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Shree Rama,

This is in response to Sri Madhavkkannan's previous post.

Thank you for taking time and replying to my messages. I think maybe you

misunderstood me at

least about the anya devatha part. I was just trying to say that when we have

not yet formally

taken up prappati the worship of anya devathas is not wrong, as in sin is not

attached to this

act. First let me tell you where all these questions and opinions come from, i

am a very liberal

person and my conception of the Divine Couple is that of loving parents who are

just waiting for

us jivaatmas to just think of them and pray to them. I personally don't pray to

anyother deities

but Lakshmi Narayana and all the paramabhagavathas like Hanuman, Ragavendra,

Ramanujaacharya,

Swami Desika and the like. I don't even pray to shiva, ganesha or the others

but i do look upon

them as elevated jivaatmas. In my eyes i view them as our older brothers whom

we should look to

for guidance to the Lord but we should not worship them as independent

beings. Like i might have said before i if anything look to these beings as my

guides nothing

more.

If i may, i would like to give you a theory on why i think the shaivate

aspect was excluded

from our sampradya for a while, because if we seriously believe in the vedas,

itihasas and puranas

which we do, they show that the Supreme Being is without a single doubt Sriman

Narayana. And if

we actually believe that our sampradya is the original one which i definitely

do, then as shown in

Ramayana, Mahabharata and the like, shiva, brahma and others where part of our

sampradya in that

we could go through them to seek guidance to Sriman Narayana. But i feel that

over time due to

the fact that people decided to wrongly interprete the vedas and scriptures,

that the idea of

shiva being supreme came and to combat this we as in our sampradya unknowing and

probably

indirectly excluded all of them. Please do not misunderstand this and think

that i am against our

sampradya on the contrary i am a 100% for it because it is the path of

the vedas, only we have the correct answers to the bheda and abheda sutras and

we

can answer them both without any compromisation unlike any other sampradya. I

am definitely not

saying to accept shiva or any other devatha as a being unto him/herself but

rather as possible

teachers to The Divine Couple.

You wrote:When we are to serve only one Master, Will the Master allow or

accept seeing us

serving or obeying to his other servants, in front of Him? Will

He not get angry? Or when He asks us to serve other servants of His (as in

the case of His Bhagawathas and devotees - tvath bruthua bruthya

parichaaraka bruthy bruthya) as a part of our duty to serve Him, won't He

feel angry if we don't?

 

In regard to this statement, my conception of Sriman Narayana is devoid of

all emotions that

are part of human nature, He is both the experiencer and giver of pure

unconditional love, he

never angers or feels sad or anything like that, he is all compassionate, all

beautiful, all

loving, all merciful, all perfect, all accepting, all supreme, all giving, and

all all. He

himself does not do any deeds but only his vyuhas (i believe this is the

activities and the reason

for the catur-vyuha avataras, from para-vaasudeva to praduymana, aniruddha,

samkrisana and so on)

do the deeds because he is self-fullified. I cannot picture him like anything

else, is my

impression of Him wrong? This is where i

get my views from because of his all perfection, he is all accessable and

universal, there are

many paths to him but i know that our path is the best and easiest, other paths

can offer moksha

but through there paths it is much harder unless they surrender unto him.

Sriman Narayana is the

father and mother, son and daughter and everything he is verily our own

individuality but it is

not the other way. Please respond i always find it very eye-opening to speak to

other

bhagavathas. Tell me what you think is wrong or right with my views.

 

Shree Rama

Shree Ramanujaaya Namah

Shree Lakshmi Narayana Dasan

mukunda vijaya ragahavan