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not have any interest in pravRtti dharma, and live their lives with the sole
objective of doing kaimkaryam to Him. They are not interested in any fruit
out of their action except the bhAgyam of doing kaimkaryam to Him.
BhagavAn gives them exactly that, namely He gives them His lokam from where
there is no return to samsAra - viNNulagam taruvAnAi variaginrAn
(tivuvAimozhi 10. 6. 3). In fact, even though bhagavAn is AtmA of these
nivRtti dharma practitioners just as He is the AtmA of all other creations, yet
He considers that these nivRtti dharma followers are His soul, that is, He
cannot live without them.
SrI rAmAnujan also gives his anubhavam of bhagavAn's detachment from any
feeling of self-glory over His greatness (interpretation e). Here He is, creating
this great wonder with all its innumerable creatures and all the planets and the
different worlds. He is the svAmi of all these worlds - vIRRirunduEzhulagum
tanik kOl Sella; varambilAda mAyai mAya!. varambilAda kIrtiyAi!
(tiruccandaviruttam 96). With all this greatness, one would expect that He
should have some attachment of ownership to His wonderful creation, and
pride of this great creation of His. Yet, He does not have any of this sense
ofpride, and is only interested in our welfare instead, in whatever He does.
Such is His greatness.
In the four instances where SrI BhaTTar uses the nAma nivRttAtmA as
referred to above,
SrI Samkara uses the nAma nivRttAtmA in Sloka-s 25 and 64, the nAma
vimuktAtmA in Slokam 48, and gives interpretations using the pATha as anivRttAtmA
or alternatively as nivRttAtmA in Slokam 83.
His interpretations are:
Slokam 25: "He whose nature is that He is free from the bonds ofsamsAra -
samsAra bandhanAt nivRtta AtmA svarUpam asya iti nivRttAtmA".
Slokam 64: "He who naturally turns away from material pleasures -
svabhAvatah vishayebhyo nivRtta AtmA manah asya iti nivRttAtmA".
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