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--- 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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