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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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