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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