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- From: spaceman_spiff (@ 203.200.54.66)
on: Mon Mar 1 11:40:31 EST 2004
Thanks, Murugadas. I take it that most of us are aware of what you say in your Feb29's update, but for the last-but-two-th and the last-but-one-th lines, which essentially form the response to my qn.:
"These ... are biijams which form the Mantra Language. Only a Mantrik scholar would understand what they stand for and how to combine them to carry various meanings and power."
Okay. Are you a mantric scholar?
- From: spaceman_spiff (@ 203.200.54.66)
on: Mon Mar 1 12:13:44 EST 2004
Or do you happen to know one?
- From: murugadas (@ 210.186.103.187)
on: Tue Mar 2 11:16:50 EST 2004
;-)
- From: Vignesh (@ inet-nc01-o.oracle.com)
on: Wed Mar 3 00:30:16 EST 2004
Murugadas aiya,
I have also heard that Lord Murugan gave Muthuswamy Dikshitar(one of carnatic music trinity) the ability to compose carnatic songs.Lord Murugan put a karkandu into dikshitar's mouth and immediately he started singing.
- From: murugadas (@ 210.186.103.8)
on: Sun Mar 7 19:07:29 EST 2004
There are many such miracles attributed to Murugan on a similar line.
I am one of the beneficiaries.
- From: Vignesh (@ inet-netcache2-o.oracle.com)
on: Fri Mar 12 09:13:13 EST 2004
Murugadas Sir,
Please continue your postings on Kandhar shasti Kavacam. Also,when you have time,can you please give advise to modern Tamil youth on how to advance spiritually.sort of road map for young people. Thanks.
- From: murugadas (@ 210.186.103.145)
on: Sun Mar 14 03:36:21 EST 2004
Sorry for the delay.
Got held up by some pressing matters.
The road maps differ from person to person.
What is the essence of the Vedas?
Satyam vaca; Dharmam cara.
This is the core of everything pertaining to sprituality.
Saint Appar - Thirunavukkarasar had formulated a doctrine called 'Dhaya Muula Dhanmam'.
Dharma which is rooted in Dhaya - Compassion.
Now, we find people practicing Saivam only in their food.
They are kind to goats and chicken.
But they don't show compassion towards a fellow human being.
The very foundations of sprituality are shaken if there is no fellowship, brotherhood, compassion, faith, hope, and beleive in the heart.
Vivekanandha's writings can be a good guide.
You know one thing......peculiar.
Both Mahatma Gandhi and Nethaji Bose were also spritualists.
Both of them had copies of the Baghvad Gita and both followed it as a guide.
Nethaji, when he escaped from Lucknow to Afganistan, Moscow, and Berlin, one of his precious little possessions was the Gita. He had it till his last days.
The Gita did guide them - in different ways.
You see the roads that both of them took differed.
Different road maps needed.
:-)
- From: murugadas (@ 210.186.103.92)
on: Sun Mar 14 03:59:16 EST 2004
So Ramana reached Arunachala after many hardships.
He took away his garments and started meditating in the temple campus.
Due to the exhortations of some of the temple priests, he wore a strip of cloth which covered only his private parts.
He occupied several spots within the temple for six months.
He used to totally immerse within himself and lose himself to the world outside.
Since his meditation attracted the attention of pilgrims, Ramana moved to a small sannidhi in the fields, away from the town.
Whoever visited him, brought him food and water.
He spent one and a half years thus.
He never spoke to anyone.
After three years, he started to speak again.
Sometime later, his mother found out his whereabouts and came to him.
But he would not leave the place.
Again he was disturbed by visitors.
So he went to a cavern in the Hill of Arunachala. He stayed there for several years. There was a samadhi of a great yogi in that cavern.
All the time he was immersed in mysterious meditations and profound trances.
Tigers and other wild animals used to come to his cave; but Ramana refused to move from the cave.
One day a very great scholar called Kavya Kanda Ganapathi Sastry came to him.
He asked questions on very profound matters and Ramana answered his questions in depth and clarified his doubts about spirituality which had bugged him for years.
The Sastry became his disciple.
It was Ganapathy SastrigaL who called him the 'MahaRishi'.
He also composed a Sanskrit work called 'Ramana Gita'.
- From: murugadas (@ 210.186.103.92)
on: Sun Mar 14 03:59:29 EST 2004
So Ramana reached Arunachala after many hardships.
He took away his garments and started meditating in the temple campus.
Due to the exhortations of some of the temple priests, he wore a strip of cloth which covered only his private parts.
He occupied several spots within the temple for six months.
He used to totally immerse within himself and lose himself to the world outside.
Since his meditation attracted the attention of pilgrims, Ramana moved to a small sannidhi in the fields, away from the town.
Whoever visited him, brought him food and water.
He spent one and a half years thus.
He never spoke to anyone.
After three years, he started to speak again.
Sometime later, his mother found out his whereabouts and came to him.
But he would not leave the place.
Again he was disturbed by visitors.
So he went to a cavern in the Hill of Arunachala. He stayed there for several years. There was a samadhi of a great yogi in that cavern.
All the time he was immersed in mysterious meditations and profound trances.
Tigers and other wild animals used to come to his cave; but Ramana refused to move from the cave.
One day a very great scholar called Kavya Kanda Ganapathi Sastry came to him.
He asked questions on very profound matters and Ramana answered his questions in depth and clarified his doubts about spirituality which had bugged him for years.
The Sastry became his disciple.
It was Ganapathy SastrigaL who called him the 'MahaRishi'.
He also composed a Sanskrit work called 'Ramana Gita'.
- From: murugadas (@ 210.186.103.18)
on: Mon Mar 15 19:11:42 EST 2004
Kavyakanta Ganapathy SastrigaL was the guru of Kapali Sastri who has written and published many valuable books onthe Vedas and other Sastras.
He is one of the fore-most Indian scholars of the century. He was associated with the Arabind Ashram.
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