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SrImatE rAmAnujAya nama:
SrI lakshmI narasimha parabrahmaNE nama:

dear vaishNavas,

The current thread 'The current state of our
sampradayam' is generating wonderful discussion, all
defending the sampradayam and fortifying its
following. 

It is agreeable to all of us that the all perfect
sampradayam has nothing to lose because of its bad
followers. Sampradayam offers us the platform with
which we can become unmotivated unalloyed pure
devotees of the Supreme Lord, SrImAn nArAyaNa. In the
recent times many gurus sprouted with some symptoms of
spirituality and misguiding innocent/greedy people.
However, it is true that we can be misled by someone
only when our hearts are impure and our Lord allows
this happen. In one sense, it is true that it is the
sankalpa of the Lord for us to be cheated by these
mundane teachings. However, it is our choice also,
because the Lord never lets His devotees down. Only
when we show cracks of our devotion unto Him, or at
the bottom of our heart we did not want to worship
Him, then only we get away from His fold and follow
the cheaters. Essentially the word cheating means, our
intention to be independant of God. Which when we
develop, the Lord who is antaryami, allows this
happen. Hence we cannot say that Lord is responsible
for our fall.

Now, in ramanuja sampradayam, we believe individual
persons or souls to be real and distinct. This also
means that each individual has to make his/her own
decision to surrender to the Supreme Lord. If it is a
forced or non-voluntary one, such worship is
unacceptable to our Lord. A help in any body's
spiritual life is only to mean to educate one about
our philosophy. But surrender should be voluntary.
That is why, no one becomes a vaishNava by birth. Only
when one accepts samAsrayanam from a spiritual master,
who is in the guru parampara of SrI ramanuja, one
becomes a vaishnava. It is unfortuante that some of
these initiated devotees are also taking side tracks
for short term benefits. This can be mainly due to
greed and incomplete belief on the Lord, guru and
scriptures. 

Acharyas of our sampradaya are very compassionate that
they do not sit at one place and worship their Lord,
but they travel all the land to sanctify the minds of
kaliyuga people. Which is why, we call them
parivrAjaka acharyas. This is only due to their
nirhetuka kripa for badha jivatmas. We must be very
grateful to our acharyas for what they are doing to
us. Instead of questioning acharyas for not teaching
every individual, it becomes the responsibility of the
convinced disciple to spread the word of his/her guru.
All the benefitted disciples should spread the message
of Sri ramanuja's teachings to the nook and corner of
this world. 

When there is light of knowledge of God, there is no
ignorance. It is rightly pointed out by many of the
members that there should be books spread with basic
information in simple language to the people. We do
not have to fight each and every false baba
individually when we give right education to people.
Because in the light of right knowledge, people can
judge them selves on whom they can put their trust.

jai SrIman nArAyaNa!

dAsOham,
SrIperumbUdUru vEnkaTa vinOd.




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