Appeal

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Dear Kiran,

 

Love and Love alone.....

 

Many thanks for your thought provoking mail, which I really appreciate

and congratulate you for having such a clarity of thought. Having said

so, I cannot but respond to you not only as one of the Moderators of

this group but also on behalf of TBP and my brother and owner Sri

Raghava Rao.

 

Our Sanata Dharma has given the freedom to live as one wants to. This

is the greatest strength and the cornerstone of our great religion.

Basically, as Sri Sarvepally Radhakrishnan and many other great

scholars and saints said, Hindu religion is not a religion, as

Christianity, Islam, etc., per se, but it s way of life. The lives of

Hindus, from times immeorial, even before Sri Adi Sankaracharya, is

wedded to worshipping multiple gods, as Greece have. And, the Gurus

like Sri Saibaba, Paramacharya, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Meherbaba, Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Tukaram, Gnaneswar, Raghavendra Swamy, etc.,

of the present day and Vyasa, Adi Sankara, Ramanuja, Madhvacharya,

Sandeepani, Viswamitra, etc., of earlier era guided the Hindu culture

on a path, which is good for its existence and growth. It is a

different aspect altogether that it is deteriorated a lot, mainly due

to the currpet political set up than anything else. Every one wants to

amass and become multi-millionaire overnight, by hook or crook. Coming

back to the point, These great saints decoded the inner essence of our

Vedas, Puranas, Stotras, Upanishads, etc. and taught it to the general

public in simple words. Not only that, they lived so to show them how

one can live by the path shown in these great texts.

 

We were taught not only, Gurur Brahma, Gurur Vishnuh, etc., but also

Matru Devo Bhava, Pitru Deve Bhava, etc. Unfortunately, most of us do

not understand the basic idea of these great words and mantras. The

Mother gives us birth, undergoing a lot of pain and she becomes the

first Guru, after we were brought on to this Karma Bhumi. Then, she

introduces the child to the Father and he comes the second Guru and

both these parents then introduce the child to the Guru, who unfolds

the inner-light of the child to Greater or Permanent Light by

introducing him to the great Sastras, Truths, etc., by removing the

cover of ignorance. Unfortunately, we are deprived of that kind of

knowledge now in the modern education, which is very short sighted and

help us only in becoming money-makers rather than real human beings.

But, the fact remains, that when these mantras were coined, the

society at that time was like this. It clearly shows that the person,

who cannot respect and love the parents cannot love and respect the

society at large. The person, who cannot love, serve and respect the

Parents, cannot be expected to love, serve and respect the society at

large. So, the first lessons of becoming a real human being, a noble

soul, starts at home, with mother and father and then Guru. That is

the reason, we need to respect them with all love, serve them with all

love and respect them, becasue we are what we are today. We need to

bow our heads to these great saints with all reverence for this one

simple reason.

 

I hope the above explanation will address all the points that you

raised in your post.

 

Please keep contributing and we need good writers like you.

 

May God Bless You.

 

Love and Love alone....

 

P. Gopi Krishna

 

--- On Mon, 8/9/08, Kiran <kiran_kksai wrote:

 

Kiran <kiran_kksai

Re: Appeal

-owner

Monday, 8 September, 2008, 6:37 PM

 

Dear Raghav garu

 

Namaste.

 

Pl. accept my sincere wishes for having furthering the cause of

Sanatana Dharma by creating/sharing such a group. I live in the Gulf

with my family.

 

I'm getting increasingly concerned these days about members treading

the " sai baba " path unnecessarily when our own Vedic Gods are very

much existent.

 

In the best case-scenario, sai baba can be considered as a guru who

should NEVER be worshipped. Only Gods are deemed to be worshipped.

 

I'd like to give a heads-up on some interesting Hindu aspects.

 

Basic definition of a Hindu : He who believes in the Vedas & all the

sciptures and follows them with utmost sincerity. In the Vedas, its

been clearly mentioned who should be worshipped.

 

So, those who are deviating from this, need to be aware that they are

actually deviating from being a Sanatana Dharma follower !!!

 

I've read SaiBaba's Satcharitra before when I was a devotee of Shirdi

sai baba. And in essence, it compiles all that is said in Bahagvad

Gita, Puranas, etc. ... nothing special as such. In fact this is

what I feel bad about. Why should people lean toward other books

when we already have enough guidance available from the legacy of

Sanatana Dharma ? I call Sanatana Dharma, as you know the word

Sindus was coined by the Persians and with time, the word eventually

became Hindus. Its unfortunate that our religion's name itself does

not belong to us !!! What a sad state our religion is in !

 

Indeed, we should learn from the muslims on why they abandoned

saibaba as their God and stuck to allah & quran only. If you notice,

there are very few (<1%) muslim followers of saibaba because they

follow their quran sincerely which says that nobody else other than

allah has to be worshipped. And saibaba tried to woo them by saying

things like " Allah rehem kare " , " sab ka malik ek " , etc.

And unfortunately, we Hindus are too flexible and worship anything

that comes our way, thereby having the " least " sincerety towards our

religion. Our Dharma forbids practising other religions !

 

Rama & Krishna did not need training perse. It was part of their

Karma that they wanted to demonstrate to the world where every human

is supposed to follow his/her own karma & dharma. It'd be contextual

to recall Lord Rama as was called " Purna Purush " who is a complete

(in all respects) human being who has walked on the face of this

Prithvi. http://www.dharmacentral.com/

 

And after ALL this, why do we need to resort to such babas when you

can seek refuge in the supreme Lords Vishnu, Shiva, etc. ? Just

think about this, if you spare the " extra " time also on Lord Vishnu,

chances of your prayers getting answered increases by that much !

 

These sai devotees say that they blindly " believe " in the baba and

there's no explanation that they can give and that something good

happened to them because of the belief. They need to THINK PROPERLY

and should not belittle our religion inadvertently with

irrationalistic beliefs ! Its time to OPEN our eyes & get to know

our great religion! http://www.bharatadesam.com/scriptures/vedas.php

 

Yes, we do need Gurus to clarify on spiritual matters but NOT to be

worshipped as equal to the Gods. If we follow the saying " Guru

Brahma, Guru Vishnu ... " then Guru is equal to Brahma, God. If one

accepts this, then you'll have to accept " Matru devo bhava, pitru

devo bhava ... " also. So, one can treat your mother & father as Gods

too & worship them !!! So, we should never ever equate anybody to

the Supreme almighty other than the ones mentioned in our Vedas &

other scriptures !

 

We should not attribute nice things that happen to us to the

" middlemen " ignoring the Sanatana Dharmic essence !

 

The supreme Trinity (Brahma, Vishnu & Maheswara) is all we need who

need to be worshipped without the so-called " middlemen " like shirdi

saibaba, meherbaba, kalki bhagawan (he was arrested twice so far for

cheating people), etc.

 

My only intention is NOT to offend anyone but to guide some deviated

people who may NOT have delved deep into real Hinduism (Sanatana

Dharma). We may get additional grace from the God if we devote the

time that's devoted to sai baba etc.

 

My humble appeal : Can you please send out an email asking the

members NOT to send emails regarding shirdi/satya sai babas,

especially from saileelas, etc. ?

 

Regards

Kiran