Athma, Paramathma, & Acharya

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Salutations to HH Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji,

 

Dear Respected Sir,

 

One of the respected list members wanted to know the reference re: samaana,

but I was unable to provide one as it was told by my father exactly as you

described. I am grateful for Your timely help.

 

The way I would use the samaana argument is: If paramaatma can do everything

He can also become an ignorant Atma and forget everything about His own real

nature! So the Atmas are created due to the ability of paramaatma to forget

His own real nature. There must be a balance (samaana) in logic. A one sided

creation where a God expects His subjets to keep praying Him would be

illogical.

 

The next question is, if paramaatma can become an ignorant person, there

must be a way for this Atma to go back to its original state. Otherwise we

will not have a balance. If individual Atma is so unreachable to paramaatma

there is no a balance; and it also implies paramaatma can not create an Atma

which can not return to Himself!

 

Now, in the process of reaching paramaatma, we feel we are praying

constantly, because that is the technical nature of the path itself. The

paramaatma also may feel He needs to come down to us (like in the story of

gajendra mokSham) probably for a balance from His end. paramaatma sure

doesn't like some piece of His own nature staying away from Himself.

 

I thought the guru-shishya issue is little more complicated because guru

enters the scene as a third party in addition to Atma and paramaatma. At the

same time, the guru may not be "just another" third party at all! The

paramaatma Himself may actually take up the form of guru, otherwise we would

not be getting the correct instruction in the first place. When the guru

appears and gives the right instruction, the guru is effectively paramaatma

at that time.

 

praNaam

Bhadraiah

 

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