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HomeDevoteesDevotees Experiences - ArticlesDaily NectarDaily Nectar : What matters really?

Daily Nectar : What matters really?

5 Comments | Posted on 02.10.15 by Periyava Puranam

It was 1965-66. Large tents were erected on the paddy fields, on the way to Thiruparangundram. It was Madurai Conference called by Periyava. Vidwans had come from all over. HH Maharaja of Nepal inaugurated the conference. During the conference, a postal mail came from Sri Ganesh Sastrigal – a great scholar from Satara. The letter was written in Sanskrit.

Sri Simizhi – that’s how Periyava nicknamed son of Simizhi, Sri Venkatrama Sastrigal. He was serving as an anukka thondar to Periyava. He knew Sanskrit and English. He was asked to read the letter. He read. It had a word ‘Unvarithaha…’. No Vidwan could grasp what it meant. Sri Praandhiyangarai Sastrigal opined that we should make the meaning of that word, based on the sentence. So he opined, it means, “It is going on like that”. Each Vidwan began to say something but nothing seemed to gel in with the content of the letter…

Sri Simizhi went to the Iyer Bungalow nearby. He had seen a Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary, the previous day. Periyava enquired about Sri Simizhi. Soon he came back and said he had gone to iyer bungalow to refer Monier-Williams.

Periyava said, “Monier-Williams எப்பேர்ப்பட்ட வித்வான் தெரியுமா?” (“Do you know Monier Williams is a big scholar?”) Periyava continues, “அவன் Morphology Dictionary போட்டு இருக்கான்”. (“He has complied Morphology Dictionary”). “Morphology-னா என்ன தெரியுமா? அதாவது இந்த இந்த வார்த்தை இந்த இந்த காலத்தில இன்ன இன்ன மாதிரி அர்த்தம், அப்படீன்னு சொல்லுறது” (“Do you know what Morphology means? It describes what each word meant during various periods across the years”).

Periyava revealed, “Unvarithaha… Avathithaha… ‘It is completed’ is the meaning!”. Periyava also explained an important thing for all of us…

“நாமெல்லாம் நமக்கு எல்லாம் தெரியும் நினச்சிக்கிட்டு விவாதித்தோம். அவன் தெரியாதுன்னு போய் பாத்துட்டு வந்துட்டான்” (“We all thought we knew everything and started brainstorming. But he knew that he doesn’t know anything about this and referred to the dictionary”) “நமக்கும் அவனுக்கும் அதுதான் வித்யாசம்!” (“That is the difference between us and him!”).

Periyava made the Pundits from all over (who were proud to be part of that elite Sadas) realize the humbleness of the Anukka Thondar is superior than those experts in that domain…


Today’s Nectar:

40d

What matters really – Knowledge Or Humbleness?

Whether it is Science or Sastra or Satsang or Running a Trust or Posting a message, it is not our knowledge or expertise that matters. It is our complete devotion to Periyava and absolute humbleness that matters!!!

Sashtaanga Namaskarams to Periyava to bless us to be so… All the time. Ram. Ram.

Article Courtesy: Sri Rathinam


Categories: Daily Nectar, Devotees Experiences - Articles Tags: Daily Nectar, Simizhi, Unvarithaha

{ 5 Comments }

  1. sayi says

    February 10, 2015 at 12:41 pm

    Thanks so much for the translation to English, of all the words. Really appreciate it.

    Sayi

    Reply
  2. manoj kumar bethapudi says

    February 10, 2015 at 12:51 pm

    respected sir/madam
    my name is manoj from vijayawada of A.P my age is 22years
    i have got devotion towards mahaperiyava due to the eminent preachings of Brahmasri ChagantiKoteswaraRao garu
    i likes the pages of mahaperiyava daily nectar
    but to my unfortune some of the nectar drop conversations of mahaperiyava were being written in tamil and not at all converting them to english
    so please for my sake translate them to english
    its my humble request
    thanku

    Reply
    • MahaPeriyava.Org says

      February 10, 2015 at 2:32 pm

      Sure, will pay attention to it and will translate to English in future posts

      Reply
  3. R Jayaraman says

    May 11, 2016 at 6:53 am

    Simizhi Venkatarama Sastri’s son was Dr S V Radhakrishna Sastri of Srirangam, Trichy. An ardent devotee of Sri Mahaperiyavaa and has written about 90 books on Sastra, spiritual, sanskrit, and compiled many slokas. Recently a website has been created in his name -wwq.svradhakrishnasastri.in . All his books are available in pdf form and can be downloaded. He has been the librarian in Kanchi mutt and has converted many palm leaves manuscripts of olden days in to microfilm and has given his explanation. He is my father and attained lotus feer of Sri Mahaperiyavaa in 2014 at the age of 92.

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  4. R.Srinivasan says

    December 22, 2020 at 11:31 am

    I am Simizhi R.Srinivasan…I am collecting some more details from your Sri..Radhakrishna sastrigal..pl send send the same to with photo image ..My father,s Chittappa Athistanem was constructed there near Sivan koil for which we require Simizhi Mahan details..
    Tks
    R.Srinivasan

    Reply

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