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From: Raja Krishnasamy (raja_at_cyberdude.com)
Date: Thu May 22 1997 - 10:54:08 PDT
There has been a lot of postings on this subject in recent timesin this group. However, I have either missed the point or not seen an answer to this question. Can a person forget all his earthly duties and follow the path of sharaNagathi - such as a grihasthan to solely follow the path of sharaNagathi or even take sanyasam before providing for his family? How do our scriptures address this issue ? What did some of our paramacharyas go through before attaining sanyasam, just so they can devote time towards all that is God ? If it is right for such a person to do so, then why the contradiction in "sarva dhrmAn parithyajya mAm ekam sharaNam vaja" My interpretation - thanks to Dr. Shri Venkatachari's talk at New Jersey Temple: render your duties faithfully, correctly, in the path of Dharma, and then think of me ... Where is my thinking flawed ? -- Raja Krishnasamy (617) 483-1437 raja@cyberdude.com Database Technologies Division Project Software Development Inc (617)503-3805