Dear Sri Aravind Rangan : The simplest answer is that aasthikAs and AchAryAs were forbidden from travelling overseas for fear that their aachAram and anushtAnams will be disturbed . There are daily requirements for a devout person to observe known as Pancha Kaala Prakriya , which can not be disturbed even for one day . There are also food restrictions that are important to observe . In a foreign land , that is another problem . In the olden times , devout ones would not get into a train or travel far from their villages . If they went on Dhivya dEsa yAthrAs by foot , they took satthu maa with them or ate fruits offered to the Lord first or ate at other BhAgavathA's house or fasted until they got to their destination . Even in India , these observances ( ParAnnam taking ) are on slack or nonexistent . Many members of the Indian families are living overseas today . Lufthansa , Air India and British Airways are full of Indians going back and forth . Some of these overseas Indians maintain their aasthikyam , aachAram , anushtAnam and AchArya Sambhandham very well .They build temples and observe strict rules and regulations that are not found even in their home country dhivya dEsams. The inquiry into forbiddeen travel overseas has to be looked hence in the context of historicity these days . Even today , there are strict followers of our sampradhAyam in India , who will not travel overseas even if a milion dollar is offered to them . V.Sadagopan ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/VkWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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