[Advaita-l] interesting info on krishnashtami day

[praveen kumar]

Jaldharji,


I am surprised to read comments like your view,their view on an eternal
principle by an esteemed member.Can these principles vary from one person
to another?
Ofcourse it is a scandal that these people have assumed self authority to
do anything and everything they think it is their ultimate
aim of life.In essence,what these people are conveying is all those
pitru,rishis and deva gana have no role in deciding
which yoni/varna one takes the birth based on karma and guna and moves
along but which we take control in our hand and decide ourselves and
change!!!
The final question,who has to discipline such erring people?





From: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar at braincells.com>
To: kuntimaddi sadananda <kuntimaddisada at yahoo.com>, A discussion group for
Advaita Vedanta <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
Cc:
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 20:21:51 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Interesting info on Krishnaashtami day.
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, kuntimaddi sadananda wrote:

Your vision of sanatana dharma obviously differs from theirs and I happen
> to concurr with theirs. I am reminded of Bhagavan Ramanuja preaching on the
> top of his voice the secred matra that he learned from his teacher to
> everybody to uplift the masses, even though he was told that he will incurr
> an eternal sin for doing that.
>

Not this old chestnut again.  Ramanujas views on vedadhikara are exactly
the same as Shankaracharya and Ravi Chandrashekhara.  This came up before
in the megathread and I posted a link to his exact words.
See http://www.sacred-texts.com/**hin/sbe48/sbe48131.htm<http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe48/sbe48131.htm>
and
onwards.


  What is dharma and what is adharma is very difficult to differentiate at
> times - says our  scriptures.
>

Sometimes.  But not this time.  It takes willful ignorance to misunderstand
what the shastras are saying on this topic.

To me this is the real scandal.  Not that other people are interested in
learning our customs but Indians are so uninterested.

-- 
Praveen