--- 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 > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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