[Jeeyar Educational Trust] Digest Number 668

[Guest guest]

Re; Graha Dosham and its removal

 

Dear Bhagavatars - please note that all our so-called "Graha-Doshams" are

nothing but karmic debts which we are repaying. We have done the deeds, used

the services and are now paying the bills. Is it not considered a crime to

use services provided and then try to avoid paying the bills? When Karmic

consequences occur as a direct result of our skillful and unskillful

sankalapas (decisions and intent) should we not welcome them all - good and

bad? As Prapanna Srivaishnavas should we not simply surrender to the Lord

and accept all our debts - to pay them off as soon as possible so that we

can return to Godhead? Apart from the fact that avoidance of consequences is

in fact duplicitous behaviour and unbefitting the moral perfection that a

Srivaishnava should be cultivating.

 

So is "graha-dosha-parihara" in whatever form really appropriate for

Srivaishnavas? Is it not like immobilising Hanuman with Brahma-astra and

then tying him with jute ropes just to make sure - in case the brahma-astra

doesn't work? Does it not show some doubt in the efficacy of the

charama-sloka? The lord has already promised to liberate us from the effect

of all our karmas - but in HIS way according to HIS time - should we not

simply leave it to HIM to do the needfull?

 

Adiyen

 

Sri Rama Ramanuja Acharya