SRIMATHE RAMANUJAYA NAMAHA.
No no,
No superstition is involved.
It is about the basic power of what thought can do.
What you think, so you become is what modern psychologists say. The
same thing is the basis of the repeated version of upanishadic
essence that in whatever way/form the Brahman is meditated upon, in
those ways/forms, It is attained. We can produce numerous pramanas to
substantiate this vakhyam.
The same principle operates in what ever way we think and think
intensely. That is also the basis on which Gitacharyan's assertion
that He dooms the wrong doer to further doom and lifts the right one
to lofty areas works. (That is also the reason why adiyal does not
agree to the view recently doing rounds in this list that inspite of
the wrong deeds, if a person is a staunch devotee, god would not
mind. The options that God will have for one doing wrong karma is
different / limited, as can be best understood from the hitopadesham
by Hanuman to RAvana in Sundhara khnadam)
Coming to garuda purana, the description about the sojourn of the
soul is too extensive, that it is possible for the reader's sub-
conscious level to linger on to it long after reading. The effect of
karma apart, it is possible for the soul to unconsciously vie for
reaching those places. That is why the prohibition. Similarly,
reading of Mahabharatha at home is forbidden, on the pretext that
family unity, particularly brotherly unity would be affected. But it
can be read at a temple, because whatever impulse or emotion is
created, that would be absorbed by the consecrated deities.
To substantiate this let us look at some NDP paasurams. If one
studies the content of those paasurams earmarked as koil paasuramas,
one would find the powerful influence that they can weild on the mind
which need to be nutralised at the earliest.Two examples for
immediate reference are 'azhiyezha' and the last 10 'muniye'of
Thiruvaomozhi. An emotional raeding/rendering of these with full
knowledge of their meaning would certainly bring thoughts on pralaya
(in the former) and a wish to discard this body in the case of latter.
The aim of all devotion is not leaving the body, but doing what god
expects us to do in this body.
Our entire Hindu philosophy is based on what mind can do. So, this
restriction on reading Garuda purana at times other than when death
has taken place in a house. Even here I have heard elders say that
the departed soul listens to the reading and this helps in reaching
its destination.
regards,
jayasree saranathan.
--- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, <purohit@xxxx> wrote:
>
> Dear Bhagavattotamas
> There seems to be an incredible amount of superstition regarding
the Garuda
> Purana. The G.P. is a sacred text which takes the form of a
dialogue between
> Srikrisna and Garuda on the nature of life and death. It is a book
of
> knowledge. How can the aquiring of knowledge about universal
matters which
> affect us all create negative effects? Negative effects in our life
arise as
> a result of karma phalam not because we kept a book in our house!
This is
> what we call animistic superstition and is incompatable with the
lofty
> doctrines of Srivaishnavam.
>
> Adiyen
>
> Sriram
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