What is Upadesam? The closest translation for this word in English
is the teaching. Upadesam the word can be split in to two parts which is
Upa + Desam. Upa means the guide as well as number two and Desha means place, which implies it is the guide to the destination or guide to the two place. What is this two place. We shall see subsequently.
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What is Thiruvadi? Thiruvadi means holy feet – holy feet of the
supreme lord. Thiruvadi Upadesha means guiding one or teaching one about
the holy feet of the supreme lord. Thiruvadi Upadesha imparts the
knowledge of the holy feet of the lord on our body and tells the means
for self realization and god realization. This knowledge will be
imparted by means of Sruthi (hearing), Yukthi (by analyzsis and thinking), Vaakiyaa (Reference to the holy scriptures by saints) and Anubava (experience).
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Who are we? Are we this body and mind alone. When one dies all the
physical body is there and we still call it as dead body. So what is
that without which a body stops functioning and considered as dead.
Something has left this body right. What is that! We call it Soul. Our
saints and seers tells us we are the soul (Jeevatma). This soul is
one which gives life to the body. So to answer the question “who are
we“, we should know and realize our soul. This realization is called
self-realization. Inorder to know and realize our soul first we should
know “where is this soul located inside our body and what is it’s
character.” If we know where it is then we can reach there isin’t? Let
us do some analysis and use our limited intelligence and find out the
probable place where it can be. We shall then verify our understanding
with the sayings in the scripture.
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