Sri: Srimathe Ramanujaya nama: Dear devotees, Science(goes by evidence) is matter and Sriman Narayana is not matter alone(yes partly He is by one-many function defn). I gave the example to illustrate the difficulty attached in proving or disproving things! In the case of Einstein,it was by pure "intuition" he proposed his theory(1916-General theory of relativity)which was 3 yrs later proved experimentally on a solar eclipse day. Einstein cracked lot of jokes when his theory was proved right! If I have to verify myself about Einstein's theory experimentally,it is a waste of time(in one aspect) and I need to equip myself with the knowledge to validate it. I have to invest lot of time to do this. But,with the small mind that God has given me I can see that there is sense in his theory and I just buy his theory instead of investing my time verifying it(I can re-direct that time for something else). Similarly,when I have not seen Sri Ramanuja(If I have to go by evidence!)or verified his works personally,why should I believe in him and his sampradayam? I just use my 3lb brain(no free will concept used here) and see that there is more sense in his theology than anyone else's. Science can help to some extent understand the religion(goes by faith/belief). It is not easy to prove faith/belief through evidence. Because they are in a different plane! Einstein could see certain things far ahead than the rest at scientific level. That's why he spent almost two decades like a recluse searching alone for the Truth! And he was unsuccessful. I would apply the same "analogy" to Azhvars and acaryas. Why Sankara and others arrived at different conclusions? This again presupposes the knowledge of their cognitive senses. I am not an expert in English literature,so don't blame if my thoughts get transformed and convey something else through language barrier:-) BTW,I have heard(could be wrong)and read in some site that in all the three(sankara's advaita,ramanuja's visishtadvaita,and madhwa's dvaita) the guru paramapara starts only from Narayana and only the successive acaryas differ in each sampradayam. Is it true? I have read couple of books by people who do research in SV. They say that among the followers of sankara's advaita,there is lot of discrepancy and people who do research in advaita themselves agree that. Whereas there is a perfect unanimity among those who understand and do research in R's samskrt works with the exception of kalai issues. Anyway let me stop here. It will not make any sense in communicating like this. Best regards AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam NC Nappinnai
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