Dear bhagavathAs and bhakthAs, yesterday adiyEn heared Thirupathi-Divyadesa vaibhavam by SrI U.Ve.Velukkudi Krishnan Swamin(thro audio). In that Swamin while mentioning about the mahAtmiyam of kOnEri pushkarini (or Swamy Pushkarini), gave the reasons for the birth of VibhIsna as Vishnu bhakthA among his asura brothers. The legend goes like this.. Saraswati did penance for thousands of years to attain the superior position than the Ganga. During this time, Sage Pulastyar came on the way. Since Saraswati was doing penance, she didnt noticed the sage and gave due respects to him. So Pulastyar got angry and cursed Saraswati that, for what purpose she was doing penance, that could not be attained! Now, Saraswati got fear after hearing the curse by the maharishi, and she apologized for her mistake. But the sage told that, once given he could not withdraw the curse(sApam). Hence now Saraswati got angry and cursed the Pulastya maharishi that, his children would born as rAkshasas and they would be against Lord Vishnu ("Vishnuvai virOthippargal"). Pulastya maharishi apologized Saraswati for his mistake on cursing her. Now Saraswati, told maharishi that, "Eventhough all the childrens were born as rAkshasAs, ONE would be exception and HE would be bhakthA to Lord Vishnu" So except vibhIshana, all other childrens Ravana, Kum bhakarna, Soorpanaka,... were born as rAkshasAs and became enemy to Lord Rama. After this, how Saraswati attained the superior posi tion than the Ganga is remaining part of Swamy Pushkarini mahatmiyam of Tirupati-Divyadesa vaibhavam. Adiyen, hopes that the information would be useful for further clarification on why Vibhishana is bhaktA among all other rAkshasa brothers,sister soorpanaka. Similarly for most of other questions, the answer lies in our poorvAchAryars vyAkyAnams and adiyEn requests them to go through the books or upanyAsams. adiyEn, senthil. --- Lakshmi Narasimhan <nrusimhann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Swamin, > > adiyEn's answers to selective questions: > > Q: How can the same jeevathma simultaneously exist > in the form of > two chiranjeevis.? > > Please refer to chith prakaranam in mumukshuppadi. > It clearly > mentions that one jeevaathma may exists with > multiple bodies at the > same time. > > Q: Secondly since the dwarabalakas returned to > vaikuntam after the > third birth the muni kumara could not attain > moksha? > > Was the episode happening in Sri Vaikuntam? From > what I know, this > episode happened in Thirupparkadal (Vyuham) which is > in the Leela > Vibhuthi. One rational explanation to justify this > would be that no > munikumara, why munikumara, no komban:) can enter > Sri Vaikuntam just > like that with the mortal body. The dwarabalakas > simply returned > back to Thirupparkadal, that is all, I guess. > > Q:Thirdly why did the dwarabalakas take up the form > of kshatria > mortals instead of asuras in the third birth? > > In fact, Ravana and Kumbakarna were not kshatrias - > they were born > for a Brahmana in the lineage of sage Pulastya(his > son paulastya, > his son vaisrava, his son vaisranava etc)?! > > Moreover, Asuramsam is a quality and is not a > VARNAM. It is > sometimes attained by a curse too. > > So all the three brothers were Brahmanas, but two of > them as pre- > destined, acquired / possessed asura qualities and > Vibheeshana was > the left out one, who, being born as a Brahmana, had > no reason not > to be a Vishnu Bhakta. > > In fact Ravana's sister Shoorpanaka also had > asuramsam. Who would > have been she? ;) > > > adiyEn, > rAmAnuja dAsan > > --- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Rajagopalan Narayan > > <rajagopalannarayan@...> wrote: > > > > Although all 3 brothers were asuras why was > Vibishana different > from his brothers and was a vishnu bhaktha? I had > posed this doubt > to several upanyaskas and got a convincing answer > from > sri.chakravarthy iyengar. > > Since sanathkumara cursed the dwarabalakas to be > born on earth > for no crime commited and only following their > duties Lord Naryana > punished the munikumara to suffer a similar fate > ,to be born with > the dwarabalakas. The difference was that the two as > per their > erquest were sworn enemies of the Lord while the > munikumara > remained a Baktha. THis was vibishana and he was > prahalada in the > previous birth and akroora in the next birth. I > undrstand the basis > for this is found in Vishnudarma. > > This led to another doubt-Both vibishana and > prahalada are > chiranjeevis. How can the same jeevathma > simultaneously exist in > the form of two chiranjeevis.? > > Secondly since the dwarabalakas returned to > vaikuntam after the > third birth the muni kumara could not attain > moksha? > > Thirdly why did the dwarabalakas take up the form > of kshatria > mortals instead of asuras in the third > birth?Adiyens ignorance be > kindly pardoned by the members of the forum. > dasan-narayanan > > Sri Narayandesikaya Namah > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. > Check it out. > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Azhvar EmberumAnAr JeeyAr ThiruvadigalE Saranam http://www.vedics.net Yahoo! 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