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Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

Mumukshuppadi

lOkAchArya gurave krishna pAdasya soonavE 
samsAra bhOgi sandaShta jeeva jeevAtavE nama: 

4. manthraththilum manthraththukkuLLeedAna vasthuvilum 
manthraprathanAna AchAryan pakkalilum prEmam ganakka uNdAnAl 
kAryakaramAvathu.

Meaning:
If a person develops great affection and love for this manthra, 
for the Lord who is the inner meaning of this manthra and for 
the Acharya who teaches this Thirumanthra, then this manthra 
will act for him.


Sri PBA Swami's Sarartha Deepikai:
In the previous coorNai, it was said that a kind and melted 
heart was needed for the recital of this manthra. If the 
question arises, whether that is sufficent, the answer is no. 
The manthra's recital has its effect only when there is love 
for the manthra, for Lord Sriman Narayana who is the true 
meaning of the manthra, as well as for the Acharya who out of 
his great kindness taught the manthra to that person. Only 
then will the manthra have the true effect for the person 
reciting it.


Sri Vanamamalai Jeeyar's Upanyasam:
prEmai i.e., devotional love is very improtant for this mantra. 
Love towards what or who is answered in this choorNai. The 
mantra will bear fruit only if it is chanted with love and 
devotion towards the matra itself, towards the one who is 
worshipped by this mantra - who is paramAtma srimannArAyana, 
and towards the AchArya who preaches this mantra without whom 
we are totally ignorant about the mantra . Here love and 
devotion is meant in the real and stable sense and not as 
pretension. Thus, this choorNai is a descriptive explanation 
for the previous choorNai and reflects the meaning of the 
samskrita sookti 

"mantrE taddEvatAyAchcha tathA mantrapradE gurO 
tripu bhaktissada kAryA sa hi prathama sAdhanam" 

(it may be noted here that H.H.vAnamAmalai Jeeyar suggests that 
it is good to learn these quotations by heart in order to pass 
them on to others wanting to learn. For, any knowledge gained 
should always be imparted to others which is what is termed as 
'continous education').


Pillai Lokacharyar Thiruvadigale Saranam
Azhvar Emperumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam


rAmAnuja dAsi
Sriranganayaki Sheela
&
madhurakavi dAsan
TCA Venkatesan
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