Sri Ramanujar was thinking of Periya Nambi's thiruvadis at the time of his departure to Srivaikundam. As per the same book, Sri Ramanuja said 5 important things to follow for His disciples. His disciples asked him what should we be doing henceforth ? (meaning after him). Ramanuja replied to his followers at the end, It is said since athma yAthrai is bagawathdeenaam, he has no anvyam in it. If such anvyam is there then it will falsify the athma para samarpanam. dEhayAthrai is karmAtheenam. one should not suffer due to that. If one worries on that then he becomes nAsthikan. But one cannot do whatever the mind will dictate to do. With an anbe mind on the other hand one must do the following.

  1. Read Sri bashyam thoroughly and one has to "pravarthi" it. If one is not qualified (includes both ability to do it and as well the capacity and due initiation to do it) to do so,
  2. listen to aruLich cheyal and one has to "pravarthi" it. If one does not qualify for this , then
  3. do amuthup padi, saathp padi, thiruvilakku, thirumAlai undAkkuthal or make such available to those divya dEsams. ( This is my re-inspiration that I can see the importance for the sponsor a divya desam project). If is not qualified for doing this,
  4. do anusanthAnam on the meaning of dvayam. If one is not qualified to do this,
  5. Serve a Srivaishnava who is in our lineage ( meaning a Srivaishnava doing any of the above four) and by trying to make an abimanam in his mind.
Then piLLAn, kidambi acchchAn, muthaliyAndAn were given consent to install his thriuvuruva vigraham in temples. Those are in Srirangam, Sri perumputhoor, thirunArayanapuram. Then he called thiruk kurugai pirAn and said,
"inthasidhdhAntham pravasanam seythukondu varak kadavathu". Then he took SripAdukAtheerththam of Sri aLavandhAr and gave it to his shishyALs as well. Then he asked them to do the Koil (srirangam) kaimkaryams to do without any shortfalls. then he called piLLAn and kidambi achcchAn and instructed them some mantrArthams. Then he kept his head on piLLAn's madi or lap and his feet on kidAmbi achchAn and was sayanthithiruthAr. ie was sleeping or taking a nap.

Then, nadAthoor azhwaan, embaar, muthaliyAndaan chanted upanishath and the pAsuram "soozhvisumpaNImukil". Then that time he did dyAnam on peria nambi's thiruvadi and went to thirunAdu.

EmperumAnAr thirvadikaLE saraNam
Sampath Rengarajan