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Srimate Ramanujaya Nama:

 

Respected adiyArs,

 

In the Bhagavad Gita, just 3 shlokas before the famous Charama Shloka, Perumal 
says (18.63) 

 

iti te jnanam akhyatam 
guhyad guhyataram maya 
vimrsyaitad asesena 
yathecchasi tatha kuru

 

Meaning: Thus I have explained to you the most confidential of all knowledge. 
Deliberate on this fully, and then do what you wish to do.

 

Here Krishna gives the Choice to the Jeevatma, Arjuna being the representation 
of the Jeevas. Kindly notice that this statement totally contradicts the 
concept of Nirhetuka Kripa. If one quotes the Charama Shloka, in which Lord 
Krishna asks the Jeevatma for total surrender and that is the concept 
ofPrapatti, one should also realize that this Shloka is a prelude to the 
Charama Shloka, Krishna says, in the next verse (BG 18.64 ), ?Because you are 
My very dear friend, I am speaking to you the most confidential part of 
knowledge. Hear this from Me, for it is for your benefit?. And then goes on 
with the Charama Shloka.

 

So the crux of the issue is this: Perumal gives the choice to the 
Jeevatma,regarding what to do and what not to do. Meaning, the Jeevatma has 
free-will (definitely!!). How are we to understand that we don?t have any 
freewill, and Moksha is 100% dependent on His will, without not even an iota of 
our effort??

 

I request the Bhagavatas in this forum to kindly address this query of mine.

 

AzhwAr emperumAnAr Jeeyar ThiruvadigaLE Saranam.

 

Dasan,

 

Kidambi Soundararajan.



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