Guest guest Posted July 16, 2000 Report Share Posted July 16, 2000 Thiruvengada Jeeyar thiruvadigale saranam. Dear Bhagavatas, namaskar. Kindly do not mistake me for this mail. this is only a suggestion. As far as I know, many of you r doing kainkaryam in the Siva-Vishnu temples, just because there are south indian priests and sannidhi for Lord Venkatachalapathy. from this, any new comer or a foreigner intersted in lord Vishnu, can easily misunderstand that Srivaishnavam means worship of both Vishnu and Siva and ISKCON and other Vaishnava groups worship Krishna i.e Vishnu alone, Who is the Supreme Godhead according to Hindu scriptures. On the contrary, Srivaishnavas in India rarely go to any Siva Vishnu temple. You may say there is no other option. But you have several ISKCON temples in US. My sincere suggestion is, all initiated SVs should go to Pomona Ranganatha temple or nearby ISKCON temple. Another suggestion is, whatever u spend for arranging Divya Pranbandha goshti and Acharya thirunakshatrams in a Siva Vishnu temple (WHILE NO SIVA VISHNU TEMPLE IN INDIA CELEBRATES SV ACHARYA BIRTHDAYS NOR DIVYA PRABANDHAM IS RECITED THERE), if diverted to divya Desams in India such as those in Kanchi, it will make some difference. thanks dasan VISHNU http://www.iitian.com : An Extraordinary place for Extraordinary people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 18, 2000 Report Share Posted July 18, 2000 Dear Sri Vishnu I believe you are refering to recent announcements about the activities carried out by some of us living outside India. If Iam worng please ignore this email. For us who live in US, going to the temple and taking part in the activites there helps us to keep in touch with the tradition and impart some of the values to our children. In US there are probably more Shiva-Vishnu temples than ISKON temples, which are authentic only in big cities. In smaller cities one may not find an ISKON temples but may find a Shiva Vishnu temple or an Indian temple. The main reason for conducting these activites (Azvar TN etc) at these temples, is to increase the awareness of the prabhandam among the local Indians who are largely non-srivaishnavas. Having such activites at these temples helps us to improve their understanding of our sampradhayam and potentially get support for various activites in India. For example, HH Sri Tridandi Jeeyar led the Lakshmi pooja at the Shiva-Vishnu temple at Livermore and led the Prabhanda goshtii the following day at the same temple. There is no reason for us not to participate in the goshtii,led by Jeeyar himself. The event was attended by many, majority of them non-Srivaishnavas. One final point: I am not too concerned about an American misinterpreting Srivaishnavam, but I am more concerned about local Iyengars in particular and Indians in general not understanding our sampradhayam. Shiva- Vishnu temple at Livermore is the temple that is frequenlty visited by Indians and Sri Andal says that we should go in a group and get HIS blessings, which happens here on Saturdays during Tirumanjanam. Because of the temple activites and NAMA activites more people know about Tiruppavai and prabhandam and they come to listen to the paaraayanam every saturday. I apologize for the long email and if I have digressed too much thanks bhakti-list , vishnu75@i... wrote: > Thiruvengada Jeeyar thiruvadigale saranam. > > Dear Bhagavatas, > > namaskar. > > Kindly do not mistake me for this mail. this is only a suggestion. > > As far as I know, many of you r doing kainkaryam in the Siva-Vishnu > temples, > just because there are south indian priests and sannidhi for Lord > Venkatachalapathy. > > from this, any new comer or a foreigner intersted in lord Vishnu, can > easily misunderstand that Srivaishnavam means worship of both Vishnu and > Siva and ISKCON and other Vaishnava groups worship Krishna i.e Vishnu > alone, Who is the Supreme Godhead according to Hindu scriptures. > > On the contrary, Srivaishnavas in India rarely go to any Siva Vishnu > temple. > > You may say there is no other option. But you have several ISKCON temples > in US. > > My sincere suggestion is, all initiated SVs should go to Pomona Ranganatha > temple or nearby ISKCON temple. > > Another suggestion is, whatever u spend for arranging Divya Pranbandha > goshti and Acharya thirunakshatrams in a Siva Vishnu temple (WHILE NO SIVA > VISHNU TEMPLE IN INDIA CELEBRATES SV ACHARYA BIRTHDAYS NOR DIVYA PRABANDHAM > IS RECITED THERE), if diverted to divya Desams in India such as those in > Kanchi, it will make some difference. > > thanks > dasan > VISHNU > > http://www.iitian.com : An Extraordinary place for Extraordinary people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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