some dharmic questions

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

yOn Wed, 23 Apr 2003, M. S. Ravisankar wrote:

> Thanks for posting the viewpoints from various different commentaries. I
> hope you were able to get hold of aanandagiri's commentary from the super
> site.

Yes thanks.  I'm still reading through it.

>  To address your above observation:
>
>
> The text I have (Tamil) is an essence of both ramanuja and v. deshika's
> works. It says "When one is absorbed in the aatma saaxatkaaram, there is no
> need to come out of that higher state and do karma-s. Otherwise, one has to
> do it."  To me, it is a very logical position to take. It is a special case
> and karma-s are abandoned for a higher purpose. It is probably not like a
> carte blanche permission.
>

Well the way it is stated there it seems to suggest that additional karmas
need not be taken up.  But can the ones already undertaken be given up?  I
thought the reason the tridandi sannyasis keep shikha, yajnopavita etc.
was because they still keep up nitya and naimittika karmas.  Perhaps
Malolan or some other knowlegdeable person can explain?

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