Seshadhri Swamigal

Winning Yama is the Whole point Guru instructs his pupils based on their capabilities and emotional intelligence. They understand what the vessel can hold now.  A Guru ensures that his instructions to his pupil are ones which can be followed since he has traversed path himself before.      One day a devotee approached Sri Seshadhri Swamigal and requested him to initiate him and give instructions that he can live by.  It is natural that people are spiritually inclined approach a Guru and request for initiation.     Seshadhri Swamigal adviced the devotee, Win Yama, you would win everything. Winning Yama, the death is the whole point.  How is it possible to win Yama? All things born are definitely bound to die.  Then how is it possible to win Yama the death.  Is not impossible?!  The devotee was perplexed.     Bhaghavan Sri Krishna, in Bhaghavat Gita, tells Arjuna, You are Unborn and have no death, You are Atma.  D...

ஐயப்படா அகத் தது உணர்வானை தெய்வத்தோ டொப்பக் கொளல் Man has evolved from the very basic form of nature, essentially the manifestation of the Primordial state, the God.  Man has the right and duty to evolve further from consumption of his basic needs to realising the self, the origin.  This journey of realising the self is always helped by people who have crossed the spectrum and are called as Guru. Gur are self-realised souls ever loving and interested in helping people evolve, without any expectation.  Our Bharatha desa, India as it is called now, is filled with so many self-realised souls.  One such lived in Thiruvannamalai, the temple town, interested more on the inner self than the outer shell.  As much disinterested in material life, as he was immersed in the Atman.  He is our Seshadhri Swamigal. A little far from Thiruvannamalai town is a place called Adi Annamalai and there lived a family man called Eashwara iyer.  He was pious man. He...