thaniyans<\/a><\/p>\n srI rAmAnuja<\/a> had expounded on bhakthi yOgam<\/em> (path of bhakthi or devotion) in his treatise srI bhAshyam<\/em>, to attain mOksham<\/em> (liberation from materialistic realm) . This was meant to counter the hypothesis put forward by kudrishtis<\/em> (those who give wrong interpretation of the vEdhas) who had said that only gyAna yOgam<\/em> (path of knowledge) would lead to mOksham<\/em>. srI rAmAnuja<\/a> was concerned that his followers would also think that bhakthi yOgam<\/em> only would liberate them from this samsAram<\/em>\u00a0(materialistic realm) and would follow that to attain mOksham<\/em>.<\/p>\n In SaraNAgathi gadhyam, he emphasises on saraNAgathi<\/em> (surrendering to srIman nArAyaNan<\/a>) as a path to attain mOksham<\/em>.\u00a0One may ask, if saraNAgathi is the path to mOksham<\/em>, why then did he not expound this in his srI bhAshyam to counter the kudhrishtis<\/em>? The reason for this is that just as a brAhmaNa can not teach vEdha to a chathurtha varNika (4th class of people), one can not let out the sacred, rahasya<\/em> (secretive) meanings of SaraNAgathi to everyone openly.<\/p>\n In what way is SaraNAgathi superior to bhakthi yOgam<\/em> as a means for attaining mOksham<\/em>?<\/p>\n SaraNAgathi is also mentioned in vEdhAntha. In yAgyikIya upanishad, twelve different characteristics are mentioned for a jIvAthmA<\/a> and the highest place among the twelve is given to SaraNAgathi. It has been followed by pUrvAchAryas<\/a> also and is dear to the heart of SrIman nArAyaNan. Thus, being acceptable to vEdhAntha, being aligned to the swarUpam of jIvAthma, having been followed by AzhwArs<\/a> and pUrvAchAryas<\/a> and being close to the heart of SrIman nArAyaNan, made srI rAmAnuja<\/a> to expound it so that his followers would also be benefited by it.<\/p>\n He chose the panguni uthram<\/a> day for performing SaraNAgathi when namperumAL<\/a> and ranganAchchiyAr<\/a> were seated next to each other. All the hurdles of samsAram were constantly going through in his mind and in order to get rid of these, he surrendered to the divya dhampathi. He had performed SaraNAgathi earlier when he took samAsrayaNam under his AchAryA periya nambi<\/a>. While SaraNAgathi is to be performed only once, why did srI rAmAnuja<\/a> perform it a second time? It was because of the fear that the samsAram was creating as well as the strong urge to be with God soon. Even AzhwArs<\/a> performed SaraNAgathi repeatedly (nammAzhwAr<\/a> did it 5 times and thirumangai AzhwAr<\/a>, 10 times). Same is the case with AchAryas<\/a> too. Hence in order to get rid of samsAram and to reach SrIvaikuNtam to perform kainkaryams (service) to the dhivya dhampathi he carried out SaraNAgathi.<\/p>\n We shall now move on to the 1st chUrNai of this treatise.<\/p>\n Translation by krishNa rAmAnuja dhAsan.<\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 https:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> srI: srImathE satakOpAya nama: srImathE rAmAnujAya nama: srImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series thaniyans Highlights from periyavAchchAn piLLai‘s vyAkhyAnam srI rAmAnuja had expounded on bhakthi yOgam (path of bhakthi or devotion) in his treatise srI bhAshyam, to attain mOksham (liberation from materialistic realm) . 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