Criticisms and ego ...

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Please do not mistake me for this posting. I have been a witness as to

what has transpired in this group so long and id does not please me

either - neither Shri Sudarshan's comments, nor the reponses.

 

While it may be true that we as mortals are caught by the knots of

insult to our ego, the Lord expects us as he says in the gItA:

 

... aviDhyasya kuthO dhanam, aDhanasya kuthO mithram, amithrasya

kuthaha sukham ?

 

I can not attain viDhyA unless I set aside my ego and the insults and

mud that one may confer upon me. I feel it only right to see through

the slander and try to identify any merit to the literary content of

such postings if any. If there is no such merit, it is only right for

me to ignore such an incident.

 

When sage durvAsar kicked the Lord on His chest for ignoring him, He did

not feel insulted. On the contrary, He actually attended to the sage

instantly, and even blessed him by releasing him of his ego, by closing

the "eye of ego" that he had in his feet. And when that happens, shrI

durvAsa muni is indeed enlightened, that it is he who has insulted the

Lord. The Lord and Godess MahAlakshmI subsequently come down to Earth

as Lord ShrInivAsar and shrI alarmElmangai at Thirumalai and

ThiruchAnUr. Being a follower of such a Supreme Being, it only behooves

me to follow his teachings.

 

The past few weeks, I have been reading more and more of the shrImath

bhAgavatham and as I get into it more and more, Compassion, tolerance

and Bhakthi through renunciation is all that the Lord wants us to

follow, and he never ceases to reiterate them in his upadEsham.

 

Let us therefore set the "Sudarshan" incident aside and go on with our

purpose in this group rather than imitate the content of certain other

newsgroups. The purpose of this group is to promote shrIvaishNavism,

and it is not a platform where SDDS settles its disputes. At least it

is not in the charter goal.

 

So let us just get back our composure and get on with our routine of

reading some wonderful postings by the likes of shrI Sadagopan

 

Om shAnthi shAnthi shAnthihi.

 

adiyEn

rAja krishNasAmy

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