[Advaita-l] Ananda Ramayana

[Kaushik Chevendra]

Isn't isvara independent of karma?

On Wed, 25 Aug 2021, 13:44 Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> (was Re: [Advaita-l] Karma yoga: the kinder, softer preparation for
> self-inquiry and surrender)
>
>
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, Akilesh Ayyar via Advaita-l wrote:
>
> > Hrm. Rama re-incarnates as Krishna, who gets the arrow in his foot
> because
> > of Rama's deceit. Does this mean Vishnu has not attained liberation from
> > samsara? This is a profound misunderstanding of the meaning of liberation
> > from samsara.
> >
>
> I'm not going to bother refuting every little thing said by someone who is
> no longer even a member of the list but this was so bizzare I thought
> Akilesh must have got it from some Dravidian propaganda or something.  I
> had to find out more.
>
> In fact it is from an obscure Sanskrit work called Ananda Ramayana.  Some
> historians date it to circa 15th century AD but little is known about who
> wrote it or why.  But it has all kinds of bizarre stories such as Sugriva
> only being able to kill Vali because Shri Rama shot him with an arrow in
> the back  (This is due to a misunderstanding of the phrase para~Nmukha
> vadham kR^itvA in Valmiki Ramayana.) and as a result he had to reincarnate
> as Shri Krishna.
>
> This is certainly not found in any well known source on the life of Shri
> Rama such as Ramayana, Yoga Vasishtha or Ramacharitamanasa or of Shri
> Krishna such as Bhagavata Purana or Harivamsha.  For a start these
> avataras are amshas of Bhagavan Narayana whose "descent" (avataraNa) to
> our world is to fulfill a specific purpose.  One avatara cannot be the
> avatara of another.
>
>
> --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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