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--- 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
> 
> 
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