[Advaita-l] Jijnaasu accorded priority

[V Subrahmanian]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 4:02 PM Venkata sriram P via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Subbu-ji,
>
> Shri. Abhinava Vidya Tirtha Mahaswamigal was very broad-minded and was very
> compassionate at heart.
>
> My sanskrit teacher did his Ph.D and Shri.VR Ramachandra Sastry (father of
> Gowrishankar)
> was the thesis guide.  During his stay in Sringeri, attending attended
> Brahma Sutra Bhashya
> & Vishnu Sahasranama Bhashya classes of Shri. Abhinava Vidya Tirtha
> Swamigal.
>
> During VS Bhashya class, brahmins were made to sit in front row and
> shUdrAs at the back
> row. When somebody pointed out the reason for this, His Holiness mentioned
> as
>
> "श्रावयेत् चतुरो वर्णान् कृत्वा ब्राह्मणानाम् अग्रतः"
>
> On another instance, when BSB was underway, Swamigal skipped
> some portions of अपशूद्राधिकरणम् and got upset when
> somebody pointed out at the 'objectionable dharma sutra'.
>
> His Holiness was Compassion, personified and was very magnanimous.
>

True. It seems that when He was taking classes, he would not impose
stringent rules as to who should attend and who should not. He would say
'For the IAS, many thousands write the exam and a much less number make it
to the interview and only the rare few  finally get selected. In the same
way, even if a few attain to the knowledge of the truth finally by
attending the classes, that is certainly laudable.'

regards


> ergs,
> sriram
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