Sri: Srimathe Ramanujaya nama: Dear Kasturi, I perfectly understand your good intentions. We,with little knowledge,can not uplift our sampradAyam. If you want to help a person who is drowning,you should know swimming first. Otherwise it is of no use. Similarly what we can do is to back up & follow great AcAryAs like Sri Chinna Jeeyar etc who are torchbearers for our sampradAyam. We are all at different levels(surely not at knowledge level) to help our sampradAyam and we can do our best. I didn't say that you should remain passive. There was an implied meaning in my statement. No matter how much effort you put,you will not realize certain things at "your" convenient time. Remember that Einstein had all the physical ideas ready to put forth his GTR but he didn't have the "right" mathematical tool(Ricci tensor)to represent that physics. He had to wait 8 yrs for that to happen. Although we don't document things,we(our religion) have been surviving for yugas and yugas. Do you think some small kiddish government/kingdom is going to wipe us out? Other religions have "insecurity problems" and we don't have any and that's why we can face any blow. I agree that money has got the "buying" power and you can buy almost 95% of the world's population with money. The remaining 5% are truly knowledgeable and some God oriented people who can not be bought. If the situation,as you say, is that worse then probably kaliyuga is reaching its end and who knows we all might see teh Lord in person. Even otherwise,if teh Govt.(or some terrorist groups) is atrocious,can you go and fight them singlehandedly? You can if you are equipped with AK47 and other powerful weapons but you need to pay a price for it. Simple Newton's third law is valid there too. You need the help of others to change anything in the society. These are all some fundamental questions that we need to answer ourselves. How do we want to make an impact on society and at what level? Basically we need to have a clear direction where we are heading towards in life. I'm sure we all have a meaningful purpose to fulfil in life. Once this is clear,we can think about power of unity and work towards the welfare of the society(keeping in mind "respect all religions;worship your own"). AGain,this calrity of thought process is supplied by Him only. BTW,solution is not separate from but a part of the problem. Unfortunately,our mind is tuned to the thinking that solution is something different and exists separately of the problem. Finally, the bottom line is the mind which is the culprit. I have a friend(we live in the same place in US)from Nagaland. He is a bengali vaishnava who used to eat everything(except human beings) that moved. He had gone to such an extent that he hated himself thoroughly. Now he doesn't eat onion,garlic,eggs and some underground vegetables and he doesn't worship anya devatas. When he told me this I couldn't believe. He says it's all His grace that changed him. My friend's goal in life is to help vaishnava community. He told me that he knew he was doing wrong but he couldn't help giving up! No wonder ANdAL describes the Lord as "mAyan". Regards AzhvAr emeprumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam NC Nappinnai The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated - Gandhi
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