Having listened to Natteri Svami’s Sharanagati Deepika discourse, adiyen performed Bharanyasam at the feet of Srimushnam Andavan; even then, adiyen was married off to a family belonging to Thennacharya tradition; without enquiring about adiyen’s background, Andavan with great compassioan performed Bharanyasam. Adiyen’s samashrayanam was done at the Tirumaligai of Mudaliyandan. On that day, a few said that Bharanyasam already done will not fructify and said I must perform prayaschitta prapatti. But adiyen has absolute faith in the Acharyan who performed Bharanyasam, Svami Desikan, and Emperuman and firmly believes the sharanagati already done will fructify. Praying the great and wise to show the way.

Both in our tradition and the Thennacharya tradition, we do not have the practice of doing prayaschitta sharanagati. Periyavachan Pillai has said that after having done sharanagati once, one must not do another sharanagati even as an atonement.

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