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Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:
Dear Smt Sumithra Varadarajan,
Accept my pranams. I'm reflecting my views based on my 
understanding of TennAcArya SampradAyam. 

> 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. 

This is not true in my observation. Many a times I have witnessed my 
parents giving food, without the beggarliterally,verbally begging 
at our doorstep. They would have heard the beggar begging at 
neighbour's houses and before he utters anything,he would have been 
given food at our house. From first hand experience(personal contacts 
with people),I have seen couple of 'absolutely" good-hearted people 
who voluntarily help others without the latter seeking the former's 
help. If this is the case with the human beings/mortals, why not 
the "so called" Omniscient,Omnipotent and Omnipresent God grant 
anything His subjects wish for!

> 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. 

You make 'it/surrendering' sound 'mandatory' and it is wrong 
according to my understanding of our sampradAyam. The grace is 
called 'nirhEthuka krpa/cause-less mercy/grace" because 'it does not 
matter whether you do sharaNAgati or not". His feet is the upAyam and 
not the "sharaNAgathi". I don't think SisipAla did sharaNAgathi at 
Lord's feet!

Even after surrendering at His feet,He granting or not granting 
mOksha to His subjects amounts to His 'freewill' and not 'nirhEthuka 
krpa'. But 'irrespective' of the surrendering,He granting mOksha is 
called "nirhEthuka krpa". How can the Subject's some act/sharaNAgathi 
become a 'cause' for His actions??? Take the classic example of 
mother-baby relationship? Assume that the baby doesn't cry at all for 
anything! Will not the mother feed the baby??? According to your 
statement,the baby has to do its part of crying and feeding or not 
feeding it depends on the mother! Feeding or not feeding depends 
entirely on the mother(freewill and nirhEthuka krpa) 'irrespective of 
the baby crying'. 

I have learnt 'mArjara' philosophy by observing our own cats at home.
One incident of my cat is similar to TirukkaNNamangai ANdAn's case 
and I'll reserve it for some other time. One need not become a mother 
to realize this. If one is a good observer and has good analytical 
thinking(which is again His bhiksha!),one can easily grasp 
'nirhEthuka krpa'. The Lord does not depend on the Subject to grant 
anything to the Subjects. I kindly request the bhAgavathAs to correct 
me if I'm wrong. 

AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigLE sharaNam
NC Nappinnai





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