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SriyaHpathippaDi post 6

SrImathE rAmAnujAya namaH

â??lOkAchAryAya guravE krshNapAdasya sUnavE
samsArabhOgi samdashTa jIvajIvAthavE namaHâ??
â??prostrations to piLLai lOkAcharya, the son of
krishNapAda, who is the very life to the souls
withered in mundane experiencesâ??

Being explained the athma swarupa, by â??Omâ?? the
next thing to be explained was purushartha, the
meaning of â??naryaNAyaâ??. But before that, in
thirumanthra we will find a namaH. The namaH, with its
negation â??na (nanjj)â?? removes two main obstacles
or virodhi for athma swarUpa. Since with the removal
of obstacles the uninterrupted bhagavad anubhavam
follows it is appropriate that namaH is said first
before explaining the parama purushartha. We now
continue with swamiâ??s explanation on namaH

namaH sabamArtham
------------
The sEShathwa explained in the â??Omâ??kara, did not
came through the elucidation alone, but it is the
inherent nature of the Athma itself. But this was
surpassed by the virodhis from the time immemorial but
â??namassâ?? abolishes this feeling and reveals the
true swaroopa. NamaH is split in to two words
â??naHâ?? and â??maHâ??. naH comes in the meaning NOT
and maH comes in the meaning â??mineâ?? so together
they produce â??NOT mineâ?? which suspends the
â??ahankara (self ego)â??. Since mamakara (feeling
mine) comes due to ahankara, when ahankara is removed
mamakara goes automatically. Other wise through
adhyAhara (act of supplying (elliptical language))
namaH explains how mamakAra is removed. 
Hence with the usage â??Om namaHâ?? the swarUpa
virOdhi is removed. 
So when the ahankara mamakara nivrthhi is stated, what
remains is bhagavad sEshatwa (servitude to the lord)
and its peak bhAgavatha sEshatwa (serving  the servant
of the lord) which is also to be read between the
namaH.
Even when the ahankaram which is a virOdhi to the
sEshatwa is gone, there will remain another ahankAra,
which prevents athmA from realizing Isvara as one and
only means. namaH gets rid of this ahankAra too. As a
result the AthmA realizes ISvara As mean and goal,
hence namaH can also be used to indicate the upAya
bhAva of the lord. 
Then swami explains the direct meaning also convey the
same, by quoting from a mahAbhAratha sloka
â??darupadyA: sahitha: sarvE namaScakru: janAdanamâ??,
(when advised by the monks, the pandavas along with
draupadi, surrendered to janArdana. )
According to this namaScakru sloka, the namaH is used
as a synonym of SaraNa Sabda, conveys the same upAya
bhAva of ISvaran. Apart from that, the final ahankAra,
which comes as an obstacle to the kainkarya explained
by the â??nArAyaNayaâ??, also is removed by the namaH.


The namaH unlike the â??aâ?? kArA or
â??nArAyaNAyaâ??-which ends with the fourth case of
vibhakthi- ends with the sixth case of vibhakthi
stressing that the athmA is not swathanthran. 
Hence namaH is explained.

AzhWar emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvaDikaLE SaraNam



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