Dear devotees: please accept adiyen's humble pranam I don?t understand why you will have serious problems in chanting the sthothras of other acharyas. (re: ISKCON bhajans, eventually, ISKCON has very different teaching than in SrIvaishNava sampradayam, if so called ?adwaithic? sthothra is not acceptable, achinthya bhedhabheda sthothras are also not acceptable, the same can be extended to Githa gOvindam too). All sthothra works of acharyas, glorifying srimannarayanan including those out side form sampradyam should be praptham or acceptable to us, simply becoz of the reason that who is the subject (prabandha vailakshaNyam and vishEshya vailakshaNaym are important here) of those sthothras. we cannot categorize other acharyas simply because, we are not even qualified to go to nearest extend of their knowledge or will be able to understand their works, only things one has to be careful is the way of surrender, or the way each chethanan chooses, to reach moksham. Certainly a srivaishavan, who approaches acharya for samasrayanam, has to keep pathrivrathyam after words, in every means. This doest mean, that, one after performing saranagathi, can blame all other acharyas, and talk ill about them and their sampradayam. One thing we should understand as a "matham" Sanakaracharya-ramanuja-madhwa belong to same, class, vaishanavam. no doubt about that, As far as prasthana thraya bhasyas are concerned, all three acharyas speak only about Sriman narayanan as the goal. they have differences only about the means to attain him, and his swaroopa comapared to others. every sampradayam will have definite reasons for their claims. and it is the infinite magic of bhagavan, that he himself, created so many versions of things. in fact, these things are kept only becoz of the reason, people will fall immediately into such debates, which acharya is acceptable and who is not. in this respect, I cannot control myself remembering the SrI sUkthIs of swami PiLLAi lOkAcharya and swAmi vEdAntha dESika. in both mumukshupadi as well as in srIvachana bhUshaNam, and in nyAsa vimSathi, they have talked very little about the qualifications of Acharyas. but they have talked tons and tons about sishya lakshanam. which if we perform a self criticism, we will see whether we are in a position to criticize other blessed births. What ever one should say, with out sankaracharya, the shrine at badarinath, might be still a Buddhist shrine. there won?t be a Vedic religion back to us. but by this I did not mean that one should follow his sampradayam, and I have no soft corner towards that, the path shown by the Azhwars, emperumanar, pillai lokacharyar, and manavalamamunikal, is the last and final path, there is no doubt about that. but in the name of sampradayam, and talking other subjects, like how the shape of thiruman should be, can i chant other sthothras, etc? at every step of such discussions we forget one thing, the real goal, the real knowledge, bhagavan sriman narayan. And that is exactly what he is looking for also, he is keenly watching us, to see what extent, we desire for him, or what extent we go for other worthless debates. Works like bhajagovindam, narayaneeyam, githa gOvindam, marathi abhangs of thukaram, namadev, thulsidas, surdas, kabir, meera bhai, all sung with utmost devotion or ?arthy? to reach the paramam padam. a prapanna has only two things in possession, akinchanyathwam and ananya gathithwam. with this, a prapanna approaches an acharya, perform saranagathi. All the rest the prapannan does, including grantha kalakshepas, are for the better understanding of jeevathma swarooopa, which will invoke an attraction towards, bhagavadanubhava preethikaritha kainkaryam. what is the result of all these? kainkaryam itself is the result of doing kainkaryam...swayam prayOjanam. so chanting sahasra nama, (sahasra namam also has atleast 3 bhasyams one adwaithic, one vishistadwaithic, and one dwaithic) chanting other sthothras, who ever has written them should not be a matter there. a very simple example here ?SrIvaikuNTEthu parE lOkE SriyAsArdham jagathpathim AsthE vishNurachinyAthmA bhakthai bhagavathai saha:? this manthra, is chanted by each SrIvaishNava during thiruvaradhanam. Where does it comes from? Vishu puraNa? Other sathwika puraNas? No?. it comes from the last verse of lingapuraNa. Then every one will not like every sthothras, that is up to their tastes, as far as I am concerned, I cannot chant, too complicated hymns, with highly terse and hard to pronounce words , becoz, the happiness in chanting will go, while concentrating on the spelling, and concentrating on the way of chanting, for the sake of not committing mistakes. Let what all we do should end up with creating happiness and preethi in perumAls and bhagavathals mind. Kindly forgive me if I hurt some ones feelings are kindly feel free to correct me. Mistakes ?nAnEthAn ayiTuka? AdiyEn SrIkAntha rAmAnuja dAsan ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/WpTY2A/izNLAA/yQLSAA/.itolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Azhvar EmberumAnAr JeeyAr ThiruvadigalE Saranam http://www.vedics.net Yahoo! 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