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Dear Swamy,

I agree with your vivid explanation about our scriptures. There had been 
somayagis even in the kaliyuga till very recently too. I heard about the yagnya 
performed by navalpakkam swamy and he performed shraddha to the sacrificial 
goat till his end. Please also add to your text that now is not the yuga for 
indulging in sacrifices like that which need hard niyamas & are difficult to 
follow. In the verse "Yah poorvyaya vedhase naviyase ..... garghagum havishaa 
piparthana, aasya janantho namachidvivakthana" it is equivalent to performing 
yagnya but simply doing namasankeerthana of lord. In aswamedham also it is 
clearly said many times "ya uchainam evam veda" means one who knows this & 
recites also get the phalam. In fact doing "Brahmayagnyam" daily yields similar 
benefits. So no need to perform any sacrifice having to take the life of any 
animal. It amounts to 'jeeva himsa' if some 'lopa' occurs in doing any yagya. 
Swamy Deshikan clearly says in Dayashathakam that committing sins
(yagnya with lopa inclusive) and doing prayaschittam for all ('anubhavithum 
aghogham...prashamayithum ashesham nishkriyabhihi na shakyam....') is 
impossible as in the prayaschittam process new sins could be committed. 

So although eminent swamies performed yagya in days of yore, such need not be 
practised now. Lets live with 'Kalau keshava keerthanath' in a committed way.

Sajjana Pada padma paramanuhu
Lakshmi Narasimhan dasan

Dorairajan Ranganathan <dorai_radha@xxxx> wrote:Dear Bhagavatas:
On the issue of Ahimsa, there is an argument that 
if the sacrificed animals could go to Heaven, 
why not sacrifice one's parents since they can also 
reach Heaven much sooner! 
This question does not seem to have been answered.
I wish to post excerpts from Chater 13 of my book 
"Hinduism Rediscovered". Please stay tuned.
Dasoham
Anbil Ramaswamy
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What an illuminating article extensively quoting vedic
sanctions of an action for a cause though it may sound

out of tune to the time we live in. 

His conclusion is synergic with the ideals we profess
and practise today and may be, I wonder, such
sacrifices were relevant to vedic age, the life-style
then. Can some more light be thrown on this?

Dasan
Dorairajan Ranganathan

--- sadagopaniyengar <sadagopaniyengar@xxxx>
wrote:
> 
> Srimate SrivanSatakopa Sri Vedanta
> Desika Yatindra Mahadesikaya nama:


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