Guest guest Posted February 15, 2002 Report Share Posted February 15, 2002 Dear Sri Malolan Cadambi, Sri Lakshmi kumar and Sri Mohan TL I have read with lot of interest your recent writings in the Bhakthi list. I may not agree entirely with your views, nor I intend imposing my views on you.But I have the following candid observations: 1) I definitely agree that this is a forum wherein you would like to predominantly discuss Sri Vaishnavism ( Vishistadvaita). We are like guests at your forum, and please bear with us, if we have little bit of a divergent view. Tolerance is a great Virtue. Very important, we are also learning a lot from this forum. 2) Basically followers of every Acharya feels his is the best and is the true interpretation of Vedas. We, with our limited faculties, there is know way we can say, who is correct and who is wrong. 3) Born in an extremely orthodox Madhwa Brahmin family, I was taught that Madhwa’s teachings are the best, and only Madhwas can attain Mukthi. When I was a young boy I was totally confused and did not agree with this concept of ours. I used to think how can this be, everybody feels his is the best. I will give you another example, Protestants feel Catholics are no good . And Protestants feel they truly represent Christainity. Who represents true Christainity nobody knows. 4) This is where I agree with Sri Mohan wherein he says Anubhavam is more important.You please tell me which of the three Acharays the following Bhakthas followed, You have Sri Tulasidas in the north, You have Jalaram Bapa in Gujarath, You have Sant Tukaram in Maharastra, You have Saint Thyagraja in the South. You mean to say they were not Bhagawath Bhaktas. Not to forget Sri Shirdi Saibaba, or Guru Nanak. You mean to say whatever they preached was wrong and they had no following. Please donot mistake this message of mine. TO CONCLUDE : I FEEL WE SHOULD FOLLOW THE FAITH IN WHICH WE ARE BORN, AND LEARN TO RESPECT OTHER FAITHS ALSO. Not to forget Sri Vishnu’s LilAs are Achinthya and Adbhuta. He is capable of lifting anybody with his Devine Grace. Nobody can have a Monopoly over Lord Vishnu. You see Ravana was a great Pundit a great Scholar, with all this he did a wrong thing, by abducting Mata Sita. I am not going into merits of this, he (Ravana) was born under curse and is a Vishnu Bhaktha and all that, all this every body knows. But what I want to say is with all his Panditya, he has the wrong Anubhawams, and he did wrong things. Anubhawams are preordained, we get the Right Anubhawams only with the devine Grace of Lord Sri Hari. With regards Sri KrishnArpana Masthu NS Gururaj Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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