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: > >========================================================== > >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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan > Gunaseelan Venkatachary azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ramanuja/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ramanuja-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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