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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
 
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