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Dear Sriman Vadoolan,

Even if we do not undergo samasrayanam, we may still reach Him, since 
it is emberumAn Who is the upAya and not samASrayaNam. yet 
samASrayaNa has got its significance. Putting the marks of His Chakra 
and Sankha on our body is recoginition of the fact that this body 
belongs to Him and not to the soul which is housed in it. Like a vessel on 
which these marks are there is exclusively for His kainkaryam, this body 
is also supposed to be exclusively for Him.

An Acharya is the one who gives the gnAna that He is the upAya and 
upEya. In our sampradAyam, all Acharyas believe that He is the means 
and goal. But how many people really interact with their samASrayaNa 
Acharya and get to know this? Even self got this mind set from an 
Acharya other than my samASrayana Acharya.

One can get this gNana directly from PerumAL, or from a book, or by 
listening to a upanyAsam, or by interacting with a sadAchArya as Lord 
KrushNa says "tadviddhi praNipAtEna.." in BG. So the AchArya can be 
either Perumal Himsellf by default or author of a book or an upanyAsaka 
or some other devout Srivaishnava.

Sri Pillai lOkAchArya says that we have to treat every fellow Bhagavata 
with the same abhimAnam with which we treat our Acharya, in Sri 
Vachana BhooshaNam.

dasudu
Vishnu




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