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From: Venkatesh Elayavalli/DCOM (vke_at_cypress.com)
Date: Fri Dec 29 1995 - 08:45:45 PST
Looks like Thirumazhisai aazhvaar's paasuram mentioned in one of the earlier mails to this group comes from his knowledge of vishnu puraanam. In the puraanam, it is said that Brahma went into meditation and created the nine brahmarishis some of whom became uninterested in progeney, without desire or passion. Due this, it is said that Brahma got angry and the fire out of his forehead became Rudhra (siva) who then split from brahma on his demand and became two, a man and a woman. This part of the origin of Rudhra seems to be accapted by almost all puraanams like linga and siva puraanam. The story that brahma created all other deities, living and non living things as a result of his meditation, and combined with the part that Supreme Lord Visnu created Brahma at the begining of the krita yuga, probably justifies the vaishnavite belief in worship of Lord Naarayana is superior and sufficient if it complete and total. -Venkatesh