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Dear Varadhan,

I am very happy to read your posting. It was an excellent, heartfelt

outcry of a sincere bhAgavatha calling for unity among the Sri

VaishNavas. The fact that you are from one of the most controversial

dhivya dhEsams makes it even more significant.

 

We should assign utmost priority for respecting our AchAryAs and not

committing any kind of bhAgavatha apachAram thro our manas, vAk or

kAyam. Learning all vedas and prabhandhams, reciting them at the

appropriate svaram, and everything ,even including bhakthi to perumAL

comes next to this. We should take time to understand the lives of our

AzhvArs and AchAryAs and try to realize the level of humility and

modesty and the respect they showed to other bhAgavathAs. Didn't they

attribute greatest importance to that?

 

When periya nambi performed final rites to a man from socially lower

caste, everybody questioned him. He replied," Sri Rama performed the

final rites to a bird jatAyu. I am no greater than Sri Rama and he is no

lower than the bird.". We could easily relate to this incident. This

happened about 1000 years back. Where did all this go? Where did we lose

this? There are several such incidents from our AchAryA's lives.

 

We comfortably forget all these basic tenets of a SrivaishNava and

argue about the petty things. We don't realize how much of disgrace we

bring to our greatest sampradhAyam by doing this. Every time we feel

like talking about such issue, we should think that our AchAryas svAmi

dEsikar, svAmi MaNavALa mAmunigaL are right by our side listening to

what we talk and argue about and how they would be deeply hurt by all

this. After deeply hurting their heart does it make any sense to be

proud about knowing all the vEdhams and prabhandhams ...? What does it

get us?

 

When Sri Ramanuja found out that kooraththAzhvAn lost his eyes, his

heart broke and he couldn't control himself. Sri KooraththAzhvAn replies

,"Pease don't worry. I must have ridiculed some bhAgavathA that his

thirumaN wasn't straight. Thats why I lost my eyes..." He wouldn't even

have thought about such an apachAram. But he puts himself at the lowest

position and such was his humility. If such a great soul as Sri

kooraththAzhvan pays so much importance to treating bhAgavathAs

respectfully, we don't even have to talk about the respect to be given

to the AchAryAs.

 

AzhvAr emberumAnAr AchAryan thiruvadigaLESaraNam.

-Vijay Triplicane

(Viji)

PS: Thanks for the excellent tape . Sri vELukkudi KrishNan's talk on Sri

kooraththAzhvAn is something that everyone should listen to. We need

such constant reminders about our AchAryAs to keep us in control.

 

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Vijay Triplicane