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Dear Sri Vishnu,
By nature, the jIvAs created by perumAL have knowledge and they
'can' use it whichever way they want. SvAmi nammAzhvAr in his "
avar avar..." talks about how these jIvAs use their knowledge and 
think that the lesser gods can provide what they want and worship 
them. Our dear perumAL who is the LORD of all these demigods, 
resides in them (antharyAmi) and grants the wishes of the 
adhikARis. Let me briefly talk about the pAsuram first.

Each and every individual jIvA/adhikAri (avar avar)
use their knowledge and do things accordingly(thama thamadhu aRivu aRi vagai
) 
They think those other Lords (avar avar)
as their SvAmi (iRaiyavar ena)
and worship them (adi adaivargaL)

Those Lords being worshipped by the adhikArIs (avar avar iRaiyavar)
are Not incapable of giving them what they wanted ( kuRaivu ilar )
(Those lords give the adhikArIs what they asked for, WHY? How is it?)

Our dear perumAL, who is The Lord of all lords/sarva svAmi (iRaiyavar )
makes sure that those adhikARis (avar avar)
based on their vidhi (vidhi vazhi)
get what they want by being the antharyAmi of these lords (adaiya
n^inRanaRE)

The objective of the pAsuram is mainly to point out that the rakshaNam
of all the chetanas/achetanas are all completely done by our sarva svAmi.
This is not talking about the nirhethuka krupa of perumAL at all. The only
reason why I quoted this is for the first line where he says "thama
thamadhu
aRivu aRi vagai" - they do things based on how their knowledge dictates
them.
Based on their knowledge the adhikAris also think that they can take care of

themselves independently. This is an absolute swarUpa virOdham, which their 
knowledge doesn't point out! That is why, having this false sense of 
independence, they don't realize the need for perumAL's krupa and "deny" His

overflowing grace. They are in fact making an effort to stop His grace from 
saving them. This false sense of independence is the classical virOdhi. 
'False' is the keyword here. As you have quoted from ashtaslOki by Sri
Bhattar, 
we do not have any sort of freedom. That is the truth. But we fail to see
the 
truth. In fact at the end of the pAsuram, he says that even those demigods
are 
not independent and they act according to our dear perumAL.

AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE araNam,
adiyEn,
-Vijay Triplicane




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