AchAryan- Sishyan
1
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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