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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.


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