Guest guest Posted March 17, 2006 Report Share Posted March 17, 2006 Namaste! tiruvenkatam [tiruvenkatam]On Behalf Of M.G.Vasudevan Thursday, March 16, 2006 3:52 PM oppiliappan Cc: ; tiruvenkatam [t'venkatam] types of dharmam >Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer, >On this reply slokam of bheeshma, sri bhattar comments on the word "dharmaaNaam adhikathama >dharma:" by elaborating on the classification of dharma as >- dharma is four fold - viz. 1. Dharma performed for material benefits viz. cattle children and other benefits 2. Dharmam performed for obtaining celestial pleasures such as svarga [the world of >gods] 3. Dharmam for attainment of salvation, which consists of realization of time >knowledge by purification of self, by sacrifice, by charitable acts without desire for fruits. 4. Dharmam of Meditation, singing in praise, prostration before the lord with love and affection. >And the fourth is the best of all as indicated by the superlative suffix thama: The 3rd point is somewhat contradictory in as far as desire is concerned. You have briefed the procedure for attaining salvation and listed 'without desire for fruits' also one of them, but the very act of obtaining salvation presupposes that the 'desire for salvation' is obvious. In fact, dharma of meditation involving an urge to praise Lord is also a desire. Vedas (Mundaka Up) says 'sa yo ha vai tatparamam brahma veda brahmaiva bhavati' Whoever knows that Supreme Brahman becomes Brahman indeed. Attaining vaikunta is attaining Parabrahman himself there is no diff. between vaikunta(one of the namas of Vishnu in VSN) and Parabrahman. Are they? So is there any difference between the desire - to attain Vaikunta/Brahman - to praise Vaikunta/Brahman Is not the sadhaka following 3rd dharma, desires salvation is akin to desiring Vaikunta? Is not the sadhaka while praising Vaikunta is liberated from loukika thoughts/actions? The very act of praising, following 4th dharma presupposes that he is liberated from all materialistic dust at that very moment. Is n't so? If we bring about difference between vaikunta & vishnu then we can arrive difference between 3rd and 4th dharmas. Regards sukumar Dhasan Vasudevan m.g. DISCLAIMER: This Message and its contents is intended solely for the addressee and is proprietary.Information in this mail is for L&T Business Usage only. Any Use to other than the addressee is misuse and infringement to Proprietorship of L&T ECC.If you are not the addressee please return the mail to the sender.L&T ECC DIVISION Namo VenkateshAya namah: To Post a message, send it to: tiruvenkatam (AT) eGroups (DOT) com To Un, send a blank message to: tiruvenkatam- (AT) eGroups (DOT) com The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s)and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender or administrator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 19, 2006 Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 I think it would be interesting to know what is Dharma before we understand the types> AdiYan Dasan Gopi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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