Aprameya Vrajachandra Dasa

    Hare Krishna All Glories To Sri Guru And Sri Gauranga! This is going to be the last post in the series refuting the lingayat cultists. T he previous post  ON lingayats.... This post deals with the incompatibility of the vachanas with the vedas.  One person commented on a previous post on the quora platform as follows, .......... Pūrvapakṣa:  In order to understand these vachanas you have to elevate to the level of nirvaanam. Without that you will cling on to the worldly aspects. न पुण्यं न पापं न सौख्यं न दुःखं न मन्त्रो न तीर्थं न वेदा न यज्ञाः । अहं भोजनं नैव भोज्यं न भोक्ता चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम् शिवोऽहम् ॥४॥ अहं निर्विकल्पो निराकाररूपो विभुत्वाच्च सर्वत्र सर्वेन्द्रियाणाम् । न चासङ्गतं नैव मुक्तिर्न मेयः चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम् शिवोऽहम् ॥६॥ Shiva being described in these selected vachanas is beyond what veda, shaastra, puraana etc can describe. Hence these vachanas ask you to go beyond them. Many other intellectuals who have been able to reach that lev...

   Hare Krishna All Glories To Sri Guru And Sri Gauranga! Let us continue from PART 3 . We all know the infamous statement Kāyakavē Kailāsa of Basavanna,  which explicitly means " work is worship". Now let us the shortcomings of this vachana. How can work be worship? Can a lingayat ever answer this question? God is self-satisfied, or purnananda, filled with infinite joy and bliss. How can an insignificant soul doing his kāyaka or work convince him(god) to liberate him or make his kāyaka as kailasa, the yajur veda says, ṭad viṣnor paramam paḍam, meaning the abode of vishnu,i.e., vaikunta is the highest. even if it is otherwise, how can material activities be considered as kailasa or vaikunta? Is their false god, desperate for the results of the work of his devotees, is this concept copied from abrahamic religion again? where god desires some work from his devotees inorder to give them something? God who is free of all desires, grants liberation and his...