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Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:

Dear sriman soundararajan,

> 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.

If I can take that first step on my own, I don't need that God for 
making further steps. This one can prove logically. 

> 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.

If one reads SVB very closely, it is a complete smack for Ego. 
That's why maNavALa mAmunigaL made a statement that if you can find 
one person who practises what is said in SVB,that itself is a big 
surprise.

As I said in one of the posts that jIvAtmA would blame when it 
doesn't realize. Velukkudi Krishnan swami says in tirumantra 
upanyAsam "vAli accuses srIrAmA that b'coz sItA is not with You, 
Your mind is totally imbalanced and You don't know what You are 
doing." SrIrAmA kills vAli and vAli accuses perumAL like this. There 
is a purpose behind vAli vadam that vAli doesn't know. In short, 
vAli doesn't know the Lord's thought/will. That's why he is blaming 
the Lord. 

Well, both Sri PL and Sri AMPN defend each other's work. NammAzhvAr 
says "I just uttered tirumAlirumsOlai. But what all He has done for 
me". AzhvAr makes it very clear that whatever AzhvAr is endowed with 
is not b'coz of that uttering "tirumAlirumsOlai or mAdhava" but by 
sheer causeless grace of the Lord". If Lord gives merit for some 
small act on the jIvAtmA's part, that shows the greatness of the 
Lord and not the jIvAtmA. The jIvAtmA's contribution is so 
insignificant that it can be deleted from the scene! If a jIvAtmA 
wants some alpa santhOSham by thinking that it is also contributing
(which amounts to ego), well who is the loser?

AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam
dAsAnu dAsI
NC Nappinnai









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