Narayana Dasa VIshwanatham

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Dear Vishwanadham

 

My replies below

 

>I have a couple of questions.

 

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> If so why we have different forms of `Gods'?

 

A) Krishna has clearly explained in Gita, that people pray to

different gods, due to the different "modes" of existence. By

worshipping them, they will not go to Satyaloka, they will go to the

lokas of the Gods, and demigods.

 

> If God is within then why do we worship God in different external

forms?

 

a) We worship gods externally, because we are "used" to seeing things

outside us. We have never realised that all is within "ONE". This ONE

needs to be realised.If you draw a triangle, there is a top, this top

if only one point. That point is "ONE", that Point is GOD. but we are

used to the bottom and the different manifestations due to

the "natural habit" of using physical senses to sense things, and not

transcending these physical senses. THrough meditation all the

Karmendriyas and whatever Indras that we have are dissolved, and then

we realise the Parabrahma, the Sadashiva and The NARAYANA.

 

> I have learnt that Jyotish is Vedanga , which lets us know

the `gati of the soul'. As a result vedic astrology prescribes

various remedies for aligning the body and mind with the soul's

direction. To remove the conflict and ensure smooth voyage.

 

a) Yes Jyotishya is the eye of vedas, it shows us the different

manifestations, the KAAL, the TIME. AS long as we are "in time" we

have to use charts. Charts can be used for those people who

are "bound" by time, and bound by obligations, bound by Karma, bound

by actions. Astrology cannot be used for those who have attained

the "SUPREME INDEPENDENCE".

 

 

> In this context, I like to know your take on different external

forms of worship? And the efficacy of the remedies!

 

a) Remedies WORK!!, this might be a relief to many, who could be

thinking that i had gone beserk.

Why do remedies work, the reason is simple. AS long as you are in

a "system", you have to follow the "rules of the system". This system

is Prakriti, the MOTHER. So as long as you are with mother, she would

feed you, so as long as you are in "time", bound by Karma, you need

remedies prescribed like mantra japa etc, to reach the "end of time".

SInce i am in the womb of mother, i do mantra and puja.

But when i am meditating, i never use mantras of japas. I simply sit

and watch myself, and watch the breath. This in other words

is "Abstract meditation".

WHen you are uttering a word, and uttering mantras, you are still

in "mind", you are still in "time", you cannot go beyond time and

space. To reach beyound time and space, you must let go off

everything, even your own self!

love

partha