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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