AW: Vedanta Shastra Pramana -- brian, atmachaitanya

[Guest guest]

Dear Visji,

 

Hari Om! Please take it easy. All is in the eyes of the beholder. Though

I understand you, I would request you to ignore comments which are not

suitable in such a way Gandharva Pushpadanda has seen it! Pusphadanta is a

Gandharva who had fallen from grace and at the end by praying to Lord Shiva

he regains his status. In his very famous "Sivamahimna stotra" (Hymn

composed on the Greatness of Lord Shiva) he addresses Lord Shiva very

nicely.

 

For example, Lord Shiva got a blue scar on his neck because of drinking

poison and holding it there. But it looked very ugly to Menaka, wife of

Himavanta and mother of Parvati! So she refuses to accept Lord Shiva as her

son-in-law finding many faults in his behaviour. She points out that the

scar on his neck looks quite ugly.

 

Pushpadanta in his hymn says "vikArOpi slAghyO bhuvana bhaya baMga

vyasaninaH".... Even the ugly spots are praiseworthy in such a noblesoul

(Lord Shiva) who is addicted to remove the problems of the Universe! He

says though for the common man it looks ugly, but for the one who can

understand, the scar convey Lord Shiva's greatness... Otherwise who will

drink Poison? That too knowing that it may create problems. Lord Shiva

took it, took the probelm on himself, so that the world will no longer be

bothered. That is how we should see the world!

 

By the way, Sri Ramakrishna is an illiterate may be for common people. And

it may be true, but we require, we have to have Pushpadanta's vision to

understand Sage Ramakrishna --- vikArOpi slYghyO bhuvana bhayabhaMga

vyasaninaH...

 

Yours,

Madhava

 

 

 

 

> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----

> Von: R. Viswanathan [drvis]

> intellectually arrogant and abusive in language, even when

> refering to great

> Saints and Gyanies -- other wise Ramakrishna would not be

> described as "the

> illiterate Bengali Priest,who went into Nirvikalpa Samadhi ".

> Where are the

> Moderators to moderate such a language? Vedantic knowledge is

> not a license

> for such a language.