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DEAR SRINIVAS,
Aham BRAHMASMI IS A VAKYA FROM UPANISHAD.IT IS CONSIDERED BY SHANKARA TO BE A 
MAHAVAKYA & HE BASED HIS PHILOSOPHY ON SUCH MAHAVAKYAS & WROTE COMMENTARIES ON 
THE UPANISHADS,BRAHMASUTRAS & GITA (PRASTHANA TRAYAS)& INTERPRETED THEM IN THE 
LIGHT OF HIS ADVAITA PHILOSOPHY & HELD OTHER UPANISHADIC STATEMENTS WHICH 
CONTRADICTED HIS PHILOSOPHY AS INFERIOR IN NATURE.
SIMILARLY SRI MADVACHARYA HELD THE ABHEDA STATEMENTS AS INFERIOR & COMMENTED ON 
THE PRASTHANA TRAYAS IN THE LIGHT OF HIS DWAITA PHILOSOPHY.
SRI RAMANUJA FELT THAT WE HAVE NO AUTHORITY   TO HOLD STATEMENTS OF VEDAS AS 
INFERIOR & CAME FORTH WITH A WONDERFUL BHASHYA ON THE PRASTHANA TRAYAS WHICH 
RECONCILED ALL THE ABEDA & BEDA STATEMENTS BY HIS SHARIRA SHARIRI CONCEPT.
SHRI SHANKARA SAID JEEVA IS NOT A REALITY & BRAHMAN IS IDENTIFYING ITSELF AS 
JEEVATMA DUE TO IGNORANCE.
SRI MADHVA SAID THAT JEEVA & BRAHMAN ARE TWO MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE REALITIES.
SRI RAMANUJA SAID JEEVA & BRAHMAN ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE BUT JEEVA HAS A  
INSEPARABLE EXISTENCE FROM BRAHMAN.THE BODY 'S SOLE EXISTENCE IS BASED ON 
ATMA.SIMILARLY JEEVATMA 'S EXISTENCE IS BASED ON BRAHMAN.
AS MANY A TIMES A PERSON'S BODY IS REFERRED AS THE PERSON ITSELF ,JEEVATMA IS 
REFERRED AS PARAMATMA IN SCRIPTURES.THE JEEVATMA IS TOTALLY CONTROLLED BY 
PARAMATMA.
HENCE AHAM BRAHMASMI MEANS SINCE BRAHMAN IS THE ANTAYARYAMI OF ME ,I MAY BE 
REFERRED AS BRAHMAN ITSELF.JEEVA & BRAHMAN ARE LIKE FLOWER & ITS FRAGRANCE 
,LIKE CLOTH & ITS COLOUR.THEY ARE INSEPAREBLE ORGANIC UNIT.
AS YOU RIGHTLY POINTED OUT, DUE TO IGNORANCE OF THE NATURE OF THE PARAMATMA, 
PEOPLE WORSHIP DEMIGODS.SRI KRISHNA SAYS THOUGH THE EFFORTS IN WORSHIP OF HIM & 
DEMIGODS ARE THE SAME ,PEOPLE GET LIMITED FRUITS FROM THEM WHILE IF THEY 
WORSHIP HIM, THEY GET THE LIMITLESS MOKSHA ANANDAM.SRI SHANKARA ALSO HAS 
COMMENTED THUS ON THIS SHLOKA.HE SAYS THAT THE LORD FEELS SORRY FOR SUCH 
PEOPLE.    
DASAN

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 Vijaya Raghavan wrote :
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>Dear Srinivas,
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>The Q1 is a oft repeated qurrey. Aham Brahma asmi, is a sutric statement which 
>all 3
>of the acharyas take. Only the interpretation differs. If you take this with 
>tat tvam asi
>and other aphorism's Emperumanar's definition fits logically.
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>Yr Q2, why people go to other gods? Answers are many. Let me give a simple 
>logic
>For the work that can be done by the municipal clerk, you dont go to the 
>Collector
>correct. That is it.
>
>Dasan/raghavan
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>Sv5679@xxxxxxx wrote:
>Dear members
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>Namaste to all.
>Can somebody clarify  these questions ?
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>Question 1:
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>"Aham Brahmasmi"  (meaning that I am Bramhan)
>is the philosophy propounded By Sri Sankaracharya,
>who started the Advaita philosophy ? Is this true ?
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>Question 2
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>Lord Krishna tells in Geeta that "people with low
>intelligence pray other Gods  "Anthavathhu phalam
>thesham thadbhavatyalpa medhasam..". All our
>scholars read this, but still they pary other Gods like
>Shiva, Ganapthi etc ? Why is this ? In the temples of
>Lor Vishnu also in USA, I see people pray other Gods ? Is this
>because they are overpowered by His Maya ?
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>Srinivas
>Sv5679@xxxxxxx
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