Adinistration - 3/02 - Other lists of the bhakti group.

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Dear Members:

 

1. As many of you may be aware, in addition to the bhkati list, there

are other groups that SrI Mani created a few months back. I notice

that the membership in these other groups (sv-general, sv-poetry, sv-

rituals etc.)., is not even one-fourth of the membership of the

bhakti list. SrI Muralidhar Rangaswamy has been posting the pAdukA

sahasram postings regularly in the sv-poetry list. SrI Sadagopan has

been posting different works of svAmi deSikan in the list as well.

It is our loss if we do not make use of these postings of our great

AcArya-s. Other postings of other post-rAmAnuja SrI vaishNava AcArya-

s is welcome as well. Please benefit from these postings, since it

is very rare that we get a well-thought out summary of the different

interpretations that are being summarized here. In order to access

these lists, you have to become members of these other lists. So, if

you think it will be of interest to you, please join these other

lists. Please note that I am not campaigning to increase memberships

in the other lists; I am only bringing to your attention that if you

are interested in the kinds of postings that already are submitted to

these lists, you may be missing out by not being members of these

other lists.

 

2. I also notice that many postings are sent to the bhakti list, that

should really be sent to one of these other lists. It is true that

the readership/membership of these other lists is not as extensive as

that of the bhakti list, and so the postings in these other lists get

less exposure as it stands right now. The right way to address this

problem is that you become a member of the other groups if they are

of interest to you. When postings are received to the bhakti list,

but that belong to one of the other lists, I have been redirecting

them to the appropriate list. This involves additional overhead, and

I request the members to help avoid this overhead.

 

3. I see many postings where members are very interested in conveying

what their "personal" views are on several topics. (I realize that I

may not be completely innocent on this count, even though I try my

very best to avoid this). I am sure that these personal views are

based on what they have read in authentic works of AcArya-s, or heard

the information from recorded upanyAsam-s on tapes, etc. It will

help quite a bit in communication if they take the time to also share

the source of their information when they express their personal

views.

 

With sincere praNAmam-s to you all.

 

-Your Moderator.