Let us not forget the basic principles of Sanatana Dharma: 1. Let noble thoughts come to us from the whole world (aa no bhadraah kratavo yantu vishvatah) 2. Truth is one names are many (ekam sadvipraah bahudaa vadanti) 3. World is one family (vasudhaiva kuTumbhakam) 4. One who realizes that lord's support is upon him(her) is indeed sustained (yopaam aayatanam veda aayatanavaan bhavati) 5. Everything is permeated by the lord. Cherish your share with detachment and without envy. Buddhism, and Jainism solemnize one aspect of sanatana dharma (jnaana maarga and advaita); whereas the Abrahamic religions solemnize on another aspect of sanatana dharma (bhakti/surrender/un clinching faith and dualism). However, sects within the body of sanaatana dharma tend to cling to very narrow views and tend to rationalize the scriptures to fit their narrow views. dAsan K.S. tAtAchAr -----Original Message----- From: Vijaya Raghavan <svrvan@xxxxxxxxx> To: Arvind Rangan <arvind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; srirangasri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; champakam <champakam@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 04:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [SriRangaSri] Buddha incarnation. Arvind swami, This kind of forceful authority is not for us. please. we are born to be servants of the servants of him. Now, coming to Bhattar, i donot have the authority to question, unless i know the full background of the things. Now asking people to go thro buddism html is no use. We donot accept buddha as avatar. Buddha theory was more like charvaka. later on what has come of buddism is a study in itself. you cannot find an iota of what we find as buddist today in his teachings. buddism like janism and christianity have been buried with their founders. dasan/raghavan Arvind Rangan <arvind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > SrI ParASara BhaTTar interprets the nAma-s 787 to 810 > in terms of the Buddha incarnation. According to this > interpretation, the Buddha incarnation was a kapaTa avatAram that was > meant to mislead those who do not deserve to reach Him in this birth > because of their bad deeds, and it is a form of punishment metted out > to these folks by the Lord, namely to mislead them from the path that I would strongly disagree with this interpretation. We might be punished in any way for our bad karmas ... but god would never mislead anybody. He is the most merciful. His way of punishing would be anything else but to mislead you. For then we would also say that Jesus Christ was also an avataram to mislead more people and the same with other religions which came into being. There have been many great rishis, saints in this world and no doubt Gautam Buddha was a great saint or maybe even a avataram. But it is not right here to say that he came here into this world to mislead people as a planned way to punish those who have wronged. >A vague example to > illustrate the concept of kapaTa avatAram is the Mohini avatAram that > the Lord took for the sole purpose of deceiving the demons. Yes Mohini avataram was to deceive the Asuras (dont call them Demons) but it was more to create a diversion than to mislead. Mohini did not come to mislead the Asuras into praying another god. She did not weave a spell of another thelogy or another god. The Asuras knew of Maha Vishnu and i believe their level of understanding of GOD is far advanced than any of us here on earth. I would be extremely happy if i were to be even 0.00001% of the bhakta Ravana was , even though he was an Asura. > except to state that there was an incarnation of the Lord that taught > the Buddhist religion for the purpose of misleading those with > demonic qualities or Asuric tendencies. All asuras prayed to our gods. they were mislead by power which they gained as boons from our gods. The buddhist religion does not talk of giving or taking power and granting boons. Please read into this link.. http://biblia.com/theology/buddhism.htm No where would you see the followers of buddhism have demonic qualities or the will to fight, opress etc. Arvind SPONSORED LINKS Different religions beliefs Religious education Beyond belief Jewish belief Jehovah witness beliefs --------------------------------- YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "SriRangaSri" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! 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