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 morning and evening.  This practice is slowly fading away. I have a fear the strife in the society - like timely marriages not happening, burgeoning digression in wedlocks, - has its hinge on not adhering to Sastras, the good practices followed by our visionary forefathers.

For the good of all, and our posterity, isn't it high time we wake up and get the initiation at the earliest?

For Nagarathar male members the Padarakkudi Swamiji is the Guru to get உபதேசம் and for Achis, Thulavur Swamiji is the Guru.

Ohm Nama Shivaya.

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