SRI: SrImathE Gopaladesika Mahadesikaya nama: Dearest All, AzhwAr expresses in this 5th decad his ananyagatitvam and (having none other as his refuge) Akinchanyam (helplessness) which are closely tied to Saranagati. The Prapatti should be performed as follows: Oh my master! Master of all worlds! Lord of Mahalakshmi! I am Yours; Your possession! Your subservient, myself and all mine are only Yours. I am your dependent; your serf; you can order me about in all services to you. You had yourself invested me with a good discernment about You. This you had once long ago done- for some unknown, good act of mine, as a reward. Then at a suitable moment, you caused me to be under the influence and direction of a good Acharya, which led me onto Prapatti performance. This evolution to a prapanna status who was wholly due to your original awakening kindled in me. So, I owe my spiritual progress entirely due to You. You did all this, by Your free will, for Your own purpose, to adopt me, as a prapanna, to Your eternal service and grace. What is there to be called my role? None. Having conceived the scheme of weaning me to your service, you perhaps and rightly so, willed that you should yourself carry all burden, reading my weakness and inability to bear the self-protection myself; took charge of me and mine safety and protection, on your shoulders. My burden became Yours. You keep all mine with you carefully and diligently. All (especially in the current day times- says Dr Sri VN Vedanta Dseikan Swami) who adhere to prapatti will do well to remember that they must cherish the achievement with a humility with a gratitude to the Lord and the acharya. They must also not proclaim in and our of season about their resurrection. Why do we emphasize this? Very fortunately they have won the grace of the Lord and of the Acharya. Their publicity may not send right signals to all their close circles, which would perhaps look with suspicion and derision. viRRuvakkOt tammaan^ee vENdaayE yaayidinum maRRaarum paRRillE NnenRu_avanaith thaaLn^ayantha koRRavEl thaanaik kulasE karansonna naRRamizhpath thumvallaar naNNaar naragamE 5.10 Oh Lord of VitthuvakkOdu! Even if You reject me, adiyEn will not seek anyone else for my succor and protection. adiyEn fell at Your Sacred Thiruvadi with this message elaborated thru the ten paasurams. Those who recite them will never ever end up in narakam. They will only gain You as their immeasurable wealth. In these ten beautiful and moving paasurams devoted to the Lord of Thiru VitthuvakkODu, Kolli Naattu king, KulasEkarar instructs us on the inseparable relationship between ParamAthmA (Sarva Seshi and Sarva Loka SaraNyan) and the forever dependent jeevAthmA, the nirupAdhika sEshan. Before concluding this ten, let us enjoy Swamy Desikan?s Tamil prabandham nin aruLaam gathiyinRi maRRonRillEn/ nedun~ kaalam pizhai seydha nilai kazhindhEn/ un aruLukku inidhaana nilai pugundhEn/ un saraNE saraN ennum thuNivu pooNdEn/ manniruLaay ninRa nilai enakku theertthu/ vaanavar magizcchi thara varitthEn unnai/ innaruLaay ini enakkOr bharamERRaamal en thirumaal adaikkalam koL ennai neeyE There is no other recourse except Your Grace. I am able to get rid of the long accrued sins over the ages from time immemorial for so many births. I am blessed to be the recipient of Your Grace. (Due to Your limitless unbounded Grace) I have surrendered to take refuge at Your Feet. Much to the enjoyment of Nithyasooris and muktha JivAthmAs, I have placed you in my heart, and been able to dispel the darkness and ignorance. Please do not let me bear any more burden (of further births) and please enslave me (by accepting my SaraNAgati). AzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE saraNam Regards Namo narayana dAsan ____________________________________________________________________________________ Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:Oppiliappan-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:Oppiliappan-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Home Page
http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia |
oppiliappan-subscribe@yahoogroups.com To subscribe to the list |