PiLLaiAzhwAn
-nanjEyar-nampiLLai
The way a learner has to learn has been
established long long time ago. The Lord Himself has established this procedure
in vadhari. Refer mumukshUpaDi 6 "shishyanAi ninRadhu
sishyan iruppum iruppu nATTar aRiyamaiyAlEa athai
aRivikkaikkAga"
Sriman NarAyaNA Himself preached
thirumandhiram and also learnt it Himself as a disciple. Why did He had to be a
disciple Himself? That is because, the souls in the world did not know how a
disciple should behave.
It is thus obvious that the respect a
shishyA shoud give to his AchAryan while learning cannot be compromised and
therefore the Almighty Himself taught that by
demonstrating.
It is well known that Sri ThirukkuRunkuDi
nambi became Sri vAishNava nambi by following this reverential
procedure.
In this backdrop, let us go into an
aidhihyam. Once a srEvaishNavite 'piLLaiAthAn' approached Sri NanjEyar for
learning the meanings of thiruvoizhmozhi. Sri NanjEyar directed him to swAmi
nam-piLLai as he felt that he could learn in detail from swAmi nam-piLLai.
Sri piLLai AthArn had a problem. He did not want to fall at the feet of sri
Nam-piLLai --which is a minimum expectation or requirement of any shishyA-and he
expressed this to Sri NanjEayr. Immediately Sri NanjEyar directed NampiLLai to
educate piLLaiAthAn as desired by the disciple.
The education went on as desired so, the
student not prostrating and Sri nam-piLLai fulfilling his AchAryAs command
without any dilution whatsoever. When they reached the stage of Seventh
thiruvoizmzohi of the third ten --3-7-3 ' paNiyum avar
kaNdEr' Sri piLLai AthAn realised the greatness of bhAgawadha
sEshathvam and immediately wanted to fall at the feet of nam-piLLai who refused
to accept this as his AchAryan has not directed him to do so. That Sri NanjEyar
intervened and brought normalcy later is a different
story.
Here, in the light of the fact that the
Lord Himself has accepted the strict procedure of the grammar of a disciple, the
greatness of Sri NanjEyar in immediately commanding Sri Nam-piLLai to take
classes as per the desire of the learner than the learned and Sri Nam-piLLai
doing so and following the words of his AchAryan meticoulously not even
expecting the minimum mandatory requirement from the
student.
Matchless magnanimity from both Sri
Nan-jEyar and Sri Nam-piLLai.
( Thanks to Smt. SumithrA Varadarajan for
giving me the source being EDu 3-7-3 for this incident)
dAsan
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
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