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From: Thirumalai Anandanpillai (tananda_at_uswest.com)
Date: Thu Aug 07 1997 - 12:01:45 PDT
Sampath Rengarajan wrote: > Yes you are right ! Logically this statment of mine can be proved > wrong. I am wrong in presenting this concept of prapatti by these mere > > statments and without any details. I was not focussing to go into the > debate between our two paths. I did not intend to do that either. I just wanted to clarify what my understandingof prapatti is. > > > Hence we end up calling prapatti process as prapatti itself. > Since an upAyam is attained through this process (we beleive the Lord > gave the word to us through acharyAL at this moment) it can also be > called technically as an upAyam as whole (process). Thanks for your explanation about baaranyaasam and your understandingof prapatti. I have a question - Can I consider baaranyaasam as a vyaaja? > In Sri Ramanuja > vaibavam Lord VARADHAR answers that "prapattiyum upAyamE" in those > questions and answers. The thenkalai schools also accept this > conversation of Lord Varadhar as real. But then what is their > vyAkyAnam > or interpretation for this. Can you or someother thenkalai bAgwathALs, > > please explain. I am requesting this just as an info and not as a > challenge. Finally if you will agree with Lord varadhar's words as > truth, then Will you allow me also to call prapatti as an upAyam and > repeat Lord Varadhar's words whatever may the interpretation from > one's > school for that? > To be honest, this is the first time I have heard about Varadaraajar saying'prapattiyum upaayamE'. Can you give me some material on this - just for my understanding.Aazhwaar emerumaanaar jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saranam, Varadhan