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Dear Shrimati Nappinnai,
>From your previous posts:
If the TV is not working, you said you would repair it out of your 
Nirhetuka Krupai. We will replace you with Paramatma, and TV with 
Jeevatma at the end of the post. I have a very simple question here. 
If the TV does not work, who is the loser? You are the loser. You 
lose the happiness because you cannot enjoy the TV anymore. And hence 
you are selfish enough to repair the TV, for "your" happiness. Where 
is the question of your nirhetuka krupai? Nirhetuka Krupai can be 
appreciated only when there is an expectation on one side and the 
krupai is showered from the other side. If you show nirhetuka krupai 
to a TV that does not understand it, it does not make any sense. Now 
let us go for replacing you and TV with Paramatma and Jeevatma. If 
Jeevatma does not make the paramatma happy, and if Paramatma showers 
the nirhetuka krupai on Jeevatma, why would the paramatma do that? 
For its own happiness and not for the jeevatma's happiness. So, it is 
pretty much a self centric act. Why would it be called as krupai 
then? It is a selfish act. So, is this what we are getting at? 
Akilaheya prathyanikanana parabrahmam now suddenly becomes an all 
powerful entity that forces its way on the jeevatma to attain 
happiness and could pretty much do whatever it wants with the 
jeevatma and despite all this act, still be hailed as the one who 
showers the Nirhetuka Krupa and we are quoting all our Acharya 
granthas in support of this? Aren't we missing something here? If one 
does not realize the value of Nirhetuka Krupa, what is the point in 
the paramatma showering it to him? It is as good as doing bad to him 
isn't it? It is like giving sweet to someone which is usually good. 
But, if the person is diabetic and if you still give sweet to him? 
Again, this is a very trivial example that I don't expect to equate 
to the Nirhetuka Krupa. It is just a "similar" phenomenon. Kindly 
clarify.
Adiyen,
Ramanuja Dasan





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