Veadas the Root of All .

January 30, 2006

harE krShNa! AzhwArgaL thiruvadigaLE sharaNam!

Dear Devotee,

The below writings were good. But only thing which went unanswered was for the question " Who is the supreme? " .

An intelligent person has to analyze the scriptures. To know who is lord, kindly read the below:

Lord krShNa says in BhagavadhgItha that there is no superior truth to him nor equal to him. Has any god claimed like this?

Lord krShNa has told to surrender only to him (mAmEkam) and not others. Has any god told like this?

Lord krShNa asked us to abandon all kinds of religious principles (sarva DharmAni parithyajya). Has any god told like this?

Lord krShNa has told that he is source for every one. Has any god told like this?

Lord krShNa told that if one knows BhagavadhgItha, then nothing remains unknown to that person. Does any scripture claim like this?

Lord krShNa says that after many many births, one comes to know that He (vAsudhEva) is everything or supreme. Then why wait for many many births? Understand that you have already passed many many births and now you have chance to grab this golden opportunity. Lord krShNa is telling us so directly that he is the supreme. If we realize or even just accept this, then we are ready to go back to home, back to godhead, the gOlOka vrndhAvanam.

It is simply, the people are in confusion with the material energy of lord krShNa, called 'mAya'. It is very difficult to overcome mAya. Unless one wins mAya, then it is impossible to understand the question " Who is the ultimate supreme? " . So an intelligent person must search solution for winning this mAya. To win this mAya, lord krShNa gives the weapon in BhagavadhgItha by telling that one who surrenders to him (lord krShNa), he can easily win this mAya. So the solution is there. People has to apply it to come out of ignorance or mAya.

- Balaji - The Servant of Devotees!

On 1/30/06, Paramacharya <Paramacharya wrote:

(Written by : Paramacharya Sri Chandrasekharendra Sarasvati Swamy)Our religion consists of different divisions such as Vaisnavism, Saivism, etc. The doubt arises as to whether we are speaking here of different faiths or of a single one. Christianity too has two major divisions but people belonging to both conduct worship in the name of the same God. In Buddhism we have the Hinayana and Mahayana streams but they do not make two separate faiths since both are based on the teachings of the same founder, the Buddha. Do Vaisnavas and Saivas worship the same God? No. However it be with

ordinary Vaisnavas, their Acaryas or teachers never go anywhere near a Siva temple. Their God is Visnu, never Siva. In the opinion of the worshippers of Visnu, Siva is also one of his (Visnu's) devotees. There are extremists among Saivas also who worship only Siva . How then can such groups be said to belong to the same religion? Are they to be regarded as belonging to the same faith by virtue of their having a common scripture? The divisions [sects] of Christianity have one common scripture, the Bible; so too is the Qur'an the common holy book for all divisions of Islam. Is such the case with Hindus? Though divided into different sects , we have been saved by the fact that the white man brought us together under a common name, " Hindu " . But for this, what would have been our fate? In village after village, we would have been fragmented into separate religious groups-Vaisnavas, Saivas, Saktas, etc. Further, in these places followers of religions like Christianity and Islam would have predominated. Now two regions of our subcontinent have become Pakistan . Had we not been brought together with the label of Hindu, the entire subcontinent would have become Pakistan. The very same men who created Pakistan through their evil design and sowed the seeds of differences among us with their theory of two races- Aryans and Dravidians- unwittingly did us a good turn by calling us Hindu, thereby bringing into being a country called " India. " So are we one religion or are we divided into different faiths? The belief that Hindus have separate Deities and religious works does not represent the truth. Though the present outlook of the various Hindu sects suggests that they represent different faiths, the truth will be revealed if we examine the prime scriptures of each sect. The original scriptures of all sects are constituted by the Vedas. The great Saint-poets who composed those hymns sing the glories of the Vedas throughout. Whenever they describe a temple, they go into raptures, saying, " Here the air is filled with the sound of the Vedas and pervaded with the smoke of the sacrificial fire. Here the six Angas of the Vedas flourish. " In the songs of these hymnodists veneration of the Vedas finds as much place as devotion to the Lord.

The Vedas reveal the One Truth to us in different forms. Thus we find that there is but one scripture as the source common to the different sects and schools of thought in the Hindu religion. This source includes the Upanisads. It emerges that for all the divisions in our religion there is but one scripture Vedas- a scripture common to all- and one Godhead which is known by many names. The Vedas that constitute the scripture common to all and which reveal the Godhead also teach us how to lead our life, and- this is important- they do us the ultimate good by showing us in the end the way to attain that very Godhead . They are our refuge both here and

the hereafter and are the source and root of all our different traditions, all our systems of thought. All sects, all schools of our religion, have their origin in them. The root is one but the branches are many. The Vedas are the source not only of various divisions of Hinduism, all the religions of the world may be traced back to them. It is our bounden duty to preserve them for all time to come with their glory undiminished. - Balaji - The Servant of Devotees!------------------------Signature:Balaji - Founder, The King Productions

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