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Hari Krishnan • November 28, 2001 


This mail has caught me at a very wrong time!  I am left with just ten minutes to start for work.  Let me quickly say what I want to say and come back to this mail later.

These two brothers, Mainda and Dwivida, do great deeds in Ramayana and are the favourities of Hanuman.  In fact, in Kamba Ramayana, Hanuman assigns them to go to Vibishana when he walks into their camp for the first time and is attacked by other monkeys.  

Coming back to your question.  Dwivida might have been a devotee of Sri Rama.  I would like to draw your attention to the earlier Slokas in the same canto (Discourse LXVII of Book Ten) in Srimad Bhavagavata.

"Possessing (as he id) the strength of ten thousand elephants, the monkey now and then took his stand in mid ocean and splashed such a volume of water with his hands as to submerge the territories adjoining the shore.  The villain used to knock down trees in the hermitages of great sages and profaaned their sacrificial fires with excrement and urine." (Sloka 5 and 6).

Devotee or no devotee.  If the mind goes astray and if the person misbehaves, he deserves to be eliminated.  And in this case, the misdeeds have obviously exceeded tolerable limits.

Being a devotee does not grant a blanket immunity, after all!

Shall write again on this.

Regards,

Sincerely,
Hari Krishnan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mani Varadarajan" 
To: 
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 2:31 AM
Subject: Dvividha in Srimad Bhagavatam


| 
| A question from a friend of mine:
| 
| > I happened to be reading the Srimad Bhagavatam this
| > morning and came across the episode where Dwivida gets
| > killed by Balarama.
| 
| 
| > I am disturbed to see this contradiction and am even more
| > disturbed as to how the Lord's devotee could die in this
| > way.
| 
| Anyone have any ideas?
| 
| Mani



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