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 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/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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