ப்ரஹ்மோபாதேசம் - Compulsory Education
We all presume that the modern education made compulsory - at the least till school secondary level by post independence Governments - as real education. But what Maha Swami refers to as benign one is ப்ரஹ்மோபாதேசம். By imparting this lesson,a Guru initiates a sishya. Maha Swami cites our sastras make this initiation compulsory. If anyone born as brahman, kshatriya and vaisya doesn't get this ப்ரஹ்மோபாதேசம் initiation, sastras also stipulate exclusion of such non-compliant - ஜாதி பிரஷ்டம் -from their respective community. Sastras doesn't stop this stipulation just with one who doesn't follow this tradition, sastras go further and mandate exclusion of the descendants of such non-compliants too.(தெய்வத்தின் குரல் vol 4 topic head: கட்டாயக் கல்வி). There has been a practice in our community - Nagarathars - to get such initiation, that is getting உபதேசம் from a Guru. Without failing, once having obtained உபதேசம், our forefathers did அனுஷ்டானம் every...