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Pranams to all Acharyas!

 

Pranams to Everyone!

 

I don’t know whether I am allowed to raise this in this forum. Kindly

pardon me and ignore, if I am not allowed to.

 

I need guidance from the scholarly members for the following personal

problem :-

 

A nephew of mine, a youth of 22 years, who was very pious and

God-loving, doing all Nitya Karmanushtanams like Sandya Vandanam, etc,

was put in the hostel attached to the PSG College of Engineering in

Coimbatore for pursuing his Engineering degree. During the four years

he spent there, he was introduced by one of his classmates to Esha Yoga,

and then followed a sea-change in his attitude and behaviour. He is

totally shunning all religious activities, has given up Sandya Vandan,

and has started talking like an aethist, arguing that there is no God!

 

However, he says he wants to renounce all worldly bondages, donate all

his salary to the have-nots, wants to go out of home and do Tapas! He

argues to the extent of why we should eat even vegetable food since they

also have ‘life’ and should not be ‘killed’, does not want to take bath

or brush his teeth arguing whether cows and sheep do that!

 

We all try to put some sanity into this line of thinking giving him

books of Sankara, Ramakrishna and Kanchi Paramacharya, hoping that he

will understand things in proper perspective. But, he only picks up

lines of text which appear to be supporting his line of thinking,

quoting them out of context, and does not even complete the reading. He

does not read Newspapers, no Television, no Music, etc.

 

Kindly throw some light on the line of action that we may initiate to

get him back to the original mould of a God-loving person.

 

Thanks and Pranams again!

 

Kalivaradhan

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Namaste Sri Kalivardhan-ji.

 

 

information from them.

 

By the way, I never heard of Esha Yoga. Or is it Isha Yoga?

 

From

Sankarraamn

With regard to Isha Yoga, it is

propounded by one modern guru by name Jakki Vasudevan who claims to cure

psychological illness of people. He visits prisons attempting to make the

prisoners to turn over a new leaf. I don't know what specific message he has

got apart from all these therapies. There are a number of modern gurus

advocating some neo-spirituality. In what way they are helping the sadaks, is

not known. As regards the individual developing atheistic tendencies, much

importance may not be attached to it, as it is only a fad, as to be a sincere

atheist also demands much honesty. Some where in the gospel Ramakrishna says (I

am not able to quote the page number having read the book long back. I shall

try to identify the content.) that in the process of religious quest some

individuals may develop atheistic tendencies, which is not detracting from

their quest for truth. Giving up sandhyavandana is not a serious lapse, as

most of the people who do it perform it only by virtue of sheer habit. Some

people after they attain middle or old age take to these nitya karmas. As man

is subject to the influence of mind which is fleeting in its various

manifestations, there is bound to be all these developments. Some people

develop the serious psychological illness, schizophrenia, by virtue of

excessive introspective and isolated sadhana which they might have taken to by

virtue of their dispositions. The writer is aware of such cases. We must

understand that life is totally uncertain and we cannot find certainty in our

intellectual conclusions. Ultimately, all turmoils will need man to total

dependence on God. The actions of such a man cannot be understood by the

society which may brand it as mental illness. In a talk, when somebody refers

to people suffering from mental illness ( lack of chit ta swadinam),

Paramacharya says all who have not known the Atman actually suffer from such an

illness.

Yours faithfully,

Sankarraman

 

 

 

 

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