NAMASKARAM TO ALL BHAGAVATAS

[Guest guest]

Dear bhagavatas,

This dasa's name is sridhar ranganatha. Adiyen is new to this group as

well as to Srivaishnavism. Adiyen used to believe in Advaita philosophy. It

is adiyen's Bhagyam that adiyen is part of this group. Adiyen is very

greatful to Sri Dileepan Parthasarathy for initiating adiyen into

Srivaishnava philosophy and to this group. It has been a great joy to read

such enlightining mails for the last month.

Adiyen thanks Sri Karalapakkam for removing his ignorance about

samasrayanam. Can anyone ( Sri Karalapakkam) please eloberate on why 'Anaya

Devata aradhana' should not be practised by a Shrivaishnava eventhough One

may SURRENDER the fruits of any such pooja at the feet of Sriman Narayana,

the Supreme Lord. Adiyen regularly performs Satyanarayana pooja here in

Minneapolis as a Duty and for the benefit of the community. Sriman Narayana

in the form of Satyanaraya has been merciful to adiyen in giving an

opportuniy to perform his pooja every Poornima. Adiyen does this pooja

with NO EXPECTATIONS OF FRUITS, but does it as a DUTY for the pleasure of

Narayana. Also in this commmunity there is no(south indian) temple and very

few people know to chant vedas and do poojas. Adiyen tries to serve the Lord

by trying to help the community to atleast focus on Lord instead of wasting

their precious human life on irrelevant things. Also Satyanarayana puja

seems to capture the imagination of the people (may be due to kama, who is

adiyen to judge!). So with this background, the Question to bhagavatas is,

Isn't it important for adiyen to follow Sruti in the performance of the

Satyanarayana pooja? This may involve anyadevata aradhana like Navagraha

pooja prior to Styanarayana pooja. Adiyen fully understands that Sriman

Narayan is Sarvam, but doesn't want to knowingly violate the procedure of

the pooja. Adiyen does this pooja focusing on Sriman Narayana and stresses

on the SURRENDER aspect of the katha as advised by Sri Dileepan

Parthasarathy. The question is, Should adiyen abandon the pooja because

it involves anyadevata worship thereby denying an opportunity for people to

experience Lord in the form of Satyanarayana or violate the Sruti by

changing the Procedure for the pooja? Actually Adiyen was teaching Rudram,

but has given that up on the advise of Sri Parthasarathy and orders of

Sriman Narayana. Adiyen is deeply indebted to Sri Parthasarathy.

Adiyen begs forgiveness for asking funda questions.

Om namo nArAyanaya

dasa

sridhar ranganatha

[Guest guest]

[Krishna Kalale]

 

 

Sri Sridhar wrote:

 

Actually Adiyen was teaching Rudram,

but has given that up on the advise of ..............

 

 

 

 

[Krishna Kalale] Dear sridhar,

 

I will not go into the other questions you have posed and I will leave it

to knowledgeable people on the net. I think one should learn "Rudram" as a

part of "vedadhyayana" or learning other suktas and mantras. From the

Visistadvaitic perspective "Rudram" refers to Rudra's antaryami who is

srimannarayana. In fact a portion of Rudram is recited in shraddha karma

by all. I have noticed that many " srivaishnavas dont know rudram and keep

MUM when they are supposed to chant it. If you are teaching other mantras

also to others, then in addition, if you teach rudram it is fine. One

should learn rudram also in addition to other parts of vedas. We should

keep in our mind that it refers to the antaryami of Rudra. That's all.

Vedadhyayanam is some thing many people have forgotten. It is one of the

important duties of anyone with an "yajnopavita"..

 

 

adiyen Krishna Kalale

[Guest guest]

Dear sridhar ranganatha,

 

You wrote:

> Adiyen was teaching Rudram,

> but has given that up on the advise of Sri

> Parthasarathy and orders of

> Sriman Narayana. Adiyen is deeply indebted to Sri

> Parthasarathy.

 

Just my observations. During my father's

saSti-abdha-poorthi (60th/61st birthday celebrations),

the *entire* yajurveda was recited by very well-known

ghana-pAthis, all of whom happened to be

srI-vaishNavas, staunch I might add. This event

happened for four days since the entire yajurveda

consists of 82 prasnas (aSheeti-dwayam). (Actually

only 81 were recited, since one prasna belonging to

the AraNyaka portion has to be recited outside the

house.) Rudram was also recited. There were no

exceptions. When I asked a ghana-pAti present there

about this, he said that in the Rudram, every rudra

padam has specific reference to Lord Lakshmi Nrsimha.

So, I think if you are teaching vEdAdhyanam, there

should not be any favoritism for certain kinds of

verses just because they seem to refer to anya-devata.

 

Learned bhAgawatas may please comment on this.

 

-- adiyen, murali kadambi

 

 

 

 

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