Re: Dvividha in Srimad Bhagavatam
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• September 20, 2002
Namaskarams to you first. It seems to be the same vanara. I don't know what to say on immortality part (Immortality may have levels and even Indra's life is much shorter compared to Lord Brahma as we all know. Anyway he lived for an yuga and in some sense justfied Valmiki. All said and done, there are lot of differences in the time concept of valmiki and Bhagavatham. Krishna lived for 120 years only and Valmiki talkes about few ten thousands of years for Rama. Valmiki says Kashyapa did tapas for 1000 deva years to get vamana while Bhgavatham talks about his wife doing it just for few days. Poets have a tendency to cross realties of time and space all said and done. Anyway, all this are to improve bhakthi and we need to really look at the principles they stand for. Vedas usually talk about praying the Gods to grant trouble free 100 years of life and that is very convincing. warm regards, Balaji S. --- Mani Varadarajanwrote: > > A question from a friend of mine: > > > I happened to be reading the Srimad Bhagavatam > this > > morning and came across the episode where Dwivida > gets > > killed by Balarama. > > > Two problems with that. First, how could a devotee > of Sri > > Raama who fought for him in Lanka cause himself to > be > > killed by Balarama? (It is the same Dwivida since > Vyaasa > > mentions that he was the brother or Mainda and a > > counsellor to Sugriva - the Lord of the Monkeys) > > Apparently, this Dwivida had befriended Naraka > too. > > > Second, Valmiki writes that Mainda and Dwivida > were the > > sons of the Aswinis and had quaffed Amrita. How > then > > could Dwivida be killed? > > > If you have any clue about these, please let me > know. If > > you know some knowledgeable souls that could > explain > > this, please ask them. > > > I am disturbed to see this contradiction and am > even more > > disturbed as to how the Lord's devotee could die > in this > > way. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > Mani -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com Group Home: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bhakti-list 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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