SrI: SrImatE rAmAnujAya nama: SrI lakshmI narasimha parabrahmaNE nama: dear vaishNavas, Respect others, worship yours. This is a simple suggestion with its meaning being very deep. SrI AchArya?s instruction can be analyzed as Respect all other?s even if it is unacceptable to you, as it is other?s; but nevertheless worship yours only. -> ?Tolerate? others in all circumstances even if theirs is against yours; but nevertheless continue to worship yours only. And this simple instruction also suggests us not to accept other?s simply because you have to respect others; but ?practice yours ONLY?. However, most people take it as accepting other?s views for us to respect theirs. In reality, we can respect other?s views without accepting them. A Hindu can respect a Christian without accepting Christianity. A Christian can respect a Muslim without accepting qurAn. There is no necessity for people to accept other?s views to respect their views. So is the case within the beliefs within Hindus. We can respect shankara AchArya followers without accepting advaita. Respect is two fold, one being mere diplomacy wherein one has to just follow some protocols to exhibit it; in the latter, one has to exhibit a genuine respect for the fellow person deep in the heart. As we all know, vaishnavism is all about being devoid of duplicity, we do respect people coming from all religions and beliefs to the core of our hearts; but we do not accept their philosophies unless they are in line with Emperumanar?s. And if we have problem with this, we have to check if we are truly believing in Yati rAja. Here our context is to read the slokas written by non SrI- Vaishnavas. Our context is also to check the anology shown between established hymns(with non-sAmpradAyic commentaries) and the non-sAmpradAyic slokas. 1. ?SrI vishNu sahasranAmam has even non SrI vaishNavic commentaries, but for that reason, we are not discarding it?:::: So there is no harm in reading to the slokas of AchAryas of other sAmpradAyams. This argument appears to be substance-less in light of the author of this hymn being Sri vEda vyAsa Himself. ?vyAsAya vishNu rUpAya. vyAsa rUpAya vishNavE?. SrI vyAsa dEva Himself has written Lord vishNu?s 1000 names, for which some people have given explanation which is not sAmpradAyic. This is akin to, ?if some one attempts to give an advaitic commentary to AchArya rAmAnuja?s gadya trayam, we cannot reject gadya trayam as advaitic?. Some times, some of the Sri vaishNava scriptures are commented by non sAmpradAyic people, but their commentaries are invalid, and for that account only our AchAryas have given us correct commentaries, discarding the wrong ones. If the person who attempted to give wrong interpretation of rAmAnuja?s gadya trayam has also written another set of slokas, we cannot argue that because we cannot reject gadya trayam, we cannot reject this new set of slokas also. This person?s wrong connection to rAmAnuja doesnot approve his other works, because his connection with the rAmAnuja?s work itself is invalid. >From this we can safely conclude that, if some one composes a work not in line with emperumanar, all his other works lose their ground to be acceptable to a sri vaishNava. Nevertheless, SrI vaishNavas respect all others; although worship theirs own. Please do not promote non vaishnavism and duplicity. Respecting others doesnot mean accepting others and following them. Then the question remains, ? why do we want to chant the slokas written by non sri vaishnavas? Are there no sufficient works of Sri vaishNava Acharyas that we have to resort to other sAmpradAyas????????? If we mean to chant the slokas to praise SrImAn nArAyaNa, it is best for us to learn the meanings of the slokas, because praising SrImAn nArAyaNa cannot be mere ritualistic. When one doesnot have the possibility to learn the meanings of the slokas, then it is atleast better to chant them; in that case, one should strictly take the hymns written by SrI vaishNava AchAryas if one truly believes in sAmpradAya. This is called pAti vratya (chastity towards the Master). Let us promote the works of SrI AchAryas who are infinitely compassionate and are sacrificing everything for the welfare of badha jivAs (conditioned beings). We do have innumerable hymns from our pUrva AchAryas. Please, let us not go out of sAmprAdaya fold and be disloyal to our AchArya parampara. 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