sri and sriyafpathE

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Dear friends,

I have been browsing through all your excellent discussions on the position

of Sri: and BhagavAn in SriVaishnava theology.

 

Please permit me to make a small interjection.

 

To the uninitiated --- to those of you who may have trouble understanding

the true relationship between BhagavAn and Sri: (and how the two in the

SriVaishnava ' vadagalai sampradAyam' are held to be inseparable and in

fact are said to cohere into each other as One and the Same) --- to those

who might be grappling with that particularly difficult concept (made

doubly difficult by the profusion of Sanskrit terminology accompanying such

discussions), I have a small and simple suggestion to share and which I

believe might help :

 

"Please take time to dwell a while on the theoretical concepts of

electricity".

 

Ask yourself if you can conceive of electricity without its so-called

"polar" aspects.

 

At the kinetic level electricity is defined as energy-source made up of

"positive/negative" charge. But at a functional level --- at the level

where energy is multifariously applied and used --- do you perceive

anything even remotely suggesting the "duality" or "polarity" of electric

power at work?

 

A force that is essentially "dual" in conception is actually a "unit" of

kinetic function, isn't it?

(Hasn't it ever struck you as strange that power should always be expressed

in "UNITS" of Kwh or Mwh!! Compare this on the other hand with something

like, say, "pressure" which in the case of "blood-pressure" we all know is

always measured in terms of its essential "duality" i.e. its "systolic and

diastolic" components.)

 

In similar fashion, thus, "BhagavAn" and "Sri:" too may be roughly

conceived of as the "dual/polar" charges of the central "unity"

constituting upanishadic "para-brahmham".

 

One does not, indeed, cannot exist or function without the other.

They are different and yet are the same.

They appear discrete even while they inseparably cohere!

 

Please carry on with your very interesting discussions.

 

adiyEn,

sudarshan