nature of our faith

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Dear BhAgavatas,

Please accept my humble praNAmams.

Though I am not qualified to comment on anything, for I am

not a samaSrEthA(initiated SV), I would like to write a few things as a

person interested in SrI VaishNavism and its history.

I don't to the claim that sanskrit is a language

of (Indo) european origin.This is as per the history written by

Britishers.Their Aryan-Dravidian theory was rejected by many people and

this forms the basis for RSS ideology that Indians are one race.Hence, I

am unable to agree with SrI Sreenath Chakravarthy that PiLLai

lOkAchAryar's disciplic succession was called "Ten"kalai because they

preferred Tamil and that of VEdAnta DESikar called "Vada"kalai for their

preferring sanskrit,for this theory was not known in those days.

The differences in the philosophies of SrImAns DESikar and

lOkAchAriar might also be due to the communication gap between them during

the period of Muslim invasion.As most of us know, lOkAchAryar went to

Tirumalai with utsavar of arangan and DESikar to some other place(which

place?) with Srutha PrakASikA(author?) and a few other things(what were

they?).There SrI DESikar composed his famous AbhIti stavam and Muslim

invaders were finally driven away from SrIrangam in a few years.

To a neophyte like me, Mother lakshmI is JaganmAtA(MAtA mE

JAnakI dEvI PitA dEvO RaghUttamah).If She is called aNu but She really

happens to be Vibhu or vice versa,I don't think She will mind it, for She

is my

Mother and eternal servant of emberumAn(irrspective of Her aNutvam or

Vibhutvam).

Regarding TirumaN, I observed the following things after visting

a few temples in A.P. and SrI RangjI Mandir,Vrindavan,U.P..

TirumaNs of PerumAL are alike in case of the first three

Agama-kalai combinations and only in case of the fourth one there is a

difference.

Temaple Agamam AchArya ParamparA of araiyars of the temple

1. VaikhAnasa Tengalai

eg:GOvindarAja temple of Tirupati

2. VaikhAnasa Vadagalai eg:?

3. PAncharAtra Vadagalai eg:?

4. PAncharAtra Tengalai

eg:BhadrAchalam(A.P.),RangjI Mandir of

Vrindavan(U.P.)

Kindly correct my mistakes.

JAYA JAYA RAGHUVEERA

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan

V.Srimahavishnu

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