Guest guest Posted January 13, 2004 Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 Dear SriVaishnavaites, On last Sunday, (Jan 11) I was blessed to visit tiruveLLikEni temple and had divyadarsanam of swami’s thirumanjanam. Koshti of swamis were reciting Upanishad for thirumanjanam. I also was reciting but no one objected. In the crowd, I saw one of the devotees who had come with the family and was reciting Upanishad. But as he belongs to vadakalai sampradaya, one of the swamis came over immediately and stopped him reciting. Being from thennacharya sampradayam myself, I felt bad as I saw him as an srivaishnavaite only and that too who knew Vedas. I heard that viceversa reservations are shown in tiruveLLur for thennacharya sampradayis. I strongly feel that there should be only a philosophical reason for these divisions. My question to the enlightened group here is how come we are divided like this as both sampradayams accept Srimad Ramanuja as Acharya. And in his life we see that he was enlightened by thirukachi swami and maaranEri nambi who were from the so called low caste. For the insult done to his acharya thirukachi nambi swami, srimad Ramanuja took a decision to walk out of the family even. But by having and practising these type of above mentioned actions at temples, are we not insulting Srimad Ramanuja?. Then what is the use of praising alwars like nammalwar, tirupaaNaazwar etc and reciting nambaaduvaan's history when we cant practise the same. When nammalwar or nambaaduvaan appears now and , will we treat them like this? I feel so as we are not practising what our great acharya Ramanuja said. Forgive me as i have busted out with pain. But this is not an emotional outburst. Being an youngster, I seek the elders to enlighten me on this. Thanks, Srinath Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 Dear Srinath Venkatakrishnan: Thank you for your kind observations....I enjoy listening to all slokas, divya prabandham, etc... and where possible join in the singing. When one becomes so overwhelmed with his or her own kind is better than the other's that person's knowledge [Veda] is close to ignorance practised with arrogance. It is unfortunate that we have that worldwide - and most conflicts are as a result of that. Regards, Neelameggham --- Srinath Venkatakrishnan <srinath_venkatakrishnan wrote: > > Dear SriVaishnavaites, > > > > On last Sunday, (Jan 11) I was blessed to visit > tiruveLLikEni temple and had divyadarsanam of > swami’s thirumanjanam. Koshti of swamis were > reciting Upanishad for thirumanjanam. I also was > reciting but no one objected. In the crowd, I saw > one of the devotees who had come with the family and > was reciting Upanishad. But as he belongs to > vadakalai sampradaya, one of the swamis came over > immediately and stopped him reciting. Being from > thennacharya sampradayam myself, I felt bad as I saw > him as an srivaishnavaite only and that too who knew > Vedas. I heard that viceversa reservations are shown > in tiruveLLur for thennacharya sampradayis. I > strongly feel that there should be only a > philosophical reason for these divisions. > > > > My question to the enlightened group here is how > come we are divided like this as both sampradayams > accept Srimad Ramanuja as Acharya. And in his life > we see that he was enlightened by thirukachi swami > and maaranEri nambi who were from the so called low > caste. For the insult done to his acharya thirukachi > nambi swami, srimad Ramanuja took a decision to walk > out of the family even. But by having and practising > these type of above mentioned actions at temples, > are we not insulting Srimad Ramanuja?. > > > > Then what is the use of praising alwars like > nammalwar, tirupaaNaazwar etc and reciting > nambaaduvaan's history when we cant practise the > same. When nammalwar or nambaaduvaan appears now and > , will we treat them like this? I feel so as we are > not practising what our great acharya Ramanuja said. > > > > Forgive me as i have busted out with pain. But this > is not an emotional outburst. Being an youngster, I > seek the elders to enlighten me on this. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Srinath > > > > > > > Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" > Sweepstakes > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes./signingbonus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 dear friends It is no wonder that we have lost our perspectives all together. We became laughing stock when we did not even spare devotees, or even the temple elephants---remember the tiruman episode, which went to the Supreme court--? God bless our people mani r Neelameggham <rneelameggham wrote: Dear Srinath Venkatakrishnan: Thank you for your kind observations....I enjoy listening to all slokas, divya prabandham, etc... and where possible join in the singing. When one becomes so overwhelmed with his or her own kind is better than the other's that person's knowledge [Veda] is close to ignorance practised with arrogance. It is unfortunate that we have that worldwide - and most conflicts are as a result of that. Regards, Neelameggham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan, Adiyen does not have any qualifications to write about anything but the incident that our respected Sri Srinath had witnessed has been happenning for a very long time. Adiyen has also witnessed and personally experienced such humiliation in Thiruvallikkeni while I was just giving a humming sound of reciting "Siriya Thirumadal" during Thaayar purappadu on Friday. The dwesham as one of the learned member mentioned is not because of the philosophical differences but purely because of the enimies in one's own self namely "Krodham", "madham", "maathsaryam". We are living in a so called Sri Vsishnava group (sorry to mention it as "so called". But it is our fate that we cannot call our ghoshti as Sri Vaishnava ghoshti as we dont respect another Sri Vaishnava). We are living in a group of people where merely due to ones physical appearance people go to the extent of changing the thiruman that was originally on Perumal's thirunetri (meaning literally carving out the lower portion of thiruman). Being a person from vadakalai sect., I heard many people saying this. This had happened in Kancheepuram at adiyen's favourite perumal's temple. Same way there are many such incidents told to adiyen by vadakalai sect of people too. We cannot find out who is true because everyone is mentioning incidents that suits their side. Its not fair to talk who is right and who is wrong rather forget all these and just pray emperumaan and nothing else can be done to save our sampradaayam. Earlier we worried that there was one Malik Kafur who troubled our Sri Vaishnava Sri which is thriuvarangam but now we have many Malik Kafurs within ourselves that we should protect our sampradayam fromt hem so that one more invasion doesn't happen. We should be worried that there should be no other emperumaanaar born again just to re-establish the already existing Visishtaadvaitham and Sri Vaishnavism. If this happpens then we wont be able to forgive ourselves and we cannot stand in front of perumal when we all see him at Sri Vaikuntam. We wont be qualifed to be by the side of our emperumaanaar at Sri Vaikuntam to do eternal service to lord. We need to always remember that we are now bold enough to commit all these apachaarams for the only reason that nammperumaal has granted moksham to everyone who has emperumaanaar sambandham and we say "Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan" and still commit apachaarams. But what if our emperumaanar gets worried that being born in his lineage we are committing such apachaarams? Can we bear such a situation ? If we think of our beloved emperumaanaar for just a moment and his mahopakaaram, I am sure all of our eyes will be in tears. If emperumaanaar himself gets unsatisfied then how canwe expect emperumaan to grant us Sri Vaikuntam ? This is what we forget. Emperumaan says the only apachaaram that will nullify parapatti is doing an apachaaram to any living being in this world and that too typicaly if one takes the name of our sweet lord we cannot even think of ill treating that bhagavatha even in our dreams. Now lets think ourselves that do we really want our prapatti nullified ? The answer should be within everyone's mind. We need to have some of our poorvaachaaryas amongst us to answer these queries. As one of our learned member says even if those mahaanubhaavaas come directly they will be separated as a separate ghoshti and people will ill treat them. This is why after emperumaanaar , swamy desikan and swamy maamunigal none incarnated as jagadhaachaaryaas (I mean as equal to them). Of course there can be only one jagadhaachaarya who is Swamy emperumaanaar. Even swamy emperumaanaar at Sri Preumboodhoor had to undergo lots of trouble in establishing himself in his original form inside the temple. We can only think of all these and pray emperumaan and nothing else. Even if a sect of few people try and start reforming this the current group of so called Sri Vaishnavas are so strong that they wont allow this to ever happen. Still there are so many good hearted and learned scholars in both kalais who are fighting for this reformity but we can only see that there is no respect paid to these mahaanubhaavaas at all and hence it has come to a state that some of them dont even go to temple because of this controversy. Adiyen wonder how people get time or all these trivial matters back home or adiyen think probably that they have made this as their vruthi (Job) to run their daily life. But let us not be very severe on these sri vaishnavas that they will get punished by emperumaan. We if we think we can be a true Sri Vaishnava we can pray to emperumaan that "Adiyomodum ninnodum pirivindri aayiram pallanndu". Lets include them. They are not to be ignored but corrected (by emperumaan himself) so that they also enjoy the anubhavams of our great poorvaachaaryaas on ermperumaan. Adiyen just thought of putting adiyen's views. I know adiyen is going to get my inbox piled with so many emails in the next few minutes or hours against many of adiyen's lines as this is the trend happenning in most of the E-Groups. (unfortunately Sri Vaishnava unity is also not there in such too. I am being very frank in telling this because I have been a member of so many groups but adiyen has seen so many arguments and unwanted discussion about many trivial matters and also regadrig the same issue oif vadakalai and thenkalai. stopped reading all those unless if they talk about bhagavath vishayam or bhagavatha vishayam. ) Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 Dear Srinath, This is Rupa's husband Narasimhan. I am writing this without knowledge of rules to recite Upanishad but generally. Please forgive me, if there are any rules(dresswise etc.) while reciting it. These type of things happen in this material world as no one knows what they are doing but can explain others what not to do. If everyone is reciting Upanishad, then there is no wrong in reciting the same Upanishad by anyone like the person who came with family. But he should maintain "low voice" when compared to the actual acharyas in the temple. Because they are the main who are doing their job. If he is maintaing that low voice recitation and Acharya stops him just because he is from other caste or vadaghalai or tengalai, then it is not to be done. Acharya has "actually" no right to stop that particular person, unless he recites something else other the people reciting there and may be disturbing to them. Though we know that, these things should not be done based on caste, we may have to tell such persons only if we occupy a respectable position for such person who stopped him reciting. Otherwise, should leave it to GOD. These things should be taught only in the childhood. If not, we need to ignore leaving it go GOD I guess. I am very welcome for any comments or suggestions. I am still learning. Hence no hard feeling about any comments. Thank you very much. Regards Narasimhan --- Srinath Venkatakrishnan <srinath_venkatakrishnan wrote: > > Dear SriVaishnavaites, > > > > On last Sunday, (Jan 11) I was blessed to visit > tiruveLLikEni temple and had divyadarsanam of > swami’s thirumanjanam. Koshti of swamis were > reciting Upanishad for thirumanjanam. I also was > reciting but no one objected. In the crowd, I saw > one of the devotees who had come with the family and > was reciting Upanishad. But as he belongs to > vadakalai sampradaya, one of the swamis came over > immediately and stopped him reciting. Being from > thennacharya sampradayam myself, I felt bad as I saw > him as an srivaishnavaite only and that too who knew > Vedas. I heard that viceversa reservations are shown > in tiruveLLur for thennacharya sampradayis. I > strongly feel that there should be only a > philosophical reason for these divisions. > > > > My question to the enlightened group here is how > come we are divided like this as both sampradayams > accept Srimad Ramanuja as Acharya. And in his life > we see that he was enlightened by thirukachi swami > and maaranEri nambi who were from the so called low > caste. For the insult done to his acharya thirukachi > nambi swami, srimad Ramanuja took a decision to walk > out of the family even. But by having and practising > these type of above mentioned actions at temples, > are we not insulting Srimad Ramanuja?. > > > > Then what is the use of praising alwars like > nammalwar, tirupaaNaazwar etc and reciting > nambaaduvaan's history when we cant practise the > same. When nammalwar or nambaaduvaan appears now and > , will we treat them like this? I feel so as we are > not practising what our great acharya Ramanuja said. > > > > Forgive me as i have busted out with pain. But this > is not an emotional outburst. Being an youngster, I > seek the elders to enlighten me on this. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Srinath > > > > > > > Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" > Sweepstakes > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes./signingbonus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 Dear Bhagavatas: Enough has been said on the subject. May we close further inputs on the subject in the Journal and move on? Thanks for your understanding. Dasoham Anbil Ramaswamy =============================================================== Well said Shri. Narayanan. The fault is on all sides; we should have just one side which follows the path of Bhagavath Ramanuja. Adiyen was also stopped like this for reciting slected pasuram from prabhandham; (it doesnt matter to which Kalai I belong) This was a not a ghosti, I was reciting by myself and that too in a low voice. I accepted it, because it happened in front of the Lord; I prayed to Lord Narayana and Lokamatha who are always listening to us for a better tomorrow. Tomorrow is always a ray of hope. Dasan Aravamudhan --- Narayanan Veeraraghavan <narayankv wrote: > Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan, > > Adiyen does not have any qualifications to write > about > anything but the incident that our respected Sri > Srinath had witnessed has been happenning for a very > long time. Adiyen has also witnessed and personally > experienced such humiliation in Thiruvallikkeni > while > I was just giving a humming sound of reciting > "Siriya > Thirumadal" during Thaayar purappadu on Friday. > > The dwesham as one of the learned member mentioned > is > not because of the philosophical differences but > purely because of the enimies in one's own self > namely > "Krodham", "madham", "maathsaryam". > > We are living in a so called Sri Vsishnava group > (sorry to mention it as "so called". But it is our > fate that we cannot call our ghoshti as Sri > Vaishnava > ghoshti as we dont respect another Sri Vaishnava). > We > are living in a group of people where merely due to > ones physical appearance people go to the extent of > changing the thiruman that was originally on > Perumal's > thirunetri (meaning literally carving out the lower > portion of thiruman). Being a person from vadakalai > sect., I heard many people saying this. This had > happened in Kancheepuram at adiyen's favourite > perumal's temple. Same way there are many such > incidents told to adiyen by vadakalai sect of people > too. We cannot find out who is true because everyone > is mentioning incidents that suits their side. Its > not > fair to talk who is right and who is wrong rather > forget all these and just pray emperumaan and > nothing > else can be done to save our sampradaayam. > > Earlier we worried that there was one Malik Kafur > who > troubled our Sri Vaishnava Sri which is > thriuvarangam > but now we have many Malik Kafurs within ourselves > that we should protect our sampradayam fromt hem so > that one more invasion doesn't happen. We should be > worried that there should be no other emperumaanaar > born again just to re-establish the already existing > Visishtaadvaitham and Sri Vaishnavism. If this > happpens then we wont be able to forgive ourselves > and > we cannot stand in front of perumal when we all see > him at Sri Vaikuntam. We wont be qualifed to be by > the > side of our emperumaanaar at Sri Vaikuntam to do > eternal service to lord. > > We need to always remember that we are now bold > enough > to commit all these apachaarams for the only reason > that nammperumaal has granted moksham to everyone > who > has emperumaanaar sambandham and we say "Adiyen > Ramanuja Dasan" and still commit apachaarams. But > what > if our emperumaanar gets worried that being born in > his lineage we are committing such apachaarams? Can > we > bear such a situation ? If we think of our beloved > emperumaanaar for just a moment and his > mahopakaaram, > I am sure all of our eyes will be in tears. If > emperumaanaar himself gets unsatisfied then how > canwe > expect emperumaan to grant us Sri Vaikuntam ? This > is > what we forget. Emperumaan says the only apachaaram > that will nullify parapatti is doing an apachaaram > to > any living being in this world and that too typicaly > if one takes the name of our sweet lord we cannot > even > think of ill treating that bhagavatha even in our > dreams. Now lets think ourselves that do we really > want our prapatti nullified ? The answer should be > within everyone's mind. > > > We need to have some of our poorvaachaaryas amongst > us > to answer these queries. As one of our learned > member > says even if those mahaanubhaavaas come directly > they > will be separated as a separate ghoshti and people > will ill treat them. This is why after emperumaanaar > , > swamy desikan and swamy maamunigal none incarnated > as > jagadhaachaaryaas (I mean as equal to them). Of > course > there can be only one jagadhaachaarya who is Swamy > emperumaanaar. Even swamy emperumaanaar at Sri > Preumboodhoor had to undergo lots of trouble in > establishing himself in his original form inside the > temple. > > We can only think of all these and pray emperumaan > and > nothing else. Even if a sect of few people try and > start reforming this the current group of so called > Sri Vaishnavas are so strong that they wont allow > this > to ever happen. Still there are so many good hearted > and learned scholars in both kalais who are fighting > for this reformity but we can only see that there is > no respect paid to these mahaanubhaavaas at all and > hence it has come to a state that some of them dont > even go to temple because of this controversy. > > Adiyen wonder how people get time or all these > trivial > matters back home or adiyen think probably that they > have made this as their vruthi (Job) to run their > daily life. But let us not be very severe on these > sri > vaishnavas that they will get punished by > emperumaan. > We if we think we can be a true Sri Vaishnava we can > pray to emperumaan that "Adiyomodum ninnodum > pirivindri aayiram pallanndu". Lets include them. > They > are not to be ignored but corrected (by emperumaan > himself) so that they also enjoy the anubhavams of > our > great poorvaachaaryaas on ermperumaan. > > Adiyen just thought of putting adiyen's views. I > know > adiyen is going to get my inbox piled with so many > emails in the next few minutes or hours against many > of adiyen's lines as this is the trend happenning in > most of the E-Groups. > > (unfortunately Sri Vaishnava unity is also not there > in such too. I am being very frank in > telling > this because I have been a member of so many groups > but adiyen has seen so many arguments and unwanted > discussion about many trivial matters and also > regadrig the same issue oif vadakalai and thenkalai. > stopped reading all those unless if they talk about > bhagavath vishayam or bhagavatha vishayam. ) > > > Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan > > > > Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes./signingbonus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 Dear Swamins: This is indeed a very frustrating subject because adiyen dont see any viable solution for this kalai disputes. Also let us not assume or come to a conclusion that all these have started in Thiruvallikkeni. What has happened to a Desika Sampradhaya person in Thiruvallikkeni will definitely reciprocated at Thiruvalloor or for that matter any other Vadakalai Divyadesams. Because so much mistrust has been developed for the past two to three hundred years within our community. Let us think for second. What would be the logical reason for a person in a divyadesam like Thiruvallikkeni to ask a vadagalai person to stop reciting Vedam or Prabhandham? If one person is allowed, then some other Vadakalai people will also join and may be in couple of years all these Vadagalai people may start asking for more rights and eventually one day who knows may take over the temple as well. This is what exactly even a vadagalai person lives in a Divyadesam like Thiruvalloor will think when a Thengalai person tries participate in their Vedham or Prabhandham recital. Therefore this is nothing but mistrust. I have lived in Triplicane for more than two decades and I belong to Sri Ahobila Mutt. I personally never felt any discrimination because I thoroughly understand the origin of this conflict and never crossed my limits. In our community, temples are always power centers. Whichever community has the power naturally would like to retain that. What could be the solution? There is no easy way out for this age-old problem. The one important step could be celebrating both Swami Desikan and Swami Mamunigal's Thirunakshatrams as a community event. Both sect should paritipate in such evnts. Second thing is not to disturb or alter the status quo of a temple's sampradhayam. Let us freeze all the status quo for another 50 years. Both the communities will not go to courts for asking new rights. There should be more interaction between the big Jeeyar Swamis of both sects. Whoever has the traditional rights in a Divyadesam will continue have those rights but others will also participate in kainkaryams. But who will do these things? This is not an easy task. I really don't know. It is very sad and frustrating to see that no one is ther to do this poonaikku mani kattum vishayam....Only big Acharyas can do this and not an ordinary person like adiyen. I remember a sloka from "Sri Yathiraja Vaibhavam", a Sanskrit work in 114 verses, which gives the entire life history of Sri Ramanuja by Sri Vaduga Nambikal. In the tail end of the work, it was mentioned that the so called "Kali Purusha" or the person in charge of spreading the Kali dharma (where no dharma will be respected) came to Sri Ramanuja and told him, "because of you (Sri Ramanuja), I (Kali Purusha) have been chased away. Because of you (Sri Ramanuja) so much dharma has brought back and I (Kali Purusha)dont have a place to stay. Therefore when a time comes, I will trouble your sampradhayam as well." Since we have forgotten a great saint like Sri Ramanuja, Kali Purusha is troubling us through this Kalai fights, is adiyen' s opinion. Let us surrender to Swami Sri Yathiraja and spread Sri Ramanuja's message of absolute surrender to Lord Sriman Narayana. Adiyen Ramanujadasan Kannan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 17, 2004 Report Share Posted January 17, 2004 Dear Sri Anbil svAmi, I second your motion with an emphatic "tathAsthu". Rgds, dAsan, Sudarshan , > Dear Bhagavatas: > Enough has been said on the subject. > May we close further inputs on the subject in the Journal and move on? > Thanks for your understanding. > Dasoham > Anbil Ramaswamy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 19, 2004 Report Share Posted January 19, 2004 Dear Bhagavatas: I have already requested that further discussions on the subject may be stopped. Numerous mails have been received reiterating what has been said earlier and so, were not approved. Sorry about this. This will be the last posting on the subject to be approved for release in "Sri Ranga Sri". If anyone has any new inputs beyond what have been featured so far, he /she is requested to write to my personal id: "Ramanbil" Thanks for your understanding and co-operation. Dasoham Anbil Ramaswamy =========================================================================== Shrimathey Nigamaantha Mahaa Deshikaaya Namaha Respected Swamin, Daasoham. Pl. excuse me if you feel that I am writing this mail in impertinence. But I would like to touch upon the first sentence of Swami Deshika's in the chapter Swanishtaabhignaanaadhikaranam of his magnum opus Rahasya Traya Saaram which tells us how we should lead our lives (which is very relevant so far as these kinds of incidents are concerned). It may be noted that Swami himself had undergone these types and even worse insults and he came out a winner because he practised what he was subsequently to preach. "Pararaaley paribhavaadigal undaambodhu paribhaavakar sollugira kuttrangall than swaroopathil thattadha padi kandu vishaadhaadhigal attrirukkayum...", "shapya maanasya yath paapam shapantham adhi gacchathi" Swami also says that even if a Srivaishnava is rebuked by another without any fault of the former, he still has to ask forgiveness from the latter. Let us all try to be Swami Deshika bhaktas and follow whatever he practised and preached. Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan. mksudarshan2002 <mksudarshan2002 wrote: Dear Sri Anbil svAmi, I second your motion with an emphatic "tathAsthu". Rgds, dAsan, Sudarshan , > Dear Bhagavatas: > Enough has been said on the subject. > May we close further inputs on the subject in the Journal and move on? > Thanks for your understanding. > Dasoham > Anbil Ramaswamy / Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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