A blog post after a very long time! And, I never thought I would write on this. To begin with, I must first admit that the line "You are the CSS to my HTML" is not my creation. 24HoursLoot is the creator, perhaps! Ya, that was one T-Shirt with quote available on sale online. My understanding of the quote is completely different. I see HTML as the human body and its CSS as the soul which resides inside the body (HTML Body?). Just like how CSS decorates a HTML page, the soul decorates our body.
Physical body can perish (chit), but the soul can never(achit). These three, the chit, the achit and Eshwara form the three components of this universe, as per Visishtadvaitham. This is the reason why Sri Vaishnava saints carry a "Thritanda". (Advaitha saints hold ekathanda as they believe that all the above 3 are the same )
We say a person is dead if the soul has left the body. Thus, soul is the fuel for life. When the fuel is over, the life is over. Life after death is a widely debated topic. Does a person take rebirth after death? Sri Vaishnavism comes with answers for these questions very clearly. Any person on this earth undergoes a lot of sufferings in his life. Once he is granted 'moksha' by the Lord, he takes no birth and enjoys performing unlimited service to Lord.
The ultimate goal of any SriVaishnavite should be to attain salvation to reach the lotus feet of Lord. The question that arises is, what should be we do inorder to attain such a state of bliss. The answer is simple. There are two ways to reach the Lord's feet. One is "bhakti margam" (The road through devotion) and the other is "saranagathi margam"(The road through surrender).
Bhakti margam is simple to follow, but Saranagathi margam is superior to bhakti margam. But we always need to start our journey with bhakti margam which ultimately leads to saranagathi margam. So, once we have performed saranagathi, all that we need to do is, just keep waiting for our Lord to call us to grant salvation.
Once the soul is separated from the body, Lord himself shows soul the way (Archirathi margam) to reach him. The soul travels through pagal lokam, valarpirai lokam, uttharayan lokam, vayu lokam, surya mandalam, chandra mandalam, minnal lokam, varuna lokam, indira lokam, satya lokam and then reaches the viraja river to take a holy dip, and is lifted by amanavan to help him reach Vaikuntam. This is a very special thing that should happen and everyone who understands the importance of this, should keep waiting for this opportunity every moment.
