srImathE SaTakOpAya namah srImathE rAmAnujAya namah srImathE anantArya mahAguravE namah srImathE vara vara munayE namah dear bhAgavathAs, That the Lord's grace is nirhEthuka (causeless) is told and enjoyed in this thiruvAymozhi. Some AchAryAs say that AzhvAr, in this thiruvAymozhi expresses the limitless happiness that he gained due to the mingling of the Lord with each of the AzhvAr's body parts, as expressed in the previous thiruvAymozhi. Sri parASara bhattar provides a special explanation of this thiruvAymozhi. It is as follows. In the preceding thiruvAymozhi, AzhvAr told that he attained great happiness by the LOrd coming and residing on AzhvAr's head - "enadhu uchchiyil uLAnE" & "uchchiyuLLE niRkum dEvadEvaRku" are the words he uses. Now, is there any other anubhavam that can be more special and superior to that? The answer is no. The only thing that is necessary is for that experience to continue without any interruption, and that is the grace of the LOrd only, and depends on His mind (thiruvuLLam). AzhvAr inquired into the great gift he got in the previous thiruvAymozhi and thought "The gift we got is extremely big; There is no other gift that is higher than this; How did we get this gift?". As he inquired/thought about this, he realized that there is no sAdhanAnushtAnam (act that he did to get the gift) that is appropriate for the greatness of the gift. He thought that even if there is something he had, then it is only adhvEsham and Abhimukhyam that he had and nothing else. Those two cannot be thought as sAdhanAs. Given this, even if nammAzhvAr got paramabhakthi, he did not have anything that could be termed as sAdhana. Thinking these, nammAzhvAr concludes that the blessing/gift of the Lord is nirhEthuka (causeless) only. svAmi vEdAnta dEsika, in dramidOpanishad tAtparya ratnAvaLi, uses the word "avyAja udhAra bhAvaath" - the act of giving without pretext! to describe this. thiruvAymozhi nURRandhAdhi - 10 porumaazhi sangudaiyOn poothalaththE vandhu * tharumaarOr Edhu arath thannai * thiRamaagap paarthu urai sei maaRan madham paNiga en senni* vaazhththiduga ennudaiya vaay* Let my head bow, and my mouth do mangaLAsaasanams to nammAzhvAr, who solidly experienced and told us about the guNa of the Lord who has the sankha and chakra, who comes to this earth and without any action/effort on the part of His devotees, gives His anubhavam to them. AzhvAr, who in the previous thiruvAymozhi sang about the Lord's coming and mingling with all parts of AzhvAr's body, inquired whether he had any upAya that could have been the cause for the great blessing he got; he realized that the nature of the Lord is to provide special blessings (vishEsha katAksham) without any sAdhana on the part of the bhakta (nirhEthukamaaga), and sings about that great quality of the Lord in the thiruvAymozhi - porumaa neeL padai. AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam, adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan, thirumalai anandAnpiLLai varadhan (Source of the material: Translation of the pravESas of the simple version of divyArtha deepikai, found in the book "aNNa svAmiyin amudha mozhi aayiram, 401st - 500th mozhigaL; divyArththa deepikai, nihyanusandhaanam - simple edition, thiruvAymozhi nURRandhaadhi portions) azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ramanuja/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ramanuja-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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