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 ====================================================================== 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: Yahoo! Groups SponsorADVERTISEMENT To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Srirangasri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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