Acharya vaibhvam.... - 2 - Be inquisitive and ask yourself soul searching queries

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama:

 

Dearest all,

There has been lot of encouraging emails on adiyEn’s

daring venture. With ananthakOti praNamams at

acharyan’s lotus feet, let us continue to enjoy this

series.

 

What is the purpose of our lives? What is the reason

for our birth?

In what way do we behave better than animals and

birds?

They also eat, sleep and mate… what is that we do

better as humans?

Is there any reasoning ? or what are we trying to

achieve? The list of queries is endless.

The more intelligent we are [ if we think we are], the

list of queries will be longer. If we simply vegetate

just like mere beings [and not human beings], and do

not worry about what is life-after? I just want to be

happy, enjoy as long as I am here... fine... then

there is no reason for our human birth..

Ask yourself:-Why am I suffering through the process

of birth, old age, disease and death? " ; " What is

death? " ; " What is the relationship between myself and

God? " ; who am I? what is the reason for my birth as

what I am...etc..etc.

 

It is very natural for every sane person to come out

with such soul searching queries. These are very

important queries which will ultitamely lead to get to

know the actual realities. That is how one gets the

discrimination powers [vivEkam] and begins to do all

that will elevate him to higher realms. Religion

satisfies the deep inward craving in man who is not

always content with leading merely an animal existence

and wants spiritual consolation, solace and peace. The

word Religion comes from the Latin word religio which

consists of two words, viz., re (back) and ligare (to

bring or bind). That which binds the soul back to God

is religion

 

There are lots and lots of lives on this earth. Human

beings, Animals, birds, insects, trees, plants,

creepers, etc., etc., - there are so many varieties of

lives living in this world. Every day- every minute,

there are so many births of such lives and so are

deaths. After taking so many lives (they say about

8,400,000 lives), we have come to this human life.

Avvayaar, The Tamil poet, says : " aridhu aridhu

maanidaraayp piRatthal aridhu " - It is extremely rare

and precious to be born of human being. It is quite

true that it is our fortune to be born a human being

with the capacity of sixth sense. Let us make use of

it for our upliftment further. What is good and bad-

what to do and what not to do- only human beings are

blessed with such discriminating capabilities- We have

been given that capacity by Emperumaan. We have been

blessed with that vivEkam. Shall we not make full use

of it? - How?

 

The fact is that, every one of is a spiritual entity

and all of us are eternally subservient to the Supreme

Lord. Due to the karmA (good and bad activities), we

take varieties of bodies like dogs, bees, devas,

plants, birds, human being etc. Indeed, it is

extremely rare to be blessed as a human being and get

a human body.

 

Our religion and our Sampradayam is enriched with the

unambiguous and peerless philosophy and this has been

based, propounded, established, and built with solid

foundations and huge ramparts that no external factor

can even influence or destroy it. Unfortunately the

residents themselves [i.e. we] do not understand the

beauty or appreciate the inner depths of our

structure.

How do we get to know?- Only through teachers-

spiritual teachers- acharyas.

 

Not some acharyas who declare themselves as one or

those self styled ones; sometimes they even declare

themselves as Gods. But the Acharyas who have been

following the strictest adherence to the saasthrAs,

the scriptures and are well versed in jnAnam; who are

resplendent with vairAgya, anushtAnams… they are the

ones who can lift us.. If they themselves are not

clear, it would be one blind leading other blinds.

 

Thus we do not have to look for or reinvent the wheel.

All answers for all our queries that had come to our

mind, will come in the future by all future

generations are all already answered by our religion.

The answers are all available as revealed or unearthed

by the sages, rishis, azhwars, acharyas… There is no

dearth. But they are all not so easily understandable.

Hence we need acharyas to explain in simple terms for

us. The role of an AchArya in guiding a human being

towards salvation can hardly be exaggerated. Chandogya

Upanishad, Kashyapa samhitha and many other works

emphasize AchArya’s part in shaping a disciple and his

future. The term AchArya implies: one who acquires

philosophic knowledge (jnAnam) by the proper study of

saashthrAs; by imparting such jnAnam that He had

acquired to His disciples makes them adopt the

religious life fully in accordance with or as laid

down by saashthrAs; and one who follows the saasthrAs

himself.

 

Yaangnyavalkya smruthi says:

 

AchinOthi cha saasthrArthAn AchArE sthApayathyapi;

Swayam AcharathE yasmAth thasmAth AchArya uchyathE

 

AchAryan should not only practice what he preaches; He

also makes sure that his sishyas too practice what he

teaches. Our AchArya lineage does not end or begin

some time or other in the past. It traces back to

Sriya: Pathi Sriman Narayanan. It is not a thAnthOnRi

(self styled) lineage. It does not utter any statement

an iota away from Vedic hymns. It is the most accurate

 

interpretation of Vedas, which does not violate any

Vedic statement. It is the one firmly propounded by

Bhagavath Ramanuja and expounded by Swamy Desikan.

 

One such magnificent most compassionate and most

merciful acharya is His Holiness Sri Gopaladesika

Mahadesikan. Let me place my head again and again at

the lotus feet of asmadhAcharyan His Holiness Srimad

PaRavakkOttai Andavan Sri Gopaladesika Mahadesikan

Swami…

 

asmadhAchArya paryanthAm vandhE GuruparamparAm

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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