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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





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