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September 7 , 2012

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As usual the regular items of the week are the 9th chapter of Sundarakanda in Ramayanam ; and the 9th chapter of Uddhava Gita in Bhagavatam.

That Uddhava Gita is a statement propagating a philosophy is easily understood. But the references to other philosophies "not following Vedas" and other schools of thoughts Under " Bhagavan uvacha" purporting to be the statement of Bhagavan clearly makes it out like a document that evolved when there was more ferment and there was a need to restate the philosophy . The Uddhava Gita was a result of that. Or parts of such statements could also have been later interpolations. In either case they donot detract from the overall message.

The last week title - "Who are you" and the reference to the Chandala episode of Shankara attracted some attention and one of my friends brought the lecture on Manisha Panchakam by Swami Ranganathananda to our attention. Part of that is the topic for "one more thing "

Elaboration of Purna Pragnya Darsanam of Madhvacharya presented last week is the subject of this week's Athato Brahma jignyasa

The sub story of Lord Vishnu's Hamsa avatara also was apparently new to many and attracted some attention. Since this story has a resonance with Sankara's interaction with a Chandala , it was also carried under the title"Who are you ?" , the question posed by the sages to Lord Vishnu who appears in the form of a Swan.

"Uddhava's Dilemma". continues from the previous week as part of the Bhagavatam page . The roots of the dilemma can be traced through the uddhava- Krishna dialog of the earlier chapters.

The dialog of Krishna and Uddhava provides a model for the leader and the led. This was presented in the One more thing earlier .

om tat Sat

 

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What is on the kasarabada.org?

For the new visitors we thought of adding a few lines on navigation , so that they may know what is available on Kasarabada.org !

We now have 89 chapters of Dasama Skandha of Bhagavatam. All these chapters ( stories on krishna) are listed by name and are available on a link on the Bhagavatam page.

We have complete bouquet of articles on Ramayana Role models from Ramayana Srirama , Sita , Hanuman , Jataayu , Sabari , Bharata , Lakshmana. Apart from these there were some special articles namely The Message of Ramayana , Going to the Forests and about Hanuman in "In the thick of the Battle " . Along the same lines are the earlier articles in praise of Hunuman 1 , Hanuman 2 and Valmiki Sundarakanda . Added to this bouquet is the Sundarakanda as a Telugu poem by Pandit Vijayraghavrao. We have also added some downloads specifically for the Sankshipta Sundarakanda ( with Sanskrit slokas) reproduced in different language scripts namely Sanskrit , Telugu , Kannada and Malayalam . There is also a Telugu Sundarakanda Katha for those interested in reading the same as prose story !!,.

One more thing is a page where we get articles which could be on anything , informative and educative handled with a light heart and a touch of contemporary realities. The page lists all the earlier stories on its page

The last new column is Athato Brahma Jignyasaa . This page is focused on Indian Philosophy /Darsanas.This has been started a few months ago and all its earlier issues are listed on its page

In effect to have a look at what is available from the earlier issues you only need to visit the four pages of Ramayanam , Bhagavatam , one more thing. and Athato Brahma Jignyasaa.Each page of these banner pages carry the list of all earlier articles .

Om Tat Sat ( info@kasarabada.org)

 

 

Witty Wisdom

- contributed by Kamaraju Turaga

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