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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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