Re: QUIZ (SrI Ramanuja's greatest contribution)
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• January 26, 2002
SrImatE bhagavatE SrI-bhAshyakAra mahA-dESikAya nama: aDiyEn thinks that the greatest significance of bhagavad-rAmAnuja's avataaram is his revelation of the most subtle SarIrAtma-bhaavam intrinsically embedded in the Vedas themselves, which he uses to consistently explain the true import of the vedaanta in its _entirety_, rejecting neither the bheda-Sruti nor the abheda-Sruti. Without a proper understanding of the true relationship between the ISvara, jIva-s & the world as revealed in the most fundamental vaidika-concept of SarIraatma-bhaavam by bhagavad-raamaanuja, even aazvaar SrI-sUktis could mislead & stump a sincere seeker. Of course, bhagavad-rAmAnuja could easily recognize the key concept of SarIraatma-bhaavam intrinsically found in the veda-s due to the Divine Grace of the aazhvaars. Ironically, though SrI namaazvaar is glorified in the tradition as "vEdam tamizh seyda maaran", even some of namaazhvaar's emotionally bhakti-laden SrI suukiti's could stump & mislead a sincere philosophical seeker without a proper objective understanding of the underlying Sariiraatma-bhaavam (as revealed in the vEda-s) also. Thus it is aDiyEn's belief that bhagavad-rAmAnuja's greatest gift is his vedaantically authentic SrI suuktis which guard even aazhvaar's own paasurams (some of which can be as ambiguous as the veda's themselves) It is no wonder that svAmi SrI vEdanta-dESikan glorifies bhagavad- rAmAnuja's SrI suukti-ss in SrI-paadukaa-sahasram thus: "jayati yati-raaja-suuktiH jayati mukundasya paadukaa yagalii tad ubhaya-dhanaa: tri-vEdiim avandhyayantaH jayati bhuvi-santaH" [SrImad-paadukaa-sahasram" aDiyEn Ramkumar rAmAnuja-dAsan -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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