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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