RE: : Obnoxious mail received from a sister-group member!

Posted July 28, 2004 · July 28, 2004

Dear Sri M.Sadagopan,

I am extremely saddened to read your most unkind and

uncharitable note. I can't imagine why as a good

SriVaishnavan you allow yourself to be overtaken by

feelings of petty ill-will.

Do you live in Kuwait? Do you know any of the members

of the T'venkatam group here? If you knew us you would

never write the things you have done.

The Group members here are just about 30-40 families.

We have all come away from our homelands for the sake

of livelihood, professional advancement and for the

sake of our respective children.

We come from different social backgrounds and hail

from different regions of India. We also come from

different religious sects. There are SriVaishnavas

amongst us, both Tenkalai and Vadagalai, 'smArtA-s',

there used to be "mAdhvA-s" too. We have Tamil

Brahmins, Telugu Brahmins, Palghat Brahmins. We have

SriVaishnavas who hail from Tirupati, Kanchipuram,

Puram, TiruvellikEni....

Sir, we are a very heterogenous, very mixed group. And

yet we are all like one large, happy family here. We

meet, we pray, we worship, we celebrate, we laugh, we

sing...

If you ask us how and why, I can say only this:

In spite of our heterogenuity, we have 2 common things

that bond us all together tightly:

One, all of us, irrespective of our sectarian loyalty,

are devoted to the Lord of Tirumala. Which is why we

call ourselves the "tiruvenkatam" group.

Second, all of us know that in spite of belonging to

various sects, we have a common root, which is the

Vedas. Which is why we all do "vEdadhyAyana". We do it

together -- leaving aside all our sectarian

differences.

Let me also tell you amongst the SriVaishnavas here,

there is absolutely no feeling of "I'm Tenkalai, You

are Vadagalai". We all learn and celebrate the

"divya-prabhandham". We all learn "dEsika-stOtrA-s".

Every year we all celebrate in a grand manner the

"tirunakshatram" of ManavAla-muni. (I wish you could

see the photographs we have of last year's

celebrations at the residence of one of our good

members, Sri P.T.Narayanan!).

Who told you that we don't recite the "taniyans" of

Tenkalai 'AchAryA-s"? At every monthly "sravaNOtsavam"

that we have here in Kuwait, we ensure that the

respective "tanians" and "vaazhi tirunAmam" of both

"kalai-s" are recited without fail. Both Vadagalai and

Tenkalai members recite it loudly and reverently.

Sir, I do not know what right you have to imagine

things and hurl such unkind accusations against our

T'venkatam Group, Kuwait. Either you are completely

misinformed or you are being very malicious.

We are living here in Kuwait as one large happy

Vaideeka family. Please do not create mischief amongst

us by sowing the seeds of petty, sectarian divisions

amongst us. Please do not break-up our little family.

Yours sadly,

dAsan,

Sudarshan

--- "M.Sadagopan" <harini wrote: >

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

>

> You people are accepting to chant rudram,but refused

> to chant Swamy

> Manavalamamunigal prabhandham. I am surprised to see

> that you will chant

> rudram, chamakam therby worshipping anyadevatha. I

> don't know how the person

> can call himself srivaishnava while refusing to

> recite thaniyans of

> Thenkalai srivaishnava achrayas.

>

> Adiyen

> Ramanuja dasan

>

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Posted July 28, 2004 · July 28, 2004

Dear Sudarshan Swamy,

I really liked ur note. In fact I would say that such a society should be the

model one. I detest the argument in the letter which u have replied that Rudram

& chamakam are not to be chanted by vaishnavas. I have the following reply for

that letter.

Who said that Rudram & chamakam are not to be chanted by vaishnavas? Where is

the pramanam for such a statement? Please for heaven sake dont foment such

attitude.

For your kind information, Rudram & Chamakam forms part of Krishna yajurveda

samhitha and all yajurvedis are supposed to recite it. Every acharya of ours

have recited it in their brahmayagnyams (it is a practise followed to recite one

prasnam of the 82 in brahmayagnyam daily) to keep mastry over it. Rudram is a

powerful manthram to ward off eveil effects & I remember my elite

srivaishnavaite grand father reciting it. In all vedaparayan goshtis this is

recited invariably. For all srivaishnavas everything in there is Lord's praise.

Please dont undermine them & take their names with respect and not with

contempt.

I like the activities u r conducting in Kuwait & I am completely elated about

them.

All the best for good future activities

Sajjana Padapadma paramanuhu

Lakshi Narasimha dasan

sudarshan madabushi <mksudarshan2002 wrote: