Guest guest Posted November 1, 2001 Report Share Posted November 1, 2001 Dearest Acharya, adiyen ramanuja dasaha! We are blessed to receive Upanishad Upadesams. The following questions came to our mind: Q1) We have three duties (runams) Pithru, Rushi, Deva accumulated as our existance in human forms. How can we totally become free from all the runams? Or only after separation from this body can this be achieved? Q2) Are these 'Runams' and 'Vasana' related? How can we totally get rid of Poorva janma Vasanas as they are popularly called? Q3) If we have to do everything with 'karma phala tyaga' and if we are doing things to fulfil these runams what should we do? Q4) Why did Nachiketas go to Yama after he died and not to Indra or to Srimannarayana? Q5) What is the path of the soul after death? Q6) Where does Yama live? How far is his abode? How does he look? Q7) Srivaru mentioned that Nachiketas went in through a seperate special door and had to wait for "three" days and when Yama appeared he gave him "three" boons. What is the significance of "three"? I pray that the ignorance accumulated be dispelled by Srivaru's krupa kataksham. Jai Srimannarayana ramanuja dasa _______________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 1, 2001 Report Share Posted November 1, 2001 Priya sRiman Raghuji! Jai Srimannarayana! We have seen your questions and are trying to reply to them there itself, along with the questions. =chinnajeeyar= Look for answers below =================================== > Q1) We have three duties (runams) Pithru, Rushi,Deva > accumulated as our existance in human forms. > How can we totally become free from all the runams? > Or only after separation from this body can this be > achieved? ANS: After giving up the body nothing can be done, except experiencing the results ofthe karmas. Whatever is to be done, must be done here itself, while in the body. 1) surrenderance to the Lotus Feet of Lakshminarayana through a right A:cha:rya. This burns all the karma va:sana:s to ashes. Anda:l said about this in her pa:suram= "Po:ya pizhaiyum puhudaruvan ninranavum thi:yinil thu:sahum". This is only the way to get rid of all the karmas. Then too, you need to do something. 1.Pitru runam= get good children, who can practice righteous things, offer tharpanas (alms to them)& follow what they were doing in the service of God. 2. Rishi runam = practice the rules they have laid. Read their works and understand them. Offer tarpana:s to them also. Encourage the people who follow the teaching of the rishis. preserve their works by printing them the preserving them. 3. Deva runam = By worshiping God and telling about Him to others and by dedicating all our activities to Him, we can get rid of this runam. ======= > Q2) Are these 'Runams' and 'Vasana' related? > How can we totally get rid of Poorva janma Vasanas > as they are popularly called? ANS= Runas are different and also the Va:sanas. Va:sanas are imprints in the Manas engraved since somany births. Runas are only a part of the whole Va:sanams. And they are related to the body's activity. Whereas Va:sanas work on the mind, intellect and also with the soul. ============ > Q3) If we have to do everything with 'karma phala tyaga' > and if we are doing things to fulfil these runams what > should we do? ANS= The reply was already there. ===== > Q4) Why did Nachiketas go to Yama after he died and > not to Indra or to Srimannarayana? ANS= Because his father dedicated him to only Yamadharma Ra:ja, but not to others. So he went to that abode only. ========= > Q5) What is the path of the soul after death? ANS= There are two paths explained by Lord Krishna in 8th Chapter of Bhagavad Gita. 1. White path, which takes the soul to the Divine abode, from where that soul need not come back with karma. 2. Black path, which takes the soul to abodes to experience karmas and brings back to this world to get another body, may be in any form, not necessarily human form. 3. But in upanishads another path was also described that is "ya:mya:di path" by travelling through which the soul goes to Hells, "narakalo:kas" to experience the sins. ====== > Q6) Where does Yama live? How far is his abode? > How does he look? ANS= unless one goes and counts the distance, we cannot say that,for we did not go there and we do not want to go there also. Yama appears, very devotes, it seems, according to Kathho:panishad. Actually, people who have experienced, did not inform that you see! ===== > Q7) Srivaru mentioned that Nachiketas went in through > a seperate special door and had to wait for "three" > days and when Yama appeared he gave him "three" boons. > What is the significance of "three"? ANS = Yama gave three boons because, the boy stayed there for 3 days without food and so 3 sins might be imposed on him, to avoid them he gave 3 boons. Next having known that this boy is really good, Yama thought that this boy deffinitely asks to get relieve from 3 runas. so he thought to give 3 boons. THere may be other reasons too. =chinnajeeyar= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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