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 AchAryan- Sishyan 
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The relationship between the AchAryan and 
Sishyan is well known. One is the imparter of spiritual knowledge and the other 
is the recipient of this knowledge. 
Sri PiLLai lOkAchAryAr has given the 
perception of AchAryAn on Sishyan mutually from sRE-vAchAnabhUshaNam 309 
onwards. 
The first sUthram in this context is a 
master pices. 
"thAn hithOpadhEsam 
paNNum pOdhu, thannaiyum, sishyanaiyum, palanaiyum mARADi ninaikka kurUra 
nishitham" 
309;  
When the AchAryan imparts spitirual 
knowledge to His student, he should not perceive the relationship in a reverse 
fashion. If he so thinks, it is deplorable and worst of 
apachAram-s. 
What is the reverse perception, is 
explained in the next sUthram. 
1.thannai mARADi 
ninaikkaiyAvadhu thannai AchAryan enRu ninaikkai  
i.To think that he is the teacher/AchAryan 
is the primary wrong thinking of an AchAryan. That is instead of thinking that 
he is an extension of his AchAryAn, he should not think himself as the direct 
AchAryan. 
2.  Sishyanai 
mARADi ninaikkaiyAvadhu thanakku sishyan enRu 
ninaikkai 
ii. It is wrong to perceive the student as 
one's devotee/student. 
Similarly, instead of considering the 
sishyan as sishyan of his AchAryan, he should not consider him as his direct 
sishyan. 
3 palanai mARADi 
ninaikkaiyAVAdhu---. To consider the tangible results as the end aimed 
at. 
iii. That is, AchAryan should not 
consider that the sishyan will get relieved from this samsAram or to correct a 
jEvAthmA etc. 
Summary: 
The AchAryan should correctly perceive the relationship with his sishyan. First 
of all he should not consider himself as the achAryan at the time of imparting 
spiritual knowledge; Likewise, he should not consder the sishyan as one who has 
come to him as sishyan. The perceptible results that may ensue on imparting 
education to the sishyan should not be considered as the end result aimed 
at. 
(to be continued) 
dAsan 
vanamamalai 
padmanabhan 
  
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