Srishti

[Guest guest]

Dear Poojya Sris,

 

Love and Pranams.

 

The following doubt is nagging me for quite some time. May I request you to

clear my doubt and enlighten me with your answers.

 

What is the meaning of this srishti? Why God has to do this Srishti at all? What

is the basic idea behind it? Having created it, why has HE created both good and

bad people. As we all know, Ravans and Hiranyakasypas turned against HIM and HIS

devotees, ravaged Ashramas of Rishis and killed innumerable Sages and God

Himself has to descend on earth to save His devotees. What is this all? God

would have created only good people so that there will not be any problems

whatsoever in the society. Every one would have been a righteous man and spend

their tiem in praise of Lord always. What is the essence and purpose of this

Srishti? May I request you to think it over and enlighten me.

 

Om

 

Gopi.

 

P. Gopi Krishna

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

Dear Sri Gopikrishna,

 

What is the meaning of this srishti?

 

meaning is "creation". During mahApraLayam (dissolution), the Lord takes back

the sentient (chit) and insentient (achit) to protect them by retaining in His

stomach. (AlilaimEl iru bAlakanAy jnAlam yEzhum uNdAn)..

 

Due to His great compassion, He brings them back to "life". after praLayam.

(uNdu, umizhndhu- as repeatedly referred to by AzhwArs). He gives the beings the

respective lives as per their karmAs. This is CREATION. This is applicable to

ALL, right from worms, plant, upto four faced brahmA, Sivan, Indran et al.

 

Now question is: when did it start? How can there be karmA in the first

creation..?

Ansswer: It never started at one point of time. There was NEVER a time jivA did

not exist; He (jIvA) is andhi- beginningless in as much as the Lord Himself. (He

tells that in GitA too). jIvan's karmA too is anAdhi. It is bhIjAnkura nyAyam.

Seed or the tree - which comes first? when did the first seed come? NO ANSWER.

 

The most compassionate, most merciful Lord (playing all this as His leelA),

gives us these births (based on our past karmAs); gives us an opportunity to do

good, gain little puNyA, get better births etc.. To get out of this cycle of

anAdhi karmA, and births and deaths, is ONLY BHAKTI, Prapatti. (as told by the

Lord Himself).

 

Okay, if H is so compassionate, He could have simply taken all jIvAs to

SrIivaikuNtam and let us get rid of all these samsaaric afflictions. Why does He

not do that? Because He is an administrator, in addition to saviour. He has to

follow the rules, lest He will be partial and will be called "adharmic".

We are all bound by our karmas. Since He is the One who has established this

institution based on karma, He will not break it. However, He is ever anxious

to find one good deed on our parts such that He can redeem us out of this sea of

samsAram. This is His SousIlyam.

 

You go around the temple for some short cut with no intention of going around

the temple. But what you have done is pradakshINam around Perumal's

Koyil.Although purely unintentional, this act has become a good deed. good

karmA.

 

Will this good deed be ignored? Somehow, it makes the Lord's Compassionate

Glance fall upon you. The Lord will be looking at you in surprise and saying

"This person (mu child) is doing pradakshanam around the Koyil!" you will

receive His katAksham. But, you will have no knowledge of it .

 

Because of His Compassionate Glance, a change occurs in us, joining bhakti list

(accidentally stepping onto Sri Mani's Home page). You feel happy at your own

desire to hear about Him in this list without interruption. You are listening to

tele upanyAsams, reading the TiruppAvai articles etc., and enjoy His Glories.

Some more katAksham. You seek out to bhAgavathas who can describe Him to you.

You always want to be with them and enjoy the happiness in their faces when they

are speaking about Him.

 

When you have reached this stage, you are ready for AchArya samAsrayanam.

AchArya will initiate you. You will perform prapatti and you have done what

needs to be done for getting rid of this cycle.

 

But why in the beginning should He create first of all? leelA. (play) It is His

play. Ramanuja says "akhila bhuvanajanma.... leelE.."

Swamy Desikan considers this leelA of His also as His GREATEST upakAram to us,

the beings, in order to pave the way for taking us to His abode.

 

Erudite BhAgawthAs of the list can supplement nicely and add value to adiyEn's

ramble.

Regards

Narayana Narayana

adiyEn narayanadAsan madhavakkannan

[Guest guest]

Dear Sri GopiKrishna:

Your question has been answered in "Chapter 11 Karma and Punarjanma"

of my book "Hinduism Rediscovered" especially in the

"Section 1.5 God' will and Man's free will".

 

This has been archived at "Srivaishnava.org/sgati" by Sri Venkatesh

Elayavalli.

 

Click on Issues, then Table of contents (TOC)of SDDS

(Pre Saranagathi) Issues. Vol.2, Issues 004 and 005 dated 15/1/97 and

006 dated 16/1/97.

 

If you have any questions after reading them, please feel free to

contact me.

Dasoham

Anbil Ramaswamy

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bhakti-list , "Gopi Krishna" <gopi@i...> wrote:

> Dear Poojya Sris,

Text portion not reproduced for saving space.

> P. Gopi Krishna

> South Asia Multidisciplinary Advisory Team (SAAT)

> International Labour Organisation (ILO)

> Third Floor, Theatre Court

> India Habitat Centre

> Lodhi Road

> New Delhi - 110 003

> India

>

> Off. Tel. No. 00.91.11.4602101, 02, 03, 06 & 07.

> Res. Tel. No. 00.91.11.2621814

> Fax No. 00.91.11.4647973 & 4602111

> e-mail: gopi@i...