Guest guest Posted April 27, 2000 Report Share Posted April 27, 2000 Dear members, As many of you by now would have come to know, in our country states like Rajasthan, Gujarat, AP are facing very severe drought conditions that has so far led to death of people and many cattles. A manifestation of mother nature's fury. The reason is said to be monsoon failure in these regions in the last season. In this regard I recollect some 15 yrs. back when I was a kid, back in the agraharam where we were staying then, prohits conducted a yag~nam to bring rain. I don't remember exactly all the pujas they did. But I remember they immersed the deity's mUla murthy in water fully for whole day while the pUja and veda recitation was done. The very next day it rained without fail to everybody's delight! Even in this present situation, prohits in those states and the neighbouring states can come forward and conduct a yag~nam to bring rain which will help the mankind and cattles. Do Vaishnavas see anything wrong in this notion ? Let Sriman Narayana's compassion shower in these regions and benefit the living beings there soon. adiyEn, chandrasekaran. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 28, 2000 Report Share Posted April 28, 2000 Sri Mathe Malola NarasimhAya Namaha ------------------------- In 16th Sloka of the 7th Chapter of the Bhagavad-Gita, the Sri Krishna-paramAtma says: chatur-vidhA bhajante mAm jnanAha sukratino 'rjuna arrtHO jijnAsur arthArthi jnAni cha bhartarshabha ( O best among Bharatas(Arjuna), four kinds of pious men begin to rendr devotional service unto me - the distressed, the desirer of wealth, the inquisitive, and he who is searching for the knowledge of the absolute) Unlike people who worship the lord for material or personal sense gratification, these are adherents of the regulative principles of the Vedas. These people are called sukrtinAha (those who obey the rules and regulations of scriptures,the moral or social lawsa and are more or less devoted to the Supreme Lord. Among them there are four classes of men - those who are some times distressed (in this case people hit by the drought), those who are in need of money,those who are sometimes inquisitive, and those who are sometimes searching for the knowledge of the absolute. These kind of people are not pure devotees becasue they have some aspiration to fullfil in exchange of their devotional service. One should render devotional service unto the lord with love and not render devotional service unto him in exchange for gratifications of certain aspirations. But these kind of people as mentioned before are sukrtinAha. By virtue of they attachement to the supreme lord, they become pure devotees gradually. But miscreants who breach the rules of the scriptures do not become pure devotees. The people of Gujrat, Orissa and Parts of Andhra Pradesh were nonetheless devastated by the drought. But by virtue of them being sukrtinAha and performing necessary rituals, the Supreme lord saved his devotees from further devastation. When ayashingar(present of Sri Ahobila Mutt) came to our house for dolotsavam, in his upanyasam he mentioned that the lord can never let anyone harm his true devotees. He also mentioned that just be Hiranyakshan was harming PrahalAda (his devotee), the lord manifested himself in the from of Narasimhan and came to the rescue of his devotee(PrahalAda). In this case, the lord came to the resuce of his tru devotees who were devastated by the drought. I certainly do not feel anything wrong in this notion. Namo Narayana, Malolan Cadambi Chandrasekaran Venkatraman wrote: > Dear members, > As many of you by now would have come to know, in our country states like > Rajasthan, Gujarat, AP are facing very severe drought conditions that has so far > led to death of people and many cattles. A manifestation of mother nature's > fury. The reason is said to be monsoon failure in these regions in the last > season. In this regard I recollect some 15 yrs. back when I was a kid, back in the > agraharam where we were staying then, prohits conducted a yag~nam to bring rain. I > don't remember exactly all the pujas they did. But I remember they immersed the > deity's mUla murthy in water fully for whole day while the pUja and veda > recitation was done. The very next day it rained without fail to everybody's > delight! > Even in this present situation, prohits in those states and the neighbouring > states can come forward and conduct a yag~nam to bring rain which will help the > mankind and cattles. > Do Vaishnavas see anything wrong in this notion ? Let Sriman Narayana's > compassion shower in these regions and benefit the living beings there soon. > > adiyEn, > chandrasekaran. > > ------ > Was the salesman clueless? Productopia has the answers. > http://click./1/3019/2/_/716111/_/956896496/ > ------ > > ----------------------------- > - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - > To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list (AT) eGroups (DOT) com > Visit http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/ for more information -- Malolan Cadambi, 301, BK Apartments, 43/1, 8th Cross, Temple Street, Malleswaram, Bangalore 560003, India. Tel/Fax : +91-80-3449381 cadambi, crmalolan http://malolan.8m.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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