Cassette collections

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General enquiry

 

Akila Suresh sent an email which is attached below. In the same line of

thought, I am wondering if anyone on the net can send me an email if they

possess rich collection of cassettes on Visistadvaita or Ramanuja system of

thought. With a general view, I feel that we should know about advaita and

dvaita also. If anyone possesses these rare gems, please send me an email.

We will figure out a mass method of copying them on to CDs or tapes and

preserve these collections . This will be a major service to the current

generation and the generations to come.

 

Thanks

 

krishna

 

 

Akila Suresh [akisuresh]

Friday, July 20, 2001 10:08 AM

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Any video/Audio Cassette of Mukkur Lakshmi Narasimhacharyar

 

Dear everybody,

 

I've started collecting Sri Mukkur Lakshmi

Narasimhacharyar's Upanyasam cassettes. If you have

any personal video/audio cassettes on his

upanyasams/yagnams/or any informal presentation and if

you are willing to share, I really would appreciate an

n email. I'll take resposibility for all the expenses

towards making copies and collecting them.

 

Any information on this would mean a lot to me and

would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in Advance.

 

Regards

-Akila

 

 

 

 

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Sri Mattapally NaaTam PranathOsmi Nithyam Namaha

 

Dear Friends,

 

I do have a few audio casettes of Sri Mukkur Swamy's upanyAsams.

 

I have

2 90 minute recordings of Sri Nrusimha AvatAram

2 90 minute recordings of Srinivasa Kalyanam

20 90 minute recordings of Sri Ramayanam

 

I am willing to duplicate these for those interested in US.

However, over and above the cost of the tapes and the charge

for posting them, I expect you to contribute monetarily to the

"Sri Swathi Narasimha Mahayagna Trust" that is established to

continue the nithya thiruvaradhanams for Sri Swamy's Yag~namoorthy

who has blessed us with 107+++ Swathi MahaYag~nams.

 

Your pledge should commensurate with my efforts and your

enthusiasm in furthering the sampradAyam. Let me know.

 

With Kindest Regards

adiyEn

Rajagopalan, Srinivasan

 

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Sri Rajagopalan Srinivasan:

 

You have rightly pointed out this very important aspect.

Many practicing Hindus of various denominations, Sri

Vaishnavas included, take their religious texts and

other material for granted - with the assumption that

"anything goes" as far as duplication and distribution

of those sources is concerned.

 

Agreed, many vidwans give away copies of their work

for free at times, in order to encourage readers to

learn and spread their message. But it is incumbent

upon the recipient to handle this "gift" appropriately,

and to exercise discretion before going ahead and

making photocopies to give to others.

 

After all, the issues of copyright infringement etc.

have arisen largely because of advanced duplication

technologies, which were unheard of till a few years

ago. Most traditional vidwans still think in terms

of those days, while giving away copies of books and

stotrams to interested persons.

 

These ethical concerns of "copyright infringement",

and so on were completely inapplicable during the days

of our poorvacharyas and their palm leaf manuscripts.

It is time we (modern-day followers) put an end to our

double-standards; one for western publications and

another conveniently dubious standard for our religious

material. When there are publishers such as LIFCO etc.

why don't we try and look at it both as financial help

towards their noble cause, in addition to doing away

with our own double standards?

 

Let us first put our money where our mouths are, and

see how many of the problems that plague our traditions

today, will automatically disappear...

 

adiyEn

-Srinath C.

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> adiyaen [adiyaen]

> Tuesday, July 24, 2001 4:48 PM

>

> Re: Cassette collections

>

> First accessory one needs to convert a commercial tape to any other

> format is an **approval from the original source** for doing so.

> Irrespective of the profits they make out of it,we should acknowledge

> that they have taken some efforts in its production. We come across

> many cases where ,more out of enthusiasm, we infringe copyright

> issues. This discourages the miniscule few who still try to release

> recordings related to the sampradAyam.

>

> Equally discouraging it is to see many bhaktAs using freely

> photocopied materials of stotra malas, sahsranamam, prabhandam etc..,

> during the gatherings. Surprisingly this is more common outside

> India. Gone are the days when it is difficult to eOrder these texts.

> They are easily available, cheap and of course not heavy to carry (Do

> we ever see a Christian carrying a photocopied Bible?) since the car

> does it for us.

>

> Our small acts would mean a lot to publishers like LIFCO. Sri

> Varadhan of LIFCO is accessible via email and is very prompt in

> responding to our eOrders.