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Sri Rama Jayam

Namaskarams to all,

mshari@xxxx wrote:
"Dear Moderator,
I find s.ramachandran@xxxx to have mentioned
the following: ...of Lord Shiva - who is considered a
Nayanmar, the equivalent of an Alwar... Such
comparisons are not fit to be told before
scholars...But the source should not be totally
misleading finally."

Pray, tell me who is a scholar and who is not? Just
that if one has acquired knowledge, can he be a
scholar? Well, in that case, I would like to ask what
kind of knowledge is that. If it is the proper
knowledge, then surely, such petty matters of
differentiations wouldn't matter to those scholars.

There should be an tolerant attachment to one's one
dharmam, but that should not develop into an extent
where you start treating other dharmas with contempt.

It was just a reference or comparison that
Ramachandran made with regard to Nayanamars and Alwars
to convey the meaning of those selected pure devotees
who worshipped the Lord in their own ways. I don't
think he meant anything else at least from my
understanding. It just doesn't make any one of them
(the Nayanamars or the Alwars) superior than the
other. Both belong to a class where there can never be
anyone else who can match their devotion. By the way,
let me know if there was any one person amongst the
Nayanamars who followed Advaitham to the core?
Dwaitham and Visishtadwaitham are not the sole
properties of the Sri Vaishnavas. They are schools of
thought that belong to the whole class of human race,
denoting the eternal paths of Bhakti, Dasya, and
Sakhya. Which ever seems appropriate, the person may
follow that.

We have seen several Sri Vaishnavas who came to Sri
Chandrashekharendra Saraswathi MahaSwamigal and so
also, there have been several many (including me) who
visit the Sri Vaishnava Aacharyas.

I have seen some elderly Sri Vaishnavas coming to a
Sri MahaGanapathi Temple near my place and so also,
many "others" (including me) rendering kainkaryam at a
Sri VenugopalaKrishnaswamy temple.

Tolerance has to be developed towards everybody and
everything. That is one of the greatest marks of a
devotee.

Regards,
Sudarshan Iyer

P.S. I am not writing this just because I am an "Iyer"
and want to defend. I am writing this for the general
good of all.

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