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Dear Bhagavatha-s, Many members could not receive this
part in a readable condition. As instructed, it is
being sent again. AdiyEn trusts this would be
readable.
dAsan
Anbil SrInivAsan
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srI:
SrI  upakAra  sangraham â?? 25
--- 
adikAram â?? 1
poorva upakAra paramparai
(The Foremost Series of Favours) 
---   
SECTION â?? 4
(The Favour in the form of Chastisement) (continued)
-----  
SwAmi Desikan makes a significant statement that we
should not stop merely remembering the favour the Lord
did by turning our lives towards Him from the anAdi
birth-cycle within this materialistic world. That is
only the starting point. The Lord stands by us
throughout thereafter so that we donâ??t slip back
into the muddy life. This is what SwAmi Desikan says:-
â??IShvaran keezhum mElum paNNum
daNda-visheShankaLellAm shikShA-visheSha-roopankaLAna
upakArankaLAm.â??
Whatever sufferings we had in the past are the
punishments the Lord imposed on us. Finally, we have
turned towards Him with a feeling, as the AzhvAr did,
why He did not do this favour much earlier. But the
past is past.  We must ignore it and be satisfied and
do our bit to continue on the lines He has just now
shown to us. But do we?  No, we have many slips. These
may be with our knowledge or not. 
When we commit blunders fully knowing that they are
blunders, He again comes to our help. The miseries we
suffer even after having been restored by Him are the
punishments He gives to us so that we donâ??t repeat
such blunders. 
If we commit blunders not deliberately but because of
our vAsanA-s, past habits, He again comes to our help.
This time He doesnâ??t give severe punishments. But,
He gives lessons â?? â??shikShA-sâ??. These too are
favours conferred on us by the Lord. 
The lessons the Lord gives to the jIvA whom He just
retrieved have been beautifully summarized by the Lord
Himself in the Bhagavad Gita. He says the basic
enemies to the jIvA are desire and hatred from which
he must get freed to proceed further on the spiritual
path. These enemies get their strength from the
jIvAâ??s thinking about sense-objects. This in turn
develops attachment, and then, arises desire which if
it is not fulfilled, gives birth to anger. From anger
comes great confusion from which the jIvA loses
memory. From the loss of memory, he loses buddhi â??
the power of discrimination, and then, he is totally
lost. That is why he is caught in the cycle of
births-rebirths. 
By such lessons, the Lord also guides the jIvA to
control the desire and aversion while attending to
works in the mundane world.   
SwAmi Desikan, however, points out that he may not be
able understand these lessons immediately:-
â??ivRRAl, oruvanukku appOtu puritalanRikkE
ozhintAlumâ??
But, later it will become clear to him one day, either
directly or through others (may be gurus). 
â??puruShAntarattiRkum avantanakkum teLivu varuvatu
oru kAlattilumâ??
At that time, the jIvA will also realize that all the
miseries he underwent were really the favours done by
the Lord. 
â??ivai shikShaiyAyt talaikkattumâ??
These punishments will be understood to be actually
favours from the Lord.
(To continue)
dAsan 
Anbil S.SrInivAsan
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