Jaya Hanuman (Hanuman Upasana)
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Shantanu Panigrahi
To:mayashny@yahoo.co.in,rajiv@samskarafoundation.org
Tue, 2 Mar at 14:39
Rajiv Verma
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Maya Shrivastava
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Samskara Foundation
https://samskarafoundation.org
https://samskarafoundation.org.service-page/hanuman-upasana

Dear Rajiv Vermaji and Mayaji

I just came across your Facebook post on the devotional work that the Samskara Foundation is doing and wanted to wish you my very good wishes from the religion of Vaishnavism. We regard all associations with Ramayana, including Hanuman worship through the Hanuman Chaalisa as part of our devotional worship of Sri Krishna the Creator through our god Lord Vishnu, and regard Rama in the Ramayana to be an avatar of Lord Vishnu.

Humuman worship is a very important part of our ritual centrally as the devotee's source of gyana, although we do regard Sri Krishna as being the Ultimate Source of the gyana.

If would like to discuss why and how, you may wish to read through the following:
http://vishistaadvaitavedanta.bravesites.com/
http://pub46.bravenet.com/forum/3871902446/

I will tune into the service page on how and what you do to bring our children with the proper education, not so much along Vedic lines, for those ancient scriptures are wealth but upon that wealth, greater wealth of knowledge is possible, or at-least condensed into a form for easy assimilation by children in the modern day when they cannot spend time learning the Devangari script and develop their knowledge through Sanskrit (unless of course the government of India takes steps to re-introduce Sanskrit into the school curriculum from an early age to go in a balanced manner to develop the child into a human being.

For me reverence to Hanuman is important also in respect of the essential compulsion of the Vaishnavist to preserve biodiversity of plants, animals, viruses, and the rest of Nature in a harmonising, preserving and conserving manner, respectful of all the components of Nature, our historical heritage, and our culture as Hindus, with the diversity of belief systems: to each person whatever floats his or her boat, we Vaishnavists are non-judgmental on any aspect of how Nature functions in its bewildering life-entities as it evolves through time. Hanuman is central both to devotion to the dharma in Vaishnavism, which we regard as Sanatan Dharma that cannot be excelled as it charts pinpointedly the rajasic guna-consciousness mode of our moment -by-moment actions rather that sattvic (piety) or tamasic (destructive).

I wish the Samskara Foundation the best of the winds of Nature in your work, from England where I came as a 15 year old boy 47 years ago and live contentedly with my wife and daughter, visiting relatives in India every 2-3 years: they live in Odisha (Bhubaneswar).

Yours sincerely

Dr Shantanu Panigrahi
3 Hoath Lane
Wigmore
Gillingham
Kent ME8 0SL
United Kingdom
+44 07967789619

PS: Please feel free to contact me on this Whats App number, or by email or Facebook, if you are so-inclined and if I can be of service in any limited way to the Samskara Foundation.