1. There is one Supreme Lord - Sriman Narayana.
2. There are four goals every person desires - (aka purusharthas) - Justice and Level Playing Field (Dharma), Wealth (Artha), Fulfilment of Desires (Kama), and Liberation from Samsara that signifies alternation of pain and pleasure (Moksha). Dharma, Artha, and Kama are physical desires. Moksha alone is a spiritual desire. Therefore people that deny spirituality dont care for or achieve Moksha. They continue to live the cycles of birth and death in samsara during which time they experience alternating pain and pleasure. People that attain Moksha do not experience pain, thereafter in their lives.
3. The spirit from which spirituality evolves is also called Aatma/Soul.
4. Aatma is different from the Lord that bestows the Moksha on it.
5. The Lord is the only person/authority that can grant Moksha to an individual soul.
6. The Lord is the only INDEPENDENT person in the whole entire existence. All other beings, sentient and insentient are always dependent on HIM. That is why He is called, Narayana - meaning, the source of all things that exist.
7. The Lord is always trying to promote the souls to become interested in, and achieve Moksha. It is we, given our intelligence and scientific reasoning, that keep negating Moksha and indulge in all kinds of activities (out of free will and choice) that take us farther away from Moksha.
8. The Lord's desire is to grant Moksha, It is we who are running away from Him and Moksha.
9. Even those that understand that Moksha is the final destination, are unaware of methods they can use to achieve it.
10. At least 12 methods have been defined in various shastras that most definitely include Karma, Jnana, Bhakthi, Dana, etc, The 12th one stated in Yalgnavalkya's smriti is Prapatti. This is said to be the easiest of the 12 methods.
11. Prapatti is nothing but Sharanagati, or surrendering one's so-called independence at the feet of the Creator, accepting our dependence on Him, and requesting HIM to take us to Moksha.
12. If we perform Sharanagati by ourselves, there is no reason for HIM to trust us or listen our pleas. Therefore we use a mediator - this Mediator is someone who is in His good books, and therefore someone whose recommendation HE will not reject. That person is the Acharya.
13. In Swami Ramanuja's sampradaya, he has appointed 74 Acharyas called Jeeyars who are empowered to talk to the Lord and recommend individual souls for Moksha.
14. Any individual reading this, and is interested in booking his/her ticket to Moksha may contact one of the 74 Jeeyars.It is roughly a 30 minute procedure.
15. Once ticket is booked through a Jeeyar, that individual soul (not the physical body in which the ticket was booked) is assured of safe-passage to Moksha, irrespective of what happens in this world to them. Well, except one, the person has to remain devoted and be respectful of the 74 empowered Jeeyars and his disciples.
16. Even after attaining the status of Moksha, the individual soul remains different from and always dependent on the Lord.
17. Achieving Moksha is the true purpose of Creation. If you dont achieve it in this life, you will take birth again and again, until you realize and achieve it using one of the 12 methods defined in the shastras.
2. There are four goals every person desires - (aka purusharthas) - Justice and Level Playing Field (Dharma), Wealth (Artha), Fulfilment of Desires (Kama), and Liberation from Samsara that signifies alternation of pain and pleasure (Moksha). Dharma, Artha, and Kama are physical desires. Moksha alone is a spiritual desire. Therefore people that deny spirituality dont care for or achieve Moksha. They continue to live the cycles of birth and death in samsara during which time they experience alternating pain and pleasure. People that attain Moksha do not experience pain, thereafter in their lives.
3. The spirit from which spirituality evolves is also called Aatma/Soul.
4. Aatma is different from the Lord that bestows the Moksha on it.
5. The Lord is the only person/authority that can grant Moksha to an individual soul.
6. The Lord is the only INDEPENDENT person in the whole entire existence. All other beings, sentient and insentient are always dependent on HIM. That is why He is called, Narayana - meaning, the source of all things that exist.
7. The Lord is always trying to promote the souls to become interested in, and achieve Moksha. It is we, given our intelligence and scientific reasoning, that keep negating Moksha and indulge in all kinds of activities (out of free will and choice) that take us farther away from Moksha.
8. The Lord's desire is to grant Moksha, It is we who are running away from Him and Moksha.
9. Even those that understand that Moksha is the final destination, are unaware of methods they can use to achieve it.
10. At least 12 methods have been defined in various shastras that most definitely include Karma, Jnana, Bhakthi, Dana, etc, The 12th one stated in Yalgnavalkya's smriti is Prapatti. This is said to be the easiest of the 12 methods.
11. Prapatti is nothing but Sharanagati, or surrendering one's so-called independence at the feet of the Creator, accepting our dependence on Him, and requesting HIM to take us to Moksha.
12. If we perform Sharanagati by ourselves, there is no reason for HIM to trust us or listen our pleas. Therefore we use a mediator - this Mediator is someone who is in His good books, and therefore someone whose recommendation HE will not reject. That person is the Acharya.
13. In Swami Ramanuja's sampradaya, he has appointed 74 Acharyas called Jeeyars who are empowered to talk to the Lord and recommend individual souls for Moksha.
14. Any individual reading this, and is interested in booking his/her ticket to Moksha may contact one of the 74 Jeeyars.It is roughly a 30 minute procedure.
15. Once ticket is booked through a Jeeyar, that individual soul (not the physical body in which the ticket was booked) is assured of safe-passage to Moksha, irrespective of what happens in this world to them. Well, except one, the person has to remain devoted and be respectful of the 74 empowered Jeeyars and his disciples.
16. Even after attaining the status of Moksha, the individual soul remains different from and always dependent on the Lord.
17. Achieving Moksha is the true purpose of Creation. If you dont achieve it in this life, you will take birth again and again, until you realize and achieve it using one of the 12 methods defined in the shastras.
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