Vinayaka in Valmiki Ramayana.

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SRIMATHE RAMANUJAYA NAMAHA.

 

Just happened to come across the folowing mails, while

going through the archeives.

In the last part of Ramayana (131 st sarga in Yuddha

khanda)valmiki speaks about the good things that

accrue to the one who reads or listens to Ramayana.One

among such goodies that he mentions is that devathas

like Vinayaka in his house become bright. (prasannam)

 

any explanation?

 

regards,

jayasree

 

"Lakshmi Narasimhan Venkatapathy"

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Fri Sep 20, 2002 3:20 am

Re: Opening of Vishnu Sahasranamam...

 

 

Srimatha Ramanujaya Namaha

Dear Shree Krishna,

The opening lines of the Shri Vishnu Sahasranamam is

not a salutary to Ganesha.

It is a salutory to Shri Vishwaksenar the senadhipadhi

of Lord Shriman Narayana.

We do the Vishwaksena upasanai during almost all our

rountine yagnas. And, I

recently heard from one of the best scholars of our

time that, Ganesha exist but

he is one of the member of the Siva Ganas and is not

the son of Shiva. There is

no relationship between Shiva and Ganesha and I heard

that it is not anywhere

specified in the vedas too. In puranas too(the

authenticate ones that Sri

Vaishnavas consider) only subrahmanyan is said to be

the son of Shiva.

Additional news was the the deity Iyappan does not

even exist and the whole

concept of Hari-Haran stuff is an absolute bluff. This

could be seen from the

fact that a. There is no history that says about

Iyappan b. you could not see

people with any of the names like hariharan or iyappan

of age more than 80 or

90. I heard that the concept of Ganesha as a son of

Shiva came up after the 10th

century and that of Iyappa came up in the 19th

century. Anyways, it is up to the

readers to find out how authenticate this information

is and not bounce on me

contradicting this:). Whatever I've said was what I

heard. Learned scholars

please correct me. Coming back to your point, it is a

salute to Shri

Vishwaksenar who we worship and he has the elephant

face. We have Vishwaksenar

in many temples and some have the moolavar with

elephant face and thiruman too.

 

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan,

Lakshmi Narasimhan

 

-

Shreekrishna Akilesh

Thursday, September 19, 2002 1:40 PM

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Opening of Vishnu Sahasranamam...

 

Dear Sri Vaishnavas,

 

Everyone is quite familiar with the opening lines of

Vishnu Sahasranamam,

which is a salutary verse to Lord Ganesha. The role of

Lord Ganesha isn't

quite clear to me, especially when it comes to the

tradition of Sri

Ramanuja. [...]