Vedanta and Philosophy

12:49 AM

@KeshavSrinivasan Oh Ok...

1:17 AM

@Tezz By the way, the argument given by the Raseshvaras is very strange. They think that just because Narasimha's body is eternal, it must be possible for human bodies to become eternal also.

@Tezz And they think that the Purusha Sukta somehow proves the existence of Narasimha's eternal body.

Tezz

@KeshavSrinivasan haha...

@KeshavSrinivasan how does Purush Sukta prove it...?..

Keshav Srinivasan

@Tezz I don't know, it doesn't make sense to me. Here's what it says: "How can the body of the man-lion be otherwise than really existent, proved as it is by three kinds of proof: (1) by the intuition of Sanaka and others; (2) by Vedic texts such as, A thousand heads has Purusha; and (3) by Purānic texts such as, That wondrous child, lotus-eyed, four-armed, armed with the conch-shell, the club, and other weapons?"

@Tezz The Puranic verse seems to be the description of baby Krishna in the Srimad Bhagavatam.

@Tezz Maybe they're citing those scriptural verses because they're related to Vishnu, and they're trying to argue because the existence of Vishnu implies the existence of Narasimha.

@Tezz In any case, I want to read some of the texts of the Raseshvara sect, if I can find any. The Sarva Darshana Sangraha mentions a whole bunch of texts, like the Rasarnava, the Rasa Hridayam, etc.

Tezz

1:43 AM

@KeshavSrinivasan are there any Rasheswara texts alive?...

Keshav Srinivasan

@Tezz Yes, there are, but I don't know whether any have been translated into English.

Tezz

@KeshavSrinivasan btw I think Rasheswara sect might be most easiest path to follow... just apply Mercury and become immortal...😀😀😀

Keshav Srinivasan

@Tezz Chapter 6 of this book summarizes the Rasarnava: books.google.com/…

@Tezz Well, first of all there's 18 different things you need to do with Mercury, like molding it, applying it, eating it, etc. Second of all, the Mercury stuff is just the beginning of the path, not the end of it. The Mercury just makes your body eternal, so that you can live long enough to attain Jnana and thus become a Jivanmukta.

@Tezz Raseshvaras believed that an ordinary human lifetime was too short a time to attain Jnana.

Tezz

@KeshavSrinivasan Oh I just read some chapters of it... it's also complex... 😂😂

Keshav Srinivasan

@Tezz You read some chapters of what?

@Tezz You mean you read the summary of the chapters in that book?

Tezz

1:52 AM

@KeshavSrinivasan of that book link...

Oh sorry... by chapters I mean pages... I mistakenly wrote chapters... @KeshavSrinivasan

Keshav Srinivasan

2:51 AM

@Tezz Oh ok. By the way, I found the Rasarnava in Sanskrit: archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.487147 It doesn't seem to have ever been translated into English. I guess no one cares about the Raseshvara sect because it has no followers anymore.

Tezz

@KeshavSrinivasan Oh ok! ..

Pandya

3:54 AM

@KeshavSrinivasan ok. I think we had discussed about Rudra Sampradaya earlier. Vishnuswami etc.

@KeshavSrinivasan @Tezz @TheDestroyer we're getting these everyday! Haha

It considerably increases QPD :)

Tezz

@Pandya haha but 99% of them are likely to remain unanswered...😀😀😀

Keshav Srinivasan

4:28 AM

@Pandya @Tezz Haha, it's the world-famous Keshav Srinivasan effect :-)

Tezz

@KeshavSrinivasan I have one paradoxical problem regarding this... haha.. wait Ill comment later about it...

Keshav Srinivasan

@Pandya By the way, Vishnuswami built the Kanchipuram Varadaraja temple, which is one of the most important temples for Sri Vaishnavas, second only to Sri Rangam and Tirupati.

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