Guest guest Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 ramanuja, Rajagopalan Narayan <rajagopalannarayan wrote: > Dear Sriman Rajagopal, Not taking the food remnants of a Vaishnava based on his ASrama/varNa goes against our bhAgavata SEshatvam. Let us recall how much emberumAnAr craved for eating the ucchishtam of Thirukkacchinambi and the divine incident which led erumbi appA to the Jeeyar ManavALa mAmunigaL. As our Acharyas are addressing our ritualistic brahmin communtiy, they sometimes quote from sAmAnya SAstra. We are more comfortable quoting only such statements of Ramanuja, Desika and Varavara muni. SabaryAnIta phala bhuk is the name of Lord Venkateswara in His sahasranAma. adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan Vishnu >Further as pointed out by Sridesika the remnants of food eaten by a sanyasi is not to be consumed. Maybe Ramanuja might have fed the fishes with fresh food in a different water area. > Sabari had spent several years seving the rishis and certainly would not have tasted the fruits before seving Rama or to anybodyelse. > This brings to my mind an act practised by my mother.After the annual srardham the leaves and remnant of food of the swamins was buried by her and not thrown to cattle as practised by many. The cow is revered and should not be served with the uchisttam . > dasn narayanan > > > > Everyone is raving about the all-new Mail beta. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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