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Dear Members,

I was browsing some articles on the "ramanuja" email group
from early April 2002 and was quite shocked to see vitriolic
messages hatefully denouncing Sri Vaishnava vidvAns such
as Sri Madurantakam Veeraraghavachariar Swami, Sri Uttamur
Veeraraghavachariar Swami, and Sri D.T. Tatachariar Swami. 
Yes, these scholars were Vadagalai and held different viewpoints 
from many on this list, but that is no excuse to show such
disrespect to scholars of this magnitude. Such disrespect
shouldn't be shown to any human being, for that matter. I should
add that it doesn't matter that it was in response to an email
about Swami Manavaaala Maamunigal. Two wrongs don't make
a right.

To those who do not know, Sri Uttamur Swami was a guru to
many of the Thengalai sampradaya's brightest stars, including
Sri Velukkudi Varadachariar Swami, Sri T.A. Krishnamacharya
Swami, Sri M. Narasimhachariar Swami and others. Sri Uttamur
Swami's editions of many sampradAya granthas such as 
Bhagavad Ramanuja gItA-bhAshya with tAtparyacandrikA, SrutaprakASika
on SrIbhAshya, and the upanishad-bhAshyas of Sri Rangaramanujacharya 
are the standard editions used by scholars and students within
and without the Sri Vaishnava sampradAya. 

Sri Madurantakam Swami was, as Sri Velukkudi Krishnan personally
told me, one of Sri Velukkudi Varadachariar Swami's closest
friends, so much so that they would be willing to 'pisingify' 
sAdham for each other (Sri VK's literal words). If these two
stalwarts of their respective traditions could show such
regard for each other, should we show any less?

Sri D.T. Tatacharya Swami, for whatever else one may say,
was a great scholar of SrIbhAshya who wrote a brilliant defense
of Visishtadvaita in his 'visishTAdvaita-siddhi', as a partial
rejoinder to an Advaita attack on the fundamentals of the system.

It is a great thing to exalt one's acharyas, but such a thing
should never come at the expense of others. Please -- I beseech
members and the moderator to exercise control in this regard.

quite pained,
aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,
Mani







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