Dear Swamy,
I agree with your vivid explanation about our scriptures. There had been
somayagis even in the kaliyuga till very recently too. I heard about the yagnya
performed by navalpakkam swamy and he performed shraddha to the sacrificial
goat till his end. Please also add to your text that now is not the yuga for
indulging in sacrifices like that which need hard niyamas & are difficult to
follow. In the verse "Yah poorvyaya vedhase naviyase ..... garghagum havishaa
piparthana, aasya janantho namachidvivakthana" it is equivalent to performing
yagnya but simply doing namasankeerthana of lord. In aswamedham also it is
clearly said many times "ya uchainam evam veda" means one who knows this &
recites also get the phalam. In fact doing "Brahmayagnyam" daily yields similar
benefits. So no need to perform any sacrifice having to take the life of any
animal. It amounts to 'jeeva himsa' if some 'lopa' occurs in doing any yagya.
Swamy Deshikan clearly says in Dayashathakam that committing sins
(yagnya with lopa inclusive) and doing prayaschittam for all ('anubhavithum
aghogham...prashamayithum ashesham nishkriyabhihi na shakyam....') is
impossible as in the prayaschittam process new sins could be committed.
So although eminent swamies performed yagya in days of yore, such need not be
practised now. Lets live with 'Kalau keshava keerthanath' in a committed way.
Sajjana Pada padma paramanuhu
Lakshmi Narasimhan dasan
Dorairajan Ranganathan <dorai_radha@xxxx> wrote:Dear Bhagavatas:
On the issue of Ahimsa, there is an argument that
if the sacrificed animals could go to Heaven,
why not sacrifice one's parents since they can also
reach Heaven much sooner!
This question does not seem to have been answered.
I wish to post excerpts from Chater 13 of my book
"Hinduism Rediscovered". Please stay tuned.
Dasoham
Anbil Ramaswamy
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What an illuminating article extensively quoting vedic
sanctions of an action for a cause though it may sound
out of tune to the time we live in.
His conclusion is synergic with the ideals we profess
and practise today and may be, I wonder, such
sacrifices were relevant to vedic age, the life-style
then. Can some more light be thrown on this?
Dasan
Dorairajan Ranganathan
--- sadagopaniyengar <sadagopaniyengar@xxxx>
wrote:
>
> Srimate SrivanSatakopa Sri Vedanta
> Desika Yatindra Mahadesikaya nama:
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