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Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:

Accept my pranams. If you strictly go by my blooded NC 
Narasimhan,this would be my last post in this forum! Surely I agree 
that SVB and AH and other works are Rahasyams but then why Swami's 
like PB and Puttur keep publishing such rahasyams in plethora that it 
gets into the wrong hands of people like me? If one is so concerned 
about these rahasyams,then one should restrict the publication to the 
limited circle,viz., AcAryAs and upanyAsakAs. Whatever be the case I 
wanted to say something about NammAzhvAr from AH. Mind you all,I 'm 
only translating the tamil text and hence seek forgiveness for all 
mis-interpretation/translation.

Sriman Viji Triplicane wrote nicely about SVB. In the light 
of the same,let us go to AH and see what Swami Azhagiya MaNavALa 
PerumAL NAyanAr says.

How did AzhvAr become a servant/adiyavar? 

AH:112 "ivan naduvE adiyAn enRu,OlaippadAp pramANam,
pakshpAdhi,sAkshi,vankaLavil anubhavamAga,indhira jnAlangkaL
kAtti koLLa kAppAr aRRu viDhi sUzhndhadhu"

How did bhagavAn,without any cause/reason graced nammAzhvAr?
bhagavAn is nATha,the master. So the jIvAthmA being the 
shESha/servant,bhagavAn caught nammAzhvAr and shed His "unconditional 
grace" on nammAzhvAr. NammAzhvAr thus questions: "I am a 
swathanthran. How can I be your servant?"

bhagavAn: vEda alone is the pramANa. It says that you are My servant
nammAzhvAr: vEda is aupuruShEya. Who is the witness?
bhagavAn: jnAnis,who realised the "thathvas as it is" are the 
witness.
nammAzhvAr: jnAnis are pakshapAdhis. They would only side You.

Thus bhagavAn,showed His true form to nammAzhvAr,who was cross 
questioning bhagavAn and thought that AtmA is his,and possessed 
nammAzhvAr as His.

Why did this grace,all of a sudden,fall?

Why did the bhagavAn grace nammAzhvAr all of a sudden? Why did 
bhagavAn leave nammAzhvAr to suffer in this samsAra all these years?
What is the reason that Lord's love overflows all of a sudden? Is it 
because nammAzhvAr had done some puNyams/good deeds? The answer is 
NO. The cause for nammAzhvAr's anubhavam is the "puNya-bhagavAn" Cf. 
the following suthram.

AH.113 "varalARu-illai-veRidhE enRu
aRudhiyittapin "vAzhmudhal" engiRa
sukrtham ozhiyak kaRpikkalAvadhu illai"

NammAzhvAr says he has not done any good deeds. One may question that 
this could be as far as NammAzhvAr knows. What about the deeds that 
were performed(in previous births)without nammAzhvAr's knowledge?
NammAzhvAr again declares that it is a "NO". NammAzhvAr got 
this "parama bhakti" not by any efforts in this birth/previous births 
but solely by His grace and that too in a few days!

Suppose a man has a portico and an SV may take shelter due to 
rain/excess heat. BhagavAn thinks that "this chap gave some space for 
my devotee to stay". This type of puNya is "unexpected" and is 
called "yAthrccikam". Or a man may,unintentionally,sell his stolen 
rice as "thiruvarangaththu arisi". Just by uttering this,he invokes 
the place "thiruvarangam" where the Lord resides and also invokes His 
nAma "ari/hari"-si. The thief,surely did not think of God but yet 
God,out of His compassion,considers this as a good deed and thinks 
that the thief referred to Him only! This is called "prAsangikam".

Dear Sriman Lakshmi Narasimhan,as far I have heard, "AjAmila" was 
following his brahmin obligations and yet he got attracted to that 
prostitute. Whatever you say that brahmin has no pride or not,none of 
our pUrvAcAryAs desired such a "pride-less" birth. May be you should 
address this point in detail. Whether you ike it or not,it does give 
some pride! That's why all our pUrvAcAryAs desired a birth in the 
lower caste and they "rejected" higher caste births! You can refer to 
AH for this. 

Dear NC Narasimhan,even EmperumAnAr couldn't sit and study at the 
feet of Sri YAmunAcArya although the former declared himself as 
Ekalavya. When the time comes,everybody will be directed to an 
AcAryA. Till that time comes,I'm prepared to wait for that AcAryA to 
learn the "actual" rahasyams. But till then,I consider all these 
interactions with saha bhAgavthAs like a leisure course/pOdhu pOkku! 
Whatever I may overlook may be pointed out by another devotee and 
this is where the interaction helps. On one side,the group moderator 
says that "address such such a thing from the view point of 
pUrvAcAryAs" and assuming that there are not even handful of readers 
who are well informed in these rahasyams,and on the other side,if we 
go by your statements,I feel that Ramanuja group need to be closed 
down! Because I can bet that 99% of the devotees in this forum would 
not know the "actual" intent of these rahasyams. Where exactly in 
URM,Sri MaNavALa mAmunigaL says that one can go abroad and do 
research in MEMS or serve some "software employers"?:-) 

Finally, All mis-understandings,interpretations,and translations are 
solely mine and if at all any good thing being said goes to AcAryAs 
and bhagavAn. Dear Moderator,sorry to have expressed my views freely.

AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam
SrikUraththAzhvAn thiruvadigaLE sharaNam
NC Nappinnai 






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