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Sri Rama Jayam

 

Namaskarams to all,

 

mshari wrote:

"Dear Moderator,

I find s.ramachandran to have mentioned

the following: ...of Lord Shiva - who is considered a

Nayanmar, the equivalent of an Alwar... Such

comparisons are not fit to be told before

scholars...But the source should not be totally

misleading finally."

 

Pray, tell me who is a scholar and who is not? Just

that if one has acquired knowledge, can he be a

scholar? Well, in that case, I would like to ask what

kind of knowledge is that. If it is the proper

knowledge, then surely, such petty matters of

differentiations wouldn't matter to those scholars.

 

There should be an tolerant attachment to one's one

dharmam, but that should not develop into an extent

where you start treating other dharmas with contempt.

 

It was just a reference or comparison that

Ramachandran made with regard to Nayanamars and Alwars

to convey the meaning of those selected pure devotees

who worshipped the Lord in their own ways. I don't

think he meant anything else at least from my

understanding. It just doesn't make any one of them

(the Nayanamars or the Alwars) superior than the

other. Both belong to a class where there can never be

anyone else who can match their devotion. By the way,

let me know if there was any one person amongst the

Nayanamars who followed Advaitham to the core?

Dwaitham and Visishtadwaitham are not the sole

properties of the Sri Vaishnavas. They are schools of

thought that belong to the whole class of human race,

denoting the eternal paths of Bhakti, Dasya, and

Sakhya. Which ever seems appropriate, the person may

follow that.

 

We have seen several Sri Vaishnavas who came to Sri

Chandrashekharendra Saraswathi MahaSwamigal and so

also, there have been several many (including me) who

visit the Sri Vaishnava Aacharyas.

 

I have seen some elderly Sri Vaishnavas coming to a

Sri MahaGanapathi Temple near my place and so also,

many "others" (including me) rendering kainkaryam at a

Sri VenugopalaKrishnaswamy temple.

 

Tolerance has to be developed towards everybody and

everything. That is one of the greatest marks of a

devotee.

 

Regards,

Sudarshan Iyer

 

P.S. I am not writing this just because I am an "Iyer"

and want to defend. I am writing this for the general

good of all.

 

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