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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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