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Jai SrimanNarayana!

 

Our great muni Parashara Bhattar's student lived in some place other than

Thirupathi. Once the student asked his teacher Who is called a perfect

Vaishnava?. He said go to Thirupathi and there is person named Ananthacharya who

is the student of our great Ramanuja Acharya. He is the best person to answer

this question.

 

The student of Parashara Bhatter anxiously goes to thirupathi to know the answer

..He reaches Thirupathi and meets Anantha Acharya.He asks him " Respected Sir Who

is a perfect vaishnava? " . Anantha acharya wont reply.The Student & nbsp;will serve

Ananth & nbsp;acharya for 6 months and still he doesnt know the answer.

 

So the student of Parashara Bhattar , after serving for 6 months one day there

will be a pooja and then the student will be serving prasadam to everyone .Then

after prasadam is served, Anantha acharya comes to this student and answers that

" YOu are the perfect Vaishnava " . You are like a Rooster and like SALT. The

student doesnt understand the meaning of what Anantha acharya said. He goes back

to his Guru Parashara Bhattar and seems confused because he doesnt understand

what is the value of a Rooster and Salt in relation with Vasihnava.

 

Parashara Bhattar smiles and says " My dear student a Rooster when picks up food

for its kids, though there is lot of other waste material in a pile of food , it

picks ONLY the food leaving out other waste stuff.So a true Vaishnava picks Only

what is good from the society leaving the other stuff.

 

Salt is the thing which melts itself to give good taste to the food we eat.

Similarly a true Vaishnava should sacrifice himself for the good of others.Salt

also shows itself as so insignificant that it doesn't want to show that it

exists but serve the food to give good taste.So a vaishnava doesn't want to show

that he even exists but he keeps serving a lot to others. "

 

So a Vaishnava has to be insignificantly serve others and pick only good things

from what he gets.

 

Another perfect feature of a devotee is to treat others pain as our pain as said

by our Holiness Chinna Jeeyar Swami vaaru.

 

Jai SrimanNarayana!