Dear Srimathi Vaidhehi
I refer to the following passage in your recent mail dated 10 Oct 2004.
"My response was to Sriman Krishnaswamy's(with rajan_s id) post
wrt "paratantram is making oneself ready so as to deserve His
krpa...". I didn't pose a question wrt sEshatvam and pAratantryam in
the first place. I only asked wrt "making oneself ready". This
addresses the issue of sahEtukam/nirhEtukam and
freewill!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here ends my question."
I really understood your question and hence replied as follows:
You have raised important questions of Sahetuka krupai and Nirhetuka krupai
of the Lord. It will merit a serious discussion from the learned disciples of
the Sampradayam.It is one of the doctrinairre differences between vadagalai and
thengalai sampradayams.
Ofcourse the differnces are only 'varthabetham' and not 'yojanabhedham'.
I think that your quote from Smt Jayasree Saranathan's post ,"It is He who
gives buddhi to those whom He
wants to lift...".
recociles both the view points.
I did not go deep as I was unable to quote extensively from Acharyas'
srisukthis.
I was expecting that the learned group will be writing on this topic.
It is said that when chetanan takes a step towards Sriman Narayana, the Lord
takes hundred steps towards the devotee.It is due to his sausilya and saulabhya
gunas.An enlightened soul gets redeemed after many cycle of births and deaths
after undergoing the strenuous path of Gyanam and Bhakthi. Prapathi is also not
that easy .This has to go along with its five constituents .
All these may look sahetukam.
Adiyen Ramanujadasan
Soundararajan.
AzwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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Yahoo! Groups SponsorIn one of the earlier mails, it has been mentioned that
paratantriyam is not beining like 'achit'.
Bhagavat Ramanuja prays to the Lord in his Sharanagathi Gadyaam that he be
endowed with parabhakthi,paragnanam and paramabhakti which entails the grace of
the Lord.
He prays to the Lord in his mangala sloka of Sribhashyam that his knowledge
take the form of Bhakti .
It has been said In the commemtaries to Divya Prabhantam that the Lord has
given the vedas and Upanishads and then Bhagavat Gita so that people can
follow them.When He saw that only a few understood them and followed,He has
sent Azhwars and Acharyas so that people can easily emulate them being of their
own kind.
It is incumbent therefore that the prapannas follow the teaching of
Purvacharyas which pleses the Lord.
The Lord emphasises the importance of everyone performing his duties when he
says "Karmanyeva adhikaraste, ma paleshu kathachana' .
Any inadequacies in my language be excused.
Adiyen Ramanujadasan
Soundararajan.
AzwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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