Self Preservation the key

[Guest guest]

Dear Sriman Mani,

 

Thanks to Bhakti net-work, I was able to find a Srivaishnava priest (Sri

Srinivasa Bhattar) to our temple in Cincinnati, within a matter of days in

1995. He is still with us and the impact he has made on preserving our

tradition in Cincinnati is remarkable. His father, grand father and

brother-in-law were among the priests who performed Kumbhabhishekam in 1997.

He has touched not just SrivaishNavA's here (we are very small number) but

Hindu's in general. When he got stuck in Columbus, just before arriving for

interview in Cincinnati, it was again a Bhakti net-work contact, Sri Sriram

Ramanujam who took the effort to log-in 200 miles, just so that Bhattar could

attend the interview in Cincinnati.

 

Thanks to Bhakti net work, I was able to procure many useful publications

which include:

Entire Vedam recordings by Veda Prasara Samiti, Mullti lingual and multi

vedic Sahdhyavandanam book of Thilasthanam, Divya desham publication, Sri

Ramanuja CD, Deshika prabandhm and Stotrams, etc and etc, besides so much

knowledge and information I have directly gained through postings. I got

connected with many relatives, especially Sri Srini and Sri Murali. We

visited them last yeat Summer.

I also met many Bhagavathaas through this group, for example, Sri Anbil swamy

and Sri Rengi.

 

I am truly indebted to your kainkaryam. However, I am not sure whether many

of these would have been possible under the current format, which forbids

solicitations. I think a bit of flexibility in accomodating peripheral needs

of SrivaishNava community in particular and Hindus in general would make the

group more useful. In my opinion we need to be bit catholic and not too

rigid. This should also be a perfect place for people to find life partners

as well as livelihood. Even Srimad Thirukudandai Andavan Swamy (KaNNan

swamy), who did sancharam only on foot, took many initiatives in playing the

role of a match maker as well as settling family disputes. Sure NAMA is

there, but why put all eggs in one basket ?

I guess we need to be bit more pragmatic and take a more holistic approach

and not make the group too isolated.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

dAsan,

 

K. Sreekrishna Tatachar