Understanding Sri Vaishnavism (Dog's Life)

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Dear Sriman Krishnaswamy,

First things first, adiyEn thank you for offering the clarification and

re-assurance to visishtadvaitam with a grand similie of Government office - lien

while on deputation. adiyEn is amazed to see how seriously acharyA's

observation are received, an attitude aidyen wish to emulate. The spiritual

overview URL that swamin has referred could be the threshold for anyone who wish

to start understanding Vishtadvaitam.

SwAmin, adiyEn is treading cautiously in understanding Visishtadvaitam and to

encourage such spirit, the Internal Resource of Bhakti-List is offering an

enlightenment - information, at the speed of a lightening. At this information

age, bhakti-list is really a university on visishtadvaitam.

With humble pranamams to the readers.

Dasan

Sridhar Vasudevan

 

"M.K. Krishnaswamy" <krishnaswamy wrote:Dear Sri Vasudevan, The

following sentence is from the article:

A Spiritual Overview - 1 (Article by Sri U Ve VN Vedantha Desikan):

which may be seen at

http://www.munitrayam.org/andavanashram/SpirtualOverview.htm

"Ramanuja is believed to be the incarnation of Adisesha, the first and foremost

of Nityasooris." The Lord takes birth at his pleasure and his appearance is

welcomed as an Avatara. The Muktaatmaas take birth only when commanded by the

Lord to render Him service through some action in this material world which He

considers necessary for Dharma-rakshaNa. It is in this sense that I compared

their births to being sent on deputation. In govt. service in India, when you

are sent on deputation, you hold a lien on your previous job! The rebirth of

other baddhaatmas follows the general karmic rule and hence is different in

nature from the incarnations of the great, free souls who obey the Lord's

wishes, get reborn, perform their allotted tasks and go back to Vaikuntam - sort

of an ad hoc appointment!. You have raised an important issue (and quoted an

Acharya's observation). I feel that therefore this could be considered by other

members of the group also and hence I am endorsing a copy to the Group.

Dasan,Krishnaswamy

 

 

 

 

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