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Dileepan writes:

> The time for performing

> prapatti is not when we are about to leave this world, but right here

> and now. Even the exalted soul Periaazhvaar was fearful that he may

> fail to remember our Lord's thirunaamam when Yama's agents are

> upon him. In ten beautiful paasurams of Periaazvaar Thiru mozhi

> (4.10.1 - 4.10.10) aazhvaar repeats this theme "appothaikku

> ippOdhE sollivaiththEn." The first of these 10 paasurams is:

>

> thuppudaiyaarai_adaivadhellaam

> sOrvidaththuththuNaiyaavarenRE

> oppilEnaakilumn^innadaindhEn

> aanaikkun^ee_aruLseydhamaiyaal

> eyppu_ennaivandhun^aliyumpOdhu

> angu_Edhumn^aanunnain^inaikkamaattEn

> appOdhaikku_ippOdhEsollivaiththEn

> arangaththaravaNaippaLLiyaanE!

>

> "The meek surrender to You, confident that

> You will save them when their strengths are gone;

> I am of no merit, yet I surrender unto You,

> with unshakable faith that You will save me,

> like You saved GajEdran.

> O! the Lord of Sri Rangam, slumbering upon the snake-bed,

> when old age is upon me, I won't think of You;

> So, let me surrender unto You, right here and now.

 

I thought I should mention a related stanza from Kulashekara Azhwar's

Mukundamaala.

 

krishna tvadeeya padapankaja panjaraantham

adyaiva me vishatu maanasa rajahamsa.h |

praanaprayaanasamaye kaphavaatapittai

kantaavarodhana vidhau smaranam kutaste ||

 

 

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