anantha praNAmams to all bhAgavathAs. One way to address could be, academically educated people like us, who have keen interest in the sampradAya could possibly train themselves in the archaka rituals and take up this profession!! Having spent time as a normal or sub-normal earthly being so far, gives one a good understanding of what is to be communicated to the bhakthas attending the temples and how is to be communicated. We can even adopt advanced presentation techniques that we use in our corporate professional business for effective communivcation. This may probably address the issue concerning the role of priests in educating the masses. adiyEn Suderson - rAmAnuja dAsan --- "L. Suresh Kumar-LSK" <lskumar@xxxx> wrote: > namaskaarams > > let me share some thoughts with you all. please > read my email in > full and then reply. > > ref http://www.egroups.com/messages/srirangasri/ > > while its all great and nice to discuss hindu > philosophy via > emails and like the topics seen on this forum, > there are some > important areas which need attention as well. > > i guess (just a guesss) there may not be many hindus > on this list > who are born and raised outside India - in the > ages under 35 or > so. how do we target this audience ? > > while there are many priests in the many temples > in usa/canada > and elsewhere nations, not many of them are fluent > in english and > in other foreign languages like french / german > / spanish. > english fluency, to a great part, is badly > missing and needs a > lot of work here. > > the real danger lies in educated priests unable > to present the > many facets of hinduism to the local people in > their language or > to answer questions or to defend the religion > against mounting > criticism on hinduism and hindu scriptures. > > when we have functions in our temples, especially > abroad, we need > to have our priests explain what is what about > these functions, > in simple english to both the kids and adults who > are born and > raised outside India. this need is very very acute. > > all these can be done in parallel and this need > not clash with > one another. i hope such needs would be considered > in parallel. > > thank you all > - Suresh > - http://www.egroups.com/messages/lsk/ > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > Srirangasri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > ===== s v suderson Volvo, Bangalore __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1
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