Sri: Srimathe Ramanujaya nama: Dear devotees, Humble praNAms to all. This is just a general mail not in favor or against mails related on this issue. One may ask: why advaitam is so popular than visishTAdvaitam(or why more shaivites than vaishNavAs) in our country? Why the foreigners/westerners think our country favors polytheism rather than monotheism/sriman narayana, which is the essence of the vedas? The answer is false knowledge. So is true with Christianity. Lot of christians do not know what exactly is said in the Bible or rather they misinterpret the Bible. I have one very great Catholic friend with whom I share and discuss SV views(whatever I know!) and he in turn tells me what's the equivalent in the Bible. I asked him why even priests of your community eat non-veg. This friend of mine is a pure vegetarian and he only eats twice a day and very specific about what he eats. Many Christians, that I have come across,tell me it doesn't matter what goes into your mouth but what comes out matters. This is how they interpret some of the Bible passages. On the other hand, my friend says that what the Bible says is that "when one is religiously at the lowest level CAN eat(didn't say should eat)non- veg. But a person in the religious path will go for vegetarian food which makes him closer to God". He also told me that some 1500 yrs ago,belief in rebirth(karma)used to be taught in the churches but not anymore. So if we ask some Christians now they would say that they don't believe in rebirth. I was also talking to this friend about nirhEtukam/causeless mercy of the Lord. We exactly coincide in our views. I am so amazed that he is so different and he is very honest in expressing the knowledge. How many of our Indian population know the Truth that it is only Sriman Narayana/Vishnu that vEdas talk about? One can not argue with a person who is mentally blind unless God's grace is there for that person to be in the receiving mode to attain/acquire knowledge. Well, we all should try to acquire the correct knowledge from the authentic AcArya. When His grace is there, AcAryA automatically appears at the door step to dispel our ignorance. I have been stopped by Christians of different churches and they start talking and I also listen to it but I don't ask them questions b'coz I know(from the way they talk)they can not answer any my questions. I just keep it in my mind and I ask this friend of mine who is at a very high religious level. So we should be careful when we meet people of different faiths and it's His grace that can save us from wandering into different faiths. adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsI NC Nappinnai --- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Rajesh Elayavalli" <earajesh@xxxx> wrote: > > > I am all in for a rational response. I just did not see the writer of the > book say as such. I also do not think that a response can be rational if it > is focused on finding holes in another religion's philosophy or theory. A > sound rational debate is centered around the merits of the philosophy that > we have faith in. A negative attack like - "your faith also has these > negatives in it, so why do you focus on our negatives alone?" is not > rational debate. > > A good approach is to state that the negatives in our philospphy are > mis-understood and provide logical structure why they have been either > mis-understood or mis-interpreted. > > Anyhow, I see the reason why you might want to put the document in the files > area. I personally think that the Ramanuja group should not stoop down to > the levels of defending "negative tharka vada" and should focus instead on > "nyAya vada" > > Anytime we start to highlight the negatives of another religion to gloss > over any perceived negatives in our own will only lead to unhealthy debate. > > adiyEn > nArAyana vEda dAsan > Rajesh Elayavalli 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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