-- Dear Sriman Mani, I fully agree with you that Divya Prabandha - the foremost Srivaishnava scriputre - needs to be properly chanted. However, I cannot comment further since i dont know Tamil thought we consider ourselves to be Tamil. I would like to only add that chanting stotras (which are considered to be given by AchAryas to expose non-Tamil people to Srivaishnavism), is horrible. For example, in Madhurakavi Alwar's SirutthAmbu Thaniyan, we normally recite: avidita vishayAntarah SatArEh (pause) upanishdAm upagAna mAtra bhOgah The meaning if chanted like this is - Sri Madhurakavi Alwar is simply interested in singing upanishats and does not know those other things of Nammalwar. Do any of us agree with this? To chant in the true spirit of the meaning, which is - Sri Madhurakavi Alwar enjoys only singing Sri Nammalwar's Upanishats (in Tamil) and does not know anything else, we have to say: avidita vishayAntarah (pause) SatArEh upanishadAm upagAna mAtra bhOgah Acctually chanting Divya Prabandha mechanically starts right from the Acharya thaniyan, where instead of saying "ramya jAmAtaram munim", many say "ramyajA mAtaram munim" and thus salute mother ramyajA than AchArya mAmunigal! Just going thru the meanings once in mother tongue will help a lot in correcting ourselves. better not to speak of Gadya trayam, stotra ranta etc. dAsAnudAsan Vishnu PS: Kinldy take my suggestions in right spirit. By chanting properly we will be preserving the great treasure called our PoorvAchAryas' works, in the right shape.
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