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Dear Sri Vijay Triplicane,

Your posting is very thought provoking...It would be very good and
useful if you and other learned bhAgavathAs also can share what you
have heard from AchAryas on what exactly constitutes this "denial"
in our times - because obviously what was termed as denial for other
ages, such as adopting other upAyAs, do not obviously hold good for
our times.. If some examples/ situations in our lives that could be
classified as "denal" or "vilakkamai" (other than not undergoing
sadAchArya samAshrayanam) and some examples which can be classified
as not offering resistence to His grace, it would be most helpful.

rAmAnuja dAsi

> choce or not. We, having got this newfound freedom, develop an
> ahankAram
> and 
> "assume and strongly believe" that we can take care of ourselves
> and so 
> subconsciously "DENY" His efforts to do good to us. He respects
> our freedom
> and
> if there is one thing that kinda stops Him, it would be this 
> choice that
> we 
> subconsciously (in some cases conscisouly) make to Deny Him. He
> has the
> greatest
> unquenchable desire to have us (... chUzhn^dhadhan^il periya en
> avA aRa
> chUzhn^dhAyE!)
> And He is trying to do everything He can to interpret even our
> unintentional
> acts and use that as an excuse (vyAjam) to reach and save us. 
> (Long
> while 
> back there was a discussion on the SVB 4'th prakaraNam, first
> choorNai.
> Will 
> post the old write up if I have them... It is the most interesting
> part in
> SVB, IMHO)
> 
> So, it is us who Deny His abundant flow of grace. If at all 
> there is
> anything
> that we could do as an "effort" it is this "vilakkAmai". Once we
> realize
> that
> all along we have been denying His overflowig grace, and we undo
> it, thats
> it.
> The floodgates are open. He, like a child jumping into the hands
> of his
> father,
> would readily sweep you away with His grace. 
> 
> The ONLY thing that we could do is Not do anything. If you look 
> at this
> carefully,
> we don't absolutely drop everything. We do one little thing and
> that is we
> don't 
> deny. Naturally this non-denial is not done as an effort to reach
> Him. It
> is done
> out of the sheer realization of utter helplessness AND the
> realization not
> to deny
> His flow of grace which is the only thing that can save us. This 
> is
> exactly how
> draupadhi, kAkAsuran, gajEndran ... were saved. For a while, she
> was
> holding on
> to her dress, pulling it from him and trying to save herself.
> Then the
> moment she
> realizes that she is totally helpless, she leaves everything and
> raises
> her arms
> and performs prapaththi. Thats what happened in Gajendra mOksham
> and with
> 
> kAkAsuran as well. 
> 
> Continuing on the "vilakkAmai", While explaining the meaning of
> gOvin^dhA, sri vELukkudi swAmi says that sri krishNA went behind
> the cows protecting them NOT because they asked him to do so, but
> just because they didn't ask Him not to follow. (He would 
> humourously say, "andha mAdu saRRu ninnu, thirumbi pAththu, "onna
> yAr en pinnAdi vara chonnA?" enRu kEttAl avanAla oNNum paNNa
> mudiyAma poyidum. adhugaL oNNum kEkkAdhadhAla adhugaL pinnAdi pOy
> samrakshaNam paNRAn.) That is more than enough reason for Him,
> being the embodiment of overflowing grace, to go behind them and
> offering protection.
> 
> 
> Desikar in his munivAhana bhOgam, at the beginning, says, 
> "bhagavat kataakshaththaalE ... ayathna labdhamaana ... " meaning
> that thiruppaaN, without any effort whatsoever received the 
> kataaksham of bhagavaan and received a vision of what previously
> the great rishis only experienced in parama padham. The only
> yathnam 
> that thiruppANar did was that he did not deny His grace and let Him
> sweep AzhvAr away. And look what happened!
> 
> Out of sheer joy of discussing this, I may have misquoted or 
> misunderstood some things. Please correct me. 
> 
> AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE SaraNam.
> adiyEn
> Vijay Triplicane
> 
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