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Adiyen

Thanks Mohan for your helpfull analysis which is enitrely correct. But even
among the "Vaidikas" there have been problems of monotheisitc chauvanism - I
refer to Ramanuja's encounter with Krimikantha Chola. So generally speaking
Sanatana Dharma does have inbuilt checks and balances - but I fear the
tipping of the scale in some of the postings that I read.

I lament the fact that Srivaishnavas in general are given to too much
chattering about doctrines, dogmas, definitions of difference and
positioning via-a-vis others, seeming to define themselves as separate and
unique. What I would love to see is more meditation upon the refulgent form
of Narayana. Meditation in the real sense of the Yogic/Tantic practices.
Nammalvar meditated for 16 years before he spoke anything, and we speak too
readily without even a reference to meditation/realisation. Its like
discussing the taste of mangoes but never actually eating one.

Instead of meetings where bhaktas gather to chatter, condemn, and engage in
self-praise while filling themselves on pongal and puli-odharai, I would
like to see then sitting in silent meditation.

Adiyen

Sri Ram






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