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Dear Kasturi Rangan

These guidelines are excellent - but can we also apply them to the anya
devatas? Every mantra can also be said to be directed to Brahma or Shiva?
There are fewer mantras to Shiva than to Vishnu - so can we say that paucity
is the sign of excellence? There is only two Suktas to Mitra - so does this
mean that Mitra is the supreme? (being also a form of the Adityas of whom
Vishnu is a member?)

Adiyen

Dasosmiham

Sri Ram


> (1) whenever you read a mantra addressed to agni, read it as a one
> addressed to vishnu, as vishNu is antaryami of everybody...
> (antaryami logic)
> (2) argument against frequency of occurance: you spend 12 years in
> high school but only 4 years in college. Similarly, you study a lot
> of mantras addressed to various devatas but only a few mantras on
> vishNu. College education is more complex and "higher" than high
> school education. Similarly, mantras addressed to "vishNu"
> are "higher" than other dEvatas.
> (maybe more as we go along)





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