Bandhumakhilasya

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From

MK Krishnaswamy <surfing

 

Dear Bhakti-group members,

 

Shriman Sudarshan's (R.Balaji) scholarly posting is timely to canalise

our thoughts in the right direction. We may try to understand the Lord;

but attempts to cast Him in our image of right and wrong will take us

away from the path of Bhakti. The all-pervasive Narayana, we are told

in Narayana Suktam, exists in everything and everywhere: "Yaccha

kimchith jagatyasmin drushyate shrooyate.pi va | Antarbahishcha

tatsarvam vyaapya naaraayanassthhitah || " If we can internalise this

truth, and truly accept that the Lord exists in every created being and

everywhere, how can we complain that He is amoral because He appears to

be the bandhu of a part of it which we judge as "bad" or "evil"? The

mother with a large number of children devotes more attention to her

"bad" child; should the "good" child have a complaint against her on

this account?

 

Putana went to Krishna with a lot of poison in her breast as an offering

to Him. He sucked out all the poison and gave her deliverance. It is

said in the Bhagavata Puranam that when the body was cremated, a

pleasant sandal-smell pervaded the atmosphere. No wonder that Desikan

considered Him a bandhu of all that He himself created -- the Lokam,

without any exception.

 

Let us listen to the timely warning of Shriman Balaji and commence a

true Sahasranama Archanai of the Lord. Let us try to understand Him in

all His glory, untouched by our limitations.

 

Adiyen Dasan,

MK Krishnaswamy