SrI: Our sampradhAyam as said by AndAl is "KUde irundhu KulirndehlorenbAvAy".. The problem is "vambu" not the the real meeting of people. small minds usually discuss about vambus and involve in unworthy perosonal praises etc etc. so dont blame the sampradhAyam.blame the people. Meditation is dhAyAnam who said that our sampradhAyam doesnt include this?? Infact bramhaviths go one stpe further and involve in chinthanam. I am now getting slowly convinced by the quote that "you are what you eat". May be the person who posted this is very serious about reformation of such practices that he ahs witnessed. Yes I agree to his view points as expressed but please dont blame the sampradhAyam for that. I am forced to think it that way. It makes me to conclude that many posts here are nothing but a pathetic expression of minds that are influenced by socialism and secularism.(as seen from christianity point of view) or at times expression of superior(limited) knowledge or utter confusion or a strong conviction that the sampradhyAm is nothing but mad outcries of jobless and idle people. This is strong langguage yes. but I believe that the posts deserves this. Asking a doubt and getting a clarification is different from stating a wrong point about sampradhAyam and getting answers that it deserves. Has the writer read the full story and events that took place during the life os sri rAmAnujA to decry and simply term the kirumi kanta cholan episode as "monotheisitc chauvanism"?? It is easy to coin words and describe events with such a mind whose flow of thoughts pass only through a contracted and constrained path... Please spare our achAryAs.. dont drag them to mud because of your limited and often biased knowledge of our sath sampradhAyam. regards Venkat --- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, purohit@xxxx wrote: > 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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