Dear swamies, This question is perfectly relevant and well posed. Even viewing objectively the philosophies, one can say that Sri Adi Sankara put the vedic culture back in the pedestal when there had been onslaught of different mathams confusing people. However, there were several contradictions. Lord Ramanuja corrected these contradictions and built a really strong philosophy lauded and actually to be acceptable by everybody. It is unfortunate that the society is having the present situation of multiplicity when the work of unification is already accomplished. Lord krishna in his avathara performed shiva sthuthi before the garva bhangam of shiva only to show to the world that paramathma cannot be protected by other aathmas. Whether Lord Rama did shiva pooja or not he surely tried surrendering to samudra rajan - only to show to the world again that such sharanagathi will never yield results. If a powerful being seeks refuge under a powerless being such a refuge will never be successful. So the call for unification based on an objective assessment is welcome. It was Lord Ramanuja's desire too to unify the entire world! sajjana padapadma paramanuhu Lakshmi Narasimha dasan M P Bhattathiry <mpmahesh@xxxx> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ram Anbil" <ramanbil@xxxx> To: <mpmahesh@xxxx> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 8:00 AM Subject: Re: qustion > Dear friend: > Adi Sankara was a great VishNu bhakta like Lord Siva himself. > That Rama worshipped Lord Siva has no authority either in Valmiki Ramayanam, > considered to be the ONLY authentic Ramayanam nor in Kamba Ramayanam. So far > as I have understood, this is an imagination of one of the umpteen versions > by later day poets who took the basic Ramayana story and twisted the facts > according to their own fancies. > Dasoham > Anbil Ramaswamy > =====================================================
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