your karma determines your ishta?

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, "thegoddessisinme2002"

<ashwini_puralasamy> wrote:

> "You have extremely noble and most kind thinking, but I think as

the

> sun shines and its rays fall on the trees and plants, not all

flowers

> bloom, some remain close petaled. Also, certain type of things are

> not meant for all. Most of this world is filled with dirt and

> soot. And mankind is not ready for enlightenment through higher

> practice of worship. However, we can be hopeful"

>

>

> Thank you for such beautiful phrase. It is indeed true... its the

> hope that gives us the courage and the willingliness to go on ....

>

> OM Parashaktiye Namaha

 

 

I agree, the phrase in itself is beautiful and inspiring indeed.

 

At the same time, like it did for Sister Usna, its very construction

and language evokes a secondary response in this sadhaka(me). The

staunchest Krishnites have always used arguments constructed with

metaphors similar to those used in the above to tell other sadhakas,

whose Ishta is other than Krsna, that the reason why they aren't

surrendering to Krsna is because their past karma hasn't been

meritorious enough for them to recognize this 'higher worship' i.e.

krsna-bhakti. Read coldly and rationally, these statements of course

seem ludicrous in a religion (Sanatana Dharma) which states the

Oneness of God. But for the pious devotee who is struggling to put

forth his/her best in sadhana, the same statements can cause him/her

to question the choice he/she had made to worship another Ishta.

 

What is more interesting is that I have never read any illustrious

Shaivite or Shakta saints of yore who borrowed this particular

Vaishnavistic argument/claim --- that the reason one is not choosing

Shiva or Shakti is because of one's demeritorious karma.

 

It does makes one wonder if perhaps the Vs have really cornered the

market on Ultimate Truth.

 

Any comments?

 

 

Om Tat Sat