எப்பொழுதும் "த்வயம்"நினைப்பே

எப்பொழுதும் "த்வயம்"நினைப்பே
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நன்றி:   TCA Venkatesan vtca@yahoo.com/span>
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 On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:45 PM, TCA Venkatesan Sri:   Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

Prior to being won over by Bhattar and becoming a Srivaishnava,
Nanjeeyar was known as Vedanti/Madhavacharyar and lived near
 Thirunarayanapuram, in Karnataka. By the order of Swami Ramanuja, Bhattar
went to Vedanti, defeated him in a debate and made him a Srivaishnava.
Vedanti continued to live near Thirunarayanapuram after that. Later, due to
 some incidents in his household, he became indifferent to this world and
 became a sanyasi. He collected a sizeable portion of his wealth and headed
to Srirangam to seek Bhattar's divine feet. When Bhattar saw him, he called
him ‘nam jIyar’ and he got the name Nanjeeyar after that.

On the way to Srirangam, Nanjeeyar was met by Anandazhvan. Anandazhvan saw                             that Nanjeeyar had become a sanyasi and told him ‘Why did you take on                                   sanyashrama dharma? You lived a comfortable live as Vedanti. If you had                                      continued in the same way (and not taken on the rigid requirements of this                                ashrama) and considered Bhattar’s divine feet as the means and the goal,                                           would anyone have rejected you from attaining His divine abode?’

 He continued: ‘Now reject all the mantras that you had learnt as Vedanti.
Instead, be born in Thirumanthra as a Srivaishnava; grow (in knowledge) in
the Dvaya mantra that Bhattar taught you by reciting it always; and be
 attached to Dvaya mantram alone’.

 He also said the following to Nanjeeyar: ‘Do not think that you have given                                         your worldly wealth to Bhattar and therefore Bhattar will take care of you.

That will take you to a lower place than where you were as Vedanti.
Consider thus: Your state in this world will be taken care of by Periya
Perumal and Your state in His divine abode will be taken care of by
Bhattar.’

Why not consider that both the states in this world and the next are the                                   responsibility of the acharya? If we did, if due to our karmas we have some                                     bodily suffering, we would blame our acharya. If that were to happen, the                                              Lord will not pardon that. On the other hand, if we blame the Lord (if we                                          consider the body to be His responsibility and suffer from some                                                              affliction), we will still be pardoned by Him as we will be approaching Him                                         through the mediation of the acharya only.

Azhvar Emberumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Sharanam

adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan