--- Anand K Karalapakkam <kgk@xxxx> wrote: > SrI: > SrImatE rAmAnujAya namaH > > namO nArAyaNa! > >I would like to remind you that this > list has the > basis of SrI VaishNava SampradAya. Kindly read the > following > The Sanskrit term "Vigraha" is very much used to > denote > archA-avatAram of PerumAL {Like "Vigraha > AarAdhanam" etc}. > "Idol" is its English equivalent. There is nothing > wrong > in that word as such to denote PerumAL. Is it not that the word "Idol" represents ideation? Perhaps, you should go to the Latin root for the word to extract the real meaning (jest like we go to the Sanskrit root for our words) then perhaps you will be able to conclude if we couyld use it to denote God (I accept only one God Lord Sriman Narayana). I feel that there is everything wrong in using the word "IDOL." Yes, in the age of Kali yuga, when a majority of the so called Sri Vaishnavas are clebrating the mid night of January first (Christian New Year) as their own New Year, and celebrating the Christian Millianeium as their own sending Christian Millianium greetings to one another (even on the internet), I guess God could be reduced to that of an "IDOL." Do you go to a respected Swami and call him "He Guy?" However, there are some of us either Sri Vaishnavas or not who might feel it insulting to refer God's Sri Vigraham as "Idol." > modern thinkers > started criticizing "Idol Worship" etc and the > name "Idol" got > involved in such issues while referring to PerumAL > => Usage > of this word became mis-leading. Thus, we may > resort to other terms. > There is a lot of difference between Lord's > picture and > His archA-avatAram like either Vigraha Or > SAlagrAma-MUrti. > The former is only a representation of Him with > His divine > form {the paper etc being prakruti only} and the > latter is > verily Himself with the suddha-sattva form {either > due > to consecration by Aagamas Or taken by Lord > Himself on His > own}. Are you saying that the Archa Murthy in my home is not God or does not have the same power. Isopanishad declares: "Purnam Ada Purnamidam..." The Archa Murthy has the same power as in the Nitya Vibhoothi. When he descends, he descds with all his power. How about a guy who does not have a moorthy in the house or he is travelling, and he has only a photo calender. Suppose, he does arch to that form. Do you think that God does not accept that archa? In the service of Lord Sri Venkateswara, I remain, Sincerely Narender Reddy reddynp@xxxx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
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