SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavaramunayE nama:
avathArikai (Introduction)
Here, in this manner, though the reasons for fear and fearlessness are together explained as all defects and all auspicious qualities, it is further explained that one’s karma and bhagavAn’s krupai are the reasons for one’s loss or gain, in sUthram 374 “izhavukku adi karmam, pERRukku adi krupai” (the reason for loss is one’s karma, the reason for gain is bhagavAn’s mercy), and further in sUthram 402 “karma palam pOlE krupA palamum anubaviththE aRa vENum” (just as one’s karma’s results need to be experienced to exhaust them, result of bhagavAn’s mercy also must be experienced without fail) and concluded in sUthram 404 “bhaya hEthu karmam, abhaya hEthu krupai” (the reason for fear is one’s karma, the reason for fearlessness is bhagavAn’s mercy); this is because one’s karma and bhagavAn’s krupai are the more predominant reasons for one’s bondage and liberation respectively, more than those other aspects; the other aspects which follow these two, will naturally occur eventually. Other than this, if one fears seeing bhagavAn’s nature and one becomes fearless seeing the nature of self, that will lead to ignorance.
sUthram 367
bhayAbhayangaL iraNdum mARAdil agyathaiyE sidhdhikkum.
Simple Explanation
If the fear and fearlessness are reversed, that will lead to ignorance only.
vyAkyAnam (Commentary)
bhayAbhayangaL iraNdum …
That is, unlike as explained previously, when one fears for bhagavAn thinking about his nature as in “Since time immemorial, bhagavAn who has AthmA as his totally dependent entity, kept in samsAram showing the reasons as karma! What if such uncontrallably independent emperumAn continues to keep me in samsAram!” and becomes fearless thinking about one’s own nature as in “Unlike previously, now we have noble qualities, hence our liberation is guaranteed”, since one is not situated in the proper knowledge of fearing for oneself to be the destroyer of the self and being fearless thinking bhagavAn to be the protector, one will become ignorant.
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