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Dear Dr. Kadambi:
Greetings and Salutations!
--- Malolan Cadambi <mcadambi@xxxx> wrote:
> SrI:
> srimathe ramanujAya namaha
> srimathe nigamantha maha desikaya namaha
> 
> Dear Sri Narender Reddy, 
> First of all There is
> nothing called the "Christian New Year" as you
> opine. 
Thanks for your reply in defense of the use of January
first as the New Year. Use of 2001 AD is certainly
Christian. Do you mean to say that the use of 2001 is
not Christian? If we are tru Hindus or Vaishnavas then
we would have adopted a Hindu based calender. We could
have used the Kaliyuga calender year 5101-5102.
Kaliyuga started when Lord Krishna disappeared for
Vaikunta. Lord Krishna lived 120 years on the earth.
We could have used 5102+120 = 5122 as our year. No,
our relegious leaders and the so called Sri Vaishnavas
are proudly using Christian calender and are greeting
one another on the midnight of January first each
year. Do you mean to say that 2001 AD does not refer
to Christian calender? What surprises me is that
Srivaishnavas who are supposed to be lead the society
in the right direction are ignoring the
Hindu/Vaishnava thought and embrassing with enthusiasm
the ways of Christian culture. Moreover, they are
defending such deviations. Starting from the next few
generations (in India or elsewhere) will not even know
that there is a Hindu calender going back to 1.95
billion years, or even will not know that our calender
goes back to atleast 5102 years. 
>It is true that the earth takes 365 odd days
> to complete one revolution around the sun. This one
> complete Revolution is taken as the standard "year".
> There is nothing Christian about it. It is
> scientifically valid. This was not suggested by
> Saint.X or Saint.Y or Saint.Z.

Yes, in India we have both lunar and solar based
Calender. Unfortunately, the socalled Sri Vaishanvas
or the so called Hindu leaders have chosen neither of
these. By choosing midnight of January first 2001 as
thier New Year, the so called Sri Vaishnavas have
defenetly embrassed Christian ways. Other wise what is
the basis for sending out Millinium Greetings for 2000
or 2001. Yes, we did start a new century last year
5101, did these individuals send greetings for the new
century? 

It is my feeling that nobody in their right mind will
choose the midnight as the beginning of a new day or a
new year. During ancient times, India was looked upon
as the leader of the world. In Hindu/Vaishnava
culture, the new day starts at sunrise. When there is
sunrise in India, usually, there is midnight in
Europe. Since India was the seat of culture in those
days, others have adopted such that they would
celebrate a new day when the Sun is rising in India
and therefore (it is my feeling that) they have chosen
midnight as the new year. Now, our so called leaders
of Hinduism have chosen the Christian calender and are
celbrating the New Year on the midnight of Janury
first.

> 
> It was Aryabhatta, the ancient Hindu Mathematician
> who was the first to Calculate how many days the
> earth takes to travel around the Sun. He calculated
> it to be 365 days 6 hours 12 minutes 30 seconds. The
> standard taken now is 365 days and 6 hours.
> From this it is clear that our pUrvAcharyas had
> solid knowledge of mathematics.
Did Poorvacharyas suggest the use of January first
(that too the midnight) as the New Year? Please do not
attribute our mistakes/convinences on Poorvacharyas.
The major problem in Hindus/Vaishnavas is that we do
not accpt constructive criticism. Our spiritual
leaders do not take any questions after their
discourses. They do not want feedback and the
questioning is very much disouraged. For our
generation this may work fine. But for future the next
generation, we may loosse them from Vaishnava thought.


> The contributions of our pUrvAcharyas to the field
> of mathematics are like pillars supporting the roof.
> It is only due to our acharyas that there are
> advances in all field of science known to humanity.
Please do not attribute to Poorvacharyas the use of
the midnight of January first as the New year. Yes,
our Poorvacharyas have contributed significantly, but
what has the present generation done? The present
generation has altered what our great Poorvacharyas
have created in name of adaptation/convinence. Our
Poorvacharyas did not ask us to use the term "Idol" or
use the term "Happy New Year" or "Happy Millinium" on
January first. Yes, you may say that this is minute
adptation.

> I highly suggest you visit the following link to
> learn more about Hindu mathematics. 
But even if each generation changes the original
thought/intention by one thousendths, it is very easy
to observe usning elementary calculus that 

the rate of change of the original = - 0.001 times tne
original,

when integrated it can be seen that the original
decays exponentially 
and the present quantity = original times the negative
exponential of 0.001 t. In a thousand years we have
only 37% of what our Poorvacharyas have tough. 

We are all human and we make mistakes. By not taking
contructive criticism, if each generation modifies the
thoughts by onethousandths, our Sri Vaishnava thought
will be lost in two to three thousand years. 

While people in India have ego and coudl inadbertently
be misleading the public, atleats in the US we should
take constructivge crticism to adjust back to the
original thought.

> kavi taarkika simhaaya kalyaana gunashaaline
> srimathe venkateshay
> Adiyen Ramanuja Daasan,
> 
> Malolan Cadambi,
> Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
> Iowa State University.

With All Glories to Padmavathi Sametha Sri Venkteswara
Swamy, I remain,
Sincerely
Narender Reddy
reddynp@xxxx


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Narender Reddy 
> To: SriRangaSri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 5:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [SriRangaSri] A Humble Correction to Mr
> GK Ramakrishnan's mail ...
> 


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