Dear Srinath, This is Rupa's husband Narasimhan. I am writing this without knowledge of rules to recite Upanishad but generally. Please forgive me, if there are any rules(dresswise etc.) while reciting it. These type of things happen in this material world as no one knows what they are doing but can explain others what not to do. If everyone is reciting Upanishad, then there is no wrong in reciting the same Upanishad by anyone like the person who came with family. But he should maintain "low voice" when compared to the actual acharyas in the temple. Because they are the main who are doing their job. If he is maintaing that low voice recitation and Acharya stops him just because he is from other caste or vadaghalai or tengalai, then it is not to be done. Acharya has "actually" no right to stop that particular person, unless he recites something else other the people reciting there and may be disturbing to them. Though we know that, these things should not be done based on caste, we may have to tell such persons only if we occupy a respectable position for such person who stopped him reciting. Otherwise, should leave it to GOD. These things should be taught only in the childhood. If not, we need to ignore leaving it go GOD I guess. I am very welcome for any comments or suggestions. I am still learning. Hence no hard feeling about any comments. Thank you very much. Regards Narasimhan --- Srinath Venkatakrishnan <srinath_venkatakrishnan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dear SriVaishnavaites, > > > > On last Sunday, (Jan 11) I was blessed to visit > tiruveLLikEni temple and had divyadarsanam of > swami?s thirumanjanam. Koshti of swamis were > reciting Upanishad for thirumanjanam. I also was > reciting but no one objected. In the crowd, I saw > one of the devotees who had come with the family and > was reciting Upanishad. But as he belongs to > vadakalai sampradaya, one of the swamis came over > immediately and stopped him reciting. Being from > thennacharya sampradayam myself, I felt bad as I saw > him as an srivaishnavaite only and that too who knew > Vedas. I heard that viceversa reservations are shown > in tiruveLLur for thennacharya sampradayis. I > strongly feel that there should be only a > philosophical reason for these divisions. > > > > My question to the enlightened group here is how > come we are divided like this as both sampradayams > accept Srimad Ramanuja as Acharya. And in his life > we see that he was enlightened by thirukachi swami > and maaranEri nambi who were from the so called low > caste. For the insult done to his acharya thirukachi > nambi swami, srimad Ramanuja took a decision to walk > out of the family even. But by having and practising > these type of above mentioned actions at temples, > are we not insulting Srimad Ramanuja?. > > > > Then what is the use of praising alwars like > nammalwar, tirupaaNaazwar etc and reciting > nambaaduvaan's history when we cant practise the > same. When nammalwar or nambaaduvaan appears now and > , will we treat them like this? I feel so as we are > not practising what our great acharya Ramanuja said. > > > > Forgive me as i have busted out with pain. But this > is not an emotional outburst. Being an youngster, I > seek the elders to enlighten me on this. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Srinath > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" > Sweepstakes > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus 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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