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Re: worship of Srivaishnava purvArcharyas (was kamba rAmAyanam)

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Lakshmi Narasimhan Venkatapathy • December 2, 2002 


Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha
Dear Sri Visu,
What a quote it was! Waaw. It was probably the best pasuram to quote in this 
context. What I tried to put across in my big mail had been simply explained 
by azhwar in just 4 lines:) Thanks a lot for bringing out the appropriate 
reference and explaining the bottom-line - that "He(azhwar) knows what 
matters!" Yes. That is what it is, really. It doesn't matter what we call 
him and what form we address, as long as we know what really matters:)
Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan,
Lakshmi Narasimhan






>From: Visu9@aol.com
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>CC: visu9@aol.com
>Subject: Re: worship of Srivaishnava purvArcharyas (was kamba rAmAyanam)
>Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:25:34 -0500
>
>  /Om namO nArAyaNAya |
>
>  /namaskArams to all members.
>
>There are so may postings so sure of non-worship of Lord /SivA. I am not 
>sure that in the light of statements made by no less an /AzvAr than 
>/nammAZvAr, it is possible to make definite statements about the so-called 
>other deities.
>
>Here is a /pAcuram from /nammAZvAr, which is beautiful in its humble 
>approach to a complex subject. Please note that no conclusive statement is 
>made other than the fact that the Lord is truly mysterious. Notice also the 
>employmnet of a specific neutral word like /kaNNan to denote the Supreme 
>Being. (/kaNNan is not /rAman, or vishNu in its meaning. It is neutral in 
>the sense that it is specific to Lord /krushNA. It means darling or pupil 
>of the eye.)
>
>/oLir/maNi vaNNan enkO;
>
>  /oruvan enR/Etta ninRa;
>
>  /naLir/mati caTayan enkO;
>
>  /nAn/mukak kaTavuL enkO;
>
>  /aLi/makiZ t/ulakam ellAm;
>
>  /paTaittavai Etta ninRa;
>
>  /kaLi/malar tuLavan emmAn;
>
>  /kaNNanai mAyanEyE ||
>
>  
Note from Moderator: SrI Viswanathan's statement  "I am not 
sure that in the light of statements made by no less an /AzvAr than 
nammAZvAr, it is possible to make definite statements about the so-called 
>other deities", and the current follow-up posting by SrI Lakshmi Narasimhan, are obviously their personal opinions.  tiruvAimozhi consists of 1102 pASuram-s, and knowledgeable interpreters interpret the message of nammAzhvAr in the context of the all the pASuram-s taken toegether.  In the ten pASurams, nammAzhvAr describes the different vibhUti-s of perumAL, just as Lord kRshNa describes His different vibhUti-s in SrImad bhagad gItA chapter 10.  The proper interpetation for these is that each one of these forms that has something great about it, owes its greatness purely to Him. It is an incorrect interrpetation to infer that all the things (such as milk in pASuram 3.4.6 - pAl enko) that are referred to in these pASuram-s are same as parmAtman. The issue of anya-devatA-s has been discussed extensively in this list.  Maybe the proper way to learn the message of the AzhvAr-s is to approach an AcAryan. 

   




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