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Respected Sriman Sadagopan maama:

If adiyen may add to the list given by Sriman N.Krishnamachary:

In North American temples most of the persons do not follow 
the 'dress code'. I am not asking everyone to come in the traditional 
dress. At least males can avoid coming to the temple in tennis shorts 
and T-shirts (coming perhaps after a game of tennis and 'dropping' at 
the temple on the way home). If I say about women's dress then one 
might ask "Why do you look at them when there are Thaayaar and  
PerumaaL for you to look at". Many would agree with me when I say 
many women succeed in making people - both men and women - look at 
them at least once. Inside a hall or temple premises it is easy to 
see many persons because of our normal vision, I think. After having 
seen them once you can avoid seeing them again by not looking in that 
direction or pass them looking at the floor. So let me put it mildly: 
Women can also avoid wearing shorts (this being summer time many 
women do wear this)and may wear loose fitting clothes if they do not 
have sari to wear(Believe me 'sari' is not in the wardrobe of few 
Indian women I know traditionally brought up in our 'kalaachaaram' 
and now residing in North America). They are not going to office or 
party to impress people.

If you are bringing with you persons of North American origin to the 
temple you may suggest to them before hand to dress appropriately.

If anyone has question for me on this, I have a question for them to 
answer me. If it is a party that has mandatory dress code with tuxedo 
etc, to which you are invited, would you be allowed inside if you go 
in shorts? or in jeans? Why treat the temple differently? No one is 
stopping you because of your dress at the temple because everyone has 
access to the temple and everyone has the right to pray but should 
you not dress appropriately when you go to the temple?

I have observed Sri Venkat Kanumalla of Sri Ranganatha temple, New 
York offering dhoti to persons who are wearing pants and shirts and 
who recite vedam or prabhandham. Some persons accept it, change to 
dhoti and continue the recitation. It should be like that. If you are 
going to chant vedam do it in dhoti. Some persons reject it saying " 
I will do as I please". That is not correct.

Dress code should be observed while going to the temple.

vaachika doshaha kshantavyaha
adiyen



--- In Oppiliappan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Narasimhan Krishnamachari 
<champakam@...> wrote:
>
> Since I do not know how to use Tamil font to respond, I am giving 
the following in English.  Three important items that can be added to 
this list are:
>    
>   1. No one should ever prostrate to the priests inside the 
temple.  This is a common thing that I see being done in the North 
American system where I am.  The priests should know this simple 
rule, but they either do not tell the devotees not to prostrate to 
them in the house of the Lord, or they do not know this simple common-
sense rule.
>    
>   2. One should never clap in appreciation of any human being 
inside the temple, especially when the Lord is in Asanam in the 
manTapam.  This is another rule that is commonly violated in the 
North American temples, where the generous donors are given applause 
for their donation, or a dance or music performer is applauded for 
offering his/her skills in front of the Lord, or the trustees are 
given an applause for being trustees.
>    
>   3. One should not prostrate (sAshTA'nga namaskAram) except 
outside the limits of the dvaja sthambham.
>    
>   -dAsan Krishnamachari
>     
> 




 
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