Dear All,
aDiyEn forgot to add one incident in our AchArya Goshti in the following context in previous email in this chain,
?Assuming we have no AchArya sambandham, all of us would have started concentrating on deriving the end product from the milk, which is very laborious. Moreover we will not be sure to get the right level of taste or anubhavam in the end product. Thus AchArya sambandham is very much needed to direct us straight to the end product. Who will be ready to manufacture a product if he can get it off the shelf? That is what our AchAryAs have done for us.?
Nathamunigal gave two important things to UyyakkondAr (also known as Pudarikakshan), and asked him to choose one among them. They were yOga rahasyam and Azhwar's Divya Prabandham. If UyyakkondAr had taken the first one, it would have been equal to opting for a non-appreciable wealth, where as the second choice was seen as an appreciable asset that got passed along all through our Guru ParamparA. Hence, UyyakkondAr chose Azhwar's SriSookthis. There is an interesting Azhwar pasuram that says,
'Namm kannan kann allathillaiyOr kannE'
For Azhwars, who were full of Jnana, bhkati vairAgyam Kannan was the kann, the protector. For us, the ignorant souls, AchArya Goshti is the protector.
Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:
Dear Devotee,
purANAs are less authentic as compared to itihAsAs.
Even among the purANAs vishNu purANam is the foremost. When these
things conflict with sruti(samskrt), the former have to be rejected.
Whenever samskrt vedAs pose difficulty one "has" to refer back
to "drAvida vEdam" as the former carries "hoards of unwanted
garbage/kuppai" alongwith srIman nArAyaNa unlike nAlAyira divya
prabandham which is the purest of the pure and which only talks
about the Lord and His kalyANa guNas.
When people follow samskrt vedas(without the help of NDP),the result
is only nervous break down. It is not possible for a jIvAtmA(esp.,
baddha jIvAtmA) to spot mANikya(srIman nArAyaNa) among the heaps of
waste without the grace of the Lord which is what NDP talks about.
So all the riddles are solved when one seeks sheltor in NDP. No
offence intented towards people who are staunch followers of samskrt
vedas more than NDP!
I was wondering, even though our sampradAyam goes by ubhaya
vEdAntam, is it possible for a jIvAtmA to be "equally" inclined
towards both in "heart"? I doubt it and plan to do a small study on
this by observing what comes more often from the mouth of the
jIvAtmA. If a jIvAtma talks more of AzhvArs, he/she is less likely
to talk about samskrt vEdAs and vice versa.
mayarvu aRa mathi nalam aruLappeRRa AzhvAr thiruvadigaLE sharaNam
adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsI
NC Nappinnai
> A very interesting fact about all sheshas
> is stated in the Bhagavad Gita. It says that the
> kshetra (body of a shesha) is primarily
> made up of "Mahaa bhoothani ahankaaro buddhir
> Avyaktham eva cha"----
> the five great elements (Pancha bhootam), "AHANKAARA"
> (ego - one of the lower Prakrithis
> comprising the Brahman-the supporter of all
> jivaatmas), buddhi (intellect) and Avyaktham
> (the unmanifest). Since Adishesha is no exception to
> this, can we not conclude that even he
> possesed the guna lakshanam as the Gita
> states(although in a primeval stage)? Now that we are
> clear with this
> point, let us continue further.
azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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