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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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



                
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