Veda chanting by women

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Dear Bhagavatas,

AdiEN is writing this mail in total ignorance. So please forgive me

if our siddantham is wrongly presented.

According to my limited understanding of our siddantham, one of the

basic tenets is that "If we take out all our jIva's(Souls)out of the

bodies including those with animal bodies, and line them up to each

other, they all are Identical, atomic and indistinguishable. We will

not be able to differentiate one from the other. Since the soul in

the women's body, man's body, animal's body or the sudra's body are

all the same then in my humble opinion saying Sudra's don't have a

right to do sandhyavandhanam or women chanting Vedas violates our

siddantham. The ONLY question should be " Do we(you) accept Sriman

nArAyana as Sarvam" If the answer is "yes", then that soul should be

able sing praises of Perumal in the way best suits It. When we say

shudra, Brahman, women, man, donkey, monkey we are mistaking the

Notself(Body)to be Self(Soul). Isn't it the same mistake that Sri

Shankara made? Didn't he look at chandala's body and ask it to be

moved? The BEAUTY of our siddantham is that we are Egalitarian in a

sense. We don't discriminate on anything(expect accepting the Tatva

that Sriman nArAyana is supreme lord). AdiEn thinks "SriVaishnavism

trumps brahminism", unlike the Advatins who give prominence to

Brahmanism in their mutts even though they preach 'Aham Brahmasmi'.

We look at individuals as souls so castes, sexes, etc. are

irrelevant. We would not have had the bhagyam of knowing the

unadulterated Bhakti of Thiruppan Azhlwar or Sri Andal, if we were to

discriminate on Caste or Sex. To AdiEn, AmalanAdippiran and

Thiruppavai is what makes Divya prabhandam what it is! Divyam.

AdiEn again apologizes to all the bhagavatas if any mistakes have

been committed in representing our siddantham. Please feel free to

correct AdiEn.

dasan

sridhar ranganatha