Sri: Srimathe Ramanujaya nama: Dear Devotees, Humble praNAms to all. This is just my feelings. I keep reading this upadEsa rathnamAlai's verse quite often. First of all, I don't think there is anything called "self-study". If a jIvAtmA thinks(that's also His grace)it is learning on "IT'S OWN", then it's perumAL's headache to correct it. WHenever we read a book,we are reading along with the author,and not alone. The only question is "is my frequency matches the author's mental frequency". Very rarely it matches and mathematically speaking there is 50-50 chance of misinterpreting the author. In such cases, we are supposed to cross check(not everybody does this,this quest for knowledge also needs to be supplied by Him ONLY) with those who have better knowledge/understanding of the subject concerned. In my own personal experience, when I was new in this forum, Sri Parthasarathy Iyengar used to quote SVB a lot. I have heard about SVB but I never had a peep into it(though i belong to that sampradAyam). The entire credit goes to Sri Parthasarathy for inculcating that interest in me wrt SVB which in turn provoked me to tell my father to send the book immediately. My father put one note for me saying "whether you do sharaNAgati to perumAL or not, you put one BIG sharaNAgati to srI piLLai lOkAcAryAr;if not,you're doomed forever!". Whenever some posts confuse me wrt SVB, I feel it is srI piLLai lOkAcAryAr who provokes me to send mails to Sri Parthasarathy Iyengar or Sri Vanamamalai Padmanabhan to check my understanding. PerumAL will put right devotees in front of the jIvAtmAs that He wants to remedy. JIvAtmA need not worry! We always have a teacher(starting from mother from whom we learn the language,BTW there is only mother tongue not father tongue)at each and every space-time. Whether we realize it or not is a different issue. I don't belong to myself,so where is the question of "self-study". As per swami nampiLLai's words of one of the mark of a vaishNava "both the Lord and the AcAryA reside in a vaishNava who has unbounded love and faith in a bhAgavata". So, will not that AcAryA mAmunigaL see to it that the jIvAtmA is going in the right direction? AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam dAsAnu dAsI NC Nappinnai > > Mukundan <mukrupa@xxxx> wrote: > > > > > > SrI: > > > > Dear SrI.Vishnu, > > > > > > > Please refer to SrI.Mukundan Pattangi svAmi's last week mail > quoting > > a verse from mAmunigaL's upadESa ratna mAlai. Better to avoid self- > > study!! > > Whether u sit in front of soemone or study his book, ultimately it is > your mind which has to grasp. In case of mUrkhas, better not to study > at all! > > Vishnu ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/.itolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ramanuja/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ramanuja-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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