om asmadgurubyonamaha srimate ramanujayanamaha dear swamin, i got a mail from sreeman narasimhan,he is asking about the avataras of sri Andal and Sri Ramanuja.so please send the reply to him and also me because i don't know in which shastras it included. alwar emberumanar jeeyar thiruvadigale sharanam. adiyen, vamshi ramanujadasa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lakshmi Narasimhan" <nrusimhann@xxxxxxxxx> To: <ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 7:13 PM Subject: [sri ramanuja] Re: Question of Avatara stutus of great personalities in Sri Sampraday > Dear Swamin, > The answer lies in your question itself. I am just swapping the > sequence of information present in your question: >>From what i have learned from their life events, is that both were > very humble and never claimed to be anything other than servants of > the lord. > >> Now Sri Vaishnava sampradaya is 100% bonafide according to > shrastras, i just wanted to know which shastras and authority > provide us with the information that Sri Andal and Sri Ramanuja are > Bhudevi avatara and Sesha avatara respectively. > > Similar to Sri Kothai Naacchiyaar and Sri Emperumaanaar, bhudevi as > well as adiseshan are humble servants of the lord. We must actually > try proving whether Bhudevi and Sesha really have capabilities that > could be compared with the former in terms of bhagavad and > bhaagavada abhimaanam and priyam rather than vice-versa. > > adiyEn, > rAmAnuja dAsan > > > > > --- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "tesh_tel" <tesh_tel@...> wrote: >> >> Srimathe Ramanujaya Namah >> >> Dear devotees, >> Jai Sri Krishna. >> >> I have one issue which i am keen to have some knowledge about. In >> Our dharma Sri Bhagavan and his associates periodicaly take form > in >> the material world for the uplift of Jivas. One unfortunate > feature >> of this beleif is that many wicked jivas take advantage of this >> belief and claim themselves as God, some examples include King >> Paundaraka in the Dwarapara Yuga (who claimed to be the real >> krishna) and Puttarpathi saibaba in this yuga. >> >> Our shastras fortunalty provide validification of The avatars so >> that we cannot be fooled. As we know by reading the shastras we > have >> no doubt that Sri Rama and Sri Krishna are the Supreme lord > himself. >> Now Sri Vaishnava sampradaya is 100% bonafide according to >> shrastras, i just wanted to know which shastras and authority >> provide us with the information that Sri Andal and Sri Ramanuja > are >> Bhudevi avatara and Sesha avatara respectively. From what i have >> learned from their life events, is that both were very humble and >> never claimed to be anything other than servants of the lord. I >> cannot recall a time when Sri Andal or Guru Ramanuja displayed > their >> divine personalities. So how do we know of there true identities??? >> > > > > > > > > > > > Azhvar EmberumAnAr JeeyAr ThiruvadigalE Saranam > http://www.vedics.net > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > Azhvar EmberumAnAr JeeyAr ThiruvadigalE Saranam http://www.vedics.net Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ramanuja/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ramanuja/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:ramanuja-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:ramanuja-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ramanuja-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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