#NilaiMarandhavan
the basic premise that all suffering in life is due to lack of divine grace makes a person vulnerable for con-men , quacks and their enterprise that peddles out 'miracles'
I i have heard kanchi mahaperiyava talk on this topic, where his divine grace posits suffering and hardships in a different way..where..all the hardships we face are "vishesha anugraham"of the divine. in comparison,all our pleasures are 'samanya anugraham'
vedanta desika has dealt this topic in his work vaishnava dinasari where the acharya talks about last observance of a vaishnava's daily ritual( before sleep) :
By unceasing focus on the divya dhampathis , the vaishnava ignores the sukha dukha that play out as per the brahma-lipi ( fate). i
🙏🙏🙏🙏 srimathe ramanuja namaha
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the major challenge to learning and reciting prabhandams is that most publications dont split the padhams correctly.
this makes varahi publication version a very good resource for beginners. this publication is no longer available. here is the pdf version of that book :archive.org/details/irrand… via @internetarchive
apart from having pasurams split into padhams , there is also a concise meaning for each pasuram .
@KarthikeyaTamil
my go to reference for literary tamil and tamil terms and usage is vedanta desika's desika prabhandam. here is a short thread :
the below reference is from the book "singing the body of god ..the hymns of vedantadesika in their south indian tradition" by steven paul hopkins.
"Desika's Tamil lyrics to Devanayaka reveal a writer far more deeply and self-consciously in command of Tamil than one would otherwise expect from a supposedly Sanskrit dominated northern Acarya .His brahmanic Sanskrit cosmopolis has territory set aside for cosmopolitan Tamil.