--- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, sumithra varadarajan
<sumivaradan@xxxx> wrote:
> Sri Parthasarathi thunai
> Srimathe rAmAnujaya Namaha
> Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha
> Sri Vanachala maha munayE Namaha
>
> Dear bhagavatas,
>
> For quite sometime there is a hot discussion about nirheduka krupai
in this group. Adiyen is not so eligible to take part in the
discussion. Still let me put forth adiyen's understanding of the
same.
>
> One begger comes in front of a house and asks for alms. Is his
shouting or asking alone enough for him to get alms? No. The person
inside should have dayai or krupai to help the begger. So can the
beggar just sit without asking? No. Both the acts should happen.
It is the duty of the beggar to go from one door to other and beg but
getting something depends on the person inside the house. Similarly
we should surrender to the divine feet of the lord, but granting
moksha lies in his hand (his nirheduka krupa). Our surrendering
cannot be a means to attain moksha but we should definitely do
prapatti to make emperuman shower his grace on us.
Dear Smt Sumithra,
God will shower His grace without any act of surrender. We are
already His. That is what Sri Alawandar conveys in stotra ratna
("mama nAtha yadasti yOsmyaham...).
If we have to do soemthing, how can His grace be nirhEtukam?
Prapatti as an act is not there in all thenkalai paramparAs. What I
mean is, some AchAryas do not include this as a ritual in their
samASrayaNam. So whoever is belonging to these paramparAs does not do
something that is considered by others as prapatti.
Alwar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigale sharanam
Adiyen rAmAnuja dAsan
Vishnu
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