[Advaita-l] Re: More on Paurusha

Prasad Ramamurthy Kadambi kaupeenavanta at gmail.com
Wed Dec 6 00:46:13 CST 2006


Dear *Viswanathan N,*

On 12/6/06, Viswanathan N <vishy1962 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Pranams
>
> Sir,
>
> With due apologies, I disagree with the above statement. What is Dharma?
> Isnt't it totally relative! Doing yajnas alone cant be dharma. For a
> butcher , butching is Dharma (hope you recall the story of rishi who burnt a
> bird, going for  biksha, guided to a butcher by devote housewife)


*Yes* for a butcher butching is his dharma, but in the similar way we too
have our dharma and that is doing yagna. Jaldhar is right in saying that
doing yagna is our dharma as butching is to butcher :)

Regards

Prasad Kadambi




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>
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