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 ... > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
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