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Govind Rengarajan • July 27, 1997 


On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Raja Krishnasamy wrote:

> 
> I now have a related question.  If we indeed as srI
> VaishNavAs are to pray to Lord srIman nArAyaNA only,
> and according to some people not even worship other
> dieties (so far the discussion in this group has
> limited itself to Lord Shiva as the "anya dEvathA"),
> why is it that after baraNyAsam, some people pay
> their respects to other Sri Vaishnava forms of Sriman
> nArAyaNA, such as srI rAmA, or sudarshana AzhvAr,
> etc.  Is not some amount of karma attached to these
> dieties as well ?
> 

	I think an answer may be found in Sri Sudarshan's
	bhishma-stuthi (10 - 13) dealing with "yat Bhava
	pravAha ha" - in particular, the 12th and 13th articles.
        If my understanding is incorrect, I hope Sri Sudarshan will
	correct me.
	
	adiyEn,
	govind rengrajan