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Dear friends,

namaskarams to you all.

In Sriman Vaiyakarana Ramanuja Iyengar's telugu commentary on Stotraratnam, an 
outcaste is defined from the following quotation from Sastras:

yah putrah pitaram dvEshti tam vidyAt antya rEtasam
yO vishNuh satatam dveshti tam vidyAt antya rEtasam

the pesron who hates his father and the person who always hates Lord vishnu 
(The Omnispresnt) are to be known as antya jAti samudbhUtas i.e. those of lowly 
birth.

So one's caste is to be determined by one's guNas and karmas, as gItAchArya 
very clearly says, and not by the parents to whom one is born.

If a person belonging to the deprived sections of our society is given 
confidence by telling him that "you are the greatest of vaidikOttamas once 
Sriyahpati nArAyaNa enters your mind", "mA Suchah", that person will not find 
any reason to convert to a non-vedic religion for want of social justice.

We have organizations like iSKCON, but their target is rich foreign countries 
and hi-fi academic institutions in India like BITS, IITK.

when will the divine message of Alwars reach the masses of India, the country 
which had a gloroius past? only when He wishes it to reach.

Ramanuja Dasanudasan
Vishnu


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