Guest guest Posted June 17, 2000 Report Share Posted June 17, 2000 > > > >>Dear Srivaishnavas let me take you all to the green land of k.l. and to >>Sri Sundararaja Perumal Koil. Klang where I left you all in my last >>posting.More revelations followed when Sh Velukkudi Swami >>eagerly asked for more informations. from the group of persons who have >>come. It was not just 10 of them who had come to listen to the upanyasam >>who are following the srivaishnava sampradaya but about 300 of them who >>have chosen a Srivaishnava Swamin locally and are guided by him. Most of >>them are blue collored workmen. They improve their knowledge and more >than >>that their Bhakthi thro listening to upanyasam tapes obtained from >India.All of them >>meet regularly , only with the sole aim of knowing more and more of the >>Great philosophy.. Let me stop for a moment here and take you all to >>another venue.This time it is at Singapore . Velukkudi Krishnan Swami >>agreed to address a group who are very devouted - and the group is a >mixed group in the sense it consists of srivaishnavas, saiv aites, mathvas >etc. The group follows the teachings of a living spiritual leader.The >topic for discussion was Nava vidha Bhakthi and the discourse was in >English. As the discourse proceeded the group was spellbound and little >later got invoved emotionally and little later tears started rolling down >on hearing the glory of Lord Sriman Nrayana.- A number of Srivaishnavas >were present with the Thiru Namam prominent on their forehead. Eventhough >the spirutual leader is not a follower of Srivaishnavism, the group has a >strong bond towards him.What made these Srivaishnavas to get attached >strongly to a differnt philosophy-. Scene three . An aircondtioned hall in >Laguna park , and another one in University campus Singapore. The gathering >, learned, educated cultured, well placed Srivaishnavas with thier >families. The topic for upanyasam by Velukkudi Swami was on Swami >Nammazhlwar.It was like an advanced course. The same emotional reactions >thro the upanyasams. > The first group consisting of non srivaishnavas by birth,if I may be >permitted to use that terminology, the second group srivaishnavas gone >astray if I may be permitted to say so and the third one born >srivaishnavas totally following the tenents of sriviashnava >philosophy.While a low percentage of people hopefully clinging on to the >srivaishnava faith ,a big chunk in the middle group is wandereing like a >rudderless boat and the first group on a catamaran with so much confidence >looking towards a light house for reaching the shores Let us go back to the >issues raised in my first message >More to follow in the next postings please >Jaya Sriman Narayana >H.H.Sri Mudaliyandan Swami shisya sampathsOriginal Message----- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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