Universal Prayer.

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Keshava Prasad's posting depicts a mental struggle against

saranagathi while wanting to stick to the roots of our ancestors.

 

In a discourse at a Dola utsavam, HH The Jeer of Sri Ahobila Mutt

compared the worship of other deities to doing charitable work in

society while neglecting the service of elderly parents in the house.

 

Also Swami Desikan says in the RTS that when one understands the body

soul relationship, between us and Sriman Narayana, all the waves

(of agitation) caused by rival theories will subside.

 

The body soul relationship means that the body exists only to fulfil

the purposes of the soul and is entirely controlled by the soul.

Thus it is Keshava Prasad's soul that wishes to post the article to

Prapatti, but it is his body which went to the computer and typed the

article etc.

 

Similarly we exist to serve the purposes of Sriman Narayana only. It

is only when one comes to the understanding of this position, that

one becomes entitled to get relief from this existence of birth,

death, old age and disease.

 

In order to get out of this cycle, we must first desire it and then

strive towards that end. In order to be able to see Narayana

everywhere and worship Him universally, one must first get to the

point of seeing Him everywhere. Before that we have to first see Him

at least in the temple. There are many who look upon the archa

murthy as a stone representation. This is totally athiestic even if

one is well versed in upanishads etc.

 

We are all in various stages of spiritual evolution and should find

association with people that we are comfortable with. This is why

the Karma Kanda section of the Vedas exist and this is why Vyasa

composed Rajasic and Tamasic Puranas while also showing the highest

goal in the Brahma sutras and the sattvic Puranas.

 

Jaganath.