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NIRHEDUKA AND SAHEDUKA KRUPAI

Sri Parthasarathi thunai
Srimathe Ramanujaya namaha

Pranams,
There was discussion earlier about the krupai of
Emperuman whether it is Nirhedukam(Irrespective of our
actions) or Sahedukam(with respect to our actions).
Adiyen will now try to post my understanding of the
same.

When we see the kalyana gunas of the Bhagavan it is no
doubt that he has Nirheduka krupai on the jeevatmas. 
But if he starts showing his krupai on one and all
without any reason just because of his apaara
kaarunyam then all of us will go to moksham and the
leela vibhuti of the bhagavan will become zero. But
Bhagavan is considered to be ubhaya vibhuti nadan and
he wants to maintain both his vibhutis so Emperuman
has put a limitation to his krupai.

Any father will like to show his love for all his sons
and daughters equally. We are all children of the
same Parabrahmam. Then why should the lord be
partial. Only to explain his impartially Emperuman
expects some good deeds from us. So he says when you
are my bhaktha and you fall to my feet and do
saranagati I am destined to save you. For instance, a
father has 2 sons. One of the sons is an engineer in
a very good job and he no more needs the assistance of
the father. He thinks he can live his own life. But
the other son is poorly qualified and is suffering
without a job and he has surrendered to the feet of
the father for help. So the father will be naturally
sympathetic to the second son and will try to help him
out in whatever way he can. Can we say that the
father is impartial then? Absolutely not. Similarly
Emperuman is more worried of his bhakthas who doesn?t
depend on their capabilities but surrender into his
feet . As Sri Aalavandar in his strotra ratnam says
?Na dharmanishtosmi nacha atmavedhi na bhakthiman
dvath charnaravidye akinchanaha ananyagathi charnya
dvath pada moolam charanam prabhathye?. Here Sri
Aalvandar shows us how to do saranagathi in the feet
of Emperuman. He says I am not a person who does his
dharma well(karma yogam) nor am I an atmavedhi who is
capable of meditating on his atma (jyana yogam) nor am
I a bhathi yogi I have no other source or gathi and
iam incapable of any other good deeds so I prostrate
in your feet and surrender to you. That is what
Emperuman expects from each one of us. We need not do
anyother thing the emperuman qualifies us for moksha
and gives us moksha too.

As in Varaha Puranam, Emperuman says ?Aham smarami
Matbhaktham Nayami Paramam gathim? . I will think of
my Bhakthas when they are in the last bed and give
them the parama gathi moksha from where he never
returns( nacha punaravarthathe). According to the
sastras the person should have anthima smriti to
attain moksha but here emperuman assures that for his
bhakthas he himself will give the jyana atleast at the
time of death and grant them the moksha. As alwar
says ?Maranamanal Vaikundam tharum perumal? he is the
emperuman who grants moksha (Vaikundam) after our
death. So only thing we have to do is to show him the
desire to accept him as our gathi and be in a position
to accept his help. Emperumanar Sri Ramanujar said
that bhagavan was common to all . As Sri Manavala
Mamunigal says ?Asaiyudaiyor keelam ariyargal koorum
endru pesi varambaruththar pin? . Before Sri
Ramanujar all other acharyas followed the system of
?Oran vazhi? and they thought the rahasyams only to
highly qualified shisyas. But Sri Ramanujar, an
incarnation of Sri Parthasarathi, who gave the 
Bhagavat geetha(extract of the vedic meanings) to one
and all irrespective of caste, creed or gender,
changed the previous way and declared that the
teachings should be given to all those who where
interested in falling to the feet of Emperuman for
their rescue. So only thing both the emperuman and
our great acharya regarded necessary for us was the
will and even that the emperuman has to grant to us. 

Imagine if a blind person is caught in a forest and he
has lost his way. He shouts for help and when a
person comes to his rescue and says I will show you
the way the person has to hold on to the other person
and believe him. But if the blind person starts
asking him questions like how can I believe you and
other things then the blind person has no other option
other than dying in the forest. Here the blind person
is no one other than we samsaris who have be blinded
by ajyana and have been left in the forest of samsara
and we have lost the way to our original place
Srivaikundam. The person who comes to help us to show
the way is the aacharya or the bhagavan himself. So
only when we accept them they can help us out.

So though this happens to look like saheduka krupai
that emperuman expects us to do saranagathi or show
our willingness still all happens only due to the
Nirheduka krupai of Emperuman. To make us understand
the great arthas of our sampradhayam and bring us
nearer to the bhagavan he does a lot of things. 
Actually the emperuman is more worried and undergoes a
lot of sorrow if one jeevatma fails to come to him and
suffers in the samsara. So he first gave us the Vedas
and rishis to explain them. Still people didn?t reach
him so he himself took many avataras to change the
people. But he himself failed as he says in his
Bhagavat geetha ?Avajananti mam moodah: manuishim
thanu mashritam?. These mandha buddhi people don?t
recognize my avataras and consider me also to be a man
like them. Inspite of the various insults made by the
jeevatmas during his rama and Krishna avataras the
bhagavan still didn?t stop his attempt to change the
people. Then he sent the alwars and acharyas his own
nitya sooris to bring a awareness in the minds of the
jeevatmas. Alwars and Acharyas did a great job which
made him extremely happy. But still there are other
jeevatmas in this world to change whom emperuman has
given so many scholars and present day acharyas. All
these have happened only due to the Nirheduka krupai
of the Bhagavan.

If a person depends on his own Karma, Jnana Bhakthi
yogas or if his thinks that what ever nama japam or
meditation he is doing itself will lead him to moksham
yes, it will lead but as Krishna in geetha says ?Aneka
janma samsiddhaha:? after many janmas he will attain
moksha. Because we are capable of small effort only
and there is all chances that we will fall like
Bharata yoghisvarar who was such great yogi but by
fate fall for the love of a deer. But for a person
who has surrendered to bhagavan it will hardly take
any time for the bhagavan to lift him to the divine
abord so he gets moksha in the same janma so bhagavan
says ?na chirat? it wont take much time for my bhaktha
to reach me. 

So all these prove that Emperuman has Nirheduka krupai
on all of us but to maintain his impartiality and also
this leela vibhuti he justs expects us to do
saranagathi in his feet. Doing saranagathi is not a
ritual but it is heartfelt feeling. We have to
mentally accept that we are incapable of protecting
ourselves and our sole protector is only Sriman
Narayanan and he is the only person who can grant us
the moksha. We should accept him as both the
upayam(the way) and also the Upeyam(the goal) and
surrender to his feet.

All errors may be please kindly pardoned and corrected
by the learned members of the group.

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai
Sumithra Varadarajan



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