What are the qualification of a student ?<\/p>\n
Nachiketa\u2019s father, Vaajasryava who performed big yajna, as the ritual he suppose to give\u2018Daan\u2019. He was claiming he has given everything, the truth was he gave the cows as Daan which are completely old, they had lost the capacity to reproduce, lost the capacity to yield milk. Nachiketa see his father do this. Filled with deep compaction for the father\u2019s act, son telling father that \u2018 I am also your procession, to whom you are going to give me as a Daan ? Irritated father tell\u2019s son \u2018I\u2019ll give you to Yama\u2019 . Nachiketa took it seriously and went in search of Yama.<\/p>\n
What helped him on this path is \u2018 Shraddha\u2019 -the utmost trust, the faith in infinite potential. Faith in the truth. From the trust Nachiketa got \u2018 Mumukshatvam\u2019 \u2013desire for liberation.<\/p>\n
He waited three long days to meet Yama, Yama\u2019s servants told Yamaraja that a young Brahmin boy is waiting for you since 3 days. Then yama came with respect towards Brahmin boy and says I give you 3 boons, ask anything<\/p>\n
He asked 3 boons<\/p>\n
1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Make by father appeased, when I left home he was too disturbed.<\/p>\n
2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Teach me Agni karya \u2013 fire sacrifice,<\/p>\n
3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Teach me Brahma vidya, we do not know where we go after death, we do not know from we came.<\/p>\n
First boon represents the family, having completed that,\u00a0next one was for society, the nation and the world, and\u00a0the last one for \u2018Atma sakshatkara\u2019 \u2013self realisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What are the qualification of a student ? \u00a0 Viveka (discrimination)\u00a0 the capacity to differentiate between permanent and impermanent \u00a0 Vairagya \u2013 disinterest, dispassion for that which is temporary \u00a0 Shatsampatti \u2013 6 ethical qualities- sence control, mind control, endurance , uparati(withdrawl), shraddha and samadhana \u00a0 Mumukshatwam Story of Yama & Nachiketa Nachiketa\u2019s father, Vaajasryava […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discourse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}