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--- sadagopaniyengar <sadagopaniyengar@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is the stuff of which "patti mandrams" are made- are Stotras
> prompted by overwhelming devotion, or born out of a desire to
> please the Lord, who is a "stava priya:".
However, in the ultimate analysis, it is the antaryAmi
> who partakes of the pleasure, and this should absolve us of any
> feelings of self-interest. 
> 
> These are off-the-cuff remarks, so to say, prompted purely by the
> heart, without reference to doctrinal positions. Thanks again to
> Shri Sudarshan and his enlightening inputs. Dasan, sadagopan.
> 

Dear SrimAN Sadagopa Iyengar,

I don't know much about "intellects" ("barren" or otherwise), nor
much about "doctrine" but this much I can humbly tell you : Yes, this
is the kind of harmless light-hearted banter ("patti-manram") that
makes 'bhagavath-gunAnubhavam' leisurely and pleasant. I have often
wished our cyber-groups (T'vengadam especially and others too if they
may) engaged now and then a bit more in exchanges such as ours if
only to relieve the tedium of the flood of serious, heavy and
ultra-solemn postings we get to read day-in and day-out. There is no
harm, I think, in occasionally making religion a little entertaining
too.

********* ************

You have concluded that "in the ultimate analysis, it is the
antaryAmi> who partakes of the pleasure" (of "stOtra"). This I'm able
to entirely agree with for we see the Upanishad too affirming it in
statements such as 'I am the Self' ('aham brahmOsmi') and 'I know the
Self to be pure Ananda (Joy/Pleasure)('aanandam brahmanO vidvAn')
etc. 

The real and highest purpose of "stOtra" is precisely that: To enable
one to go into oneself (remember YagnyavAlkya's quest?) to that
ultimate seat of joy residing within the Self ('antaryAmi') -- which
is sheer joy unto joy even. And that indeed is the reasoning too
behind the epithet "stava-priya:" given to God ALmighty in the
Vishnu-sahasranamam.

Thanks once again for a very lively discussion,

Rgds,
dAsan,
Sudarshan




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