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Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:

Dear Devotee,

             purANAs are less authentic as compared to itihAsAs. 
Even among the purANAs vishNu purANam is the foremost. When these 
things conflict with sruti(samskrt), the former have to be rejected. 
Whenever samskrt vedAs pose difficulty one "has" to refer back 
to "drAvida vEdam" as the former carries "hoards of unwanted 
garbage/kuppai" alongwith srIman nArAyaNa unlike nAlAyira divya 
prabandham which is the purest of the pure and which only talks 
about the Lord and His kalyANa guNas. 

When people follow samskrt vedas(without the help of NDP),the result 
is only nervous break down. It is not possible for a jIvAtmA(esp., 
baddha jIvAtmA) to spot mANikya(srIman nArAyaNa) among the heaps of 
waste without the grace of the Lord which is what NDP talks about. 
So all the riddles are solved when one seeks sheltor in NDP. No 
offence intented towards people who are staunch followers of samskrt 
vedas more than NDP!

I was wondering, even though our sampradAyam goes by ubhaya 
vEdAntam, is it possible for a jIvAtmA to be "equally" inclined 
towards both in "heart"? I doubt it and plan to do a small study on 
this by observing what comes more often from the mouth of the 
jIvAtmA. If a jIvAtma talks more of AzhvArs, he/she is less likely 
to talk about samskrt vEdAs and vice versa. 

mayarvu aRa mathi nalam aruLappeRRa AzhvAr thiruvadigaLE sharaNam
adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsI
NC Nappinnai

 
>  A very interesting fact about all sheshas 
> is stated in the Bhagavad Gita. It says that the
> kshetra (body of a shesha) is primarily 
> made up of "Mahaa bhoothani ahankaaro buddhir
> Avyaktham eva cha"----
> the five great elements (Pancha bhootam), "AHANKAARA"
> (ego - one of the lower Prakrithis 
> comprising the Brahman-the supporter of all
> jivaatmas), buddhi (intellect) and Avyaktham 
> (the unmanifest). Since Adishesha is no exception to
> this, can we not conclude that even he 
> possesed the guna lakshanam as the Gita
> states(although in a primeval stage)? Now that we are 
> clear with this 
> point, let us continue further. 








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