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champakam • January 30, 2003 


As the temporary Moderator of the group, I would like to share some 
thoughts.  I think there is nothing wrong in asking questions such 
as "why rAma kiiled vAli", "Is He justfied in killing vAli from 
behind a tree", "why rAma killed mArIca", "is it okay to skin 
mArIca", "was rAma justified in just killing something to please His 
wife", etc. etc.  I generally notice that these kinds of questions 
also get a lot of responses, even though as the posting below 
indicates, not much that is authoritative (by this I mean what our 
AcArya-s say about these things) comes out of these postings.  

It will help if those who have access to some of our AcArya-s, to get 
clarifications of some of these questions, or to quote some 
upanyAsaka's views, or something that is authoritative, as they 
respond to the questions such as the above.  SrI Harikrishnan's 
series a couple of months back on vAli vadam was one of those 
literary contributions that was based on the well-reserached analysis 
on kamban and vAlmIki.  It will be nice if those who want to send 
responses to questions such as the above, take the time to look up 
some authoritative work, such as some authentic vyAkhyAnam, some 
authentic AcArya's words, etc., before responding.  If responses are 
sent out just based on whatever we feel in our head, then we get lot 
of responses, without any conclusion.  This might be one reason why 
the situation referred to by the author of the note below arises.  

I also cannot but help feel that the itihAsa-s such as rAmAyaNa have 
a lot more important things that they communicate to us, such as how 
an ideal son should be, how an ideal brother should be, how an ideal 
wife should be, how an ideal king should be, etc.  I generally notice 
that not much interest seems to be expressed in starting discussion 
on what I would think are the more important aspects of these itihAsa-
s.   I cerntainly do not want to squelch discussion, and so let the 
discussion continue.  

In order to improve the overall quality of the questions as well as 
the responses, I would like to propose that those that post questions 
first search through the bhakti list archives, and find out if some 
of the questions that they have, have already been answered or at 
least discussed before.  The web is another source that people can 
use to research some of the issues, even though I am aware that we 
don't get responses to every issue that we want to investigate.  I 
personally do not have the time to look up the archives for every 
issue, and do not have the time to research issues through the web 
either, and provide meaningful responses based on proper pramANa-s 
etc.  So I request that those who raise the issues do some initial 
research and share whatever they find that is authoritative, and 
those that respond spend some time so that their responses are 
cumultative in contrributing to properly answer the issue that is 
raised.  I think this process can raise the level of the postings for 
the benefit of all in the long run.  I hope this suggestion is taken 
in the right spirit.

-Moderator.

From:  "alambda"  
Date:  Thu Jan 30, 2003  10:43 pm
Subject:  Re: Doubts on Golden Deer

Greetings to you all:

I am amazed by the sheer response to my doubt, in fact when I decided 
to ask
this question, I thought it would be answered in a line by scholars 
in this
group, but I am blessed with so many information.
thank you all, and we still not able to come to a conclusion, as 
every views
seems to hold its own validity based on Puranas, as we churn our 
Knowledge,
we are at total bliss of reading so many divine thoughts.

today I was reading Jayadeva's Dasavatara Stortra, in which Buddha is
mentioned as the 9th avatar of Sriman. Narayanan, but I am not sure 
whether
we believe Buddha as the 9th avatar?? may I know views of our members 
in
this context please.

Pranams

Swathi
hong kong

 




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