Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:
Dear devotees,
Humble praNAms to all. This is just a general mail not
in favor or against mails related on this issue. One may ask: why
advaitam is so popular than visishTAdvaitam(or why more shaivites
than vaishNavAs) in our country? Why the foreigners/westerners think
our country favors polytheism rather than monotheism/sriman
narayana, which is the essence of the vedas? The answer is false
knowledge. So is true with Christianity. Lot of christians do not
know what exactly is said in the Bible or rather they misinterpret
the Bible. I have one very great Catholic friend with whom I share
and discuss SV views(whatever I know!) and he in turn tells me
what's the equivalent in the Bible. I asked him why even priests of
your community eat non-veg. This friend of mine is a pure vegetarian
and he only eats twice a day and very specific about what he eats.
Many Christians, that I have come across,tell me it
doesn't matter what goes into your mouth but what comes out matters.
This is how they interpret some of the Bible passages. On the other
hand, my friend says that what the Bible says is that "when one is
religiously at the lowest level CAN eat(didn't say should eat)non-
veg. But a person in the religious path will go for vegetarian food
which makes him closer to God". He also told me that some 1500 yrs
ago,belief in rebirth(karma)used to be taught in the churches but
not anymore. So if we ask some Christians now they would say that
they don't believe in rebirth. I was also talking to this friend
about nirhEtukam/causeless mercy of the Lord. We exactly coincide in
our views. I am so amazed that he is so different and he is very
honest in expressing the knowledge. How many of our Indian
population know the Truth that it is only Sriman Narayana/Vishnu
that vEdas talk about?
One can not argue with a person who is mentally blind
unless God's grace is there for that person to be in the receiving
mode to attain/acquire knowledge. Well, we all should try to acquire
the correct knowledge from the authentic AcArya. When His grace is
there, AcAryA automatically appears at the door step to dispel our
ignorance. I have been stopped by Christians of different churches
and they start talking and I also listen to it but I don't ask them
questions b'coz I know(from the way they talk)they can not answer
any my questions. I just keep it in my mind and I ask this friend of
mine who is at a very high religious level. So we should be careful
when we meet people of different faiths and it's His grace that can
save us from wandering into different faiths.
adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsI
NC Nappinnai
--- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Rajesh Elayavalli" <earajesh@xxxx>
wrote:
>
>
> I am all in for a rational response. I just did not see the
writer of the
> book say as such. I also do not think that a response can be
rational if it
> is focused on finding holes in another religion's philosophy or
theory. A
> sound rational debate is centered around the merits of the
philosophy that
> we have faith in. A negative attack like - "your faith also has
these
> negatives in it, so why do you focus on our negatives alone?" is
not
> rational debate.
>
> A good approach is to state that the negatives in our philospphy
are
> mis-understood and provide logical structure why they have been
either
> mis-understood or mis-interpreted.
>
> Anyhow, I see the reason why you might want to put the document in
the files
> area. I personally think that the Ramanuja group should not stoop
down to
> the levels of defending "negative tharka vada" and should focus
instead on
> "nyAya vada"
>
> Anytime we start to highlight the negatives of another religion to
gloss
> over any perceived negatives in our own will only lead to
unhealthy debate.
>
> adiyEn
> nArAyana vEda dAsan
> Rajesh Elayavalli
azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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