Pratardana Vidya

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SrI:

SrI Lakshminrusimha ParabrahmaNE namaha

SrI Lakshminrusimha divya pAdukA sEvaka SrIvaN-

SatakOpa SrI nArAyaNa yateendra mahAdESIkAya namaha

 

Dear devotees,

namO nArAyaNa.

 

Last year, adiyEn mentioned about "Pratardana Vidya"

during the discussion on anya dEvata (demigod) worship.

adiyEn wanted to send a post that time itself to

clarify a point in it. Though forgotten about it,

its bhagavad sankalpam that adiyEn has remembered it

now.

 

 

The clarification is that, in Pratardana Vidya, the

upAsaka has to meditate on Brahman, with the "jIvAtma"

Indra as its SarIra. Ofcourse, for the sake of identification

of Indra, his material body is also essential. The point

made in that posting was that, such an upAsana (bhakti-yOga)

will not amount to anyadEvata worship, since it is a Brahma

Vidya that needs to be performed in that way, as per the

wish of SrIman nArAyaNa, the Brahman. Also, jIvAtma

sAkshAtkAram is a pre-requisite of bhakti-yOga and a

upAsaka has to constantly meditate on himself ie. the self

also (while the primary meditation is on Brahman, as the

SarIri of oneself) while adopting any bhakti yOga. Thus,

meditating on a jIvAtma by itself is not a taboo for an

upAsaka and it will not amount to anya-dEvata worship.

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

anantapadmanAbha dAsan.

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