RE: When posting appeals...
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• September 19, 1999
Sri Mani wrote : To explain: It was written yesterday that the Pomona Ranganatha temple is the "one and only authentic Sri Vaishnava temple ... [without] any presence of dEvathAntharam in it in this continent". Does this make Sri Govindaraja Sannidhi in Chidambaram a false Sri Vaishnava temple? After all, He is resting right next to Lord Nataraja and Natana Ganapati. What about the various other Divya Desams praised by Alvars, where there happen to be another devatA inside? [Krishna Kalale] Please see my earlier posting on this issue. Here I would like to add an important issue. In some common temples here where there are separate prakarams to all deities, bhajans are common; people sing bhajans on all deities in a common area of the temple. Some of the bhajans of anya devatas have a haunting tune and one invariably brings them to their minds and to their homes unknowingly. This, again depends on the maturity of the individual; I have to confess I dont even like to listen to bhajans or classical music on anya devatas which often are even philosophically erroneous : for example for all deities a statement such as "Om kara rupa ....... or moksha daata etc. are added in the bhajans. These songs or kirthanas are definitely misleading. This is wrong due to many reasons. In rahasya traya sara, such a great acharya like Sri Vedanta Desika states : " tadiya paryantam tyajyar". meaning " anya devata samparkam should be avoided to the extent of avoiding the anya devata worshippers". This is not my statement, Such a brilliant acharya has made a so called narrowminded statement (according to modern people who are WRONG). This statement is uttered with definitely a lot of practical consideration by Sri Vedanta Desika. Please note, that the same Sri Vedanta Desika is not a biased person by any chance. He states that "Mahadeva is a great dayalu (kind person) , who resides in Kashi and teaches Rama taraka mantra to lead people towards Srimannarayana" in I think samkalpa suryodaya. Sri Vedanta Desika obviously knows not to overstate or understate the truth that anyadevatas are not Srimannarayana. Again, common temples often puts people in philosophically awkward situations. This is obviously avoided at Pomona temple NY. adiyen Krishna Kalale
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