Please Note, the Vanarahs of Monkeys are incarnations of Devas. Vali was the incarnation of indra the king of the Devas. Hanuman incarnation of Vayu and so on. Ravana got a boon fromShiva that no celestial could kill him. So the Devas incarnated themselves as Monkeys to assist Vishnu who
Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:20:15 -
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fake Gurus and the Attack of the Asuras
Nisargadatta said on more than one occassion that he preferred to
speak with Westerners rather than with Indians because the Westerners
were
Perhaps so -- and if so, who knows how many different ways what you
have said (below) could be reconciled with what Nisargadatta said or
if that makes any difference; both ways of understanding the monkey
(and bear) armies of the Ramayana speak to different ways of
interpreting the narrative. The
Thank you very much for the suggestion. I have the deepest respect
(and affection) for Nisargadatta and consider him one the big
influences in my life, perhaps second in my heart only to Maharishi
and Guru Dev. Coming upon him (here, of course, on FFL) only a few
years after I had re-begun
