Guest guest Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Got this mail, thought should forward it Happy Makara Sankaranthi/Pongal… Sri Kanchi Paramacharya (Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekarendra Saraswati) on Who is a Jagathguru? Anecdote 1: What mahatmas preach? Once when Paul Brunton (author of Search in Secret India) approached HH Sri Paramacharya for blessings to attain Gyana - HH replied saying, “Be humble! You shall find what you seek.” Anecdote 2: They preach what they live… Sri Paramacharya as a young sanyasi, was once visiting Kasi and after darshan of Sri Vishwanatha Siva, he was staying on a small premises. Soon an army of highly scholarly and acclaimed pundits in Samskrit, Vedas, Vedanta, Puranas etc. came and while walking inside, they called out in Samskrit in a teasing fashion with pride “Where is the JagathGuru, where is he? Someone said the Guru of entire world is here…” and followed by wry laughter. The Jagathguru was silent, and with full of love, welcomed all the pundits and said in all humility “Yes! They call me the jagathguru. But you see, it doesn’t mean JagathGuru (meaning that I am the Guru of the world), but has to be split (sandhi) in a different way as Jagath-Guru (for whom the entire world is a Guru).” The sage immediately showed them a small nest made by sparrows and continued “See that sparrows, how they have built a small hut on their own with small sticks. Can we do it? That sparrow is now our Guru and teaching us to live simple. Is it not? Like that the whole world is always teaching us some lesson or other, unfortunately we are not mature enough to learn from it.” No sooner did he say this, the ego and hatred from pundits’ heart were destroyed by his mere words and with tears in their eyes, they prostrated to the young sanyasi and thanked him for teaching a great lesson, and accepted that he was indeed the true JagatGuru - teacher of the World. A mahatma sees all as mahatmas and finds no faults in others. A gyani sees all as gyanis. A devotee sees all as devotees. A person with hatred, jealousy, lust, imperfection, sees these in other people. In short, all of us see ourselves only everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Dear all, Happy Pongal to all . Excellent write-up by Shri. Balaji Hariharan. In the context of Shri. Balaji hariharan's posting, it is worth reading and understanding the dasakam 93 of Narayaneeyam and Book (Skandham) XI of Srimad Bhagavatam. Regards K.V. Gopalakrishna. Webmaster Balaji Hariharan wrote: Got this mail, thought should forward it Happy Makara Sankaranthi/Pongal. Sri Kanchi Paramacharya (Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekarendra Saraswati) on Who is a Jagathguru? Anecdote 1: What mahatmas preach? Once when Paul Brunton (author of Search in Secret India) approached HH Sri Paramacharya for blessings to attain Gyana - HH replied saying, "Be humble! You shall find what you seek." Anecdote 2: They preach what they live. Sri Paramacharya as a young sanyasi, was once visiting Kasi and after darshan of Sri Vishwanatha Siva, he was staying on a small premises. Soon an army of highly scholarly and acclaimed pundits in Samskrit, Vedas, Vedanta, Puranas etc. came and while walking inside, they called out in Samskrit in a teasing fashion with pride "Where is the JagathGuru, where is he? Someone said the Guru of entire world is here." and followed by wry laughter. The Jagathguru was silent, and with full of love, welcomed all the pundits and said in all humility "Yes! They call me the jagathguru. But you see, it doesn't mean JagathGuru (meaning that I am the Guru of the world), but has to be split (sandhi) in a different way as Jagath-Guru (for whom the entire world is a Guru)." The sage immediately showed them a small nest made by sparrows and continued "See that sparrows, how they have built a small hut on their own with small sticks. Can we do it? That sparrow is now our Guru and teaching us to live simple. Is it not? Like that the whole world is always teaching us some lesson or other, unfortunately we are not mature enough to learn from it." No sooner did he say this, the ego and hatred from pundits' heart were destroyed by his mere words and with tears in their eyes, they prostrated to the young sanyasi and thanked him for teaching a great lesson, and accepted that he was indeed the true JagatGuru - teacher of the World. A mahatma sees all as mahatmas and finds no faults in others. A gyani sees all as gyanis. A devotee sees all as devotees. A person with hatred, jealousy, lust, imperfection, sees these in other people. In short, all of us see ourselves only everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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