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Namo Narayanaya Namah!

Dear Narasimha Raghavan Swamin

Lord Krishna, the most generous ONE, empowers every
one of us to 
approach our respective acharyas and question with
respect and keen
interest in learning.

adiyen takes your question regarding Swamy Nammazwar
and Vishwaksenar
and their acharya-sishya relationship, in that spirit
and I am 
placing before devareer the following in response and
with the interest
of kindling and conversing with devareer's spiritural
self.

Religion is not a rational science. Not everything can
be explained
to the satisfaction of empirical mind. It is not
possible.
Faith is an imporant component of religion. Either you
believe or you
do not. 

adiyen has the same right as everyone else.

There are such things as black holes in this universe.
I have not seen
it. I have heard about it. I do not believe it. But it
is out there.

The earth I am on (which gives me the false pretense
of stability)
is moving at 30000 km per second as part of the solar
system around
the milky way galaxy. Can you or any one rationalize
this given our
understanding.

Uri Geller of Iran can bend spoons, lift iron etc by
mere looks.
I cannot do that. Can it be done. Uri geller did it.
So answer is
obvious.

Tibetan monks and Nepalese monks can stay outside when
the temperatue
is below zero with their thin traditional dress.
American TV shows 
have conducted experiments and found that these people
generated more
heat then they took in. 

Please visit a Lakshmi Narasimha Sannidhi (Mattapalli)
I think.
Where all devotees can take panagam (candy + water)
and pour it into
Swamy. The legend has it that one cannot pour more
than half the amount
taken in. This is magical also. Nature is elusive. 

E=mc**2 rather innocuous expression. But, ask the
Japanese they might
give you a vivid story of the implications of this
short expression.

Did you know that most material is mostly void. 90% is
empty space.

And then there is super fluid, super conductors etc.,
space warp,
time warp etc..etc..which we cannot rationalize. And
yet they
happen right in front of us.
Science cannot explain itself.

Avayar said it best. What we know is very little. What
we know that we do 
not know is also very little. What we do NOT know that
we do not KNOW
is very very large. What we have learned is very
little. What we have not
learned is very very large in contrast. At the rate
apara vidya is being
generated the gap is widening than ever before.

So behold your curious mind unto Sriman Narayana and
have faith.
SwamY Nammazwar will bless you with great imperishable
wealth.

Choose wisely. There are two groups of thinkers who
ask these questions.
One group is serious and wants to learn. The other
group knows the answer
but want to have the pleasure of asking unanswerable
questions. 
Therefore, my sincere request to you swamin is to
choose wisely. How you
spend your time. Time spent on such debates is as
futile as trying to
find which came first chicken or the egg?

In India, in some quarters, some rationalists have
sprung up.
Their purpose in life is to show that the great Indian
way is 
a hoax. They might have some legitimate gripe against
a few 
sanyasis who misguide people. However, these
rationalists are totally
misguided in generalizing, blaming and dismantling an
entire working
social/culture structure in India. They know not what
an effort it
takes to build such a complicated system. Choose
wisely, my dear 
devotee! It is not to say every belief, every act
or every custom is not to be questioned, ever.
We must question with the sole intent of encouraging
and including others. To be tolerant etc. To bring out
the best in every SV.
We simply do not ask how Nammazwar lived without
eating
for years. In what way will the answer to this
question
help us or take us near Sriman Narayana or
understanding
our purpose here. 

There is no offense meant in my reply here to devareer
or to anyone else.

> 
> Sorry if I had asked anything wrong.
> 

Please send me an email if you want further
elaboration 
or if you are not convinced of the obvious answer to
your question.
Question out of sincere desire to learn is nothing to
be sorry about. 

adiyen
anandavalli dasan


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