contradiction! in Hinduism

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For every action, there is a reaction. And for every belief there is a

contradiction! Here it is!

 

 

In all fairness, one should not avoid or annoyed for the

contradictory views of others. Especially when it comes to the religion we must

heed others views too. In this context, I am putting the following opinions of

some one who wrote to me on Srivaishnavam practices.

 

Samaasrayanam is one of the Panchasamskaarams of Srivaishnavam. This

is done with marking one's arms with hot silver cast Shanku and Chakram on the

left and right arm of a person respectively. The following versus were

despatched by a person to my mailbox (identity concealed). There a lot more but

, for the sake of accepting the contracdictory view too, I put forth these for

viewers comments and the readers to judge. These are all not my views nor I

fully to the following :

 

QUOTE

 

You are human beings. They are marking your body with HOT silver

metal with their religious emblems. This is what happens with every

religions/castes. You have to be in their fold. This is like a political game,

showing that so and so has joined their fold.

 

Every religion/caste says that you have to be loyal to your head and

no questions be raised. Unless you are taken into their fold, according to

them, you will wander or hang like Trisanku; this is the tenets of every

caste/religion. But, to me the life is so vast that there is place for one and

all ( inclusive of our gods, demigods, daities, mystiques, etc.).

 

I used to read the magazine 'AAVIGAL ULAGAM' wherein an article is

there mentioning about the experiences of person(s) who relives memory through

hypnotism, of the experiences before birth, hidden in the unconscious mind.

 

Every chapter of the article says about the different experiences,

not only of human beings but also of the plants, animals, etc. How they evolve,

what experiences they gain; how much they evolved into consciousnes; how to go

beyond the present plane; even some places are there where so many helps are

given to the departed person to evolve his consciousness; freedom is given to

choose the birth, parents, etc. So many things are there in the other world. We

know only of three dimensions; there in the other world many more dimensions are

there; many more colors are there.

 

Infact, I read some where that this planet is the shadow of the

other world; but only thing missing is our limited vision of seeing things.

This could be overcome with the help of a master who helps you to meditate;

master means one who is enlightened. Only very few are there. If you are lucky

to find them, then your life changes, provided you are open to him/her.

 

I am not not talking against anything (inclusive of

'srivaishnavism'). In mathematics a problem may have multi solutions. A

destination can be reached from anywhere by more than a route. These are all

analogues only. I try to finger-point something that I see. I have not been

brought up as a vaishnavite! I was never forced to do any things. I

volunteered myself in my earlier days. Sooner, after started growing, questions

started arising in me. I have questioned your Vaadhyaar too regarding rituals

done every year for the departed souls. He could not give any convincing reply

to me because he never raised the question himself to any of his elders.

 

During a 'devesam' (sraardham) offered to 'departed souls', I asked

the Vaadyar then, that the Hinduism believes in re-birth and you are offering

the 'devesam'. If the departed souls have taken rebirth, then where shall your

offerings go? Your Vaaduaar replied that the rituals are conducted to relieve

the soul from the cycle of birth. I didn't accept his reply.

The Srardham or pithru pooja in itself raises many questions. It

doubts one's own mother's charecter! YES! You ask your vaadyaar the meaning of

the slokha, which he recites while offering the cooked rice to the "holy" fire

or the Agni. (it starts with 'yanme maathaa, pralulobhasarthi, anuvradha,

thanmeretha: ). The meaning is an insult to one's own belief, that so and so is

his father. This is, I promise, the actual meaning and puts one's own mother's

charecter in doubt. Mother is your first and foremost known God to one and all.

 

Should one state these sort of versus to perform the Sraardham?Is it

really a necessary to insult the woomenhood in total?

If the whole world is destroyed due to a nuclear war and no one is

left, then who will be there to relieve the souls? And the vaishnavism has

numerous tenets to be followed.

 

If vaishnavism believes in the vaikundam which it considers the

ultimate place, then where will these poor fellows - jesus, mohammed, kabir,

gautama the buddha, ramana, ramakrishna paramahamsa, etc(?) goes? They do not

know the vaikundam. They have not said anywhere about the vaikundam.

Ramanuja story is altogether a different one. He was a

revolutionary!

He was genius! I agree!!

His insistance on vaishnavism was to save the

traditional values of our country from the invaders(mohammedans).

So he initiated the other people into the fold of vaishnavism.

His theory of ' vishistadvaitam ', I feel that, is his way of

understanding the life ( remember here the multi-solution to a mathematician).

Seeing the tremendousness of life, he had this idea. He had a charisma.

 

'AANDAAL' too had a charisma.

But what is going on now is carbon copy of the originals. And

originals are originals and carbon copies are carbon copies. I differ here.

Why we could not have those feelings? We should try to enquire ourselves.

Techniques are there for meditations, devised by the masters of the yester

years. A deep enquiry is needed for every soul to evolve into higher

consciousness. Why we are here? what we were before? Why people differ? and so

on.

 

I am not a master at all for my views being exhibited here. I may

go on, and on these views(?)

Sincerely,

a revolutionary thinker, who practices what he preaches!

 

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OH GOD, NOW, MORE CONTRADICTIONS. AND IT IS ALL ABOUT YOU

 

 

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