Previous Prapanna ParithrANam 13 .

Translated by Sri Ramanan Rajagopalan

He is 'The Be all and End All for all'

Ini Akinchanyam Avadhu karma, jnAna, bhaktigalukku hEtuvAna Atma guNangaLilum anvayam andrikkE avattrRkku vipareethangal AnavatrrAlE thAm paripooraNanAga irukkum iruppaiyum.. nam karyathukku nAm kadavOm allOm endru ninaiththuk koNdu avan kai pArthu Iswaranai upAyamAga pattrum nirbaranAi irukkum avanukku sarIra avatAna kAlathilE prApthi alLiththu nayAmi endru arulich seydhapadiyE Iswaran thAne sarakkAlai vandhu archirArthi mArgathilE paramapadam koNdu pOy nithya muktharOdE oru kOvai Akki nithya kaimkaryaththaik koduththu aruLum padiyAle IswaranE rakshagan AgirAn

As an ordinary soul, karma, jnAna bkakthigal will not fetch mOksham. Even Azhwars have pleaded about this Akincanyathvam and hence surrendered to Perumal completely. Nammazhwar surrenders to Vanamamalai peruaml as:

nORRa nOnbilEn nuNNaRivilEn agilum ini unnai vittu onRum ARRakiRkinRilEn aravinaNai ammAnE,
sERRuth thAmarai senneloodu malar sireevara mangalanagar,
veeRRirundha endhAy! unakku migaiyallEnangE (Thiruvaymozhi 5.7.1)

Only when a soul gets the complete bhakti (which is like the flow of oil), will it get Atma gunams like kshamA, dhamA and shanty. This means is not recommended in our sampradAyam as it creates dependency on a factor other than Perumal himself to attain Him.

When a soul has completely surrendered with the belief that it is a total slave to Perumal, it need not worry about the state when the death occurs. Perumal himself has quoted in his Varaha charama slokam as "nayAmi". The soul need not remember about Perumal. Instead Perumal will remember the soul in that state.

Swamy Pillai Lokacharyar refers to Peruumal as Sarakku Aal, the labourer. Once the soul performs Saranagati, Perumal will act as a labourer to lead that soul via the ArcirArdi mArgam to His abode, SriVaikuntam. He will grant a place amongst the nithyasUris and mukthas in His abode. Also, He will grant the nithya kaimkaryam opportunity. That is the kind of state that the soul will be in, when it attains the knowledge that Sriman Narayanan is the only ruler and everything else is slave to Him. Swamy Nammazhwar requests this kind of kaimkaryam from ThiruVengadamudayAn...

ozhivil kAlam ellAm udanAy manni,
vazhuvilA adimai seyya vENdum nAm,
thezhikural aruvith thiruvEngadaththu,
ezhilkoL sOthi enthai thanthai thanthaikkE (Thiruvaymozhi 3.3.1)

Again, Azhwar advocates that in order to get this nitya kaimkaryam, all we need to realize is we are not ours, but we all belong to Him. Hence, He is the Swami and we all are His servants.

vEngadangaL meymmEl vinai muRRavum,
thAngaL thangatku nallanavE seyvAr,
vEngadaththuRaivArkku namavenna lAngkadamai, adhu sumanthArkatkE (Thiruvaymozhi 3.3.6)

With all the above discussion, it becomes very clear that in our sampradAyam, we should not try to attain something other than mOksham through Sriyapathi and also we should not try to attain Him through some other means.

The conclusion is:
We should attain Perumal only through Him.

aDiyEn would like to conlude the series with the following Nammazhwar pasuram on VaithamAnidhi Perumal of ThirukkOlur:

uNNum sORu parugu neer thinnum veRRilaiyum ellAm
kaNNan, emperumAn enRenRE kaNkaL neer malgi,
maNNinuL avan seer vaLam mikkavanoor vinavi,
thiNNam enniLamAn pugumoor thirukkOLoorE (Thiruvaymozhi 6.7.1)

Pillai Lokacharyar Thiruvadigale Sharanam
Azhvar Emperumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Sharanam

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