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Hi,

> we have no goal to call ourselves SrIvasihNava brAhmaNas 
> by doing certian practices expected you. Hope you have limited the 
> point you were making to emails. 

If that is the case, I don't have anything in reply :-).

BTW, any idea why the homepage of the list read "Discussion forum for 
everyone interested in the way of life as taught by the vEdic rishis 
and AzhvArs....", as opposed to "... life as taught by AzhvArs..." ??


> In real life, majority of the people > have already forsaken the 
practices you expect due to non-religious > reasons.

That is a topic for a new thread.

> > Our > > pUrvAchAryas did not ignore them and some have even 
performed > > srauta > > sacrifices like agnishToma.

> At least I was not referring to so many vEdic practices, ignored or 
> adhered to by our AchAryas. I was focussing only on rituals, taking 
> sandhyAvandanam as an example. Not all vEdic practices are rituals. 
> Also not all rituals are vEdic.

I think we are heading towards a word play here. 'vEdic practices' as 
opposed to 'rituals'? Why is agnishToma a 'vEdic practice' 
and 'sandhyAvandam' a ritual? Did our pUrvAchAryas say so? Is it 
really correct to use a christian word and concept 'ritual' to 
describe aspect of our sampradAya? 

>>Not all 'rituals' are vEdic -<<
True. I'll add one more -- 'not all practices are vEdic'.

So, according to you, is thiruvArAdhanam a 'ritual' or 'practice'?
If so, what about 'reciting NDP'? Why can't it be called a 'ritual'?
How about 'thinking about God'? 

Regards,
Kasturi Rangan .K





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