--- In SriRangaSri@xxxx, "kalaivani retnavellu" <Kalaivani4krishna@xxxx> wrote: > > > > > radhe krishna! > namo narayana > > dear bhaktas, > adiyal has a doubt. it's stated that after one does prapatti, one should not > bow 2 any other devathas except sriman narayana. so y do we have the idols > of other deities in our perumal temples? Most of the older temples are separate temples according to sampradayam. Only recent temples tend have many different sannidhis to try and get more income. and when we do enter our krishna's > temple, r we s'posed to just ignore the other gods and just go straight to > our kanna in garbhagraham?(this after one performs prapatti) > Our Acharyas compare a Prapanna to a girl in a small village that happened to have the fortune of marrying the empoeror of a vast empire of which the village is a small part. Once this girl becomes the empress, she is bound by the protocol of the empress. She can no longer prostrate to the members of the panchaayat (devas) as she used to before. > and aren't the other devathas and every other living being for that matter > part of krishna? aren't the other devathas basically an anga of krishna? so > wouldn't we be disrespectful to krishna if we ignore these devathas? and > aren't these devathas, bhaagavatas as well since they pray to narayana as > well? so how is it that once one does prapatti and pays respects to these > devathas, one is doing a serious offence? We do not know if the other devatas are Bhaagavatas or not. For example, the Siva who wrote the Mantra Raja Pada Stotram was a Mahabhaagavata. The Siva that battled Daksha and stripped in front of the wives of the sapta Rishis was not. Since we have no information on whether the devatas currently occupying various devata posts are Bhaagavatas or not, we do not prostrate to them, just as we do not prostrate to Vajpayee, Bush, or others in high places. adiyen Ramanuja daasan, jagan. > > i'm really confused. :( after i got the answers on bhakthi and prapatti, all > these OTHER questions have popped up in my mind. please help me understand. > > thank u > > regards > kalaivani > radhe krishna > namo venkateshaya > andal thiruvadigale sharanam > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
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