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Re: Idol worship and Vedas???

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yamini suresh • November 25, 2002 


Namo Narayana,

There have been too many mails going back and forth on
idol worship.
I do have some information gathered from Sri Krishna
Premi's discourses. I will compile the information and
post it in the next two days. It will clear some of
our basic doubts. The divinity of the Archavataram
will also be remain unquestioned. I am sure most of us
in the group pose these questions more out of the
intention of convincing others who pose these
questions to us. 

I'll try my best to put the discourse into meaningful
words.

Ramanuja dasi


--- Visu9@aol.com wrote:
> /OM namO nArAyaNAya |
> 
> /namastE to all. Adding a remark to Swami
> Sadanandaji's posting. 
> 
> When one considers a book as sacred, it is idol
> worship. Consider an example: If I burn my prayer
> book, a Muslim or a Christian will not be upset. If
> I burn the /kurAn or the Bible, it will be another
> story. This is just an example to make the idea of
> sacredness understandable. 
> 
> Idol worship imbues an idol with the content of the
> prayer book. May be a particular part for me on a
> given day, another part on another day and for
> another person etc. The person reading the /kurAn or
> the Bible does the same --- a portion at a time.
> 
> If one is against idol worship, he or she cannot
> have a prayer book or anything that memorializes the
> prayer. 
> 
> /nalan/tarum collai nAn kaNtu/koNtEn; nArAyaNA ennum
> nAmam.
> 
> /vantanam.
> 
> Visu
> 
> 
>
---


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