Sri Pillai Lokacharya's Mumukshuppadi - 059

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Sri: | Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

 

Sutra 59:

With this ukAram's avatAraNam, anya sEshatva nivrutti(not being enslaved to

another) is being shown.

 

Sri PBA Swami's Sarartha Deepikai:

There are two types of cases that arise out of the avatAraNam: ayOgavyavaccEtam

and anyayOgavyavaccEtam. If a statement is made "the conch has the color white",

that is the ayOgavyavaccEtam case. If a statement is made that "the white color

is no where but in a conch", then it is the anyayOgavyavaccEtam case. As the

second statement is false, the second case cannot be used there. If one says

"Arjuna is the only archer", the meaning there is that he has no equal in

wielding the bow and therefore the case is anyayOgavyavaccEtam.

 

In the avatAraNam used for the ukAram, it is the anyayOgavyavaccEtam case that

stands. That is, the ukAram shows that the sEshatvam shown to the Lord is only

toward Him and cannot be shown anywhere else. Just as "prutviyAm Eva gantha:"

shows that the quality of fragrance is present nowhere but in the prutivi (that

is, anyayOgavyavaccEtam), so too here it is taken as "jIva: Ayaiva") and that

the jIva is enslaved only to Him and no one else.

 

By the hidden case when it is shown that the soul is enslaved to the Lord, why

even bring up the question whether he is enslaved to another and prove that he

is not?

 

In this world, we see that something that is owned by one person is also owned

by others. This is seen in the case of a home, a place, a servant, a son, etc.

Therefore it is possible that a doubt might come up whether that is the

situation between the jIvas and the Lord. To answer that, the case has been

taken up and shown that it is not so here.

 

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