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Lakshmi Narasimhan Venkatapathy • September 19, 2002 


Srimatha Ramanujaya Namaha
Dear Shree Krishna,
The opening lines of the Shri Vishnu Sahasranamam is not a salutary to Ganesha. It is a salutory to Shri Vishwaksenar the senadhipadhi of Lord Shriman Narayana. We do the Vishwaksena upasanai during almost all our rountine yagnas. And, I recently heard from one of the best scholars of our time that, Ganesha exist but he is one of the member of the Siva Ganas and is not the son of Shiva. There is no relationship between Shiva and Ganesha and I heard that it is not anywhere specified in the vedas too. In puranas too(the authenticate ones that Sri Vaishnavas consider) only subrahmanyan is said to be the son of Shiva. Additional news was the the deity Iyappan does not even exist and the whole concept of Hari-Haran stuff is an absolute bluff. This could be seen from the fact that a. There is no history that says about Iyappan b. you could not see people with any of the names like hariharan or iyappan of age more than 80 or 90. I heard that the concept of Ganesha as a son of Shiva came up after the 10th century an
Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan,
Lakshmi Narasimhan

----- Original Message -----
From: Shreekrishna Akilesh
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 1:40 PM
To: bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Opening of Vishnu Sahasranamam...

Dear Sri Vaishnavas,

Everyone is quite familiar with the opening lines of Vishnu Sahasranamam,
which is a salutary verse to Lord Ganesha. The role of Lord Ganesha isn't
quite clear to me, especially when it comes to the tradition of Sri
Ramanuja.  [...]


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