Sri: Adiyen would like to add few of my views in this case.. Adiyen learnt thru Upanyasams that even during Rama's period lot of people worshiped Devathantharams but for diff cause, they did it for the welfare of Rama, they Prayed to All Gods to protect Rama from evil eyes etc, Adiyen thinks this is out of premai. Secondly if you look into the sthala Puranam of Nangoor DD (Thiru Vun Purushothaman Koil) , One Rishi's son Upamanyu was in dearth of Ksheeram and was told by his mother to worship Siva(Pasupathy) to get Milk, because of the penance of the Kid, Siva Appeared before the Kid and showed him the "Ksheera theertham" available near by Thiru Vun Purushothaman Sannidhi and preached the Kid about the Lord's Guna's, then the kid did the penance for Him , then comes the Archa avatharam of Purushothaman. So on seeing the story we could observe that even Siva does the Purushakaram for the devotees. By any way I dont mean that we should select that path, as we have the lineage for the Purushakaram. Also as we came to know about our PoorvAcharyas commentary that its due to Andal's Ajnanam, Adiyen feels that this should not be seen with Logical eyes, instead with the eyes of Premai, this may be even comparable to Madal of our Thirumangai Alwar, as you know Alwar had breached the Tamil culture that Nayaki should not do the Madal, even in Peria Thirumadal Alwar himself says that he is following vadamozhi(sanskrit) culture Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan Guna -----Original Message----- From: TCA Venkatesan [mailto:vtca@xxxx] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 11:29 AM To: ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ramanuja] Re: Devatantara bhajanam Dear Sri Srinivasaramanujan Swamin (Uncle), adiyEn's praNams. Please pardon me for stating this, but I feel that there is a contradiction within the stance you have taken. If you do feel that Sriman Narayana (God) is within all, and you are already woshipping Him in a Vishnu temple, then what is the need to go worship Vinayaka and other dieties. After all any prayers that you make to them, you can make to Narayana and it would reach God. I am not saying that you have to go out of your way to avoid other dieties, but it seems contradictory that you feel compelled to worship them. Please clarify. adiyEn TCA Venkatesan --- Srinivasaramanujan TCA <tcasr@xxxx> wrote: > Dear Fellow Bhagavatas, > It is possible to take a view that even by worshipping > a diety other than Sriman Narayana, one is worshipping > only God. ... > [Like all rainwater from the sky going to the ocean, > so all prayers to any God reach Kesava] > Though I started with uncompromising adherence to > "nindra aadippiraan nirka matrai deivam naadudire", I > have started praying to Vinayaka, Subrahmanya and > Garbharakshambika of Thirukkarugavur. I feel that this > can be reconciled to Sri Vaishnava doctrine of > supremacy of Sriman Narayana. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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