Guest guest Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 >"Belief in preta-sraddha was so deep that even certain persons >claiming descent from Sri Advaita Acarya would annually burn a straw >image of Him, as if He, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, needed to >be delivered from ghostly birth. [sri Advaita Acarya was famed for >having demonstrated the glory of a Vaisnava over that of a mundane >brahmana by giving the sraddha-patra (food offered to the >forefathers) to Srila Haridasa Thakura The sraddha-patra is to be >submitted to the most illustrious brahmanas, and according to >smarta-vicara Srila Haridasa Thakura was of the lowest possible >birth, but Sri Advaita Acarya declared Haridasa to be more exalted >than millions of nondevotee brahmanas.] But now the so-called >descendants of Sri Advaita Acarya, being fully committed to and >contaminated by smarta-vada, were thus mindlessly perpetrating one of >the severist offenses imaginable." > > >I am told that the portion within brackets is tangential, if not >wholly unrelated, to the lead sentence of the para. I disagree, >feeling it essential to bring out the irony: descendants of Advaita >Acarya adherence to smarta sraddha (by burning His image!), despite >Advaita Acarya having had rejected such smarta sraddha. The irony comes out more clearly when you drop what's in the brackets. If the bracketed material is important, you can put it elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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