Dear Srimathi Vaidehi I am thankful for your valuable inputs on the above topic. I refer to the point that you have made in your mail regarding the above. Lord needing a reason to shower His grace has no place in TK school of thought if my understanding is right! You have also added B'coz there are jIvAtmAs which are totally incapable of even following the simplest procedures. If we go by strict procedures, we need to ask "how many brahmins learn and preach vedas or spend time in DDs instead of sitting abroad(within the home country as well as outside)?" This is a very valid argument. There was a recent mail from another knowledgeable person which I quote. B does not drive the soul to act in a particular way. If that is so B can be faulted to be partial and unkind. , since B makes someone to do good and some other to do bad. B gives us freedom to take the first step and then directs us to take further steps accordingly. I have suggested that the first step can be Bhakthi or prapathi. As you know ,for prapathi,there is no restriction regarding location,time,method,eligibility and also the purpose. In TK school of thought also ,the Lord needs a pretext or a flimsy reason for the flow of His grace. There are also references of unintentional merit and imposed merit in Sri vachana Bhushanam. There was another scholarly thought from Smt. Sumitra Varadarajan. The narrative of comparing the Lord with a farmer who cultivates the souls is scholarly. I do not know whether this stream of philosophy regarding the Lord's eagerness to redeem the souls is different from nirhetuka Krupai according to our poorvacharyars. I request to be excused for any inaccuracies. Adiyen Ramanujadasan Soundararajan Azhwar emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam Yahoo! Groups SponsorADVERTISEMENT --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ramanuja/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ramanuja-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/.itolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ramanuja/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ramanuja-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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