srImathE rAmAnujAya namaha srImadh vara vara munayE namaha Sri Varadhan wrote : ====================================================== the varnAshram dharma/karma line is not valid in the present context anyway - after all, how many "brahmins" follow the stipulations that are laid down? Then what gives us the right to question/discriminate against others? ======================================================= May be Varadhan is absolutely right. Are we, the present day brahmins, really follow the stipulations that have be laid down. If yes, to what percentage? I bet, no answers for this. Let alone the Varnashrama dharma, even within the Srivaishnava families, one lineage will consider the other lineage, a shade inferior to them. Why this discrimination? Atleast emberumAnAr did not expected this when he created the 74 SimhasanAthipathis. This thought is more prevalent amongst the SwayamAchArya families. I too belong to a SwayamAchArya lineage. What a SwayamAchArya mean? In a broad sense, he can perform the samAsrayaNam and other rites, by himself to his family, and also to his sishyAs. So please do think what should be the qualification of this person, how strict he should be in observing all that our pUrvAchAryAs have laid down. Considering this if I look back at myself, am I even worthy to call myself as a one belonging to the swayamAchArya family. This problem is more towards the attitude and the false prejudice of the families and their lineage to which we belong to. If at all our SrivaishNavam has to grow, this attitude is the first hurdle one should over come. The remaining are fairly easy, as if one overcomes this hurdle, he/she is obviously overcoming the greatest mental hurdle of AhankAram and mamakAram. But when ? AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan, Thirumalai Vinjamoor Venkatesh Enjoy being an Indyan at http://www.indya.com
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