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Pradeep Janakiraman • January 7, 2003 


I am writing my views in response to "Vedam anaithukkum viThaagum" 
here. 

1) The Vedas and more essentially the Vedanta (Upanishads) talk about 
the futility of worldly things, and wake up the "Jivatma" by issuing 
various injunctions, and in the form of stories. The famous "awake, 
arise and stop not till the goal is reached" is a translation of an 
injunction from the Upanishads. 

But in Tiruppavai, Andal not only wakes up the Jivatmas, but also 
wakes up the Paramatma. It is drastically different from the other 
vedantas. 

2) Only towards the end of the Vedas, we find these Upanishads which 
are full of higher logic. Similarly, only in the very last verse of a 
great work such as the Srimad Bhagavatam, we find "tam namaami Harim 
Param". 

But right in the opening verse, Andal says, "Naaraayanane Namakke 
PaRaiTharuVaan" which is the highest Saranaagathi Tattvam. 

3) the Vedas, and the mantras have been given to us by the sages, and 
rishis who we find existed more or less at same times 
(contemporaries). But there are glaring differences in even 
observance of Ekadesi, or other rituals. 

But the Alwars existed at different times, but they are all united in 
their opinion about the fact that Saranaagathi and Bhakti are the 
highest tattvams. 

These are some points that came to my mind immediately which I have 
heard in upanyaasams. 

Radhe Krishna

-- Pradeep 



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