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Re: REQUEST : Question about Rishi's
Mutt <k777@pacific.net.sg> wrote in article <ghenDxIxo2.Dn1@netcom.com>...
> the rishi's are supposed to be those who have conquered the senses and
> are not attached to petty things in life...
> ..if this is so,how is it that ever so often <eg in the puranas>.. we
> find Rishis losing their tempers over trivial matters and pronouncing
> serious curses over some folk
> the object of the Puranas is to teach and pass knowledge...but this
> aspect has always puzzled me......is there something I am missing ?
>
They would have to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. In some cases,
(Naarada comes to mind) anger is feigned so that a curse will be pronounced
which is ultimately beneficial to the cursed (Naarada cursed Raavana to be
killed by Raama, for example). But there are other cases of sages who get
angry who did so because their saadhana was imperfect (due to meditation on
impersonal Brahman, for example). Anyway, it just depends on the case.
