SRIMATHE RAMANUJAYA NAMAHA. Just happened to come across the folowing mails, while going through the archeives. In the last part of Ramayana (131 st sarga in Yuddha khanda)valmiki speaks about the good things that accrue to the one who reads or listens to Ramayana.One among such goodies that he mentions is that devathas like Vinayaka in his house become bright. (prasannam) any explanation? regards, jayasree From: "Lakshmi Narasimhan Venkatapathy" <nrusimhan@xxxx> Date: Fri Sep 20, 2002 3:20 am Subject: Re: Opening of Vishnu Sahasranamam... Srimatha Ramanujaya Namaha Dear Shree Krishna, The opening lines of the Shri Vishnu Sahasranamam is not a salutary to Ganesha. It is a salutory to Shri Vishwaksenar the senadhipadhi of Lord Shriman Narayana. We do the Vishwaksena upasanai during almost all our rountine yagnas. And, I recently heard from one of the best scholars of our time that, Ganesha exist but he is one of the member of the Siva Ganas and is not the son of Shiva. There is no relationship between Shiva and Ganesha and I heard that it is not anywhere specified in the vedas too. In puranas too(the authenticate ones that Sri Vaishnavas consider) only subrahmanyan is said to be the son of Shiva. Additional news was the the deity Iyappan does not even exist and the whole concept of Hari-Haran stuff is an absolute bluff. This could be seen from the fact that a. There is no history that says about Iyappan b. you could not see people with any of the names like hariharan or iyappan of age more than 80 or 90. I heard that the concept of Ganesha as a son of Shiva came up after the 10th century and that of Iyappa came up in the 19th century. Anyways, it is up to the readers to find out how authenticate this information is and not bounce on me contradicting this:). Whatever I've said was what I heard. Learned scholars please correct me. Coming back to your point, it is a salute to Shri Vishwaksenar who we worship and he has the elephant face. We have Vishwaksenar in many temples and some have the moolavar with elephant face and thiruman too. Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan, Lakshmi Narasimhan ----- Original Message ----- From: Shreekrishna Akilesh Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 1:40 PM To: bhakti-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Opening of Vishnu Sahasranamam... Dear Sri Vaishnavas, Everyone is quite familiar with the opening lines of Vishnu Sahasranamam, which is a salutary verse to Lord Ganesha. The role of Lord Ganesha isn't quite clear to me, especially when it comes to the tradition of Sri Ramanuja. [...] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/.itolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ramanuja/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ramanuja-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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