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SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) In the previous pAsuram, AzhwAr had said “Either through surrendering to emperumAn, considering him as the means and end-goal or through reciting his divine names, treating that [the recitation] itself as the end benefit, one can get rid … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) If the mercy of emperumAn, who is apt to be attained, is the means for getting mOksham (SrI vaikuNtam), what should the person, who desires mOksham, do, in order to get emperumAn’s mercy? AzhwAr says that worshipping at … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) In the previous pAsuram, it was mentioned that “Only emperumAn is apt to be attained. Since brahmA and Sivan are badhdha jIvas (souls bonded in samsAram) they are not apt to be attained”. In this pAsuram, AzhwAr says … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) Some people asked AzhwAr “We see in this world that some people take refuge under Sivan since he grants mOksham. In SaivAgamam (principles governing temple worship for followers of Siva) and in thAmasa purANams [treatises which praise thAmasic … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) AzhwAr says in this pAsuram “rudhran had vowed that he would protect his devotee bANAsuran from kaNNan, and had taken the help of his sons as well as other deities such as kALi, agni et al. However, since … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) When some people asked “Could we say about those deities as ‘varam thara midukkilAdha dhEvar’? Haven’t many people attained deities such as rudhran and been granted their desires?” AzhwAr responds in this pAsuram saying “Those celestial entities who were … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction Some people asked “It was said in the last pAsuram ‘eththiRaththilum uyvadhOr upAyamillai’. How correct is this? By attaining other deities, one can attain mOksham” AzhwAr responds saying “It is difficult to attain other deities; even if one … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) samsAris (dwellers in materialistic realm) have one of the three qualities of sathvam (noble), rajas (passion) and thamas (ignorance) in excess over the other two. Since they [normally] have rajas and thamas in excess, they attain the corresponding … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) In the previous pAsuram, AzhwAr felt saddened, looking at the ignorance of samsAris in not realising the benefits that they had. Thinking that “If they get a taste in this (involvement with emperumAn) they should not miss these … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) AzhwAr is wondering that while attaining emperumAn is this simple, while worldly life, which is samsAram, has many evident defects such as insignificant, unstable etc, and while knowing that by attaining emperumAn one need not return to this … Read more