--- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, sumithra varadarajan <sumivaradan@xxxx> wrote: > Sri Parthasarathi thunai > Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha > Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha > > Dear Sri Vishnu, > > That's a good question. As per adiyen's understanding, in our >sampradayam, the word acharya refers to "Oran vazhi acharya >purushas" who are eligible to do samasrayanam. Scholars are those >who are well versed in ubhaya vedantham but not eligible to do >samasrayanam they can only educate us. Dear Smt Sumithra, An AchArya strong in gnAna and anushtAna i.e. siddhOpAya nishtA, authorizes a bhAgavtOttama to do samASryaNams after him. However, those doing samASrayaNams alone are not the AchAryas. When a knowledgeable SrIvaishNava says "this is opinion of my AchArya, my AchArya said this" etc., he is actually referring to his kAlakshEpa AchArya who may or may not be doing samASrayaNas. also many traditional people chant their kAlakshEpa AchArya's thaniyans. many of us do not belong to the samASrayaNa paramparAs of embAr and Bhattar. similarly maNavALa mAmunigaL literally did not do samASrayaNas to all AchAryas of his time. But are they not our AchAryas? So the term AchArya can be used in a broader context, in my opinion. adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan Vishnu
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