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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