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srImathE rAmAnujAya namaha
srImadh varavara munayE namaha

Dear members,

I would like to add the following to Sri Mukundan's invitation

In the so called Hindu religion, there is a hierarchy regarding the 
pramANa granthams, which is as follows 

1) sruthi
2) smruthi
3) ithihAsa
4) purANa

These are works that are accepted by all, who belong to the lineage 
of different interpretations of the moola sruthi (vEdha) vAkhyAs.

In all the above, it is held beyond doubt that Sriman nArAyaNan is 
the only Supreme God head and all others are like parts of His body. 
This is evident from the following.

The vEdAs say,

1. "ekO ha vai nArAyaNa Aseeth, na brahma nE sAna:" - During the 
praLaya only Sriman nArAyaNa existed, neither brahma nor siva,

2. "agniravamO dEvathAnam paramO vishNu:". - of the dEvas, Agni has 
the lowest status and the highest status is to VishNu, the 
dEvAthirAjan.

3. "nArAyaNath brahmA jAyathE, nArAyaNath rudrO jAyathE" - From 
nArAyaNa was created , brahma and siva.

and many more.

So as per the sruthis, it is proved beyond doubt that Sriman 
nArAyaNan is the supreme god.

Though the smruthis too prove beyond doubt that Sriman nArAyaNan is 
the supreme god, I do not know any quotations to prove that.

Coming to the ithihAsAs, srImadh rAmAyaNam and srI mahAbhAratham are 
the only ithihAsas of this huge country. No explanation needed 
regarding who is held as the supreme god in these ithihAsas. But 
remember that the much later day stories like rAmA worshipped siva 
linga at rAmEswaram et al are just false stories created by the later 
day saivaites to compete with the Vishnu supremacy. None of these can 
be found in the original scriptures of Sri vAlmIki muni.

Finally in the purANAs, as we all know, the 18 of them are classified 
into sAtvika, rAjasa and tAmasa purANas. As indicated by as koorma 
purANa vachana, we are to consider only the sAtivka purANas and not 
the rAjasa and tAmasa purANas. The sAtivka purANas uphold only Sriman 
nArAyaNan as the supreme god. The rAjasa and tAmasa purANas, though 
talk high about BrahmA and Siva respectively, in many instances they 
are all not able to conceal the fact that Sriman nArAyaNan is the 
supreme god.

Lots of deliberate misinterpretations are being made to say that siva 
is the supreme god or sakthi is the supreme god etc., If the above 
literatures are read properly with open mind, one would realise the 
fact that only srIman nArAyaNa paratvam is described in all these.

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam
adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan
Thirumalai Vinjamoor Venkatesh





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