Can iishvara pull out a jiiva from bondage?

Sankaran Kartik Jayanarayanan kartik at ECE.UTEXAS.EDU
Wed Mar 22 11:48:11 CST 2000


On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, elmec wrote:

>
>
> Sankaran Kartik Jayanarayanan wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, elmec wrote:
> >
> > [..]
> >
> >  But the call has to come
> > > from  the child first. The mother will not simply pick up the child as
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > long as
> > > the child is playing comfortably without even remembering her !
> >
> > IMO, a mother who lets a child suffer just because the child doesn't "call
> > out to her" is only craving attention for herself.
>
> I have mentioned  that ' as long as the child is playing comfortably.......'
> and not, ' when the child is suffering '. By that I meant  as long as the man
> thinks he is happy, he seldom remembers God and thinks of God only when he is
> in distress ( the ordinary Bhaktha ). " sankata bandaaga venkataramana ", as
> we say in kannada.
>

Sorry for mis-interpreting your words.

I wrongly understood that to mean, "The mother will not pick up the child
if the child does not *specifically* call for her. Period. (i.e, doesn't
matter even if the child is suffering)."

[..]

> Regards,
> Hari Om,
> Latha Vidyaranya
>

Regards,

Kartik

--
bhava shankara deshikame sharaNam

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