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srImathE rAmAnujAya namaha
srImadh vara vara munayE namaha

Sri Varadhan wrote :
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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?
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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


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