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Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Dear Smt Nappinnai:

My humble pranams!

A small information on pArathanthryam. Instead of dependence, they 
usually mention it as doing something based on other's will. That 
is "avargal itta vazhakkaga". It is not that he is dependent, but HE 
wants to do what "they" want out of HIS will. So, HIS pArathanthryam 
too comes out of HIS swAthanthryam, unlike a jeevatma's 
pArathanthryam that does not come out of its swAthanthryam, because 
pArathanthryam is the swaroopam of the jeevatma.

>With respect to conduct I doubt your statements. Why? KAkAsuran/ 
>Jayantha,gave physical pain to thAyAr,and when PerumAL used 
>brahmAsthram,kAkAsuran went to everybody and finally got tired(I 
>don't think kAkAsuran did prapatti!)of flying and fell,that too 
>wrongly. KAkAsuran's head was facing thAyAr and feet was facing 
>PerumAL

"Sitthira Koodatthiruppa Siru Kakkai Mulai Theenda
Atthirame Konderiya Anaitthulagum Thirindhu Oodi
Vitthagane Iramaavo NIN ABHAYAM endrazhaikka
Atthirame Adhan Kannai Arutthadhum Oor Adayalam" - Periyazhwar 
Thirumozhi(3-10-6)

[ In chitrakoodam, when a crow(jayanthan, the Indra's(?) son) 
disturbed Sita Piratti, at that very moment, Shri Rama used the 
Astiram(brahmastram) and, the crow, to escape from this, ran around 
all the worlds(saptha lokas) and then finally(no one was able to 
protect it from the lord's astram) came back to him and did Prapatthi 
and at that point, so as to respect the astiram(indirectly brahma), 
just took away the eye of the crow using it.]

> > In either case, it appears that one cannot simply
> > sit around and do nothing saying that there is 
> > nothing to do.
> 
> .......
>
> ThirukkaNNamangai ANdAn gave up all his personal activities,reduced 
> himself to the abject position of the dog crouching in a kennel. 
> This was after thirukkaNNamangai ANdAn witnessed the dog owner(a 
> frail human being) giving up his own life for the sake of his pet 
> dog and thirukkaNNamangai ANdAn realised how much the omni-potent 
> Lord would do to save the jIvAtmA. He placed himslf in the 
> position of the dog,and substituted the omni-potent Lord for the 
> owner of the dog. 

Swami Manavala Maamunigal Vyakyanam for this suthram: "Adhavadhu sva-
rakshana hethuvana sva-vyaparangalai vittanengirapadi"
[That is, he dropped his materialistic life that is a basic reason 
for survival and self protection.]
This does not mean that he just started sitting in a place idly 
assuming lord will save him. He went to Thirukkannamangai, leaving 
all his businesses etc and started living for the Divyathampathis of 
the kovil and started serving them by cleaning the temple corridors.

Kindly refer to the story on Thirukkannamangai Andan in this link:
http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/jan2002/0094.html

My apologies in case of mistakes.

Yatheendra Pravanam Vandhe RAMYA Jamataram Munim

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan,
Lakshmi Narasimhan





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