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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








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