Dear Smt Nappinnai, > His "unconditional grace" on nammAzhvAr...... > 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! The above statements explains the Nirhetuka Krupai of the Lord. But we know Nirhetuka Krupai is reasonless. It comes out of the Lord's swabhavam as well as swaroopam. The problem is, as we understand this as Nirhetuka Krupai, we can't prove the bhakthi of Shri Nammazhwar towards the lord. If one adopts the Bhakthi margam/yogam, then he/she has to put some minimal efforts. That is Sahetukam. Lord shows grace (as per Nammazhwar)->Nirhetukam while we know Azhwar did adopt bhakthi towards the lord and hence it is Sahetukam. How do we explain this contradiction? This is when, we get the answer from the "Name" of this work by Swamy Azhagiya Manavala Perumal Nayanar. Azhwar did bhakthi. But, Azhwar's hrudhayam(Acharya Hrudhayam) does not want to attribute the result(god's grace) to its own attempts(though attempts were made). Though it was Sahetukam, Azhwar doesn't want to call that so, and wants to give the full credit only to the Lord and hence projects it as Nirhetukam. So, Acharya Hrudhayam is more interesting to discuss than the Bhaghavan's Hrudhayam(This by no means discounts the fact that Bhagavan is the best when it comes to the greatest of the qualities. It is mainly to cherish HIS adiyar's mind, were these interesting works composed). >From what I understand from Shri NC Narasimhan's post, it is a nice idea to send our questions to an acharya and get the correct interpretation, which I think is probably the best way for everyone of us to learn "the right thing". At the same time, I feel, it is not wrong to read the rahasya granthams because that gives us the foundation i.e whether we understand them or not, we would be familiar with lots of historical events, vedic truths, meanings of sanskruth words etc. But, one must remember, books serve a particular purpose. If we take up Acharya Hrudhyam, either the book, or the individual chapters(prakaranam) it is composed of, we must read and understand(even the basic understanding of ours) in its entirety. When we go for bits and pieces to quote, to explain our beliefs/understandings from elders etc, it might be sometimes correct, and might be sometimes wrong. Please do continue to post, as everyone's comment is valuable to someone(definitely for me) or the other in this forum. Yatheendra Pravanam Vandhe RAMYA Jamataram Munim Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan, Lakshmi Narasimhan
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