Sriman Guna,
1. Questioning motive of a Jeeyar who is struggling to stop the
anaachaaram being done in a divyadesam is not right. He is an acharya
and is definitely more learned about sampradayam than any of us. You
should have thought once more before adding that line to your posting.
2. When we read in our sampradayam-related stories things such
as, "Without Nathamunigal, the Divya prabandham would have been
lost". Does that mean that Divya Prabandham has no power to exist by
itself ? "Without Emperumaanaar, the vedic knowledge would have been
lost because of rampant mayavadam". Does that mean that Vedas are
some silly literature that might suffer kaaladosham ? "Without so-and-
so acharya, the Srivaishnava sampradaayam would have been lost" Does
this mean that Sri Vaishnava sampradaayam is that trivial a thing to
be lost ? When Azhwar did "pallandu", did he do it because he thought
Perumal is so vulnerable to catch an evil eye ? Similarly, when
things like what is right now happening in Tirupati happen, we
say, "Oh, this divyadesam is being abused and vaibhavam is being
marred". It doesn't mean that Tirumala's vaibhavam is superficial.
3. Jeeyar Swamy's idea behind this mantralekhanam project is to
record the history of events that took place in Tirumala for
posterity - "In so-and-so year, this centuries-old mantapam that
bears signs of Emberumanar's influence on Tirumala was destroyed.
Srivaishnavas from such-and-such mathams protested against this. The
archana and upacharams for Tiruvengadamudaiyan were not being
performed as mandated. A group of people who are concerned for
Tirumala as a divyadesam took up this project of writing the
mahamantra so-many-crores of times, and a time capsule was created."
Something like this.
4. Expressing doubts and questioning motives are well-placed in
administrative/mundane matters. When it comes to faith, one does not
question. They just do whatever it takes to protect their faith and
tradition. This bhavam is just like offering Mangalasasanam to
Perumal who is the JagadRakshaka.
Adiyen apologizes for any rudeness in the posting.
Srikaryam.
Ramanujadasi.
--- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "GunaVenkat" <gunsee@xxxx> wrote:
>
> Adiyen has few thoughts about this mass Mantram Program
> Sorry if my message hurts any one
> nAma's are more pwerful , agreed and here the sankalpam we see is
the World peace and its wonderful , Sure nAma can assure us with
World peace ;
> But for the 2nd purpose I am wondering the motive, are we thinking
that Lord Venkatesa has lost his glory ! its adding more sores to Him
than any other , how can a parama purushan can lose or gain glory !
Felt its against our Sampradayam !
>
> Writting of His Nama is a great service but I am worried about the
motive.
>
> Adiyen
> Guna
>
>
> On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 Pattangi wrote :
> >
> >
> >sri:
> >
> >By the Blessings and leadership of His Holiness
> >Tridandi Srimannarayana Chinna Ramanuja Jeeyar Swamiji
> >JETUSA is able to being the program for all devotees to write
> >"OM Namo Venkatesaya" mantram
> >
> >
> >
> >Devotees have shown great faith towards lord Sri Venkateshwara
> >and his abode in Tirumala. We hope devotees will participate in
this program
> >with the purpose of :
> >(1) World peace and
> >(2) To get back the grand glory of LORD of seven hills.
> >
> >Message:
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> >His Holiness Ramanuja Jeeyar Swami has initiated a program for all
the devotees of
> >the lord around the world to write "O:M Namo: Ve:nkate:sa:ya"
mantram.
> >
> >Please form a group in a family, or group of devotees, or group of
> >bagavath bandhus. Set a target for the group and send the group
details to
> >sponnala@xxxx
> >
> >His Holiness set a goal to write "O:M Namo: Ve:nkate:sa:ya"
ashtakshari
> >mantram 10,000 Crores of times in one year around the world.
> >
> >One can write in any language, format, or any book as they like,
but here
> >we are providing for convenience of the interested devotees a
format to
> >print and write this mantram, in any 6 languages. Each page holds
160
> >names and it should take not more than 30min.
> >If one writes one page for 365 days, it will come to about 58,400
and
> >if 175 devotees write it will make 1,02,20,000 (1 Crore, 2 Lakhs,
& 20 Thousand)
> >
> >All one has to do is, download appropriate language sheet and start
> >writing the mantra from www.chinnajeeyar.org
> >==========================================================
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
> >
> >Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
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> >
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> Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan
> Gunaseelan Venkatachary
azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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