Gruru Parampara

[Guest guest]

"Lakshminatha samarambham Nada yamuna madyamam

asmadhaachaarya paryantham vande guruparamparam"

 

Dear Bhakthas,

 

I have a question on guru parampara.

It is said that Nammazhwar is next to vishwaksenar. How, When and where did

vishwaksenar do samashrayanam and rahasya upadesam to nammazhwar.

 

During sri Natha munigal's time, Nammazhwar had already attained

paramapadam, how, When and where did nammazhwar do samashrayanam to Natha

munigal

 

For Adi van sadagopa swamy, it is said that Lakshmi Narasimhar came in the

form of a human(Sanyasi ??) and performed samashrayanam etc. Then how did

Adi van sadagopa swamy enter the existing guruparampara?

 

Sorry if I had asked anything wrong.

 

Narasimha raghavan

[Guest guest]

Namo Narayanaya Namah!

 

Dear Narasimha Raghavan Swamin

 

Lord Krishna, the most generous ONE, empowers every

one of us to

approach our respective acharyas and question with

respect and keen

interest in learning.

 

adiyen takes your question regarding Swamy Nammazwar

and Vishwaksenar

and their acharya-sishya relationship, in that spirit

and I am

placing before devareer the following in response and

with the interest

of kindling and conversing with devareer's spiritural

self.

 

Religion is not a rational science. Not everything can

be explained

to the satisfaction of empirical mind. It is not

possible.

Faith is an imporant component of religion. Either you

believe or you

do not.

 

adiyen has the same right as everyone else.

 

There are such things as black holes in this universe.

I have not seen

it. I have heard about it. I do not believe it. But it

is out there.

 

The earth I am on (which gives me the false pretense

of stability)

is moving at 30000 km per second as part of the solar

system around

the milky way galaxy. Can you or any one rationalize

this given our

understanding.

 

Uri Geller of Iran can bend spoons, lift iron etc by

mere looks.

I cannot do that. Can it be done. Uri geller did it.

So answer is

obvious.

 

Tibetan monks and Nepalese monks can stay outside when

the temperatue

is below zero with their thin traditional dress.

American TV shows

have conducted experiments and found that these people

generated more

heat then they took in.

 

Please visit a Lakshmi Narasimha Sannidhi (Mattapalli)

I think.

Where all devotees can take panagam (candy + water)

and pour it into

Swamy. The legend has it that one cannot pour more

than half the amount

taken in. This is magical also. Nature is elusive.

 

E=mc**2 rather innocuous expression. But, ask the

Japanese they might

give you a vivid story of the implications of this

short expression.

 

Did you know that most material is mostly void. 90% is

empty space.

 

And then there is super fluid, super conductors etc.,

space warp,

time warp etc..etc..which we cannot rationalize. And

yet they

happen right in front of us.

Science cannot explain itself.

 

Avayar said it best. What we know is very little. What

we know that we do

not know is also very little. What we do NOT know that

we do not KNOW

is very very large. What we have learned is very

little. What we have not

learned is very very large in contrast. At the rate

apara vidya is being

generated the gap is widening than ever before.

 

So behold your curious mind unto Sriman Narayana and

have faith.

SwamY Nammazwar will bless you with great imperishable

wealth.

 

Choose wisely. There are two groups of thinkers who

ask these questions.

One group is serious and wants to learn. The other

group knows the answer

but want to have the pleasure of asking unanswerable

questions.

Therefore, my sincere request to you swamin is to

choose wisely. How you

spend your time. Time spent on such debates is as

futile as trying to

find which came first chicken or the egg?

 

In India, in some quarters, some rationalists have

sprung up.

Their purpose in life is to show that the great Indian

way is

a hoax. They might have some legitimate gripe against

a few

sanyasis who misguide people. However, these

rationalists are totally

misguided in generalizing, blaming and dismantling an

entire working

social/culture structure in India. They know not what

an effort it

takes to build such a complicated system. Choose

wisely, my dear

devotee! It is not to say every belief, every act

or every custom is not to be questioned, ever.

We must question with the sole intent of encouraging

and including others. To be tolerant etc. To bring out

the best in every SV.

We simply do not ask how Nammazwar lived without

eating

for years. In what way will the answer to this

question

help us or take us near Sriman Narayana or

understanding

our purpose here.

 

There is no offense meant in my reply here to devareer

or to anyone else.

 

>

> Sorry if I had asked anything wrong.

>

 

Please send me an email if you want further

elaboration

or if you are not convinced of the obvious answer to

your question.

Question out of sincere desire to learn is nothing to

be sorry about.

 

adiyen

anandavalli dasan

 

 

 

 

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