Guest guest Posted August 5, 2001 Report Share Posted August 5, 2001 Om Namo Bhagavate Vaasudevaaya I am grateful for being allowed to become a member of such knowledgeble and devout group of people. My thanks to Sri Mani for this. I hail from Vijayawada, AP. I came to the US in '88 and have been working in Motorola for the past 9 years. I am passionate about Sree Raama and am keenly interested in learning about the Vaishnava philosophy. My idea is that it will lead me to Lord Rama ultimately. Not being a Vaishnavaite, I may not be able to contribute as much as I would be a reader. Please bear with me if I do write occasionally reg. topics that are mostly questions to me. In gratitude to Sree Raama, -Sandhya Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Messenger http://phonecard./ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 11, 2001 Report Share Posted August 11, 2001 Dear Smt. Sandhya Welcome to the bhaktilist, Smt Sandhya. Bhaktilist is an ocean and many rivers come to rest here. There is Ganges, Missouri, Rhine flowing into this ocean of bhaktilist. The energy and the overpowering of might rivers might sometimes suppress a common and important essence of Sri Vaishnavam. That is Your love for Rama (Sriman Narayana) in itself is sufficient and necessary condition for being Sri Vaishanava. So this humble self welcomes you once more as a Sri Vaishanava. There are many other things that is emphasized such as what we eat, costumes, rituals. I am sure you would agree with me that we are what we eat and whom we spend our time with. Eating satvic food cuts and decimates the biological taste we have developed in our genes for food. To truly appreciate and enjoy the limitless bliss of Sriman Narayana we have to be single minded in our devotion to HIM. Krishna asking the Gopis to come out of the river forgetting their body (ies) drives home this point. In essence we have to forget all ephemerals and seek the ever present. Our mind is weak as it wanders. The habits prescribed in our scriptures help us arrest this wandering and set our mind firmly unto Sriman Narayana. Therefore, the recommendations and emphasis on food, customs, rituals are not bad. But they are second to love for Sriman Narayana and all HIS bhaktas. Not just those bhaktas who eat what I eat or speak the language I speak. Lord Krishna has eloquently said in Gita that those of us who can see HIM in other bhaktas are dear to HIM, in support of this. In the name of regional tastes, customs, rituals I find no reason or justification your esteemed self or anyone else from being precluded. As a matter of fact I have benefitted immensely from reading your crisp and well written post. You have flooded the thoughts of Sri Rama and Sri Anjaneya into my dense and obtuse head. Thank you and please take time to evaluate all that our elders post here and adopt the ones that appeal to you most toward our Lord Narayana. Lord Sriman Narayana has no preference to anything. HE is present everywhere. HE is infinite in HIS compassion and love for all HIS bhaktas, without consideration of nationality, language, habits and social "markers" and symbolisms. Om Namo Narayana -- RK PS: this welcome applies to our other new members from Europe as well. --- Sandhya Chandarlapaty <g_eggs wrote: > > Om Namo Bhagavate Vaasudevaaya > > I am grateful for being allowed to become a member > of such knowledgeble and devout group of people. My > thanks to Sri Mani for this. > > I hail from Vijayawada, AP. I came to the US in '88 > and have been working in Motorola for the past 9 > years. > > I am passionate about Sree Raama and am keenly > interested in learning about the Vaishnava > philosophy. My idea is that it will lead me to Lord > Rama ultimately. > > Not being a Vaishnavaite, I may not be able to > contribute as much as I would be a reader. Please > bear with me if I do write occasionally reg. topics > that are mostly questions to me. > > In gratitude to Sree Raama, > > -Sandhya > > > > > > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute > with Messenger > http://phonecard./ > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > ----------------------------- > - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - > To Post a message, send it to: > bhakti-list > Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/ > > > Your use of is subject to > > > Send instant messages & get email alerts with Messenger. http://im./ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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