Sri Parthasarathi thunai Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha Dear Sri Soundararajan, Sorry for the delay in reply but there goes the saying better late than never. Emperuman doesnt see if one is a brahmin or a non brahmin. Nor does he see any sect or subsect difference. Only thing perumal sees is bhakthi, the deep devotion or premai we have towards him. Though it has been accepted in sastras and sampradayam that perumal is the root cause for even creating this differences. Then you may ask why he has created differences? Our acharyas explain this as follows. It is enough to have just rice to fill our stomach but do we stop with that. We need variety in eating, dressing and in entertainment. That is why even emperuman in different divya desams exhibit different gunas and are in different forms. All of us are jeevatmas and have same amount of jnana but again there is a difference in our approach, understanding capacity and faith. That is why the difference in varna, jathi etc has crept. Similarly even in our Srivaishnava community there are different sects and subsects. We may belong to any sect or subsect it doesnt matter our ultimate goal should be to reach the lord. The philosophical knowledge only aids us to get away from this lowkikam and go towards pAramArteekam. So there is no use just fighting between us on philosophical points since that goes against the very cause. Our acharyas show us the right path. In our sampradayam, acharyas play a more important role so it is good for any one to follow the sampradayam as thought by his/her acharya. As you said, it is not that easy to remain neutral not belonging to any of the sect or sampradayam. When we get involved in the sampradayam following our acharyas we are less prone to be caught in the mayai of bhagavan but when we try to act on ourselves thinking that we have the power to act on our own, we may even fall due to lack of our strength. When a child tries to walk on its own it may fall but if the mother carries the child then the child will never fall unless the mother herself falls. Similarly if our acharyas hold our hand and take us to the emperuman and makes him hold us then we will never get lost but if we try to go by ourselves to reach emperuman then we may get lost in the way. So it is absolutely necessary for all srivaishnavas to undertake samasrayanam(here adiyen doesnt refer to just the panchasamskaram ceremony but the total refuge under an acharya doing service to him to take us in the right path and put us under the lotus feet of Sri Parthasarathi) under an acharya and follow what the acharya preaches. It is not necessary that you have to get into philosophical controversies we can always have pure premai towards the bhagavan and get involved in his bhakthi and satsangam. My sincere suggestion to you is to listen to Sri Sri Krishna premi swamigal's bhagavatam(Ekadasa skandham) where he tells in detail about bhagavata dharmam. Sri Sri Krishna Premi anna is one who lives according to Sri Mamunigal's words, "MunnOr mozhindha mozhi tappAmal kEttu pinnOrdhu tham Adanai pEsAdhE". He is filled with not only jnanam but also anushtanam, a great mahan. He is one example who enjoys all bhagavat vishayam with atmost faith in Sriman Narayana. He mainly concentrates only on spreading krishna bhakthi to the masses and passing the message of rishis,alwars, acharyas and all bhakthas to all. Alwar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai Sumithra Varadarajan svadoolan wrote:Dear bhAgavatAs, Namaskarams! I am new to posting mails to such groups as this. Hence my advanced apologies if my wordings are not lingua-compliant. One of the things that creeps up time and again is the difference in philosophical opinions among our sects and subsects. Is it possible to be a SriVaishnava purely by believing in HIM the Ubiquitous Sriman Narayana and acting in a non-dualistic way instead of dwelling into the intricacies of esoteric man-made and often conflicting interpretations about HIM? With regards dAsan R.SoundararAjan Yahoo! Groups SponsorADVERTISEMENT azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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