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SRI:
SrImathE Ramanujaya namah:
Dear Smt Sridevi Krishnan,

Just explain to them (which we already now):

The five senses- the discrimatory powers, the intellect, who gets these
rarest gifts from the Lord? Of all the beings, being a human itself is a
blessing by the Lord. For some good karmA that we had done, sometime in
our past births (or deemed by the Lord as good deed, though it was not
done intentionally), we are born human; that too in the sampradayam that
answers all (ALMOST) questions that are raised by one and all
unambiguously. 

And above all, where do we get the paths laid out by Poorvacharyas in
such clear crystal manner?

A simple thinking that mere existence of our lives itself is His kripa.
If He decdies to call it a day and with a wave of His Hand, he can wipe
out, like a tecaher wipes off it on the black board. 

Swamy desikan lists His mercy (upakaaram- help) in upakaara sangraham
very beautifully. 

Any intelligent person will have queries like "Who am I?" ; "Who is
God?" ; "What is my duty ?" ; "Why am I suffering through the process of
birth , old age , disease and death ?" ; "What is death ?";"What is the
relationship between myself and God ?"; etc. These are highly important
queries, which leads one to know the actual realities. 
The fact is that, everyone is individually a spiritual entity called
jIvAtmA , who is eternally subservient to the Supreme Lord Sriman
NArAyanA . Due to the karmA (good and bad activities) associated with
the jIvAtmA , it takes varieties of bodies like that of a bacteria ,
plant , bird ,animal , human being etc. It is very very rare to get a
human body. 
Once a jivAtmA gets the highly precious human body, he ('he' refers to
jIvAtmA even though there is no gender associated) has to start knowing
about the actual purpose of life. There may be so many varieties of
knowledge floating around. But he has to pick up the 'sAram'(essence).
He should choose that type of knowledge, which will answer all such
important queries as raised above. These fundamental queries are
answered by the spiritual knowledge. 

Materialistic knowledge (as explained by modern science etc) finally
doesn't help the jIvAtmA.For instance , a glorified Nobel Laureate may
take the body of donkey in the next birth. What is then the Credit of
being a Nobel Laureate in his human birth? The purpose of human birth is
to have the realization of God ( Sriman NArAyanA). If this human body is
used for other purposes, then the activities of that person boils down
to eating , sleeping and mating. Of course , this is the way an animal
also spends its life. 

As long as one identifies himself as a body made of flesh and not as a
jIvAtmA , he leads a life of an animal and thereby wastes the most
precious human body. The greatness of Spiritual Knowledge is that it
makes one understand the truth that he is a jIvAtmA, subservient to
Sriman NArAyanA and not the body housing him . It also gives the
processes ( Bhakti YogA and Prapatti ) by which one can terminate the
repeated cycles of birth and death in this material world , and reach
the spiritual kingdom of Sriman NArAyanA known as "Vaikuntam", thereby
attaining complete bliss. 
One has to start knowing about himself first ,rather than speculating
about matter. Without knowing the answer for the question "Who Am I ?" ,
what is use of studying so many other things ? Without knowing the
purpose of human life , what is the use of engaging in varieties of
activities ? So an intelligent seeker of knowledge gets hold of the
spiritual knowledge which is complete in itself and thus understands the
Ultimate knowledge one needs to know. 

For more of this, read Sri Anand Karalapakkam's article on Samasrayanam.

If you wish to know anything else, let me know and I can be of little
assiatacne to you performing this kaimkaryam
Regards
Namo Narayana
aDiyEn

-----Original Message-----
From: sridevi krishnan [mailto:sridevikrishnan@xxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 3:21 AM
To: vijayragmcc@xxxx; vmadha@xxxx;
SriRangaSri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; sv-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SriRangaSri] Hinduism


Hello Everyone

Learn religion from a video game is a very interesting article. Very
well 
written to explain the concepts to even a very small kid. Following
this, I have a request. I know a couple of people around me who 
have turned agnostic in the recent times. Personal failures turned them
away 
from god and religion. Is there any article that someone can point me to

that will help me talk to these people about God and religion? Tracing
back 
to the old old issue of what is the proof of existence of god...... How
do 
I talk to these people to make them understand that God guides our life 
path.
I kindly request someone to throw some light as I really want my dear
ones 
to start believing in God.

Thanks
Sridevi

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