PRASHNA UPANISHAD (ENDS) -67: Rishi Pippala.

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#6 Questions, 67 Mantras: “Questions from Disciples Answered.”

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SUKESHAA’S QUESTION: 
Query No 6: The Source of Power

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Monday 18, November 2024, 06:10.
Mantram-6.8: The Students Offer Filial Salutations!  
Post-67.

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Mantram-6.8: The Students Offer Filial Salutations!  

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Te tam archayantah: = While worshipping him, they said:  

tvam hi nah pitaa, = “You indeed are our real Father*;  

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yah asmaakam avidyaayaah = Our ocean-like Ignorance – you have  

param paaram taarayasi,” iti. = taken us beyond it to the other shore.” 

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namah parama rishibhyah! = Salutations be to the great seers! 

namah parama rishibhyah! =   Salutations be to the great seers! 

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*Since it is you who have given us birth in Eternal Brahman. 

We ourselves experienced that feeling directly in the presence of Guruji, who was emotionally charged at this concluding point of the text. 

His voice began to break up in describing the gratitude felt by the disciples. How much this scene must have reminded Guruji of his sacred 

moments at the feet of his own Master, Pujya Gurudev! 

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 Discipleship is, indeed, the crest-jewel of Indian spirituality. The Rishis have placed an enormous value upon it. They have invested all their efforts to nurture the next 

generation in the treasures that they have experienced. In return the disciples unhesitatingly offer to them their highest adorations and loving tribute. Such a relationship is ingrained in the very culture of spiritual India and has yet never been exceeded.

On the touchstone of discipleship is the whole edifice of Vedic culture built! That culture has survived to this day, several millenniums

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 We rightly feel so grateful even to our schoolteachers or university lecturers. To the one who has helped us to cross the ocean of Ignorance through Knowledge, how much 

more would we feel? What indebtedness would run through our heart! Very rare is a Teacher who can perform such a task. And very rare are students who  are willing to learn this lesson of Life. 

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 Hence to such Teachers are reserved the unbounded adorations of his students. Even a million prostrations would not satiate the feeling that wells up in the seeker who has 

been the recipient of the Grace of such a spiritual Master. The Vedic Rishi was probably also reminded, like Guruji, of his own discipleship when he came to the composition of this closing couplet!

Here ends the Sixth Question in Prashna Upanishad. 

Here ends the PRASHNA UPANISHAD. 

This work is offered unto Lord Narayana

Om Tat Sat! 

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know the self, know the self in Nature, know the self in Jiva, Further Oneness.

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