Lord loves his devotees more than others, or all equally.

[Guest guest]

We recently had a discussion in Chicago on the following topic, and

various groups voiced their opinion.

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Discussion

Topic:

"Towards all beings I am the same; I hate none, nor hold any dear. Those

who worship me with devotion live in me and I in them."

Gita 9:29

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My Question:

 

But I think I read somewhere, that towards all souls he is the same, but

his devotees are very dear to him. (More dear than others.)

 

I humbly request HH. SrIman nArAyANa rAmAnuja chinna jIyar to elaborate on

this. And other qualified members to express their view on this.

 

 

 

AzhvAr emperumAnAR jIyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

 

Mukund Pattangi

[Guest guest]

Priya Sriman Danji!

jai Srimannarayana!

After a long time we are able to reach you all. We are

feeling very uncomfortable with the phone lines here

at sitanagaram, Andhra Pradesh. We think now it may

stay for some time.

The questions we got did not replied yet, due to same

reason. New we will try to clear them one after one.

Latest question you have sent is About the compassion

of God towards His devotees.

According to Bhagavadgita He loves His devotees more

than anything else. He goes to the extent saying that

the devotees of Mine are notonly just devotees but

they are My very Atmas. In 7th Chapter He declares

that 'jna:ni:thu A:thmaiva Me: Matham' We know that a

body cannot sustain without A:tma(soul). If there is

no Soul, then it becomes a corpse. So we love

ourselves (the soul) more than anything else in the

world.

So also God also declared that He loves His devotees

like a body takes care of its own A:tma.

Then Arjuna was shocked and questioned Lord Krishna

that How far it is good to say that Lord Himself also

has a Soul to Him, as against the Sastras declaring

that He Himself is alone is in-dweller of all the

souls. Arjuna said "O lord! I cannot accept that you

had any soul to you, for You are the soul to all the

souls.

Contributing his commentary to the Ramanuja Bhashya of

Bhagavadgita, Sri vedantha desika Swamy comes out

revealing the inner decision of Lord Krishna, "let

anybody or Vedas accept that I too have Jna:ni:s as My

Atmas or not, THIS IS MY FIRM DECISSION 'ME;

MATHAM'.This is how Lord loves His devotees.

In Srimad Bhagavatham, Bheeshma the Great warrior

when he was on the bed of arrows and when Lord Krishna

along with all the Pandavas visited him,

bhi:shmacha:rya, prayed to Him in a very beautiful

slo:kas, which is called "Bhi:shma Sthuthi". It has 11

slo:kas. One among them, was really wonderful and

connected to our subject now.

Bhi:shma says 'swa nigamam apaha:ya math prathijna:m,

ritham adhikartum avaplutho radhasthah"

It says O lord! we both made oaths against each other.

But to save my oath and make me great, thus, to show

your DAYA on me and glorify your concern towards your

devotees, You have given up Your pledge and wore your

Divine Discus in your hand, to kill me. I am the

greatest devotee of yours. Come, let Your divine

discuss occupy on me.'

There are somany instances like that in Itihasas to

show the concern of Lord on His Devotees.

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How about the programme for the forthcoming Acharya

Thirunakshatram? We will try to send the message or

some person there. Mr. Venkatesa Iyengar, may visit

again during that time. We think he reaches there

during that time.

Mangalasasanams to all.

=chinna jeeyar=

 

 

 

 

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