As I had mentioned in my previous note, these words were written long before I had placed my full faith and trust in an AchAryan who could teach me properly. I guess it is true what they say about someone's past coming back to haunt them. Please note that tantra and prabhandam also are part of Veda, not just the four famous books that even wegrade school students in America know as the Four Sacred Scriptures of Hinduism. Veda is wisdom, and as such in non-contradictory and all inclusive. While from a Western anthropologist's, it could be argued to distinguish Tamil from Sanskrit culture, from the standpoint of Vedic scholars, this arguement has logical basis. Ramanuja dasan Mohan ----- Original Message ----- From: "amshuman_k" <amshuman_k@xxxx> To: <ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:33 PM Subject: [ramanuja] Re: Vedas & Supremacy of Sriman Narayana > Dear devotees, > I was about to write on the origin of our unique tradition - > synthesized from vedic & tantric traditions, azhwars' devotional > outpourings and systematized by Shri Ramanuja. I figured that Shri > Mohan Sagar had written about this long time back. > > http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/jan97/0124.html > http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/jan97/0132.html > > Nowhere does he doubts the authority of Vedas or our perumal's > supremacy. > > I was about to use this as a central claim in my 'discussion' - that > our 'tradition' is not entirely vedic, but a synthesis of vedic, > tantric, puranic as well as our azhwars' works. (Not that this is > wrong or it 'invalidates' our tradition). > > I hope Shri Mohan Sagar would forgive me. > > > Regards, > Kasturi Rangan .K > > > --- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Mohan Sagar" <m_raghavan@xxxx> > wrote: > > I cannot recall ever having written anything in which I doubted > whether > > Vedas ever proclaimed the supremacy of Sriman Narayana, but if I > did, it was > > at a time where I failed to place myself under the mercy of an > > > > > azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >
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