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Re: Re: phala-tyAga vs. phala-sanga-tyAga

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Balaji Srinivasan • March 12, 2002 


Dear bhAgavatAs,

Just to clarify myself of the (probably just semantic) difference between
phala tyAga and phala-sanga tyAga..I had for some reason felt that the
latter was more 'difficult'. Recent explanations seemed to confirm that

My general impression was:

1)phala tyAga is renounciation of the fruits of the action though it does
seem that during the action a sense of agency might have been maintained.
For e.g.
kAyEna vAchA mansAindrairvA buddhyAtmanA vA prakRtEr svabhAvAt|
karOmi yadyat sakalam parasmai nArAyaNayEti samarpayAmi ||
^^^^^^^^^^^^^                               ^^^^^^^^^^^
(Whatever I do by body, mind, senses ,by natural inclination I surrender
all that to nArayaNa).

This seems to assume that the action was (or might have been) done
with some sense of agency . (I did ...and after having done, I surrender)

2)phala-sanga-tyAga seems to be closer to the "fundamental" truth. This is
like the sAttvika-tyAga we do during sandhyAvandanam

Before starting...
bhagavAnEva.................
........................svayamEva kArayati

(perumAL alone for his own arAdhanam... will
cause this jIvAtma to do this karma)

After finishing
bhagavAnEva.....................
.......................svayamEva kAritavAn

(perumAl alone......................caused me to do this karma)

We can note that there is no consequent phala-samarpaNam (no surrender of
the fruits of action) for that wouldn't make sense when there is no agency
involved in the first place.
It seems that to do the whole of any karma with this attitude is a lot
harder. Definitely, boredom or rushing etc set in (they do for me) only
because one feels one is a fundamental mover in the action.
Also, it seemed to me that phala tyAga (1) makes greater sense when viewed
in this light for renouncing fruits just because they will bind you seems
to be a little less truer to the more fundamental reason that the fruits
rightfully belong to someone else. The hope seems to be that if one
follows phala-tyAga consciously one will eventually internalize the reason
why it is done and it can lead to a more natural phala-sanga-tyAga, more
deeply rooted in the true nature of things


I would very much like to be corrected in case I am wrong or have
misunderstood something.
adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,
Kannan



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