sanyAsa/gruhastAsrama

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Smt. Raji Sridhar:

 

This was explained very well by asmad AchAryan Sri

Rangapriya mahAdeSikan during one of HH's discourses

on mahAbharata. All the Asramas spring from the

gruhastAsrama alone; without it there would be no

life nor any progeny. It is gruhastAsrama alone

which supports children and brahmacharis, wives,

mothers and daughters alike. It is the very basis

for all of sanAtana dharma. Whether one takes up

sanyAsAsrama by passing through gruhastAsrama first,

or directly enters sanyAsAsrama - the fact remains

that in both cases the sanyAsi's origin itself is

attributable to gruhastAsrama.

 

Further, a gruhasta has certain special privileges

that sanyAsis don't - such as: a sanyAsi must only

seek bhikshai from a gruhasta, for example. Great

scholars from gruhastAsrama (such as swAmi deSikan

and uttamoor swAmi) have demonstrated that one can

perform kainkaryam towards human beings of all other

Asramas, without entering sanyAsa. In this respect,

a sanyAsi faces numerous restrictions which could

even inhibit their ability for bhAgavata kainkaryam.

Finally, sanyAsaSrama is possible only because of

grushastAsrama, since a sanyAsi is forbidden from

pursuing livelihood and must depend upon a gruhasta's

philantrophy for sustanence of matham/shishyas etc.

 

Thus, SriRangapriya swAmi said, that grushastAsrama

is proclaimed in the itihAsas as the "supreme among

all Asramas", and the source/origin of life itself.

 

adiyEn rangapriya daasan,

-Srinath C.

 

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RAJI SRIDHAR <sridharaji wrote:

>I have heard from my elders that Grihasthashram is

>greater than Sanyashramam. I don't know why? Can

>someone tell me more about this.

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srImathE rAmAnujAya namaha

srImadh varavara munayE namaha

 

Dear Members,

 

Sri Srinath Chakravarthy wrote :

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In this respect,a sanyAsi faces numerous restrictions which could

even inhibit their ability for bhAgavata kainkaryam.

 

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But I feel that there cannot be a restriction on anybody to do bhAgavata

kainkaryam based on the Asrama. The standing example is Sri Nanjeeyar

(sanyAsi) doing kainkaryam to Sri Bhattar (gruhasta). In fact there is a

legend that once a Sri Vaishnava asked Nanjeeyar that, being in

sanyAsasrama, is it right to do kainkaryam to a gruhastha? For which, Sri

Nanjeeyar replied, " I am doing kainkaryam to my AchAryan. I do not care

about his AsramA. However if you feel that there is an injunction that a

sanyAsi should not do kainkaryam to a gruhasta, here, I will renounce my

sanyAsam and take up gruhasthAsramam". Now, as is evident, Sri Nanjeeyar

never gave up the sanyAsam but was doing kainkaryam to Sri Bhattar through

out the life time.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan

Thirumalai Vinjamoor Venkatesh

 

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