Dasavatharam.

October 5, 2006

Bhagavane Guruvayoorappa, Thousands of Your ‘Padasevakas’ are rushing to Guruvayoor temple only to worship Your divine ‘Vigraham’ . They are interested in Your Bhakti-yoga alone and nothing else . To them, Srimad Bhagavatam , Bhagavat Geeta and Srimad Narayaneeyam are Your literary incarnations ; and not “mythological books” . Narayaneeyam clearly specifies You as the Supreme Personality of Godhead . Your Padasevakas faithfully follow Narayaneeyam ( since it has Your stamp of approval) in letter and spirit . They are least worried , if someone ridicules this as ‘fanaticism’ or ‘ ignorance’ . Your great Bhaktas like Poontanam Tirumeni and Kurooramma were not Jnana-Yogis ; but You mercifully blessed them with self realization . And unlike some selfish jnana-seekers, they have not abandoned ‘Guruvayoorappa-vigraham’ thereafter

.. In fact , they continued to be Your loyal Bhaktas, till their last breath . O Bhagavan, please bless Your unskilled-Bhaktas like us to attain and sustain such a bhakti . Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya !!! A humble servant . --- rsunitaa wrote…. We have been through the discussion of the ISCKON philosophy several times and have had heated discussions over it. We condemned fanatism in other religions and agreed that Hinduism is also not free of it. This is an example of existance of fanatism in Hindu culture. [Fanatism is saying that the form of GOD worshipped by that group is the only form of GOD]. I think there is no point

arguing over it all over again. I would kindly request learned members of this group to ignore it. There is just one Supreme Godhead of reality as ISKCON calls it. But we call that reality in different names. ISKCON calls it as Krishna, Vaishnavaites call as Narayana, Shaivaites as Shiva, Shaktas as Devi, etc. No matter what form we give to the reality, there is JUST ONE SUPREME REALITY.

The example that is often cited is of a mother having the picture of her son to remember him while he is away. There many be many pictures of him in different attires. He is still her son and all the pictures of the son reminds her of him. But when the son returns back, the picture is of no use. She can directly see the son and hence what is the use of the picture. In a similar way, thinking of God in name and form is till we cannot have a direct perception of DIVINITY. For a realized soul, pictures and names are of no use. To realize God we need to go beyond name and form.Bhagavat Gita has been written by Sage Vyasa, who has also written so many Puranas. Each purana praises the one diety and pulls down the other. Bhagavat Gita as written by Vyasa, is a condensation of the Upanishad teaching. So it should be read not just as a dialogue between a person Arjuna and Krishna, rather as a dialogue between jeevatma and Paramatma. Surely, BG has to be read as it is. Nobody wants to modify it. But interpretations are different, depending on the philosophy preached by the commentator. Interestingly, the BG commentary by Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda, beautifully describes, each personality in the war as qualities in us, which have to lose or win before we attain realization.I would kindly request everyone to read the following from the website for profvk, who is also a member from our group. We are fortunate to have him in our group. They are excellent write ups on several topics on Hinduism. One of them [the link below], about

the concept of GOD as seen by people of different beliefs. It is a good one and must read.http://www.geocities.com/profvk/VK2/ConceptofGOD.html

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