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Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

Mumukshuppadi

5. SamSArikaL thankaLaiyum Isvaranaiyum maRanthu Isvara 
kainkaryaththaiyum izhanthu izhanthOmenkiRa izhavum inRikkE 
SamSAramAkiRa perunkadalilE vizhunthu nOvupada, SarvEsvaran, 
than krupaiyAlE, ivarkaL thannai aRinthu karaimaram sErumpadi 
thAnE sishyanumAy AchAryanumAy ninRu thirumanthraththai 
veLiyittaruLinAn.

Meaning:
The baddha chetanas who are trapped in this samsaric world, 
forget that they are dAsas, forget that Sriman Narayana is 
their Lord (that is they forget that they are the seshas and 
that He is the seshi), do not live in service of the Lord, 
are not concerned that they have lost the most valuable 
thing that they posessed, and stay trapped in this samsaric 
ocean which is difficult to cross. Seeing this, the Lord 
out of His kindness (His nirhEduka krupai), in order to 
make these jIvas know Him and facilitate their crossing 
samsara and reaching Him, Himself became Nara the disciple 
and Narayana the acharya and taught the Thirumanthram which 
is the essence of Artha Panchakam.


Sri PBA Swami's Sarartha Deepikai:
Here the origination of the Thirumanthram is explained to 
show its greatness. The samsaric chetanas due to association 
with this prakruti which is timeless get trapped in the 
endless cycle of birth and death and forget themselves and 
the Lord. Forgetting themselves is this: all souls are 
naturally servile to the Supreme Soul; without difference 
whether they are in this world or the other world their only 
and true characteristic is that they are enslaved to the 
Lord; forgetting this fact of their natural servitude to the 
Lord is forgetting themselves. Forgetting the Lord is this: 
forgetting His supreme and all encompassing leadership.

Thus forgetting their nature as well as the nature of the 
Lord they lose the supreme goal of service to Him. Not only 
do they lose it, they even lose the feeling that they have
lost such a valuable thing. Seeing the souls suffer thus 
and stay trapped in the samsaric ocean, He took great 
kindness in His divine lotus heart toward them. He thought 
that they need to know Him so that they can cross this
ocean and reach Him. Thus He Himself became Nara the sishya 
and Narayana the acharya and expositioned that Thirumanthra 
which holds in it the meaning of all Sastras and which shows 
clearly the artha panchakam.

Sri Vanamamalai Jeeyar's Upanyasam:
As in "samsAra sAgaram ghOram ananta klEShabhAjanam", having 
fallen in the vast ocean called samsAra, we are suffering 
from all kinds of pangs. Due to the association with this 
samsAra, we are not only ignorant of the self, the Omnipotent 
Supreme Entity and our subservient relationship (shEshatva) 
with Him, but we are also devoid of any repentance for this 
shortcoming of ours. The ominipotent Lord , due to His grace, 
took the form of nara nArAyaNa - of both the perceptor and 
the disciple - at BadarikAshrama to deliver the tirumantra 
which is essentially the knowledge that only He is the 
refuge for us as in "sarvEhyatmAna: paramAtmana: nAnyatha 
lakShNam tESham bandhe mOkSha tataiva cha" meaning He is 
shEShi and we are shEShabootas; He is swAmi and we are His 
sottu. The other pramANAs are "patim vishvasya:" "swAmitvam 
bramhaNi stitam". In tirumantra entire artha panchaka gnAnam 
is embedded as quoted in "prAptasya bramhaNo roopam prAptasya 
pratyakApna: prApyupAyam phalam prApte: tathA prApta 
virOdhicha" or in tamiL as "mikka irai nilaiyum, 
meyyAmuyirnilaiyum, takkaneriyum, taDeyAhitokkiyalum, 
ULvinaiyum, vALvinaiyum.."

Pillai Lokacharyar Thiruvadigale Saranam
Azhvar Emperumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam

rAmAnuja dAsi
Sriranganayaki Sheela
&
madhurakavi dAsan
TCA Venkatesan
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