Fwd: SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 75 - sattA revisited.

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Narasimhan Krishnamachari <champakam wrote: Fri, 12 Jul 2002

09:22:34 -0700 (PDT)

Narasimhan Krishnamachari

SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 75 - sattA revisited.

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In my posting on the nAma sattA (under the title SrI vishNu sahasra

nAmam - Slokam 75 - Part 3), I had included the following paragraph:

 

"It is not only true that without Him nothing can exist, but it is also

true that without His true devotees, He will not exist, such being His

attachment to His devotees. It is the beautiful inter-dependence of

each on the other that is to be understood and enjoyed, because of

their intense love for each other. SrI v.v. rAmAnujan refers us to

tirumazhai AzhvAr, who declares this beautiful concept of the

inter-dependence of bhagavAn and His devotees on each other, in his

nAnmugan tiruvantAdi (7) - nanRaga nAn unai anRi ilEn kaNDAi, nAraNanE!

nee ennai anRi ilai".

 

I got feedback from one member of the list who has been extremely kind

in giving me regular feedback on my write-ups, suggesting that the

wording of the above paragraph seems to imply that bhagavAn is less

than Supreme, and is not "capable of existence" without His bhakta-s.

In order to remove any possible miscommunication, I have re-worded the

above paragraph as follows:

 

"SrI v.v. rAmAnujan refers us to tirumazhiSai AzhvAr's nAnmugan

tiruvantAdi (7) - nanRaga nAn unai anRi ilEn kaNDAi, nAraNanE!

nee ennai anRi ilai -"Without You we do not exist, and as for You, if

we are not the ones You protect, there is nothing else for You to

protect"."

 

I will request SrI M. K. Krishnaswamy, who has been kind enough to

maintain a copy of my write-ups in a collected place in the web in a

easily accesible way, to replace the earlier write-up with this new

write-up. This note is to request those who follow my write-ups to

also make a note of the change.

 

-dAsan kRshNamAcAryan

 

 

 

 

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