English Discourse by Shri U. Ve Velukudi Krishnan

[Guest guest]

srimatE rAmAnujAyA namaha:

 

Hello Subha:

 

We conducted a local poll in the Chicago area to get see

what we are lacking in terms of communicating/developing

interest in the Next Generation (late teens/early Twenties ) and younger

audience.

 

The most obvious and doable requests were:

 

1. Communicate in Simple English.

2. Start with the basics

(Questions were basically on:

God, Soul, Purpose, Creation, Karma, Re-incarnation.

Are we Idol-Worshippers? Why the Dot on the forehead?

Are we supposed to learn slokas/ Mantras?

How will devotion help, how to practice and increase devotion?)

 

The bottom line Q: How is it all supposed to help me today?

 

I am sure a lot of people have the answers to all the above questions,

but there seems to be a shortage of people who could effectively

communicate the essence to newcomers & generate interest.

It is very easy to talk/ address a group that is already in the Sri

Vaishnava camp,

but it is not an easy task to convincingly address & generate interest

among newcomers

to the sampradaya.

 

They also had very obvious comments: Keep the message simple & keep the

audience interested.

 

Sri Velukkudi swami has the ability to lucidly explain concepts

in Tamil & English. Based on the feedback from the younger audience

we had requested srI Swami to talk in English & start with basic tenets of

Sri Vaishnavism.

 

We had listeners from age 6 to 25 who mentioned they enjoyed it.

I would highly recommend Elders in the family to record the lectures

& play it again and explain to the youngsters (As we found out

there were a lot of questions that still need to be addressed)

I would also recommend to provide the youngsters with a Log book/ Notebook

to write their thoughts/questions during the lecture, so they can discuss

this with the family later.)

 

Sri Velukkudi swami will continue on Basic Tenets of Sri Vaishnavism

in his next lecture in the last week of this month.

 

If you would like certain topics addressed & have some suggestions

for the message to reach out to a larger audience, please feel free to

send me mail at danp (Or send mail to vk_talk )

 

Look forward to hearing from you.

 

adiyEn rAmAnujA dAsan

Mukundan Pattangi

 

bhakti-list, Subha N <princess_subha> wrote:

> Hello,

>

> By God's Grace I had the opportunity to listen to Shri

> Velukudi Krishnan swami's TeleUpanyasam last week. I

> want to thank Shri Krishnan swamigal and everybody who

> arranged this. It was very heart-warming and

> soul-stirring. We all look forward to more such

> discourses.