Guest guest Posted October 3, 1997 Report Share Posted October 3, 1997 Dear friends of 'bhakti list', This is a farewell note. My wife and I are booked to leave on Oct 7 (Tuesday)on our return journey to Srirangam. I'm taking leave of you merely since I have no inter-net access back home. I have enjoyed being with you all in this conversation over the theme dear to our heart, namely the 'SrIvaishNava' religion. Most men seem to like their own persuasion, not because they have been 'persuaded' in any sense of the term, but merely because they were born into it; they could not be faulted for it though. All the same, the 'SrIvaishNava' community owes to itself to develop some specific skills in order to preserve whatever is valuable in its inheritance, not to lodge the values in good museum space but imbibe them, so to say, in the bloodstream. Religion flourishes when intellectual curiosity [the 'why' of things ~ jijnAsA] and emotional insights constantly inform each other. The 'SrIvaishNava' has therefore a primary duty to docket basic facts, duly corroborated, and also cultivate a good dilettante reading as preparation for approaching the philosophical core. We stay with the English language not on account of any natural proficiency in it but simply that the internet system is not sensitive to any other language script. All the more is the need to use this Anglo-Saxon medium with care and sensitiveness when discussing things vEdic. The 'divya-dESam' temples of yore, hymned by AzhvAr, are the best definitions there be of human civilization. Every SrIvaishNava should constantly think out how best to protect them from creeping encroachments that have been obtaining for the last four decades. I thank Messrs Vidyasankar Sundaresan, Shree and Srikanth for their comprehensive advice on my problem of reaching for a proper 'dEvanAgari' font. Many others like Messrs oppiliappan sannidhi Sadagopan, Mohan Sagar, K Srinivasan of Quebec, Krishna Kalale, Mani Varadarajan, Vijay Triplicane, and Prof Vasudha Narayanan, have been kind enough to send me personal messages, each of them enriching the internet conversation. I send my best wishes for purposeful and information-based interaction in the ensuing SrIvaishNava conference in Denver billed for Dec 25. I wish every one of you fulfilment in your lives. aDiyEn rAmAnuja-dAsan, T.S. Sundara Rajan <usdeiva Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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