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hR^idantaratama: prabhAmanubhavanti bhaktim pare prapattimapi kechana prabalakarmanirmUlinIm | jagadguruvara dvayam bhavatu siddhidam sAdhanam vayam tava padAmbuja smaraNameva manyAmahe ||
Meaning:
jagadguruvara - O! Lokacharya. pare - Others anubhavanti - understand bhaktim - devotion to the Lord hR^id antara tama: prabhAm - as the light that removes the darkness of the mind. kechana - Some anubhavanti - understand prapattimapi - surrendering to the Lord prabalakarma nirmUlinIm - as removing the strong sins completely. bhavatu - Let it be dvayam - that both of these sAdhanam - means siddhidam - accomplish the above said tasks. vayam - We manyAmahe - determine that tava padAmbuja smaraNam eva - meditating on your divine feet alone siddhidam sAdhanam - as the means that removes both ignorance and sins.
Vyakhyana Saram:
There are many who say that Bhakti and Prapatti both are
the appropriate means to destroy ignorance and the karmas
and elevate the soul to liberation. This is not false.
However, for us, the highest and surest path to moksha
is the surrender to an acharya (panchamopAyam). It is
this that is mentioned by Pillai Lokacharyar as "AchArya
abhimAnamE uththArakam" and "bhakthiyil asakthanukku
prapaththi; prapaththiyil asakthanukku idhu".
And Swami Desikan follows that by saying in this shloka that it is the divine feet of Pillai Lokacharyar that is our means to moksha.
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