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Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:
Dear Vinjamuri Vishnu,
I agree whole-heartedly with your understanding of 
nirhEtuka krpa:-) I personally feel that qualitatively and as well as
quantitatively speaking,nirhEtukam dominates and is way off by orders 
of magnitude from sahEtukam that it does no longer make "any" sense 
to talk about or give credits to sahEtukam!!! He only gave us the 
body,mind and the intellect and we give it back to Him as our gift
(through upAyAs). It is like the guy who stole the jewels of 
SriRanganATha in the night and in the broad day light declaring that 
it's his gift to the Lord! What a "shameless" act! When His grace 
flows(torrential downpour), even those mud pots which are upside down
(not to receive His grace) can get toppled by the force of His 
grace/downpour and get filled up to the brim if He wants/chooses the 
pot to be the receiver or the pots that are upright facing to receive 
His grace can get rolled over upside down also if He does not want:-) 
He knows when to shower His grace on us. 
AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam
NC Nappinnai

> In my understanding, we do not choose Him but it is He who chooses 
> us, in our sampradAyam. This is in accordance with the upanishad 
> statement "yamEvaisha vruNute tEna labhyah..." which means He makes 
> Himself accessible to whoever He chooses. Also we do not have any 
> sort of freedom acoording to Sri Bhattar in ashtaSlOkI. I do not 
> think that Sri Nammalwar is speaking of some freedom in thatpASuram 
> where "avar avar thama thamadhu.." comes as quoted by you.
> 
> Then does the question of partiality not come? If we believe that 
He 
> is our Master, we need not worry. It is for Him to keep His 
property 
> wherever He wants. If we do not believe in Him, then also no probs 
> since He does not exist for us!
> 
> Once He enters our mind, we need not worry since we are chosen. 






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