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SRIMATHE RAMANUJAYA NAMAHA.


--- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Vishnu"
<vsmvishnu@xxxx> wrote:

> Dear Smt Jayashree,
> 
> How do achit vastus have a desire to make some
special contribution?


Dear Sri Vishnu,

I don?t know whether you need an answer to this.
Because there are only two types of people who raise
questions -  those who have doubts and those who don?t
have doubts (the latter one was told by sage Jabali,
?sandEhangaL eduvum attravan sandEhangalai
ezhuppugirAn?)

I don?t need to answer you if you say that you belong
to the former category, for, I very well understand
from your mails that you don?t belong to this
category.
Once again I don?t need to answer you, if you belong
to the second category. In this case you already know
the answer. 

Since you have raised the question for  reasons best
known to you which are other than the  above mentioned
 two, let me reply at two levels. 

Firstly, if only Bhagavad Ramanuja had omitted the
mention of non-sentient beings in the verse given, any
question on  why he had omitted would have made the
justification impossible, for, after all is  He not
one who can turn a even stone into woman? What special
quality did that stone have as to bring out the
Special Excellence to God?

Secondly, Bhagavad Gita is the treasure-house to reply
to this question. For immediate reference I request
you to  go through Ramanuja bhashyam for verse 15-16
on kshara- akshra beings and  verse 13-2 on kshethram
?kshethragyan.

In a nutshell, Gitacharyan says, ? I am  seated in the
hearts of all. From me are memory, knowledge and their
removal also.? (15-15). Based on the form and nature
of the kshEthram, the attributes as mentioned above
come to be associated with them as to be valued by the
Lord. It is by His will, by His sankalpa, even a blade
of grass can become a weapon in His hands!

Regards,
jayasree saranathan. 


In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "jayasartn"
<jayasartn@xxxx> wrote:-

> > The continuation of the verse:-
> > " Out of the desire to produce the fruit of the
sacrifice, both the 
> > sacrifice and the volitional exertion for the sake
of sacrifice, 
> come 
> > to be undertaken, The accessories of sacrifice,
come to be attended 
> > to, out of desire to accomplish the sacrifice.
Similarly, in the 
> case 
> > of servants their nature lies only in being valued
on account of 
> the 
> > desire to contribute something special to the
master. Similarly all 
> > entities, sentient and non-sentient, eternal and
non-eternal, have 
> as 
> > their sole nature, the character of being valued
through a desire 
> to 
> > make some special contribution to the Supreme.
Hence all entities 
> are 
> > described as subsidiary to Him."
 
    Dear Smt Jayashree,

    How do achit vastus have a desire to make some
special contribution? 
    Vishnu




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