ManCanBecomeGod05
Sakthi Vikatan
23 Dec, 2014
Posted Date 06:00 (09/12/2014)
Kaivalliya Navanītham
P.N. Parasuraman. Images:
Nataṉam
Three Desires…Three Types of Religious Initiation.
Thanēṣaṇai
(
தனேஷணை
= Love of wealth), Thārēṣaṇai
(தாரேஷணை
= Love of wife), and Puthrēṣaṇai
(புத்ரேஷணை
= Love of children) are the
three desires.
People the world over dance, play and posture, run around, and whirl
like a spin top only for these three reasons.
We accept there is a need for money for daily living.
Accumulating money in illegal ways is for the sake of wife and children.
Under these circumstances, no one thinks of merit or demerit and hell or
heaven.
We can buy anything with the money earned in illegal, immoral and
unethical ways. We can enjoy life any way we want. The ill-earned money
has no power to rescue us from sin.
Besides, the beneficiaries wife and children will not partake of
one’s sin. They cannot partake of it.
To explain this, We quote the example of Valmiki who was a thief before
he composed Ramayana. Narada Maharishi told him, “Your wife and children
partake of money earned (by theft) by you. Ask them whether they will
partake of the sin earned by you?”
Valmiki posed the question to his wife. She answered curtly, “Your sins
are yours. I cannot partake of them.” Her words
sank
in and since then, Valmiki had a salubrious change of life and made
an honest living.
Therefore, if you are caught in the net of Love of wealth, wife and
children, the committed sins, we should realize, will assault us.
One such person under assault went to a Gurunāthar, fell
prostrate at his feet and supplicated him for rescue from his
predicament.
Gurunāthar offered him three kinds of initiation.
In this verse, three Dīkṣas
are mentioned. The
explication is simply wonderful.
1.
To think inside the mind like a turtle. (Thought initiation =
Māṉasa
Dīkṣa)
2.
To turn back and see. (Sight Initiation =
Nayaṉa
Dīkṣa)
3.
To offer refuge (to the chicks by touch) under the wings like a bird
(Touch Initiation =
Sparṣa
Dīkṣa)
The Turtle lays its eggs in the sand bank and goes into the water.
From the water, the tortoise thinks of its eggs and that thinking
helps the eggs mature and release the hatchlings (Baby Sea Turtles).
Likewise, Thought Initiation (Māṉasa
Dīkṣa)
is to confer grace to the disciple by thought.
The next one is fish. The fry swim behind the mother fish. The mother fish
turns its head back to see the fry.
Just by looking at them, the fry’s hunger is appeased!
The fish feeds the fry by mere sight. Likewise, the Guru confers
grace just by sight:
Nayaṉa
Dīkṣa.
Sparṣa
Dīkṣa:
The bird brings the chicks under its wings and feeds them. Likewise, the
Guru initiates the disciples by touch (Sparṣa)
and confers Jñāṉa.
Man on the street: “Why all these Dikṣas
in the Guru’s armamentarium.
Why not teach with one kind of initiation?
This is a hurly-burly world.”
“Think carefully. The Three
(thought, sight and touch) are also essential to fulfill our daily
needs.
We go to a supermarket. We think of what we need by thought.
That is Māṉasa Dīkṣa.
We search and look for it. We see it by sight. That is Nayaṉa Dīkṣa.
We pick it up with our hands. That is Sparṣa Dīkṣa.
We need these three faculties to get or buy any object.
Mukti (liberation) is a distant wealth. If one must acquire it, only a deserving disciple
can do so. We must identify him. That is why these three Dikṣas
are essential.
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