very nice explanation by Sriman Varadharajan Smt. vedavalli Ranganathan. --- "Varadarajan S (CTC)" <varada@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dear TCAV swamin/Smt. Sumithra > > Adiyen is going to attempt an explanation on the > term "prathama prayatnam" > quoted by Smt. Sumithra in a literal lay man's terms > without touching any of > our Vaishnava pari bashais. > > > It can be compared to the behaviour of an #Ideal > Class teacher# (A Male - > analogy to our emperuman)towards his class students. > > When teaching to his students he does not have any > bias of one student > should be taught better and the other student should > be deprived of the > same. He unilaterally does his best to pass on the > knowledge to his students > without any bias. > > But what is the result ? Not every student gets > first or scores a > distinction. There will be many failures. Why? Is it > the mistake of the > Teacher? No it depends on how far a student has > concentrated and grasped the > subject from the teacher. He should have shown faith > on the teacher and > learned his lessons. > This is what done by our emperuman in parting the > rules to the jeevatmas in > terms of the sastras and other scriptures and > teachings of various acharyas. > > But while an exam is going on, a teacher cannot go > and help a student to get > through or get distinction in his exams. He has to > silently watch. > > This is what exactly done by emperuman. Whoever has > the supreme faith in > him, learns his lessons and gets the special credit > from him. > > Even in the case of a class, a Teacher will have a > set of students who will > be in his heart. This is entirely due to the > behaviour of the students > towards him. Similar is the case with emperuman > also. > > Hope this clarifies partly the understanding. Again > all mistakes are due to > adiyen's weak understanding of the subtle concepts. > so adiyen requests > bhagavatas to correct adiyen appropriately whereever > wrong. > > > Adiyen Varadaraja dasan. > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/.itolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ramanuja/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ramanuja-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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