SrI: Dear AaasthikAs : I am glad to share with you a note from Sri Murlaidhar Rangaswamy on the Vaibhavam of our AchAryAs and Sath SampradhAyam . I am sure you will enjoy his posting as much as I did . V.Sadagopan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rangaswamy Muralidhar Civ AFRL/SNHE" <Muralidhar.Rangaswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'sgopan'" <sgopan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 7:15 AM Subject: RE: Thiruvaheendhrapuram AchArya (MahA Mantapa Kaimkaryam) /Sri Kainkarya Sabha 's commendable efforts. Sri: SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha, Dear Sriman Sadagopan Swamin, Thanks a lot for your beautiful note highlighting the glory of Acharyas replete with veda PramaNams. Please permit adiyen to submit the following. The Taittriya Upanishad glorifies Acharyas as "Acharya dhEvO Bhava" (One's Acharya must be revered like God-Sriman Narayana). The Prashna Upanishad salutes the glory of Acharyas through 6 disciples paying homage to Pippalada "thvam hi na: pithA yOasmAkam avidhyAyA: param param thArayasi" (You are our father who makes us cross the ocean of avidhya). The ChandOgya Upanishad highlights the glory of Acharyas in 3 places: First through the declaration of Satyakama Jabala to his Guru Gautama AcharyA : Ddhaiva vidhyA vidhithA sAdhiShtam prApath" (Knowledge gained from an Acharya alone will lead one to the ultimate good). The next instance is through the injunction to Upakosala, who had mastered the nuances of Agni upasanam. The three sacred fires (gArhapathyam, AhavanIyam, and dhakshiNAgni) offer the instruction "AchAryasthu thE gatim vaktha" (Be instructed in ArchirAdhi margam through an Acharya). Finally, the ChandOgya Upanishad highlights the compassionate role of an Acharya in redeeming baddha jivans through the anecdote of the plight of a Gandharapurusha lost in a forest and relieved of his belongings by robbers: "thasya yaThA aBhinahanam pramuchya prabhUyAth yEthAm dhisham ganDhArA yEthAm dhisham vrajEthi sa grAmAth grAmam prucChan paNdithO mEDhAvI ganDhArAnEva upasamadhyEtha yEvamEva iha AcharyavAn puruShO vEdha" (Just as someone would free his blind folding bondage and tell him The Gandhara country is in this direction. Follow this path and reach there, and then just as this person being clever and wise reaches the Gandhara country by enquiring from village to village, a person who begets an Acharya realizes Brahman-Lord Narayana. He attains Brahman as soon as he is released from the body. The delay is only as long as he does not get freed from the body. This salutation is perhaps the most compelling Upanishadic endorsement of the doctrine of SharaNagati, fundamental to Bhagavad Ramanuja Darshanam as practised by Swami Nigamantha Mahadesikan. The plight of the blind folded Gandhara Purusha lost in the forest and relieved of his belongings by robbers eloquently mirrors the plight of a baddha jivan inextricably bound to Samsara by the rope of karma as result of which the baddha jivan is caught in a seemingly interminable cycle of births and deaths with no hope of redemption whatsoever. Upon acquiring Acharya Sambandham and receiving upadesham from a compassionate Acharya about Artha Panchakam (jivatma swaroopam, paramatma swaroopam, upAyam-SharaNagati, Phala swaroopam, and Phala virODhi swaroopam), the baddha jivan performs SharaNagati at the Feet of the Acharyan, as a result of which the jivan becomes a Muktha and is assured of attaining permanent residence in Sri Vaikuntam at the end of its bodily existence. Thanks again for your wonderful note which caused the additional reflections. Namo Narayana, SriMuralidhara Dasan Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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