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 > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:Oppiliappan-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:Oppiliappan-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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