Shrimate ramanujaya nama: Dear nappinnai_nc: > This is in response to your post. Did you > choose your > parents? NO. Let us call it statement-A. Similarly you didn't choose Lord > Narayana rather He > chose you:-) Let us call it statement-B. I accept statement-A to be true. Even so, how statement-B logically follows from statement-A? The chooser might be Allah or Yahweh instead of Lord Narayana right :) Had your parents be roman > catholics,your chances of > becoming a SV,mathematically speaking, is 50-50. The odds are sadly stacked against us and in favour of christians. Lot of people are converting to christianity than people converting to vaishnavism ( and even less if any to Ramanuja Siddhantam )! Refer theses sites :) They seem to have a clear-cut plan! 1) http://www.ad2000.org/uters1.htm 2) http://www.goodnewsforindia.org/about.htm > Otherwise it all > depends on His grace. No religion is as subtle and > profound as our > religion. A claim that could be made by a christian, Muslim or Zorastrian :) In the case of chiristianity,it is not > enough if I have > faith in Jesus but I need to get converted/baptised > and only then can > I go to heaven or attain salvation. So is true with > other religions. Right-on! > But this is not the case in our religion. A person > becomes a SV by > conduct and of course faith in Sriman Narayana. The > samAshrayaNam or > pancasamskAram is not the "means" and I don't attain > salvation b'coz > of these! Probably this is our weakness! > > Conversion does not work in our case. > Without forcing others > we have been sustaining for ages without any > external support. Yes! But for how long? Pakistan and Bangladesh were carved out of Bharat only recently. Foreign forces are feeding anti-Indian sentiment to North-East Indian tribals and they want a separate Isiastan or christistan ( NLFT, ULTRA, ULFA terrorists anyone ? ) > We had > been ruled by many but still our religion is rich > and hasn't lost any > of its spiritual richness due to foreign invasion. Past success is noway an indication of future performance ? :) The Greek civilization thrived for many centuries. What happened to it now? Is it anything more than a mere museum curiosity? > Just because we > are not able to comprehend this universe,it doesn't > mean that it's > existence is meaningless. I do not understand Swahili. So, I cannot understand a Swahili sentence from a meaningless blabbering. So, if you yourself agree that we cannot comprehend the meaning of universe, "for all practical purposes" it is meaningless right ? :) >Scientists forget the fact > they are trying > to solve the mystery/problem of this universe of > which they > themselves are a part of the solution to be > determined:-) This is a statement that could mean a lot of things. Please be more specific :) I apologize if my reply was offensive in any way. Regards, KK __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com
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